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Swiss music theorist (1886-1946)
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- philosopher, musicologist, music theorist, university teacher, non-fiction writer
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2019-05-26 08:03:00
Oper Leipzig – Verdi’s Rigoletto. May 25, 2019.
Opernhaus Saal. Parkett rechts (Seat R4-P17, 73 euros). Story. Will provide. Conductor – Christoph Gedscheld. Gilda – Bianca Tognocchi, Giovanna – Dorothee Schlemm-Gal, Maddalena – Kathrin Goring, Herzog – Kyungho Kim, Rigoletto – Devid Cecconi, Graf von Monterone – Jurgen Kurth; Sparafucile – Randall Jakobsh. New banner announcing tonight's opera. Another evening, another dark opera. Whether it is coincidence that all the operas we have seen so far this trip, or that’s what Germans do, we are not sure. For the record, the next opera we will see is at Covent Garden, and it’s another dark one, Andrea Chenier. Photo taken from last row of hall. Not a bad seat in the house. Deep orchestra pit. Before we get to how dark things get, let’s first say a few good things. […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-08-13 00:41:22
Offenbach and Novello: As Different As Can Be
[…] actress friends. The first bids are low, but Maria Ziegler (Sarah Best), a young star of the theater, arrives with her benefactor Prince Charles Metterling (Samus Haddad). She buys the song for her latest show and even persuades Charles to let Rudi live in a studio in his Vienna palace. She falls madly in love with him, but cannot understand his reluctance to move forward in their relationship, even consulting her old vocal coach (Hannah Kurth) about the matter. Rudi writes an operetta Lorelei for Maria; it proves to be a huge success. Metterling is jealous of Rudi, since he is also involved with Maria. After the successful opening of Lorelei, the Prince catches composer and star in a passionate embrace, and lets Rudi know that he had visited her the night before. Rudi leaves, but hears the two arguing, and returns. Three years later, Grete has completed studies in […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-08-09 21:29:37
Mikado Fits Crime & Kiss Me Kate Brushes Up
[…] star; the expression “going Hollywood” describes her relationship to the company at the beginning of the show, especially with her former husband, Fred, for whom she still preserves a fairly well-hidden warmth. The working-out of their marital issues both on and offstage is the main element of the plot. But other couples have their own concerns to work out. Lois Lane, the nightclub singer whom Fred is “training” for musical theater, brilliantly played by Hannah Kurth in her first major role at OLO (in previous years she has been an ensemble singer/dancer and played small parts). The bluesy lament “Why can’t you behave?” to her gambling boyfriend Bill suggests the musical world she has inhabited before getting a part in “Shrew,” and her comic list song of former lovers (“Always true to you in my fashion”), with its sexy leggy solo dance, was a showstopper. Stephen Faulk was her jealous […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2016-05-24 14:15:59
A Stand-Mate Pays Tribute To The World’s Longest-Serving Orchestral Player
Michael Kurth on his Atlanta Symphony colleague, Jane Little, who died earlier this month at age 87: “When I feel sore and weary after a day of playing the bass, I remind myself that if an 87-year-old cancer patient with a broken vertebra who weighs 90 pounds soaking wet can do it, maybe I should stop whining and get back to work.”
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