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ArtsJournal: music
2019-11-20 03:34:00
Early Black Feminist Theatre and Lynching Dramas Revisited
“In the 1910s and 1920s, a number of African American women poets and authors turned to drama to address racial violence. Writers such as: Angelina Weld Grimké, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Mary Burrill, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Myrtle Smith Livingston were among these writers who did so. With the majority of these Black women living in the […]
2019-08-26 07:00:00
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ArtsJournal: music
2018-03-04 14:30:49
Barbara Lekberg, Who Wielded A Blowtorch For Her Art, Has Died At 92
Lekberg found her medium when she learned to Weld. "'The old struggle with plaster and coat hangers ended when I began to Weld steel,' she said, referring to her early efforts to make sculpture. 'Steel held its own when projected into space and seemed to do everything I needed. This is a primal joy in […]
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Faces of classical music
2018-02-11 21:33:00
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.5 in C sharp minor – Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Christoph Eschenbach (HD 1080p)
Christoph Eschenbach conducts Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia in Gustav Mahler's Symphony No.5 in C sharp minor. Recorded at the Palacio de la Ópera de A Coruña, on June 16, 2016.✻Mahler kept revising the orchestration of this work until his death. He conducted the first performance with the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne on October 18, 1904. It is scored for quadruple winds, six horns, four trumpets, three trombones, tuba, tympani, three other drums, metal and wood percussion, harp, and string choir.He'd begun the Fifth Symphony at Maiernegg in 1901 – writing the third, first and second movements in that order, after a death-obsessed song, "Der Tamboursg'sell", and the Kindertotenlieder cycle ("Songs on the Death of Children"). After nearly bleeding to death the previous winter (from an intestinal hemorrhage), Mahler's symphonic orientation underwent a profound change. During his recovery he immersed himself in the complete works of Bach.A new appreciation of counterpoint was […]
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