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2024-02-27 21:12:03
Stipendium für Nachwuchsdirigent*innen (apprenticeship / academy position) €650 p/month Zum Jubiläum „100 Jahre Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz“ haben wir im Jahr 2020 die Ernst-Boehe-Akademie ins Leben gerufen. Sie bietet jungen Dirigent*innen einen zweijährigen Stipendiumsplatz. Unserem Chefdirigenten Michael Francis ist die Förderung und Ausbildung junger hochbegabter Musiker*innen ein zentrales Anliegen. Im Rahmen dieses Programms erhalten Sie deshalb […]
2024-02-20 09:27:00
La voix humaine: two different productions bring Poulenc's intimate drama to London
[…] there are two different productions of Poulenc's La voix humaine coming up. In March, Green Opera is performing the work at the King's Head Theatre in Islington, the first time opera has been performed in the venue for ten years. In April, Pegasus Opera Company is presenting Poulenc's La voix humaine in a double bill with Philip Hagemann's Roman Fever at the Susie Sainsbury Theatre at the Royal Academy of Music.Green Opera's critically-acclaimed production of Francis Poulenc's La Voix humaine returns for a strictly limited run, 14-16 March 2024 at the newly reconstructed purpose-built King's Head Theatre. New Zealand soprano Katherine McIndoe with Eleanor Burke as director and André Callegaro as music director, these latter two both Jette Parker Young Artists at the Royal Opera House.Green Opera is the first and only environmentally-sustainable opera company; for every £10 donated or ticket purchased, Green Opera plants a tree with Eden Reforestation […]
2024-02-12 04:30:00
Marc-André Hamelin: New Works for Piano (CD Review)
[…] to most classical music fans, his piano music is still pretty much out of the classical piano music mainstream: the French composer Gabriel Fauré (1825-1924). Our review of Hamelin’s gorgeous Fauré disc can be found here. On this new release Hamelin steps way outside the classical keyboard mainstream: the “new works for piano” of the album’s title are new works by none other than pianist and composer Marc-André Hamelin. In his CD booklet essay, British composer, pianist, and academic Francis Potts (b. 1957) writes, “Marc-André Hamelin sees himself as a pianist who composes, yet he carries forward a noble tradition of excelling in both domains. Questioned regularly by interviewers on his legendary pianistic powers, he has emphasized not hours of practice but the importance of having what he calls ‘a good mind for music,’ attributing a significant part of his superhuman agility to a highly developed intellectual and instinctive grasp of harmonic structures and […]
2024-01-30 17:38:31
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