New York Times:
With the publication of “The Magic Flute,” a series of bibliophile facsimiles of the seven most important Mozart operas is complete.
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New York Times:
Ms. Soderstrom was an opera star, who was acclaimed for the plangent richness of her singing and for a repertory that included leading roles in the Janacek operas.
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Interchanging Idioms:
Bielawa will contribute from Rome for “Lend Me Your Ears,” her new series on WQXR.org’s “Do You Q2” blogNew York, NY, November 17, 2009 —Composer and vocalist Lisa Bielawa is a 2009 Rome Prize Winner in Musical Composition. She is currently spending a year composing at the American Academy in Rome , situated on the Janiculu (Read More)
Ecademy: user blogs:
I have found a cool site for fans of classical music. You can get free sheet music, and see clasical concerts scheduled in your local area. You can also watch videos and listen to music. You can also list classical music events in your area for others to search.Membership is free. You can also ask for arrangements and trans (Read More)
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Monumental Works Written in Remarkable Times Featured Composer Benjamin Britten Plus a Star Turn for the East Neuk itself“You can hear the swing of the sea….East Neuk Festival is special because it’s not in the city, not in concert halls, not in tents – it uses the local living landscape.” (Dr Richard Holloway at the East N (Read More)
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Colorado Public Radio (CPR) will conduct a one-time only on-air fundraising campaign, Bringing the Music to Life, on behalf of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra (CSO). The drive will begin November 30th and culminates on December 2nd with a live broadcast of the Orchestra's sold out performance with musical icon Yo-Yo Ma. "C (Read More)
Interchanging Idioms:
My sincere apologies for all my loyal readers who have been wondering what's up with the last week - and a serious lack of anything new.I am currently studying for my Masters in Music Composition at Denver University and this week (Nov 16-23) is the final week of the quarter. So, everything is due NOW and there was a lot o (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Music: Classical music and opera:
Colston Hall, BristolLorin Maazel may have been a big name in conducting, but it is perhaps an indication of the wealth of young, exciting conductors around at present that this performance with the Philharmonia, with whom he first worked 50 years ago, should prove so uninspiring. Conducting without a score, Maazel looked (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Music: Classical music and opera:
City Halls, GlasgowCzech music looms large on the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's current schedule in the shape of its Bohemian Rhapsodies series. In a joint commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution and the 50th anniversary of the death of Bohuslav Martinu the Czech-themed programmes feature what is (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Music: Classical music and opera:
Elgar's comic struggles with the trombone give hope to all us fellow enthusiastic but incompetent musiciansA heartwarming story in the Independent today: Elgar was a rubbish trombonist. Sue Addison, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment's principal 'bone player, has been researching the story of Sir Edward's trombone be (Read More)
Sandow:
Continuing what I started in my last post. 3, Recent history, art and music. Music. Atonal composers started dominating composition -- in prestige, grant-worthiness, faculty hiring, and, retrospectively, in the way classical music history has been written -- sometime in the 1950s. (Though we know they didn't dominate --- ou (Read More)
New York Times:
The soprano Aprile Millo made her New York recital debut with an eclectic program of works by Donaudy, Wolf-Ferrari and Rachmaninoff at the Rose Theater on Tuesday.
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guardian.co.uk Music: Classical music and opera:
Royal Festival HallBetween Two Worlds, the London Philharmonic's Schnittke festival, is very much a pet project of the orchestra's music director Vladimir Jurowski. The spine of its programme is the series of four orchestral concerts Jurowski is conducting. It's not all Schnittke, though: the opening concert began with disa (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Music: Classical music and opera:
(Naxos)The four movements that Charles Ives retrospectively assembled into his Holidays Symphony are all self-standing pieces, symphonic poems almost. Three of them are included here (the first movement, Washington's Birthday, has already been included on an earlier Naxos disc in this Ives series), and they catch his extrao (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Music: Classical music and opera:
Tchaikovsky's sole comic opera, based on a Gogol fairytale, is a little-known rarity. Francesca Zambello, directing it for the second time, can't understand whyWhen someone tells you there's a wonderful opera by Tchaikovsky that for no obvious reason never gets to see daylight, you'll probably think, "Oh yeah? I'll bet ther (Read More)