string quartet musical ensemble established in Boston in 1885 by violinist Franz Kneisel
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2016-01-12 15:00:21
Tuesday, January 12, 2016 Birthdays Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari In 1876 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari was born in Venice, Italy. He was the son of an Italian mother and a German father. Ferrari was his mother’s maiden-name, which he added to his own surname in 1895. Although he studied piano from an early age, music was not the primary passion of his young life. As a teenager Wolf-Ferrari wanted to be a painter like his father; he studied intensively in Venice and Rome and traveled abroad to study in Munich. It was there that he decided to concentrate instead on music, taking lessons from Josef Rheinberger. He enrolled at the Munich conservatory and began taking counterpoint and composition classes. These initially casual music classes eventually completely eclipsed his art studies, and music took over Wolf-Ferrari’s life. He wrote his first works in the 1890s. At age 19, Wolf-Ferrari left the conservatory and traveled […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-05-21 18:56:10
Keyboard Spirits Revive
The founder From 35 feet below the sidewalk of Boylston Street’s “Piano Row,” ghosts are beginning to stir in Boston’s most legendary, perhaps only remaining 19th-century theater (although we are certainly aware of the regrettably dark 1900 Colonial Theater next door and the 1870 Sanders Theater in Cambridge). We don’t mean the spirit of the elevator operator in one of the last cabs in Boston to require an attendant (automated in 2011); he after all was infamous for renting vacant artists’ studios by the hour for nonmusical uses. Nor are we hearing the disembodied voice of Morris Steinert, whose empire once stretched to 42 music stores and two piano factories; his autobiography helpfully passed on his wisdom on selling pianos to “Hebrews” (among others), “show him one that is conspicuous by reason of its size and high polish, and then talk” [more here ]. The spiritual chatter I am […]
2014-08-24 03:11:15
To put it lightly, degrees of separation in our musical cosmos are melting rapidly. By example, a Facebook post to my profile page from my 1960s era Orchestra teacher, led to a long lost neighbor who was the youngest member of the New York Philharmonic. To backtrack a bit, Herbert Gardner, a time-honored music director at J.H.S. 143 (John Peter Tetard) in the Bronx, glided easily over the 80-year benchmark, rejuvenating his conducting career, post-retirement in Florida. At the same time, he circulated his teaching materials and compositions through an international free music database. (Imslp.org) Gardner, my former music mentor, had kept in touch through social networking channels as he reeled off names of ex-students (from my era and beyond) who’d earned a lingering musical spotlight. (Nardo Poy, violist with Met Orchestra was among his star-studded graduates) “Mr. Gardner,” a task master in the good sense, would throw board erasers […]
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