Árpád Joó News
(1948-2014) Hungarian born conductor
Commemorations 2024 (Death: Árpád Joó)
- piano
- classical music
- Republic of Hungary, Hungarian People's Republic, United States of America
- conductor, classical pianist, pianist
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2024-03-29
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2024-02-03 22:45:00
One of my favorite parts of teaching middle school boys the past five years is that we spend a quarter of every fall semester slow-watching Into the Woods. In my opinion, it's a perfect musical for this transitional age - a show that is constantly exploring what lies "in-between" the safety and familiarity of childhood/home and the excitement and danger found in wishing for more freedom and responsibility. Every middle schooler lives in this transition between kid and grownup.In addition to watching, we do multiple projects which give the students a hands-on opportunity to engage with Sondheim's musical ideas. This year, I found a good deal of success getting groups of four students to learn a central section of the big "Your Fault" number in which characters argue back and forth in rapid-fire fashion. (Believe me, rapid-fire argument comes naturally to these boys - but they don't usually do it […]
2022-06-29 23:51:56
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2021-05-05 07:00:40
The pianist Hyung-ki Joo has got together with... The post Menuhins gather in Song for Corinne appeared first on Slipped Disc.
2021-01-29 02:02:00
Hidden Rites
In the past couple of years, there have been a few different viral stories about how the very famous bassoon solo which opens Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is basically the same melody as the even more famous pop anthem We are the champions. I'm not sure how far back this goes, though there's this tweet from 2018, and Classic FM did one of their things about it in 2019. For some reason, this story popped back up on my radar in two different places this week, so I decided to take a closer look. Mainly, I was intrigued by the notion that the two tunes definitely have a lot in common...yet, they still don't sound very similar to me. Unfortunately, because I was struggling to really hear this connection convincingly, it occurred to me I could try blending the two by doing some surgery on Freddie Mercury's original vocals from […]
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