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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-28 23:24:03
[…] an account of a another traversal HERE. The extraordinary pianist Stewart Goodyear had planned to attempt the feat at Rockport last summer. Noted without exact confirmation: In 1827 an 18-year-old Felix Mendelssohn played Beethoven’s Ninth in a public performance on the piano, reading from the orchestral score, and with someone else’s arrangement of the piano part for accompanying singers in the finale. Mark DeVoto, musicologist and composer, is an expert on the music of Alban Berg, Debussy, and other early 20th-century composers. A graduate of Harvard College (1961) and Princeton (Ph.D., 1967), he has published on many music subjects, and edited the revised fourth (1978) and fifth (1987) editions of Harmony by his teacher Walter Piston. The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-25 20:45:39
Atmospheric But Not Dreary
[…] episodes… dare I say emotional? Very emotional A lot of new music doesn’t do that at least for me…The publisher’s website refers to 12-tone writing within a predominantly tonal palette, but it doesn’t strike me that we’re even going to be aware particularly of tone rows. Dominick is a very interesting composer in how he uses the dodecaphonic technique in non-rigid ways, intermixed with tonal writing. You know, it reminds me of Alban Berg in a lot of ways. The system was never an end in itself. It was a launching point. It won’t really even register. Now the excerpt that I listened to seem like it was 90 percent orchestral, writing and only 10 percent vocal. But that can’t represent the mix in a 180-minute opera. There’s so much singing in this opera! It is actually one of the big challenges is pacing everybody through the […]
2024-03-18 10:00:53
On this day in 1977 Alban Berg‘s Lulu premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in the as-yet incomplete 2 act version.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-14 15:45:32
A Long Road of Remembrance and Hope
The oratorio O Lungo Drom (The Long Road) is an authentic testimony of the Sinti and Roma people, whose journey since time immemorial has been shrouded by poetic and popular imagination. It finds its voice for the first time here directly through the words of Sinti/Roma poets and writers, set to music by Roma composer Ralf Yusuf Gawlick. This oratorio will receive its joint U.S. premières on April 5th at College of the Holy Cross and the 6th at Boston College, with soprano Clara Meloni, baritone Christoph Filler, cimbalomist László Rácz and the Alban Berg Ensemble Wien, the same cast performing on the world première recording recently released on Decca Eloquence Australia. Harpsichordist Peter Watchorn, a professor at Boston College and co-founder, executive producer and CEO of the record label Musica Omnia (which hosts seven Gawlick recordings), recently spoke with the composer. PW: In the past decade, you have shared your […]
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