Eugen Kapp News
Estonian composer (1908-1996)
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- Estonia, Soviet Union, Russian Empire
- composer, film score composer, politician
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ArtsJournal: music
2019-10-14 13:00:44
How David Hockney Self-Promoted Himself Into The Art World When He Was Young
Hockney, as a brash young artist in the 1960s, made some bold moves. “In the previously unknown letter, scrawled by Hockney while he was studying at the Royal College of Art in London, the 23-year-old brazenly adopts the tone of an established artist and invites Helen Kapp, the curator of the Wakefield gallery, to see […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2019-07-11 19:04:53
How ‘Oklahoma!’ Created The Original Cast Album Genre
“Typically, show music was cut down and rearranged for a popular dance band. But [Decca president Jack] Kapp had no time for such niceties” — he was rushing to get a recording of the hit show to market after a long musicians’ strike — “and the musical’s full Broadway orchestra was brought in to accompany […]
2017-02-04 02:10:32
[…] (Feb 18, 1732) Pencil drawing of Luigi Boccherini by Etienne Mazas André Mathieu (Feb 18, 1929) Luigi Boccherini (Feb 19, 1743) Charles Auguste de Bériot (Feb 20, 1802) Carl Czerny (Feb 21, 1791) Frank Bridge (Feb 26, 1879) Hubert Parry (Feb 27, 1848) Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (Feb 27, 1867) Artur Kapp (Feb 28, 1878)
2016-02-25 12:53:20
[…] fanfares as “stirring and significant contributions to the war effort…” Copland responded to the request with his famous Fanfare for the Common Man. Eighteen fanfares were written by the different composers and performed during the 1942/43 season of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. In 1941 he made the first recording of the Symphony No. 2 by Tchaikovsky, with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Goossens’ recording ignored the cuts that were popular with conductors at that time. For Kapp Records, he recorded a bilingual version of Peter and the Wolf in 1959, featuring the actor José Ferrer narrating the story in both English and Spanish. The music was played by the Vienna State Opera Orchestra. The performance was later released on CD by MCA Records. Goossens is credited for much of the lobbying to the NSW Government to build a music performance venue, a process that led to the construction of the Sydney […]
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