Vernon Duke News
American composer (1903-1969)
- opera, symphony
- United States of America, Russian Empire
- composer, poet, lyricist
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2024-02-25 11:00:02
On this day in 1948 tenor Giuseppe di Stefano made his Metropolitan Opera debut at the Duke of Mantua
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-20 20:24:21
Lookouts Aloft! A Composer Puts Out to Sea
[…] which puts the Gloria at the end as the final movement. This suited her need for a joyous and grand finale. Upon completion of her Mass, she managed an invitation through her influential friends to Balmoral to see Queen Victoria herself, a singer and musical aficionado: the Queen expressed an interest in hearing the young woman’s work. Seated at the Queen’s piano, Ethel sang and played several movements from her Mass. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were so impressed they sponsored its premiere at the Royal Albert Hall in 1893 under the baton of Joseph Barnby, conductor of the Royal Choral Society, of which the Duke was then President. In addition to being a composer and conductor of some renown, Smyth was a great letter writer and began in 1919 to publish her memoirs. All six are fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable, written in her own unique, irrepressible style. […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-10 17:32:44
This week’s BSO program offers Franz Joseph Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C and Béla Bartók’s opera A kékszakállú herceg vára (“Duke Bluebeard’s Castle”), and if you’re thinking it must be the Haydn that first entered the repertoire, you’d be wrong. The concerto was an early work, composed between 1761 and 1765, but it was thought [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-08 18:08:24
Dance Music of the Germania Musical Society
[…] concerts in Hanover square, two in Crosby Hall, and eight promenade concerts, together with numerous private entertainments which were often very enjoyable. The most memorable among these latter was a soiree given at the magnificent villa of the Messrs. Baring Brothers, where numerous celebrated operatic stars took part, including Grisi, Garcia, Alboni, Mario, and Tamburini. The invited guests were from the highest circle, and the new orchestra obtained a larger share of the applause. The Duke of Cambridge, himself an amateur on the violin, was particularly interested in this department of the orchestra, turning the leaves for the first violins, and calling the attention of the entire company to the performance of the orchestral pieces. Other prominent occasions wherein the Germanians took part seemed to be gradually directing the public attention more and more to their merits, and it is quite possible that they might have remained and done well […]
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