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American composer
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2020-12-05 05:57:00
Classical Music News of the Week, December 5, 2020
[…] Jaehnig, Shuman Associates NewsReimagine Beethoven with SOLI on December 8In 2012, SOLI commissioned four composers to create a call and response to the revolutionary final movement of Beethoven's final string quartet. SOLI revisits this fascinating journey in honor of the composer's 250th birthday - please join us December 8th at 7:30pm CST for the broadcast of Beethoven Reimagined.This all-Beethoven-influenced SOLI DIGITAL event features the original works by Doug Balliett, Paul Moravec, Xi Wang, and Dan Welcher and arrangement by Trinity University’s Brian Bondari.We look forward to seeing you online December 8 at 7:30pm CST at SOLI's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLpB_riU947pszI-FIB6iag--Anne Schellenge, SOLI Chamber Ensemble
2020-06-28 20:24:00
Here are some links that've been floating around open browser tabs for too damn long. Music's Perpetually Open Secret: Allegations against Professor Dan Welcher at the University of Texas at Austin Butler School of Music went on for 18 years before being addressed. Women accuse opera legend Domingo of sexual assault. LA Opera investigation finds sexual harassment allegations against Placido Domingo credible Plácido Domingo had 'inappropriate conduct' with many women, opera finds Domingo barely apologized, then walked the "apology" back two days later. You can look up all of the allegations against Domingo, which came from 20 women who'd worked with him at various opera companies. A least one was a dancer and the rest were singers. I have privately heard some stuff about his behavior - warnings given to singers along the lines of don't be alone with him, don't let him […]
2016-03-21 22:16:34
"The driving force of all nature" was how Leonardo da Vinci characterized water, and composers have made water in all its forms the subject of compositions for centuries. George Frideric Handel's festive Water Music opens the program, which then features an appealing and intriguing oboe concerto, Sea Winds , by American composer Dan Welcher.
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2016-03-12 21:11:31
Thielemann: I learned a lot from Harnoncourt and Boulez
Contrary to his reputation as a tunnel-visioned conservative, the Bayreuth music director tells Der Standard that he learned a lot from two trailblazers in baroque performance and contemporary music. Of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, he says: ‘He was an ear-opener.’ Of Pierre Boulez’s Parsifal at Bayreuth: ‘I attended all his rehearsals. He was a musical authority of a kind rarely experienced.’ STANDARD: Neben Harnoncourt ist unlängst auch Pierre Boulez gestorben. Beide Epochengestalten scheinen für Sie künstlerisch aber keine große Rolle gespielt zu haben. Thielemann: Da muss ich widersprechen! Ich habe bei Harnoncourt sehr genau zugehört und mir viele Gedanken gemacht über die Art und Weise, wie er die Dinge interpretiert hat. Es war schon erstaunlich, zu welchen Lösungen er kam, da wurden einem die Ohren geöffnet! Boulez habe ich sehr häufig erlebt, in Oper und Konzert. Bewundernswert, mit welch kleinteiliger, wunderbar unaufgeregter Dirigierweise er Details offenlegte. Als er in Bayreuth den […]
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