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2015-10-18 07:11:19
Ottawa pays $100 million for new facade, but not a cent to save its opera
Kevin Mallon, music director of Toronto Chamber Orchestra, has some cogent points to make about the sudden demise this week of Opera Lyra Ottawa: I am very sad about the fall of Opera Lyra. I was AD there last season and devised a creative season for this year- an innovative Barber of Seville with a young Canadian cast, a double-bill of Canadian operas with Toronto’s Essential Opera, a lively kids show called Operation Superpower, Fidelio in a cutting edge production and lastly a co-production with Thirteen Strings and the Studio of young artists at OL, of Haydn’s opera L’Isola Disabitata. This last, of course has us in panic mode, as I try to save this, the last concert in 13S’ 40th anniversary season. We will see if we can do a concert version of the opera. (OL has already sold tickets—which we hope 13Strings will be able […]
2013-05-29 21:39:09
Haydn's Symphonies, First and Last
Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection broadcasts Saturday, June 1st, 2013, 5-6 pm on WRTI and wrti.org . Joseph Haydn (1732-1809). Symphony No. 107 (A) (c.1758). Kevin Mallon, Toronto Chamber Orchestra. Naxos 572130 Tr 5-7. 13:32. Haydn. Symphony No. 1 (c.1759). Adam Fischer, Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra. Nimbus 5265 Tr 1-3. 13:20. Haydn. Symphony No. 104, “London” (1795). Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic. Angel 64563 Disk 1 Tr 5-8. 25:28 We call Joseph Haydn the “Father of the Symphony,” but he didn’t invent the form. A symphony is a multi-movement work, usually for orchestra, usually including a first movement that develops a theme, and another that’s a dance. When Haydn started producing these, people had already been writing them for about 20 years. His first is from around 1758 or so; fellow Austrian Georg Matthias Monn wrote one in 1740. True, Haydn wrote a lot of symphonies. But so did others: dozens […]
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