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2019-08-24 23:35:00
Sergio Mims: CSOA Announces Programming Details for Annual CSO Community Concert
[…] its kind since the beginning of Muti’s tenure as music director in 2010, when he led a concert at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park for an audience of more than 25,000 people. Muti’s commitment to connect all Chicagoans with the CSO has led to return performances in Millennium Park, as well as in other community venues such as Lane Tech College Prep High School in Chicago’s Roscoe Village neighborhood, Morton East High School in Cicero and the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood. 2019/20 ALL-ACCESS CHAMBER SERIES Programming for the 2019/20 All-Access Chamber Series has also been announced. This season, the six concerts are presented in Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center, as well as community venues throughout Chicago including the South Shore Cultural Center (7059 S. South Shore Drive), Beverly Arts Center (2407 W. 111th St.) and Senn High School (5900 N. Glenwood Ave.). All-Access Chamber concerts […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-08-19 17:29:36
Weimar Enlivens Berkshire Hills
Ozawa Hall turned into a time machine Sunday, transporting the audience to a Weimar cabaret. Aided and abetted by Meow Meow and members of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (violin & artistic director), Barry Humphries presided over a foray into what the Nazi’s deemed degenerate (Entartete) music. A suitcase of music Humphries purchased in the late 1940s from a Mr. Evans of Swanston Street, Melbourne supplied the conceit. Filled with music by Krenek, Korngold, Weill, Schreker, and colleagues, this collection once belonged to Richard Edmund Beyer (the name stamped on the sheets). Of Beyer we learn nothing, yet thanks to many years of persistence, study, and kismet, Humphries can present this concert. During the first half, Humphries told stories from the stage. Narrating this history and connecting dots among composers, he served as our Cicero to Weimar music. One telling anecdote: Humphries and David Hockney were in Los Angeles touring […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2016-03-29 12:01:55
Breaking: German jazz idol dies, aged 45
News has just broken of the death of Roger Cicero, one of the most popular figures in German jazz. Early reports say he suffered a stroke, was rushed to hospital and died last Thursday. Son of the Romanian pianist Eugen Cicero, Roger made his first stage appearance at 11 and was on TV at 16. After playing in his father’s trio, he formed his own 1950s-style quartet. After a poor finish as Germany’s entrant in the Eurovision Song Concest, he acted in several films and campaigned prominently for the animal rights organisation, Peta. His last album was a Sinatra tribute. His father, known as Mr Golden Hands, died at 57.
2016-03-15 12:00:30
[…] concerti grossi, works ofAlessandro Scarlatti and George Frideric Handel, from the 18th-century Italian violin repertoire (Antonio Vivaldi, Francesco Maria Veracini, Pietro Locatelli, Giuseppe Tartini), as well as sonatas by Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann. Biondi also performs in duos with keyboard (piano, harpsichord or fortepiano). In 2005 Biondi became artistic director for baroque music of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra. He plays a 1766 Carlo Ferdinando Gagliano violin lent him by the Salvatore Cicero Foundation in Palermo, and also a Andrea Guarneri (Cremona, 1686) violin. 2 Xuefei Yang Happy birthday Xuefei Yang! She was born in Beijing in 1977, and began playing the guitar when she was seven. Three years later, she started studying under Chen Zhi, the Chairman of the China Classical Guitar Society. She made a public debut at the First China International Guitar Festival, where she met with an immediate acclaim. At her debut, […]