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2021-11-16 12:39:03
As a child prodigy, Bruzdowicz came from a musical family and began her composition studies at the age of six. Following studies in Warsaw and France, she established herself as a composer in Belgium before residing permanently in southern France. A student of Oliver Messiaen, Pierre Schaeffer, and Nadia Boulanger, Bruzdowicz wrote opera, symphonies, […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2021-08-01 13:44:00
Music is not a matter of notes, it's a matter of sounds
In this age of supposed diversity the Egyptian composer, ethnomusicologist and electronic music pioneer Halim El-Dabh is overlooked. While still a student in the 1940s Halim El-Dabh experimented with composing using wire recorders. In 1944 he created one of the earliest known examples of electronic musique concrète. The Expression of Zaar manipulated field recordings of a traditional zaar exorcism ceremony, and predated Pierre Schaeffer's work by four years. In 1950 Halim El-Dabh received a Fulbright Scholarship and moved to the United States, becoming a US citizen in 1961. His composition teachers included Ernst Krenek, Aaron Copland and Luigi Dallapiccola. In New York his circle included Henry Cowell, John Cage, and Peggy Glanville-Hicks, and he composed four ballet scores for Martha Graham and was an influential figure in the early days of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Halim El-Dabh came from a Coptic-Christian family with ancestral roots in Upper Egypt close to the […]
2021-04-07 17:50:32
At his own workshop, Mr. Dupuy worked for almost 40 years alongside Christophe Schaeffer and Pierre Caradot. He was the son of violin maker Georges Dupuy, a founding member of the International Association of Violin and Bow Makers (EILA). It was his father's workshop in the Rue de Rome, Paris, that Philippe inherited upon Georges' […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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2020-06-25 15:01:48
Co-Founder Of DC’s Signature Theater Resigns Following Allegations Of Sexual Assault
Two actors have publicly accused Eric Schaeffer, who has been the Northern Virginia company’s artistic director since its beginnings in 1989, of repeatedly grabbing their genitals during public events in 2016 and 2018. Signature management says that a two-month investigation in 2018 by an attorney for the company found the allegations “not credible,” but Schaeffer […]
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