During experiential fusion with music, you temporarily lose awareness of yourself as an individual entity separate from the music; you and the music have become one. If someone touched your hand and asked you, “Are you aware that you’re...
Listening to instrumental or familiar music in the background competes less with a study assignment than music with lyrics or unfamiliar music. Instrumental music also seems to interfere less with reading comprehension and assignments...
The pianist has filed legal proceedings in the federal court, alleging MSO management cancelled the 15 August concert in Melbourne in an attempt to silence him over his stance on the conflict in Gaza. – The Guardian
Respighi, La fiamma: Soloists, Chorus, Extra Chorus and Children’s Chorus of Deutsche Oper Berlin, Orchestra of Deutsche Oper Berlin / Carlo Rizzi (conductor). Deutsche Oper Berlin, 29.9.2024. (AB) Ottorino Respighi’s La fiamma (The...
Verdi, Nabucco: Soloists, Chorus and Extras of Deutsche Oper am Rhein / Katharina Müllner (conductor). Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf, 29.9.2024. (DMD) Production Director – Illaria Lanzino Set design – Dorota Caro Karolczak Costume...
A bid to bring the first-ever professional Australian-rules football team to Tasmania involves constructing a 23,000-seat stadium, to host rock concerts as well as AFL games, just 130 feet from the Federation Concert Hall, the Tasmanian...
Yulianna Avdeeva (Pentatone) Vladimir Horowitz’s personal piano helps the Russian bring authority to this collection of Chopin’s late works Fourteen years ago Julianna Avdeeva became the first woman since Martha Argerich 45 years earlier...
The Record of the Year Prize went to Hahn’s disc of Ysaÿe’s Six Sonatas for unaccompanied violin. Soprano Carolyn Sampson is Artist of the Year, the Czech Philharmonic is Orchestra of the Year, and Michael Tilson Thomas,...
Corvedale Festival 2024 [2] – Various: Edge Chamber Choir (director: Ros Crouch), Joely Koos (cello), Wind players from Chetham’s School of Music (principal: Tom Redmond), Anna Kondrashina (flute). Corvedale Churches, 22 to...
Running from Sep. 24-29, 2024, Cincinnati’s inaugural Talk Low Festival featured local, regional, and national artists of experimental and ambient.. The post The Inaugural Talk Low Festival Features Exciting Roster of Experimental...
Beethoven, Fidelio: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Lyric Opera of Chicago / Enrique Mazzola (conductor). Civic Opera House, Chicago, 29.9.2024. (JLZ) After some twenty years, it is a pleasure to see Fidelio back on the Lyric Opera...
Glass: Philip Glass Ensemble. Barbican Hall, London, 28.9.2024. (MBr) Glass: ‘Interlude No.2’ from the CIVIL WarS; ‘The Grid’ from Koyaanisqatsi; ‘Facades’ from Glassworks; ‘Part 8’ from Music in Twelve Parts; ‘Rescue’ from Satyagraha;...
Corvedale Festival [1] – Various: Jarualda Quartet: (Alex Postlethwaite, David Joyce [violins], Jane Park [viola], Ruth Henley [cello]), Roelof Temmingh (piano); Magdalenna Krstevska (clarinet), Hamish Brown (piano), Cristian de Sá...
Adam Abeshouse was diagnosed with bile duct cancer last spring. His star classical music clients, including Joshua Bell, Simone Dinnerstein, Jeremy Denk, and Lara Downes, wanted to say goodbye.
Glyndebourne, a privately funded festival that receives little state support, has been mostly immune from the convulsions of the opera industry in Britain. – The New York Times
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Well-balanced performances of Barber's Violin Concerto with the Australian teen Amaryn Olmeda and Saint-Saëns' Organ Symphony bespoke qualities the orchestra has sustained through a decade under Carlos Izcaray. The...
The 55-year-old Costa Rican conductor, currently completing his 16th and final season as music director of the Nashville Symphony, takes over the summer music festival next year. 2025 will also mark the start of his tenure as music...
“(Kaija Saariaho’s) Innocence is about the aftermath of a school shooting, and the blood table was where the makeup crew applied stage blood to the performers. (There) were squirt and nozzle bottles, as well as baskets with...
Having reached its milestone 100th recording in July, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project has seemingly left no stone unturned in.. The post Composer Paul Dooley Synthesizes Electronics and Visual Arts on BMOP Portrait Album appeared...
Mazzoli, The Listeners: Soloists, Opera Philadelphia Chorus & Orchestra / Corrado Rovaris (conductor). Opera Philadelphia, Academy of Music, Philadelphia, 27.9.2024. (RP) Opera Philadelphia opened its 2024/25 season with the US...
Jimmy Carter, who turns 100 today, was one of our most musical Presidents. He took an interest in the Suzuki method of string education and enrolled his daughter, Amy, in classes. On November 20, 1977, according to the Carter...
The tyranny of choice can make the comparatively limited days of the in-car CD player, or multi-disc changer, if you were fancy, seem highly attractive. Hold on to them if you’ve got them: from now on, car manufacturers in the UK will no...
“(Management) has invited the problem at least partially by asking audiences to … engage with their cell phones during visits. Tagging the ensemble on social media has long been encouraged. Signs at one recent performance...
Lalovavi, set in the year 2119 and with a score by composer Kevin Day, was to premiere next June but has been postponed one year to 2026 due to delays with Tifara Brown’s libretto. The work is the first of three commissioned by the...
As one of the earliest genres of music to emerge from the United States, spirituals were once tools for communication.. The post 5 Questions to Tazewell Thompson (writer, librettist, director) appeared first on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN .
Messiaen, Harawi: Julia Bullock (soprano), Conor Hanick (piano), American Modern Opera Company. Presented by Cal Performances, Zellerbach Hall, University of California Berkeley, 27.9.2024. (HS) Production: Director – Zack Winokur...
The Pool among the Rushes for clarinet and piano (1940) A great place to begin an exploration of Joan Trimble’s music is with the short, but faultless, miniature for clarinet and piano: The Pool among the Rushes . The work dates from...
PHILADELPHIA – En route to Opera Philadelphia, Missy Mazzoli’s The Listeners, about toxic modern America, has softened into something pungent with dark comic edges. But how many times can we hear the f-word sung before it turns...
“This was a natural response to an unprecedented level of stadium-level artists on the road today. We now have another home for them to perform.” – CBC
Mahler: BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor), Barbican, London, 26.9.2024. (MBr) Mahler – Symphony No.6 in A minor Performances of Mahler’s Sixth have, in recent years, seemed rather thinly spread – both in the concert...
R. Strauss, Ariadne Auf Naxos: Soloists, Philharmonia Zurich / Markus Poschner (conductor). Zurich Opera, 25.9.2024. (MF) Opening his last of 13 seasons as Zurich Opera’s General Director, Andreas Homoki directs Ariadne auf Naxos, the...
BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Set in a Mennonite community in Northern Mexico, Silent Light by composer Paola Prestini and librettist Royce Vavrek creates a weave of ecstasy, guilt, and heartbreak in a production marking National Sawdust's 10th year....