Erik Ole Bye News
Norwegian opera singer and rower (1883-1953)
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2024-03-27 08:09:00
Revisiting Staatsoper Berlin’s Ring cycle proved a thrilling experience: Dmitri Tcherniakov's production returns to Unter den Linden with conductor Philippe Jordan
[…] remorseful and full of guilt, Hagen quietly leaves the research centre to live another day, Maybe, in the hope of redeeming himself for his wrongdoing. And the idea of 'redemption' lies at the heart of Wagner's philosophy. Brünnhilde follows him from the research centre. The earth goddess, Erda, waves her goodBye by utilising the wings of a toy bird. But for Brünnhilde it's goodBye to all that recalling from my perspective Robert Graves' 1929 autobiography, Good-Bye to All That, pointing to the passing of the Old Order and a new beginning following the cataclysm of the First World War. As such, the end of the Gods and Valhalla similarly heralded in a New Dawn, too. The German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, who had an ambivalent relationship with Richard Wagner, said: 'Life is worth living, says art, the beautiful temptress. Life is worth knowing, says science.' I think that this philosophical statement […]
2024-01-23 09:06:00
Bliss International Song Series 2024: Schumann & Schubert in Pembroke College's newly refurbished chamber hall
Joseph Middleton & Sarah Connolly at Pembroke College's Bliss International Song Series in 2023 (Photo: Sally March)Pembroke College, Cambridge's Bliss International Song Series, artistic director Joseph Middleton, relaunched last year in the college's newly refurbished 200-seater chamber hall (a former United Reformed Church), complete with new Steinway (previously the song series had been in the Old Library). The series is named for composer Sir Arthur Bliss who studied at the college. So far this season, the series has seen recitals by Sir Simon Keenlyside and Dame Sarah Connolly, and a masterclass from Sir Thomas Allen.On Friday 9 February, baritone Konstantin Krimmel and pianist Joseph Middleton perform Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin, then on 5 March tenor Christoph Prégardien and Joseph Middleton present A Heine Songbook with settings of Heine's poetry by Schubert and Schumann including Schumann's Dichterliebe.Founded and Directed by Joseph Middleton, Pembroke Bye-Fellow and College Musician, the series offers a year-round programme of concerts devised […]
2022-04-14 12:00:50
On this day in 1960 the Charles Strouse-Lee Adams musical Bye Bye Birdie opened on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre, to run 607 performances.
2021-11-20 09:45:06
From jazz and groove to classical: I chat to composer and improvising trombonist Alex Paxton about his three recent works nominated for this years Ivors Composer Awards
Alex Paxton (Photo Peter Tainsh) Alex Paxton has been nominated for three works in two categories in this year's Ivors Composer Awards, he is also a first time nominee. For the second in my series of interviews with composers nominated in this year's awards, I recently chatted to Alex about his three works, Bye and Corncrack Dreams in the Jazz Composition category, and Sometimes Voices in the Small Chamber Composition category. Bye, for small jazz ensemble and improvisor, premiered on 5 November 2020 at Milton Court with the Guildhall Jazz Orchestra directed by Scott Stroman [live stream, and see the review in London Jazz News). Corncrack Dreams for trombone, keyboard and drums was commissioned by Nevis Ensemble and North Uist Distillery and premiered on a Nonclassical release which came out in February, I hope this finds you well in these strange times, vol. 3. Sometimes Voices for keyboard and drums was […]
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