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TSO: Beethoven’s Sixth
2 months, 1 week ago

TSO: Beethoven’s Sixth

ABC  

The pastorale has been a subject of art, poetry and music since before Roman times, idealising the tranquillity of shepherds and their lifestyle and suggestive of the peaceful countryside. Sometimes described as a Nordic Romanticist, Swedish composer Lars-Erik Larsson worked for Swedish Radio, developing a style of programme that included music and poetry. From this period his “Pastoral Suite” and …

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Musica Viva: Choir of King's College, Cambridge: Concert 2
2 months, 1 week ago

Musica Viva: Choir of King's College, Cambridge: Concert 2

ABC  

Musica Viva Australia presents a unique concert featuring the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, with director Daniel Hyde at the Elisabeth Murdoch Hall. Now, of course, I’m flattered to actually be about to do it.” Hyde is only too aware of this musical institution’s storied history, one which was founded by King Henry IV in 1441, by presenting as encore …

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The borderless music of Gabriela Ortiz
3 months, 1 week ago

The borderless music of Gabriela Ortiz

NPR  

The borderless music of Gabriela Ortiz The ambitious Mexican composer finds herself in the spotlight — finally toggle caption Marta Arteaga Composer Gabriela Ortiz has paid some dues — and now she’s collecting. Ortiz’s parents co-founded Los Folkloristas, the celebrated band dedicated to Latin American folk music and research, and she learned to play instruments in the group’s outreach learning …

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Chamber music turns old landmarks into vibrant venues in Sierra Madre and South L.A.
6 months, 1 week ago

Chamber music turns old landmarks into vibrant venues in Sierra Madre and South L.A.

LA Times  

Andrew McIntosh, left, Ian Pritchard and Joshua Rubin play in the Tesserae Baroque ensemble performance of Mozart’s Clarinet Trio as part of “Bowling, Animals, and the Ocean” at Sierra Madre Playhouse on Sunday. At the Doheny Mansion — the 1899 French Gothic, Moorish, California mission mishmash home of oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny in L.A.’s University Park neighborhood — the …

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Happy 95th birthday, Frank Gehry. Let’s give you the Disney Hall you really wanted
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Happy 95th birthday, Frank Gehry. Let’s give you the Disney Hall you really wanted

LA Times  

Over the last two decades, Walt Disney Concert Hall has blazed cultural trails like no place else. Starting with the “Tristan Project” in 2004, Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde,” conducted by Salonen with video by Bill Viola and staged by Peter Sellars, Disney Hall inspired a full expansion of the notion of what classical music could be. In what has been …

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Sonically monumental: Esa-Pekka Salonen’s organ concerto plays Disney Hall, where it belongs
1 year, 7 months ago

Sonically monumental: Esa-Pekka Salonen’s organ concerto plays Disney Hall, where it belongs

LA Times  

Does last week’s news that Los Angeles Philharmonic Chief Executive Chad Smith will leave the orchestra to head the Boston Symphony, coming on top of Gustavo Dudamel’s announcement that he will become music director of the New York Philharmonic in 2026, create worrisome uncertainty for an otherwise successful orchestra? Salonen’s Sinfonia Concertante, a potent organ concerto, uniquely filled the hall …

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Celebrating Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the free-thinker
1 year, 9 months ago

Celebrating Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the free-thinker

Hindustan Times  

The Würzburg Mozart Festival's artistic director, Evelyn Meining, wanted to focus the 2022 edition on innovative and boundary-pushing elements. In this episode, we'll listen to Andrew Manze conducting the Bamberg Symphony performing Igor Stravinsky's Concerto in D, at the opening concert of the 2022 Würzburg Mozart Festival on May 21. Würzburg festival director Evelyn Meining tells us more: "Mozart's father, …

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Review: Gustavo Dudamel puts a remarkable ‘Rite of Spring’ in a revealing Latin American context
2 years, 8 months ago

Review: Gustavo Dudamel puts a remarkable ‘Rite of Spring’ in a revealing Latin American context

LA Times  

The Hollywood Bowl in 1922, six years before it was the site of the West Coast premiere of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring.” One of the most important dates in classical music is the April 2, 1913, premiere of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring,” but not for the famous riot that disrupted the ballet in Paris’ Théatre des Champs-Élysées. That …

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Masterful performances
3 years, 2 months ago

Masterful performances

China Daily  

Tan Dun takes the baton at the rehearsal for the closing concert of this year's Beijing Music Festival. The 24th Beijing Music Festival concluded with a concert at the city's Poly Theater on Sunday that was performed by the China Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of renowned composer Tan Dun. The two pieces were important in Stravinsky's career and offer …

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Masterful performances
3 years, 2 months ago

Masterful performances

China Daily  

Tan Dun takes the baton at the rehearsal for the closing concert of this year's Beijing Music Festival. The 24th Beijing Music Festival concluded with a concert at the city's Poly Theater on Sunday that was performed by the China Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of renowned composer Tan Dun. The two pieces were important in Stravinsky's career and offer …

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Review: L.A. Opera is first in the U.S. to return to its home stage. Emotions flow
3 years, 7 months ago

Review: L.A. Opera is first in the U.S. to return to its home stage. Emotions flow

LA Times  

The Music Center opened its doors to the public Sunday afternoon for the first time in nearly 15 months. There is further striking context to this “Oedipus Rex,” whether or not intentional on L.A. Opera’s part. Esa-Pekka Salonen’s first concert with the L.A. Phil after being named music director was a staging of Stravinsky’s work in the Chandler in collaboration …

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Stop making sense: Sparks on their 50 years of gravity-defying synth-pop
4 years, 7 months ago

Stop making sense: Sparks on their 50 years of gravity-defying synth-pop

The Independent  

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Why it’s sometimes good to steal from other musicians
4 years, 7 months ago

Why it’s sometimes good to steal from other musicians

The Independent  

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Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Offers A Seductive Take On A Stravinsky Classic
6 years ago

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Offers A Seductive Take On A Stravinsky Classic

NPR  

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Offers A Seductive Take On A Stravinsky Classic The legendary frontman plays all the characters in a new recording of Igor Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale. Pink Floyd's legendary frontman Roger Waters has made a recording of Stravinsky's "The Soldier's Tale" with a new narration that he adapted. LLOYD SCHWARTZ, BYLINE: Igor Stravinsky's "L'Histoire du Soldat" - …

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