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2023-03-17 21:30:00
Conductor Karina Canellakis has withdrawn from some of her upcoming programs because she's expecting a child in May. Here are notes about the conductors who will leading those programs.Jonathon Heyward, New York Philharmonic, April 27-29. The program is as originally scheduled: Brahms’s Violin Concerto, with Christian Tetzlaff, Zosha Di Castri’s Lineage, and Lutosławski’s Concerto for OrchestraOsmo Vänskä, Philadelphia Orchestra, April 20-22. Perry Study for Orchestra, Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24 with Inon Barnatan, Beethoven Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”) Best wishes to Canellakis for the easiest possible childbirth.
2022-03-13 17:39:59
Mozart’s Aria Ch’io mi scordi di te” was composed for the unusual combination of solo voice, piano obbligato and orchestra. Mozart wrote it on December 26, 1786, intending to perform the piano part himself with the young English soprano, Nancy Storace. Months earlier, she had sung the role of Susanna in the premiere of The Marriage of Figaro, and there has long been speculation that Mozart was in love with her. Ms. Storace and Mozart performed this together early in 1787, shortly before her departure from Vienna. It is his farewell to her. Personally I don’t have much interest in
2022-02-26 05:12:00
MUSE/IQUE Announces Yearlong “L.A. Composed: A Festival of Los Angeles Music”MUSE/IQUE continues its 2021-22 season, “L.A. Composed: A Festival of Los Angeles Music,” with an adventurous yearlong concert series that explores Los Angeles’ defining moments and artists who shaped the city’s legendary musical history. Curated and led by Founder and Artistic Director Rachael Worby, “L.A. Composed” features renowned musicians and dancers from stage and screen performing at cornerstone cultural institutions throughout the city, including Avalon Hollywood, Caltech, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, Skirball Cultural Center, and the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. “L.A. Composed” runs from March - November, 2022; tickets are on sale now.March 12, 2022, at 7:30 p.m.March 13, 2022, at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.“Sunrise on Sunset” at The Wallis, featuring vocalists Brandon Victor Dixon, Kecia Lewis, and the DC 6 Singers.When it comes to the Los Angeles dream, all roads lead […]
2021-07-24 04:53:00
Classical Music News of the Week, July 24, 2021
Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival Begins Aug. 3Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival is back on stage, August 3-13, 2021. The venerable chamber music festival’s 42nd season features performances by Artistic Directors Jon Manasse and Jon Nakamatsu, the Escher Quartet with Brian Zeger, and Imani Winds. Audiences will have their choice of three atmospheric venues. The historic, 300-year-old First Congregational Church in Wellfleet, the picturesque Cape Cod National Seashore Visitor’s Center in Eastham, and one of Cape Cod's major performing arts hubs; the Cotuit Center for the Arts. Year-round residents and summer visitors alike will have the opportunity to enjoy world class performances in nine concerts over two weeks.The festival kicks off with a concert "In Celebration of Our Audience" performed by Jon Manasse (clarinet) and Jon Nakamatsu (piano). "Our wonderful Festival audience has shown incredible dedication and optimism, despite the difficulties of the past year. We conceived of this first […]
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