Hertha Töpper News
Austrian contralto opera singer
Commemorations 2024 (Birth: Hertha Töpper)
- contralto
- Austria
- opera singer, music teacher, university teacher
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2024-04-25
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2023-12-11 12:00:02
Sparked by the 1991 police beating of Rodney King, the song became the band’s signature — and an unlikely seasonal chart-topper
2022-08-29 17:12:52
Rachmaninoff in Valhalla. Chart-Topper. The New Yorker, Sept. 5, 2022.
2021-10-29 09:00:31
The chart-topper’s fourth album is fitfully engaging but unimaginative
2020-12-08 12:30:00
The evergreen popularity of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s classical chart topper, which premiered a century ago, has dimmed its profundity. Leading violinists tell us why it’s like ‘astral travelling’ It’s easy to make fun of The Lark Ascending. Perennially top of Classic FM’s Hall of Fame, it has become a byword for the conservatism of both schedulers and audiences. I’ve even written that lazy piece myself, unthinkingly dismissing the work as “bland”. So see this as a mea culpa: 100 years on from the first performance of the Lark, I have turned to a select band of internationally acclaimed violinists to ask them if the work deserves to be heard with fresh ears. The piece was dedicated to and premiered by Marie Hall in Shirehampton Public Hall in Bristol on 15 December 1920. She and pianist Geoffrey Mendham performed Vaughan Williams’s arrangement for violin and piano; the version for violin […]
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