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2024-03-14 10:00:52
On this day in 1885 W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan’s The Mikado premiered in London
2024-03-11 00:00:00
[…] Controversies and a ConversationJarrell NACHLESE VbBoulez ... explosante-fixe…TurnageBeethovenSymphony No. 9 "Choral"Julianna Di Giacomo sopranoKelley O'Connor mezzoRussell Thomas tenorShenyang bass-baritoneNew York Choral ArtistsAdesPolarisMahlerSymphony No. 9DebussyPrelude to the Afternoon of a FaunLindbergKraftDallapiccolaIl PrigionieroGerald FinleyPatricia RacettePeter HoareWilliam FergusonSidney OutlawThe Collegiate ChoraleJanacekThe Cunning Little VixenAlan OpieMelissa ParksKeith JamesonWilbur PauleyJoshua BloomIsabel BayrakdarianMarie LenormandKelley O'ConnorMahlerSymphony No. 6SalonenLA VariationsStraussEin HeldenlebenMahlerSymphony No. 7Bonus discsMessiaenDes canyons aux étoilesKirill Gerstein solo pianoStefan Dohr solo horn Daniel Druckman solo xylorimbaGregory Zuber solo glockenspielSanta Fe Chamber Music FestivalAlan Gilbert BeethovenPiano Concertos Nos. 1,3 & 4Triple ConcertoInon Barnatan pìanoStefan Jackiw violinAlisa Weilerstein celloAcademy of San Martin in the FieldsAlan Gilbert
2024-02-13 08:15:00
Pierre Loti's writings inspired Léo Delibes' opera Lakmé and a whole genre of Orientalist operas
[…] of reportage thanks to his travels as a naval officer, broadened the audience.This fascination for all things exotic would come to a logical (and horrifying) conclusion when the exotic was brought back to the West in the form of live people. And the musical influences continued as well. The Japanese Village in Knightsbridge (which ran from 1885 to 1887) and involved 100 Japanese men and women living in a specially constructed village, may have influenced Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado. Whilst in 1889, at the Paris Exposition Universelle, colonised people had their daily lives displayed for visitors, giving Debussy his first experience of the Balinese Gamelan.Léo Delibes' Lakmé, however, has another layer of exoticism too in the form of the the novelty of exotically colonial English people and it is hero Gérald's desire to put country and duty above love that give the opera one of its engines.Whilst the music from the opera remains […]
2024-01-24 07:29:00
Norfolk-based arts writer, Tony Cooper, enjoys a musical heritage tour to Leipzig, a relaxing and inviting city to visit awash with so much musical history.
The Gewandhaus at the Augustusplatz in Leipzig-Mitte with the Mendebrunnen at night (2016)(Photo: Wikimedia - By Ichwarsnur - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0) Come 2025, the Leipzig Gewandhaus will be staging a major international festival in honour of Dimitri Shostakovich marking the 50th anniversary of his deathA frequent visitor to Germany attending Ring cycles here, there and everywhere, Tony Cooper recently enjoyed a short break in Leipzig taking in a concert by the Gewandhausorchester conducted by Alan Gilbert featuring Shostakovich’s 10th symphony whilst also enjoying a rare performance of Thea Musgrave’s opera, Mary, Queen of Scots. With so much musical history and knowledge wrapped up in Leipzig’s cultural portfolio, Tony also took adventurous steps by way of trekking the Leipzig Music Trail stopping off to visit the Bach-Archiv, conveniently situated opposite St Thomas’ Church and the Mendelssohn House Museum not forgetting, of course, the Schumann House while soaking up the city’s illustrious past […]
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