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2022-05-22 15:38:50
Edmonton, AB (May 21, 2022) – After two days of amazing and very high calibre competition, pianist Jaeden Izik-Dzurko (23 years old), from Salmon Arm, British Columbia, who is currently pursuing a Master’s of Music at the University of British Columbia with Dr. Corey Hamm, was awarded the $8,000 top prize in The Shean Piano [...]
2022-05-03 17:54:00
Fin de partie, Opéra national de Paris, 30 April 2022
Palais GarnierHamm – Frode Olsen Clov – Leigh Melrose Nell – Hilary Summers Nagg – Leonardo CortelazziPierre Audi (director)Christof Hetzer (designs)Urs Schönebaum (lighting)Klaus Bertisch (dramaturgy)Orchestra of the Opéra national de ParisMarkus Stenz (conductor)Images: Sébastien Mathé/OnP Modernism’s endgame, modernist opera’s endgame, opera’s endgame: all have been proclaimed time and time again. One might say the same for Romanticism, Classicism, sonata, symphony, and other isms and genres. Whatever the truths of the matter—we can no longer justifiably speak in the singular, if ever we could—this first opera by György Kurtág, first heard in Milan in 2018 and now receiving its French premiere, suggests that twilight, however prolonged, has once again proved as productive, as challenging, as illuminating as first dawn or zenith. The owl of Minerva may or may not be spreading its wings; Kurtág may or may not be almost the last modernist standing; opera may or may not be stronger, more varied, […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2020-05-27 19:04:00
The Pandemic Has Shown Us The True Realist Among Playwrights: Samuel Beckett
Charles McNulty: “Stuck indoors with little to distract us from the bewilderment of our metaphysical predicament, we are like one of his immobilized characters, not scrunched into trash cans like Hamm’s elderly parents in Endgame but confined all the same to a narrow loop of existence.” – Los Angeles Times
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ArtsJournal: music
2019-03-05 13:47:12
Man Leaves His Original Picasso Ceramic On Train
“The elderly man was traveling from Kassel to Düsseldorf on February 15 when he switched trains at the city of Hamm and forgot to bring his precious cargo with him.” The ten-inch-tall jug, part of Picasso’s Hibou (Owl) series, is worth more than €10,000. – Deutsche Welle
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