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Using your smart speaker to play music is the top use for them. But making music choices useful has been a challenge. “Using voice to sift through and access music may be a relatively new idea, but it’s brought with it an immense...Friday, April 19, 2019 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
Weinberg, Symphonies Nos. 2 and 21; Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, with the Kremerata Baltica and Gidon Kremer (DG, out May 3) Stefan Prins, Augmented: Generation Kill, Piano Hero, Third Space,...Friday, April 19, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
Bartók: István Kádár (violin), András Szabó (viola), Zsolt Fejérvári (bass), Márta Sebestyén (vocalist), Ildikó Komlósi (mezzo-soprano), Krisztián Cser (bass), Cantemus Choir (conductor: Dénes Szabó), Budapest Festival Orchestra / Iván...Friday, April 19, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
Brahms, Rachmaninoff: Jennifer Frautschi (violin), Canton Symphony Orchestra/Gerhardt Zimmermann (conductor), Umstattd Hall, Canton, Ohio, 13.03.2019 (TW) Brahms – Violin Concerto in D major Op.77 Rachmaninoff –, Symphony No.2 in E minor...Friday, April 19, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
Brahms, Strauss, Elgar: Joyce Yang (piano) with New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / Edo de Waart (conductor). Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, 13.4.201.9 (PM) Brahms – Piano Concerto No.1 in D Minor Op.15 R. Strauss – Wind Serenade in...Friday, April 19, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
Staern, Hilma: Soloists, Victoria Stjerna (violin), Andreas Lavotha (cello), Stefan Lindgren (piano), Peter B. Lewis Theater, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 15.4.2019. (RP) Cast: Hilma af Klint – Mette af Klint Rudolf...Friday, April 19, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
Bach, Rimsky-Korsakov, Grainger, Vaughan Williams: Anna Dennis (soprano), William Towers (counter-tenor), Nick Pritchard (tenor), William Dazeley (baritone), BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales / Jonathan Heyward and Steve Devine...Friday, April 19, 2019 from Violinist.com
By Laurie Niles: When French violinist Renaud Capuçon listens to music, he listens to Bach. "I listen to Bach, much more than I play Bach. I listen to Bach all of the time," said Capuçon, speaking to me over the phone last month. "It...Friday, April 19, 2019 from Music Genre: Classical
On Orange , an album devoted entirely to her work, the young, Pulitzer-winning composer salutes a centuries-old genre.Friday, April 19, 2019 from ArtsJournal
Organist organist Olivier Latry made the recording in January. This week he posted an update on the instrument on Facebook: “Despite all the damage in the Cathedral, the organ miraculously escaped the flames, as well as the water...Friday, April 19, 2019 from ArtsJournal
“[The move is] a potentially crucial step toward resolving a contentious labor dispute” — the musicians have been playing without a contract since January — “and allowing the organization to remain a year-round...Friday, April 19, 2019 from Music and Vision
Violin Concertos by Giovanni Giornovich, heard by Gerald Fenech. 'Bojan Čičić has this repertoire in his blood, and this shows in performances of exhilarating beauty.'Friday, April 19, 2019 from ArtsJournal
Says Negin Khpelwak, the 22-year-old leader of the Zohra Orchestra, “We can bring freedom, peace and honor to Afghanistan. Women can’t go back to the dark days — they can break our instruments, they can ban the music, but...Friday, April 19, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
Prokofiev – Betrothal in a Monastery: Soloists, Berlin State Opera Chorus (chorus director: Martin Wright), Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim (conductor). Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, 13.4.2019 (MB) Prokofiev –...Friday, April 19, 2019 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Puccini: La Boheme - OperaUpClose with Julian Debreuil (centre) Photo Alistair Kerr Bass-baritone Julian Debreuil, who sings the role of The Gardener in The Gardeners , is performing Colline in Puccini’s La Boheme on tour with...Friday, April 19, 2019 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Turning Up the Volume is a collection of interviews that focuses on the individual stories of up and coming musicians.. The post Turning Up the Volume: Adeliia Faizullina (composer, multi-instrumentalist) appeared first on I CARE IF YOU...Friday, April 19, 2019 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Sir James MacMillan (Photo Hans van der Woerd) James MacMillan Strathclyde Motets , A Choral Sequence from the St John Passion , Tenebrae Responsories , Carlo Gesualdo Responsories for Maundy Thursday ; BBC Singers, Sir James MacMillan,...Friday, April 19, 2019 from The Classical Piano and Music Education Blog
This weekend Pianist magazine and Schott Music are holding a competition which takes place on Pianist’s social media sites. One of five copies of Play it again: PIANO Book 3 are available for five winners.… MoreFriday, April 19, 2019 from Adaptistration
My thanks to the folks from Arts Alliance Illinois for inviting me to participate in yesterday’s webinar on Arts and Technology. My portion of the webinar covered a post-net neutrality action plan and I wanted to take a moment to...Friday, April 19, 2019 from British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content
In my recent post about the Scottish premiere (14 January 1889) of Charles Villiers Stanford’s Symphony No.3 ‘Irish’ in Edinburgh, I noted that at the same concert pianist, composer and teacher, Helen Hopekirk played Beethoven’s Piano...Friday, April 19, 2019 from Violinist.com
By Laurie Niles: Welcome to "For the Record," Violinist.com's weekly roundup of new releases of recordings by violinists, violists, cellists and other classical musicians. We hope it helps you keep track of your favorite artists, as well...Friday, April 19, 2019 from New York Concert Review, Inc.
New York Woodwind Quintet Carol Wincenc, flute; Stephen Taylor, oboe; Charles Neidich, clarinet; William Purvis, French horn; Marc Goldberg, bassoon; Bryan Wagorn, piano (guest) Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, NY April 12, 2019...Thursday, April 18, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
Sacred Music in a Sacred Space – Various Composers: Lorelei Ensemble / Beth Willer (Artistic Director), Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, New York, 14.4.2019. (RP) John Luther Adams – ‘The Hour of the Doves’ (Canticles of the...Thursday, April 18, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
Berlioz: Orpheus Choir of Wellington, Orchestra Wellington / Marc Taddei (conductor). Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, 12.4.2019 (PM) Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique Op.14; Lelio, or ‘A Return to Life’ Op.14b Lelio – Andrew Laing...Thursday, April 18, 2019 from ArtsJournal
Christopher Goldscheider sued the London opera house, claiming damages for acoustic shock – a condition with symptoms including tinnitus, hyperacusis and dizziness – after being exposed to noise levels exceeding 130 decibels...Thursday, April 18, 2019 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST
Andrew Davis photo: Chris Christodoulou, bBC Andrew Davis conducted the BBC SO at the Barbican Hall. Top billing to Michael Tippett's The Rose Lake , almost exactly a year after Simon Rattle conducted it with the London Symphony...Thursday, April 18, 2019 from Classical-Music.com
Rating: 0 The English National Opera has announced that Daniel Kramer, is standing down from his role as artistic director after almost three years. The company announced that he will leave his position at the end of this season,...Thursday, April 18, 2019 from ArtsJournal
It was back in the late 1990s and the idea of being online was new. Hence explanations of how the web and websites worked… – Classical Dark ArtsThursday, April 18, 2019 from Violinist.com
By Laurie Niles: Lately I've been trying to get back into shape with my running, and it's reminding me how much discipline it takes to get back in shape with anything, violin included. Let me start with a nice success story: last year my...Thursday, April 18, 2019 from Classical music | The Guardian
(Sony Classical, two CDs) Staatskapelle Dresden/Thielemann The Staatskapelle’s sumptuous playing is hard to fault, but conductor Thielemann is too overblown at times C hristian Thielemann has recorded the Schumann symphonies before, with...Thursday, April 18, 2019 from ArtsJournal
Joseph Young, a former assistant conductor at the Atlanta Symphony and currently Director of Ensembles at the Peabody Institute, was called in as a last-minute substitute for a Berkeley Symphony program at the end of January, and the...Thursday, April 18, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
Zemlinsky, Der Zwerg: Soloists, Ladies of the Chorus of the Deutsche Oper, Berlin (chorus master: Jeremy Bines), Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper, Berlin / Donald Runnicles (conductor). Deutsche Oper, Berlin, 12.4.2019. (MB) Production:...Thursday, April 18, 2019 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Gilbert & Sullivan: HMS Pinafore - Joseph Shovelton, Hannah Crerar, Jennie Jacobs, Alys Roberts, Catrine Kirkman, Matthew Kellett - Charles Court Opera (Photo Robert Workman) Gilbert & Sullivan HMS Pinafore ; Joseph Shovelton,...Thursday, April 18, 2019 from Classical music | The Guardian
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London Diverse, discursive and impossibly dense, Ayres’s picaresque tale is dramatically uneven but was performed with virtuoso flair R ichard Ayres has composed two more or less conventional operas, The Cricket...Thursday, April 18, 2019 from Music and Vision
Schoenberg piano music, recommended by Geoff Pearce. 'Yoko Hirota's performances here are truly exceptional ...'Thursday, April 18, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
Tippett, Szymanowski and Debussy: Lisa Batiashvili (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra / Sir Andrew Davis (conductor), Barbican Concert Hall, Barbican Centre, London, 17.4.2019. (AS) Tippett – The Rose Lake Szymanowski – Violin...Thursday, April 18, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
Yuli – The Carlos Acosta Story Sadler’s Wells, EC1R 4TN Monday 6 May 2019 at 6pm Tickets: £25 Ticket Office: 020 7863 8000 or www.sadlerswells.com On Monday 6 May, Sadler’s Wells presents a special screening of new film release, Yuli –...Thursday, April 18, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
15th Musikfest Berlin from 30 August to 19 September 2019 Musikfest Berlin 2019: Hector Berlioz and European Modernism Musikfest Berlin, hosted by Berliner Festspiele in cooperation with the Foundation Berliner Philharmoniker, has...Thursday, April 18, 2019 from JDCMB
One of my highlights of 2018 was my trip to the Australian Festival of Chamber Music in Townsville, Far North Queensland. The pianist Kathryn Stott was in her first year as artistic director and we all had a ball: an absolute bonanza of...Thursday, April 18, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
Enjoy a rare chance to hear Anton Rubinstein‘s opera The Demon in a concert performance by the chorus and orchestra of Chelsea Opera Group under the baton of Oliver Zeffman. A cast of international soloists join conductor,...Thursday, April 18, 2019 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Composer Dale Trumbore is making waves for her powerful works, particularly within the realm of choral music. The Los Angeles.. The post 5 Questions to Dale Trumbore (composer) appeared first on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN .Thursday, April 18, 2019 from Classical-Music.com
Rating: 0 Florence B Price , née Smith, was a composer, pianist and organist, thought to be the first female symphonist of African-American heritage. She composed over 300 works – symphonies, chamber works and songs noted for...Thursday, April 18, 2019 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Launch of the 2019 BBC Proms in the Grand Hall of Battersea Arts Centre The programme for the 2019 BBC Proms has been announced, and last night the BBC had a launch event in the Grand Hall of Battersea Arts Centre (devastated by fire in...Thursday, April 18, 2019 from Adaptistration
I recently wrapped up a workshop for Americans for the Arts and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts on Website User Experience with a terrific group of participants taking part in a two-year capacity building initiative titled Arts...Wednesday, April 17, 2019 from Classical Voice North America
By David Patrick Stearns NEW YORK – Huang Ruo's Bound , performed by Fresh Squeezed Opera, depicts the tragic plight of a bright young Vietnamese immigrant, forced to work long hours in a dry cleaning shop, who is jailed by a judge for...Wednesday, April 17, 2019 from Classics Today
BIS takes over from Avie presenting Andreas Haefliger’s ongoing (albeit slowly unfolding) Perspectives releases, a series that encompasses intelligent and often unexpected juxtapositions of mixed repertoire. As with its predecessors,...Wednesday, April 17, 2019 from Classical Voice North America
By Richard S. Ginell LOS ANGELES – For two spring weekends, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic are playing nothing but the music of Stravinsky, one of the city's most distinguished and productive musical citizens.Wednesday, April 17, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
Bach, Mass in B minor: Amanda Powell (soprano), Amanda Crider (mezzo-soprano), Jacob Perry (tenor), Jesse Blumberg (baritone), Apollo’s Singers, Apollo’s Fire/Jeannette Sorrell (conductor), St. Paul’s Episcopal Church,...Wednesday, April 17, 2019 from Violinist.com
By Laurie Niles: Popular violinist André Rieu is known for his lavish and larger-than-life stage sets; here's one thing to do with all that infrastructure, after the show is over: "Deeply shocked by the dramatic images from Paris. We...Wednesday, April 17, 2019 from Classical-Music.com
Rating: 0 In a world of traditional Italian operas and original dramatic 20 th -century works, Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) emerged as a composer best known for arranging and orchestrating early music. It was his fascination with...