František Weissenstein News
holocaust victim, b. 1899-02-15
Commemorations 2024 (Death: František Weissenstein)
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-07-24 15:23:14
BU Institute Now 50-Year Institution
[…] Wolfe (from the very first BUTI) will perform a medley entitled It all starts with Koussy, as well as works by Kodaly and British composer Tarik O’Regan. The 50th Anniversary Concert begins at 2:30 at Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood and will be emceed by Emmy Award winner Lauren Ambrose (BUTI ‘94-5). A soiree under the Highwood Tent will be hosted by BSO radio host Ron Della Chiesa after the concert. Leinsdorf congratulates Phyllis Curtin (Heinz-Weissenstein-Whitestone-Photo) Before the festivities, one can take in BUTI campus tours every half hour from 9:00 – 10:30 am. Timo Andres will also appear at an 11:00 a.m. piano recital with more recent alumni Leon Bernsdorf (BUTI ‘10) and Paul Celebi (BUTI ‘15). A 12:45pm Alumni Panel Discussion on the topic “Changing Lives, Influencing the World” will feature BUTI alumni including soprano Alyson Cambridge (BUTI ‘96) and conductor and composer Lucas Richman (BUTI ‘79-’80); […]
2013-05-05 01:05:29
[…] a convincing, subtle portrayal. The talented Fflur Wyn, as his daughter Achsah whose lovely arias include the ingenious As Cheers the Sun, was fresh-voiced and touching. So too was Jake Arditti, a pure-toned, rising-star countertenor, as her lover, Othniel. Members of the children's chorus of Opera North and Glyn Webster as a choirboy angel added youthful fervour. Every word of the English libretto was audible.The stage imagery was based on the work of Rudi Weissenstein (1910-1992), a Czech photographer who emigrated to Palestine in 1936. Black-and-white photos were projected, at enormous, grainy size, on portable screens. The shell of the Grand theatre stage itself was visible: rear doors, fly loft, rigging. Appreciating current tight budgets – Opera North faces a £1.6m cut – this solution worked well.With skilful lighting, Edwards also managed to hint at the visual moods of a Rembrandt biblical painting or a David Roberts watercolour. Gabrielle […]
2013-05-01 14:55:42
Grand theatre, LeedsThe custody battle over Handel's biblical oratorios waged between opera companies and choral societies has not so far extended to Joshua, written in 1748 as one of a late burst of militaristic, Old Testament narratives depicting the journey of the Jewish people towards the Promised Land.Charles Edwards, who both directs and designs this Opera North production, hedges his bets, stripping the stage to the rear loading bay, as if both to confirm that we are in a theatre and abnegate the theatricality of a work conceived for concert performance.Edwards presents the work as if through the lens of photographer Rudi Weissenstein, who witnessed Israel's declaration of independence and created an unparalleled corpus of work documenting the birth of the nation. Weissenstein's panoramic, monochrome landscapes provide an austere backdrop to the oratorio's pastoral subplot. Yet some of the production's imagery is inflammatory, even crass. The bombastic general Caleb celebrates the […]
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