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2020-05-20 19:50:49
Meet the Phonoliszt … the amazing self-playing violin orchestra … Originally built in 1910 by inventor Ludwig Hupfeld, in Leipzig, at the time of its release it was marketed as ‘The Eight Wonder Of The World‘ … The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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Faces of classical music
2018-12-23 18:00:00
Christmas with the Faces of Classical Music
[…] Shaham, Lucas Meachem, Christian Thielemann (HD 1080p) One of the classical world's most charismatic figures, Lang Lang thrills millions of concertgoers around the world. Watch now an exciting musical encounter when the Staatskapelle's Principal Conductor Christian Thielemann and his musicians are joined on stage by the Chinese star pianist as well as the singers Rinat Shaham and Lucas Meachem to interpret works by Edward Grieg, George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, Cole Porter and Herman Hupfeld... View full post Christmas in Vienna 2015 – Valentina Naforniţa, Angelika Kirchschlager, Piotr Beczala, Artur Ruciński, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Erwin Ortner (HD 1080p) A classic Christmassy repertoire and popular Christmas music from around the world also determine in the program this year this wonderful Christmas concert, which is transmitted by the ORF. The Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Erwin Ortner, the Vienna Boys Choir and the […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2017-06-16 19:31:34
The Self-Playing Violin And Pianos - They Were A Sensation In 1910
"During the machine’s heyday, the Hupfeld Company developed around 900 different music rolls for it. They sold thousands of the Phonoliszt-Violin, mostly to opulent hotels and restaurants that used them for background entertainment. But by the mid 1920s, the popularity of automatic instruments cratered as phonographs and radios spread throughout the world."
2014-12-16 05:23:31
[…] from Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound, from sixteen years earlier – shows that Hungarian-born composer had his ecstatically crescendoing formula well-refined by then. Taken out of context, Thomas Newman’s interlude from the immortal plastic bag scene in American Beauty is remarkably plaintive, a quality enhanced by this performance. The swing-era standard As Time Goes By, popularized in Casablanca, wasn’t written by Max Steiner, the composer of that film’s score, but by Tin Pan Alley song merchant Herman Hupfeld: Hope chooses it to end the album, in a stark solo rendition. A sad Henry Waxman waltz from the 1962 weepie Come Back, Little Sheba foreshadows it The source material here reaches beyond mainstrean Hollywood. There’s also a majestic, string-driven version of a Walter Jurmann Weimar ragtime piece; Eric Zeisl’s striking overture Menuhim’s Song; and a surprisingly Celtic-tinged instrumental ballad by Werner Richard Heymann. Not all the composers here are Jewish, either. John Williams’ […]
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