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2023-01-14 19:34:00
or full consideration, the following materials should be submitted: (A) Cover letter addressing qualifications as it pertains to the job description, (B) Curriculum vitae, (C) Names, email addresses, and telephone numbers of five (5) professional references. Candidates will be expected to provide recordings of rehearsals and/or live performances at a later date. Applications must be […]
2022-04-14 14:14:00
Richard Wagner and the Nationalisation of Feeling, exhibition at Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
[…] theatres—plans, interiors, as well as a lovely paper theatre and figures for Tannhäuser—is significantly better. ‘Eros as a feeling means the coveting of people or things.’ I am afraid it does not. Wikipedia does a lot better; I have checked. Worse still, Wagner ‘resembled a Gründerzeitentrepreneur. Coveting, ownership, and possessions were central conceptions for him.’ In some ways, yes, but in the sense of wanting to rid the world of them. Read Jesus of Nazareth or, better, get to know the Ring. Perhaps you should have done that before, but it is never too late. A request for credit from a wine merchant is used to imply a sybaritic existence, quite ignoring the ‘worth’ repaid to the world goodness knows how many times by Wagner’s works and performances. A top hat from Paris further displays Wagner’s wickedness. Yes, he lived in nineteenth-century society and engaged with it. My iPhone […]
2021-12-06 08:32:23
Grappling with the unknowable: James MacMillan's remarkable new Christmas Oratorio receives its UK premiere at the Southbank Centre
[…] Southwell, 'Behold a tender silly babe', with MacMillan setting the florid, fluid soprano part against smaller orchestral forces in a style which harked back to mid-Century British music (Finzi's Dies Natalis came to mind). Crowe brought wonderfully plangent tone to the piece, ending on a lovely radiant note. The central tableau took the Nativity narrative from the arrival of the wise men at Herod's court to the flight into Egypt and the family's final return to Nazareth. The chorus bore the bulk of the narrative, with a choral chanting to which the orchestra brought colour and drama. There were moments of terrific anger in the orchestra at the Slaughter of the Innocents, and throughout the two soloists contributed gloriously florid lines, creating some fabulous moments. The second aria, for Roderick Williams, set John Donne on the Nativity, bringing in considerations of the Incarnation. Williams was simple and direct, with some lovely […]
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