Georg Friedrich Haas News
Austrian composer
- piano
- opera
- Austria
- composer, academic musician, university teacher, classical pianist
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2024-04-23
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Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2023-06-03 06:42:48
The ever-unconventional composer Georg Friedrich Haas has come... The post A premiere for 11,000 strings appeared first on Slippedisc.
2022-07-13 15:29:53
Kronos Quartet – Mỹ Lai (CD Review)
Mỹ Lai Kronos Quartet Smithsonian Folkways In one of its most ambitious projects to date, Kronos Quartet has recorded Mỹ Lai, an opera by composer Jonathan Berger (Professor at Stanford University) and librettist Harriet Scott Chessman, who has also written a libretto for Georg Friedrich Haas’s next opera. Vocalist Rinde Eckerdt and multi-instrumentalist Vân-Ánh […]
2021-06-09 06:00:41
‘I felt, not a bass drum, but the neck of an Icelandic audience member’: performing Haas’s Solstices
Solstices is a 75-minute piece performed in complete darkness. From sleep masks to broken cymbals, percussionist Sam Wilson explains how the Riot Ensemble brings Georg Friedrich Haas’s work to life “Fade to black.” It’s one of the most ubiquitous lighting directions in existence. If you want to punctuate your final moments and wring every last bit of emotional heft from your material, fade to black. But when the lights disappear five minutes after the start of the piece and the musicians are still playing? No, you’re not on the Titanic. Georg Friedrich Haas’s In Vain has been hailed by Simon Rattle as “
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2021-04-28 11:37:45
Riot Ensemble will perform Georg Friedrich Haas’s 75-minute... The post This concert is going dark appeared first on Slipped Disc.
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