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2024-01-03 21:20:00
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los AngelesPhoto by Lisa HirschThe Los Angeles Philharmonic has performances of Wagner's Das Rheingold later this month, and gosh, the cast looks great. (Which of these singers will be in the next San Francisco Opera Ring bring-up? Place your bets now.) There was a point when I would have said "this is in advance of a Paris Opera Ring, but we can't know whether any future Paris Ring productions will be conducted by Dudamel, who is no longer the music director there.)I can't get there, but presumably others can. Scenic design by Frank Gehry should be interesting!DUDAMEL LEADS DAS RHEINGOLDThursday, January 18, at 8:00 PMSaturday, January 20, at 8:00 PMSunday, January 21, at 2:00 PMLos Angeles PhilharmonicGustavo Dudamel, conductorAlberto Arvelo, directorRodrigo Prieto, lighting designerRyan Speedo Green, WotanBarry Banks, MimePeixin Chen, FafnerAlexandria Shiner,WellgundeJohn Matthew Myers,FrohFrank Gehry, scenic designCori Ellison, dramaturgRaehann Bryce-Davis,FrickaJochen Schmeckenbecher,AlberichJessica Faselt, FreiaTaylor Raven, FlosshildeKyle Albertson, DonnerCindy Figueroa, costumedesignerSimon O’Neill, LogeMorris Robinson, FasoltAnn Toomey, WoglindeTamara Mumford, Erda
All the conducting master class
2023-03-15 16:59:00
09 – 15 Apr, 2023 There are still places available for our orchestral conducting Workshop in Barakaldo, Spain. Led by Dr. John Farrer and Fuensanta Figueroa, this course is suitable for conductors from beginner to advanced levels wishing to gain experience with orchestra. RepertoireELGAR String SerenadeMENDELSSOHN Hebrides OvertureBEETHOVEN Symphony No. 1RAVEL Mother Goose Suite DeliveryApril […]
2021-09-24 07:16:29
Red Note Ensemble's Autumn season represents a step in their plans to create a permanent, stable company of musicians rooted within Scotland
Red Note Ensemble (Photo Julie Howden) The Scottish Contemporary Music group, Red Note Ensemble, performs at Perth Concert Hall tonight (24 September 2021) when Geoffrey Patterson conducts them in a new work by Scottish composer James Dillon, EMBLEMATA: Carnival, and the performance (which includes discussion about this impressive commission) follows three days of recording two works by Dillon for Delphian Records.The ensemble has already been performing other music by Dillon this month as they launched their Autumn season with a concert at the Lammermuir Festival on 15 September 2021 in which Jonathan Berman conducted Tansy Davies' Soul Canoe and Dillon's Tanz/Haus: triptych 2017, Red Note's own commission which won the the Royal Philharmonic Society composition award. Red Note returns to Perth in November with Sub Mari by Martina Corsini and Manuel Figueroa-Bolvarán, a special multimedia commission for COP26 with further performances in Edinburgh and Glasgow and plans for a broadcast. These performances at Perth are part of […]
2021-08-28 04:54:00
Classical Music News of the Week, August 28, 2021
[…] after it was initially formed at Juilliard in 1976. All four members of the Quartet--Eugene Drucker, Philip Setzer, Lawrence Dutton and Paul Watkins--will continue to perform and teach individually; as a group, they will continue to coach and mentor young ensembles through the Emerson String Quartet Institute at Stony Brook University, along with cellist David Finckel, who was a member of the quartet for 34 years. The Quartet’s original members were Drucker, Setzer, violist Guillermo Figueroa, Jr. and cellist Eric Wilson. Lawrence Dutton joined the group in 1977; cellist David Finckel became a member in 1979 and was succeeded by Paul Watkins in 2013.The Emerson Quartet, named “America’s greatest quartet” by Time Magazine, is one of the most celebrated classical music quartets of all time. The ensemble is the recipient of not only the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize and Musical America’s coveted “Ensemble of the Year” Award, but also nine […]
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