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2022-01-31 16:17:59
Schubert 2022
[…] Mendelssohn was also born this week, on February 3rd of 1809. By the time of Schubert’s death, when Mendelssohn was 19, he has already written several dozen compositions, including quartets, a symphony, and the famous Midsummer Night's Dream Overture. And two great violinists, Fritz Kreisler and Jascha Heifetz were born on the same day this week, February 2nd, Kreisler in 1875 and Heifetz in 1901. Also, the conductor Erich Leinsdorf, who was born Erich Landauer into a Jewish family in Vienna on February 4th of 1912, 110 years ago. He became Bruno Walter’s assistant at Salzburg in 1934 at the age of 22. Leinsdorf left Austria several weeks before the Anschluss, Nazi Germany’s capture of Austria, to assume the position of assistant conductor at the Metropolitan opera and stayed in the US for the rest of his life, becoming a naturalized citizen in 1942. He became the Music director […]
2020-02-18 14:37:00
Good enough for the Berlin Philharmonic but not for the BBC
[…] the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Below is the programme for Rudolph Dunbar's appearance in a 1942 concert series by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. The other two conductors in the series showed the exalted company that Dunbar was keeping on the podium - the Ukrainian Anatole Fistoulari who was principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, and the acclaimed but capricious master of Wagner's music Reginald Goodall. Below is the repertoire for Dunbar's concert (Rawicz and Landauer played light items for piano duet either side of the interval):Weber: Overture 'Oberon' Coleridge-Taylor: Petite Suite de Concert Op 77 Dvořák: Symphony No 9 'From the New World' It is easier to refute the verdict that Rudolph Dunbar's mastery of the clarinet was "not quite good enough". He played jazz clarinet soloist with The Plantation Orchestra and can be heard on archive recordings. While studying […]
2015-03-02 04:35:00
This Week in Toronto (March 2 - 8)
[…] Sinibaldi/The Guardian) For opera fans, the centerpiece of this year's New Creations Festival is the concert performance of George Benjamin's Written On Skin. This opera was a sensation at Royal Opera Covent Garden two years ago. Erica Jeal, my colleague at Opera (uk) where I'm the Toronto correspondent/reviewer, gave it a 5-Star in her review in The Guardian. Barbara Hannigan is joined by mezzo Krisztina Szabo, tenor Isaiah Bell, baritone Christopher Purves and countertenor Bernhard Landauer in this performance. Composer George Benjamin conducts the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Saturday March 7 7:30 pm at Roy Thomson Hall. http://tso.ca/en-ca/concerts-and-tickets/2014-2015-Season/EventDetails/Written-on-Skin.aspx Soprano Barbara Hannigan (Photo: Raphael Brand) Soprano Barbara Hannigan manages to squeeze into her busy schedule a Workshop for Singers, Composers and Librettists at Walter Hall on Monday March 2 2 pm. Joining Hannigan is composer Hans Abrahamsen and librettist Paul Griffiths. The workshop focuses on Abrahamsen's new work, Let me […]
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