Festival O23/2 – Rene Orth, 10 Days in a Madhouse: Soloists, Opera Philadelphia Chorus and Orchestra / Daniela Candillari (conductor). Wilma Theater, Philadelphia, 23.9.2023. (RP) Production: Libretto – Hannah Moscovitch...
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Both Southern Methodist University and the University of North Texas have long and notable histories of training organists who’ve gone on to major church, academic and concert careers. This fall, both universities have major organ...
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Christian Thielemann to succeed Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden At its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of the Berlin Opera Foundation approved the contract with Christian Thielemann as General Music Director of...
Bach: Víkingur Ólafsson (piano). Royal Festival Hall, London, 22.9.2023. (CSa) JS Bach – Goldberg Variations, BWV.988 It is said that Bach’s insomniac patron, Count Keyserling, in need of musical entertainment to help him pass his...
Attending the Mutual Mentorship for Musicians (M3) festival felt akin to sitting down at a warm dinner party. Friends greeted.. The post M3 Festival Celebrates Networks of Support and Empowerment for Artists of Marginalized Genders...
PHILADELPHIA – Madness has become such a complicated subject in opera that a new addition by composer Rene Orth and librettist Hannah Moscovitch struggled to encompass everything it wants to say at Opera Philadelphia’s Festival O23. The...
Various, A Man’s Love and Life: Günther Groissböck (bass) and Malcolm Martineau (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 22.8.2023. (KMcD) Beethoven – An die ferne Geliebte, Op.98 R. Schumann – Dichterliebe, Op.48 Brahms – Wie...
“I think the greatest challenge for us as interpreters today is to find authenticity of spirit in the music we interpret, and that’s a cultural thing. There are two ways to do it. One is as a tourist and the other one is a native....
At the Ambronay Festival in France, Alejandro Meerapfel, a 54-year-old Argentine, was performing in an oratorio called Il Dono della vita eterna (The Gift of Eternal Life). The concert was being telecast live on France TV’s...
NEW YORK – A witty, lyrical updating of Hans Christian Andersen's classic, Song of the Nightingale by composer Lisa DeSpain and librettist Melisa Tien measures personal indulgence against its effect on the wider world. The post...
“A plan is being formulated to reconstruct Davies and some of its environment (such as the large outdoor parking lot on Franklin Street), including reducing the number of seats to 2,100 and adding new facilities to venue, as if the...
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“The 2025-26 season marks the Madison orchestra’s 100th anniversary. The symphony will conduct a search for a new leader, and DeMain intends to depart after that season” — his 32nd with the orchestra —...
R. Schumann, Bruckner: Kian Soltani (cello), Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich / Paavo Järvi (conductor). Tonhalle, Zurich, 13.9.2023. (VL) R. Schumann – Cello Concerto in A minor Op.129 Bruckner – Symphony No.9 D minor WAB 109...
The 18th International Malcolm Arnold Festival 2023 14 -15 October – Live in Northampton 29 October – Online Day (livestream from around the UK) For more information CLICK HERE One of England’s most colourful and charismatic composers –...
A large part of the archives of the historic company, which was founded in 1830, was destroyed in the blaze at the facility just outside Vienna. Firefighters were able to control the fire before it spread to the manufacturing floor....
Matana Roberts’ jubilantly experimental new album Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden deftly weaves history, legend, and imagination using.. The post In New Album, Matana Roberts Explores Black Ancestry through Probing Narrative Art...
NEW YORK – Far-ranging music of faith filled a dedicatory concert at the beautiful new Perelman Performing Arts Center, described by civic leaders as a community center for diverse workers and residents and a place for healing from 9/11....
Wagner, Der fliegende Holländer: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Lyric Opera of Chicago / Enrique Mazzola (conductor). Civic Opera House, Chicago, 23.9.2023. (JLZ) Production: Director – Christopher Alden Sets and Costumes...
‘Festival O23/1’ – Verdi, Simon Boccanegra: Soloists, Opera Philadelphia Chorus and Orchestra / Corrado Rovaris (conductor). Academy of Music, Philadelphia, 22.9.2023. (RP) Production: Director – Laurence Dale Sets –...
While music was always important to him, Carlos Miguel Prieto majored in electrical engineering at Princeton University and got an MBA at Harvard. He was working for Pepsi Foods International in Mexico City when he had what he calls a...
Various, Manchester Collective’s Different Trains: Manchester Collective string quartet (Sara Wolstenholme [violin], Anna Tulchinskaya [violin], Alex Mitchell [viola], Christian Elliott [cello]). Queen Elizabeth Hall, London,...
Wigmore Hall, London Hamelin took the extreme technical difficulties of Ives’s sonata entirely in his stride, finding beauty in its most tangled moments Performances of Charles Ives’s monumental Concord Sonata may no longer be the...
But now Disney is trying to wipe away the famous name. “A new official short story collection … asserts that this style of music is actually called jatz.” – Vulture
Gerald Fenech finds the Bucharest Symphony Orchestra and conductor John Axelrod's new recording of contrasting versions of Robert Schumann's Symphony No 4 in D minor preciously invaluable. 'Performances, sound quality and presentation...