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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-17 13:50:36
[…] out the program, suffered in accuracy. I wonder if Munch really loved Bruckner, in any case. In the summer of 1959 I was a junior student at the Berkshire Music Center studying composition with Lukas Foss [more HERE]. Leonard Bernstein normally administered the conducting program at Tanglewood, but he was somewhere else that summer, and Eleazar de Carvalho had taken charge. A handful of “active conductors” got extensive directing time with the BMC orchestra; Charles Dutoit was one of these, as were Harold Farberman of the BSO’s percussion section (30 years later I had very good lessons from him at the Conductors Institute in South Carolina), and a very able Norwegian, Sverre Bruland; the younger conducting students, not “actives,” included John Harbison. Charles Munch was on campus, of course, directing BSO concerts. Berlioz’s Grande messe des morts, the Requiem, was on the menu, and Lorna Cooke de Varon and Alfred […]
2024-01-27 09:59:00
A winter week focusing on the piano yet hosted by an orchestra: intendant Numa Bischof Ullmann introduces Lucerne's Le Piano Symphonique & looks forward to the 2025 festival
[…] perform Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, Martha Argerich will be performing, with friends, in as yet undecided programmes and there will be a recital from one of the finalists of the Concours Geza Anda 2024. Argerich is on the jury of the competition and will select one of the finalists to perform. She will also be performing in Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals twice, once in an adult concert with narrations from her daughter, Annie Dutoit, and once in a family concert.Le Piano Symphonique - Jean Rondeau in the Neubad, Lucerne in 2023 (Photo: Philipp Schmidli)And for those that attended in 2023, the swimming baths are back! Tamar Halperin, harpsichord, and Michael Wollny, piano, are giving a crossover jazz concert in the Neubad (a former swimming pool that is now a venue and which hosted harpsichordist Jean Rondeau in 2023). Whilst Daniel Ciobanu will be performing Mussorgsky's Pictures at an […]
2023-08-07 14:59:19
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Anna Rakitina, conductor Joshua Bell, violin Eliza Bagg, Martha Cluver, and Sonja Dutoit Tengblad, vocalists July 30, 2023 LENOX – The Boston Symphony’s offerings on the weekend of the annual Festival of Contemporary Music dovetailed with its curation, lifting up female composers and, on Sunday, a conductor. Leading the orchestra on […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2023-07-28 09:34:35
Martha Argerich is going out of Buenos Aires... The post Argerich lines up big bash in BA with ex-hub Dutoit appeared first on Slippedisc.
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