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Classical Music News of the Week, July 9, 2022
[…] a concert anchored by the world premiere of composer Dale Trumbore’s The Opposites Game, which asks an almost unanswerable question: “What is the opposite of a gun?” “Home” also includes the world premiere of Tupelo Poems by Dylan Tr?n and the West Coast premieres of Migration by Michael Gilbertson and To Propagate a Home by Ayanna Woods.Following on March 5, 2023 is the West Coast premiere of Kile Smith’s Canticle and on May 21, 2023, a concert featuring Rex Isenberg’s Messiahs: False and True, along with the West Coast premieres of Joel Thompson’s Hold Fast to Dreams, B.E. Boykin’s Holding the Light, Ariel Sol Bertulfo Schwartz’s Willow Poem, and the a cappella world premiere of Derrick Skye’s Glimpse Elation. The season will close with CAI’s annual PREMIERE | Project Festival, during which selected emerging composers come to finalize a composition in a workshop setting. The concluding concert includes a live and recorded public premiere […]
2020-04-24 19:18:00
Walking the walk with Alma Mahler
[…] mine at the second attempt. But others were less fortunate, and another post tells of how, just two months after the Werfels passed through Portbou, another refugee - the German-Jewish writer and philosopher Walter Benjamin - took his own life in the town. * Sources include- Franz Werfel, A Life in Prague, Vienna and Hollywood by Peter Stephan Jungk (Fromm ISBN 0880641304)- A Hero of Our Own, the Story of Varian Fry by Sheila Isenberg (Randon House ISBN 0375502211- Alma Mahler, Muse to Genius by Karen Monson (Collins ISBN 0002163152)- The New Bruckner: Compositional Developments and the Dynamics of Revision by Dermot Gault (ISBN: 9781409400912)- Love and War in the Pyrenees by Rosemary Bailey (Phoenix ISBN 9780753825914)Originally posted On An Overgrown Path in May 2013. New Overgrown Path posts are available via RSS/email by entering your email address in the right-hand sidebar. Any copyrighted material is included for critical […]
2020-03-05 06:43:00
Critical Insights: Casablanca (Book review)
[…] is the ideal companion for a few long, studious winter nights or a few short, pleasant summer evenings. Here’s a rundown on the essays and authors included in the book: “On Casablanca” by James Plath “Michael Curtiz: One of Hollywood’s Most Versatile Directors” by James Plath “Tips of the Hat: The Critical Response to Casablanca” by Brennan M. Thomas “Such Much? Casablanca, Hitler’s Refugees, and the Hollywood Screen” by Noah Isenberg “Casablanca and Pop Culture’s Embrace” by Kathy Merlock Jackson “Bogie Noir: Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon” by Li Zeng “I Stick My Neck Out for Nobody: Rick Blaine’s Anti-heroism” by Erik Esckilsen “Ilsa’s Sacrifice: Gender, History, and Casablanca’s Conversion Narrative” by Linda Mokdad “Classical Hollywood, Race, and Casablanca” by Delia Malia Konzett “Defining Classical Hollywood Narration in Casablanca” by Eric S. Faden “Adlibbing Greatness: Casablanca’s Screenplay” by […]
2018-07-01 11:00:43
A few years ago, I received an instant message from piano teacher, Gail Trattner Isenberg, a member of FACEBOOK’s Art of Piano Pedagogy group and an avowed blog follower. Though we’d been “distant” cyber contacts, linked by common URLs, Gail’s text, that bubbled with enthusiasm in its introduction, had rapidly erupted into a full blown…
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