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Born on this day in 1887 poet and expatriate Gertrude Stein
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-08-30 21:19:28
Machover’s VALIS This Way Comes
[…] lot of them electronic, some acoustic, some voice-based. There is some flute and some violin and some cello. It will sound similar to the 1990 CD, though it will be richer and fuller now, and remarkably “present” because of the virtuosity of the singers and instrumentalists. This cast of performers is truly amazing *** [caption id="attachment_56416" align="alignright" width="768"] Anne Azéma as Sophia at the IRCAM in 1987 with mezzo Mary King in the background. (Anne-Marie Stein photo)[/caption] AA: Where do you stand now as far as the role of the staging, the lights, and so forth? TM: The set just went into the theater today, so I can’t comment fully, but Jay Sheib is incredibly good at characterization, at bringing out the inner life and motivation of each person in the story. Each character will feel fully realized, and everybody has a fair amount of movement, some directed at the […]
2023-08-30 10:00:00
PhilharmonieReger: Variations and Fugue on a theme by Mozart, op.132Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, op.40Berlin Philharmonic OrchestraKirill Petrenko (conductor)It had been a while. The last time I had heard the Berlin Philharmonic had been on 5 March 2020, just four days before public performances ceased in that great, monstrous silence. Now I was here for the orchestra’s season-opening concert of Max Reger and Richard Strauss under music director, Kirill Petrenko. Absence may have had the heart grow fonder, but this was outstanding music-making by any standards.What a joy to open with Reger’s Mozart Variations, a masterpiece, yet one I had not hitherto had opportunity to hear live. They do not come around that often: Furtwängler gave the Berlin Philharmonic premiere in 1934, 21 years after its first performance in Wiebsbaden, conducted by the composer, and the BPO had not played it since 1995, under Horst Stein. (If you think Hindemith terminally unfashionable, turn […]
2023-08-06 06:48:00
....towards a Pure Land
[…] special had been captured. This was confirmed when the interview was subsequently broadcast on Future Radio: how many contemporary composers have made the news - not arts - sections of the Guardian and the Telegraph in the same week? Very sadly, the interview was made even more special by Jonathan's untimely death two years later.Jonathan Harvey was a true Renaissance man, and in the interview he ranges from Britten, Stockhausen, Babbitt and Boulez to Rudolf Steiner, Buddhism, Sufism, serialism and the future of classical music. We are very fortunate that composer and pianist Timothy Stevens in Australia transcribed the interview for publication here, and when I read the transcript below I was reminded me of these lines from T.S. Eliot's poem The Rock: 'Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge / Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?' Bob Shingleton: Hello. welcome to a very […]
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