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Decade of Building to Continue at Chicago Sinfonietta: Board Announces Unanimous Three-Year Extension to Music Director Mei-Ann Chen's Contract
Mei-Ann Chen Chicago, IL - The Board of the Chicago Sinfonietta has unanimously elected to extend Music Director Mei-Ann Chen's contract through the 2023-24 season, another three years. Since 2011, Mei-Ann Chen has served the Chicago area as Music Director of the award-winning 33-year old orchestra. During her tenure, she has redefined orchestra programming and strongly positioned the organization at the forefront of bold, innovative initiatives. Only the second Music Director in the history of the nation's most diverse orchestra, following in the footsteps of its founder, the late Maestro Paul Freeman, under Chen's tenure the Sinfonietta has received an ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, was named "The city's hippest orchestra" by the Chicago Tribune, expanded the successful and groundbreaking Project Inclusion Fellowship Program, and received the prestigious MacArthur […]
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2018-06-18 04:01:00
Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Suites – Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Mei-Ann Chen (HD 1080p)
Under the baton of the Taiwanese American conductor Mei-Ann Chen, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra performs Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet Suites, Op.64a. Recorded at Gothenburg Concert Hall, on May 4, 2018.Shakespeare's immortal drama inspired some of the most original and colourful music Prokofiev wrote in his career. It follows and comments the tragic love story with powerful orchestral explosions and sympathetic themes which seem to be aware of the characters' inner feelings and thoughts. When the music was edited into suites, the music conquered the world and since then belongs to the repertoire of great orchestral music.Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)♪ Romeo and Juliet, Suite for orchestra, Op.64a No.1 (1936) [00:30]*i. Folk Danceii. Sceneiii. Madrigaliv. Minuetv. Masksvi. Balcony scenevii. Death of Tybalt♪ Romeo and Juliet, Suite for orchestra, Op.64a No.2 (1936) [32:40]i. The Montagues and the Capuletsii. Juliet - The Little Girliii. Friar Laurenceiv. Dancev. Romeo and Juliet Before Partingvi. Dance of […]
2018-02-02 19:35:44
The Bielefeld Philharmonic, in Bielefeld, Germany, has today announced the appointment of violinist Katrin Adelmann as their new Concertmaster. A graduate of the Basel Music Academy, the Berlin University of Music “Hanns Eisler” and the Cologne University of Music, Katrin is a former member of the Basel String Quartet – and former Concertmaster of the Badische Staatskapelle Orchestra. The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2014-07-30 13:18:00
The problem is obvious - there is too much classical music
In a glowing review in the Guardian Andrew Clements describes the Freiburg Opera's Parsifal at the Norwich Theatre Royal - see production shot above - as "a show that almost any British company would be happy to have in its repertory". Yet despite the production's obvious quality, the four performances by the Freiburg company of Parsifal and Tannhäuser attracted lamentably small audiences. A London based critic blamed low profile promotion by the Norwich theatre for the poor attendance, and given the limited budget of the provincial venue, which has charitable status and no material public funding, there is some truth in that explanation. But the glib analysis of poor publicity is typical of the blame culture that is so prevalent in classical music today - blame elitism, funding cuts, antiquated concert conventions, piracy, in fact blame anything other than the self-harming behaviour of the music industry itself. All the […]