Giorgio Federico Ghedini News
Italian composer (1892–1965)
Commemorations 2025 (Death: Giorgio Federico Ghedini)
- opera, classical music
- Italy, Kingdom of Italy
- composer, conductor, university teacher, pedagogue, music teacher, librettist
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2022-06-16 12:00:00
Music by Ghedini and Hindemith, wholeheardedly recommended by Geoff Pearce. '... there are some truly lovely moments ...'
2018-12-15 08:24:36
Reviving Mozart in Wales & family connections in Milton Keynes: I chat to conductor Damian Iorio
[…] February 2019 at the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, and tours to Birmingham, Milton Keynes, Plymouth, Bristol, Llandudno and Southampton, conducted by Damian Iorio with Ben Johnson, Anita Watson, James Platt, Samantha Hay/Caroline Wettergreen, Mark Stone/Gareth Brynmor John - full details from Welsh National Opera website.Damian Iorio on disc: Ildebrando Pizzetti: Symphony in A, Harp Concerto - Margherita Bassani, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale delle Re, Damian Iorio, Naxos - Available from Amazon Alberto Casella: Triple Concerto, Giorgio Federico Ghedini: Concerto dell'albatro - Emanuela Piemonti, Paolo Ghidoni, Pietro Bosna, Carlo Doglioni Majer, Orchestra I Pomerigi Musicali, Damian Iorio, Naxos - Available from Amazon Elsewhere on this blog: Chocolate covered fairy-tale: Hänsel und Gretel at Covent Garden (★★★½) - opera review Joyous discovery: Alessandro Scarlatti's Messa per il Santissimo Natale (★★★★) - concert review Powerful memorial: composer Andrew Smith on his Requiem dedicated to the victims of […]
2015-09-07 13:29:51
[…] some as the female, English, George Gershwin. In 1924 Leonard Rosenman was born in Brooklyn, NY. He was was an Oscar- and Emmy Award-winning film, television and concert composer, scoring such films as East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, as well as the TV shows Combat! and Marcus Welby, MD. In 1940 David Diamond’s “Concerto for Orchestra” was premiered in Yaddo, N.Y. In 1949 Giorgio Federico Ghedini’s opera “Billy Budd” premiered in Venice. In 1971 Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass” had a public dress rehearsal at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.. The work’s official gala premiere would be the next day. In 1996 David Stock’s String Quartet No. 3 was premiered in Pittsburgh, by Cuarteto Latinoamericano.
2015-01-22 19:21:42
This month (and year so far) I’ve been focusing on practicing, building consistent practice habits, finding exercises and a routine that keeps me at the top of my game technically, and also creatively. To that end, I’ve been playing Berio’s Sequenza I for solo flute. I find it extremely valuable to do some research about the composers whose music I’m playing, and I wanted to share the fruits of my labor with the internet. Luciano Berio, born in 1925 in Oneglia, was an Italian composer. As a young man, he studied with Giorgio Federico Ghedini and was close friends with Bruno Maderna. With Maderna, he founded a concert series and a journal both titled Incontri Musicali (1956-1960). Another big influence on the young Berio was Henri Pousseur, who he met at Darmstadt in 1954. Berio later stated, “If I look back at those years, I feel gratitude to three people: Ghedini, […]
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