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2019-10-19 18:26:00
Just a reminder, slightly late, that Bard Music West's annual festival is this weekend, and this year's featured composer is the Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz.I went to the first concert last night despite having been up, more or less, since 2 a.m. California time and despite a cross-country flight. The music was splendid, and the performances electrifying.Here's today's schedule:3 p.m. to 3:50 p.m. - Screening of The World Only Sees My Cheerful Face4 p.m. to 6 p.m. - Concert, From War to Warsaw Autumn8 p.m. to 10 p.m. - Concert, Evolution and PersistenceNoe Valley Ministry1021 SanchezSF, CAYesterday's composers were Bacewicz, Stravinsky, Szymanowski, Paderewski, N. Boulanger, Debussy, and Monteverdi. I'm not terribly happy about the spoken program notes (not my thing) and I was even less happy about the uncritical comments on Boulanger, who was anti-Semitic and a dictatorial teacher.Today's composers are Bacewicz, Clapies, Baird, A. Panufnik, Zubel, Berg, Lutosławski, Ptaszyńska, Kulenty, and […]
2019-09-13 21:55:00
The World of Grażyna Bacewicz
Grażyna Bacewicz The intrepid folks at Bard Music West have just announced the details of their upcoming weekend of concerts, The World of Grażyna Bacewicz, which will focus on the great Polish composer, her contemporaries, and her successors. The programming is fantastic, to the point that maybe I will swap my Figaro ticket.October 18 and 19, 2019Noe Valley Ministry1021 Sanchez St., San FranciscoSingle tickets $20-$50. Ticket packages also available. www.bardmusicwest.org/ticketsFriday, October 18, 7:30pm 1: A Rising StarGrażyna Bacewicz: String Quartet No. 1Igor Stravinsky: Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet Nadia Boulanger: Vers la vie nouvelle (Toward the new life)Karol Szymanowski: Mazurkas, Op. 50 (selections)Ignacy Jan Paderewski: Nocturne in B-flat Major Claude Debussy: Études for Piano (selections)Claudio Monteverdi: Nine Madrigals (selections)Bacewicz: Piano Quintet No. 1 Saturday, October 19, 4pm 2: From War to Warsaw AutumnBacewicz: Polish Capriccio Mélanie Clapiès: String Trio world premiere of commissioned workTadeusz Baird: Suita Liryczna (Lyric Suite) (Julian Tuwim) (selections)Andrzej Panufnik: Warszawskie dzieci (Children of Warsaw) Panufnik: Hommage à Chopin – Five Vocalises for Soprano and Piano (selections)Grażyna Bacewicz: selected songs for soprano and piano Bacewicz: Partita for violin and piano Bacewicz: Piano Sonata No. 2 Bacewicz: String Quartet No. […]
2018-11-03 05:10:00
Classical Music News of the Week, November 3, 2018
Markus Stenz Conducts Kurtag World Premiere at La ScalaThis month at Teatro alla Scala, conductor Markus Stenz leads the world premiere of the highly-anticipated performance of Fin de Partie, the first and only opera by the beloved, visionary composer György Kurtág, composed at the age of 91. Based on the famous Samuel Beckett play, commonly performed in English as Endgame, the operatic version, to be sung in French, has been more than seven years in the making. At 450 pages, Fin de Partie is by far the largest score ever composed by the reputed "master of the miniature," who has for several decades maintained the desire of writing a musical treatment for the sparse, sardonically existential work. This production is staged by internationally-acclaimed artistic and theater director, Pierre Audi. November 15, 17, 20, 22, 24, 25, 2018 Gyorgy Kurtag: Fin de Partie (World Premiere) Teatro alla Scala Frode Olsen - […]
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2017-12-21 13:00:25
Dance Magazine's 25 To Watch For 2018
From Annie Arnoult to Leal Zielińska, here are the up-and-coming dancers, choreographers, and companies to keep an eye on in the coming year.
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