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American avant-garde composer (1912-1992)
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- composer, writer, poet, university teacher, musicologist, philosopher, painter, music theorist, illustrator, drawer, mycologist, visual artist
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2024-03-25 23:45:00
Der Ring des Nibelungen, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 18, 19, 21, and 24 March 2024
Images: Monika RittershausBrünnhilde (Anja Kampe)Wotan/Wanderer – Tomas Konieczny Donner, Gunther – Roman Trekel Froh – Siyabonga Maqungo Loge – Rolando Villazón Fricka – Claudia Mahnke Freia – Anett Fritsch Erda, Rossweisse – Anna Kissjudit Alberich – Johannes Martin Kränzle Mime – Stephan Rügamer Fasolt – Matthew Rose Fafner – Peter Rose Woglinde – Evelin Novak Wellgunde – Natalia Skrycka Flosshilde, Siegrune – Ekaterina Chayka-Rubinstein Siegmund – Robert Watson Sieglinde – Vida Miknevičutė Hunding – René Pape Brünnhilde – Anja Kampe Gerhilde – Clara Nadeshdin Helmwige – Christiane Kohl Waltraute – Michal Doron, Violeta Urmana Schwertleite – Alexandra Ionis Ortlinde, Third Norn – Anna Samuil Grimgerde – Aytaj Shikhalizada Siegfried – Andreas Schager Woodbird – Victoria Randem Hagen – Stephen Milling Gutrune – Mandy Friedrich First Norn – Marina Prudenskaya Second Norn – Kristina StanekDirector – Dmitri TcherniakovRevival directors – Lilli Fischer, Thorsten CölleCostumes – Elena ZaytsevaLighting – Gleb FilshtinskyVideo – […]
2024-03-23 09:49:00
Writing Italian-influenced music in the depths of Northamptonshire: organist William Whitehead on the music of English Baroque composer George Jeffreys
[…] by an eclectic mix of contemporary composers. William regards the collection as an historical marker representing the beginning of the 21st century, featuring all the styles composers are using, along with some viewed retrospectively. There are a couple of Bach imitators, and William cites John Scott Whiteley's contribution as being very close to Bach, and a couple of good Brahms imitators, along with some who are sui generis, and then there are works influenced by Cage, Serialism, Jazz, Reggae and much more, each individual composer's free response to the task.Lost Majesty: Sacred Songs and Anthems by George Jeffreys - Solomon's Knot - PROSPERO Never miss out on future posts by following usThe blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee.Elsewhere on this blogTwo hundred years of music for the horn: Ben Goldscheider in Beethoven, Bowen, Widmann and Watkins - concert reviewQuite an achievement: North London Chorus' ambition rewarded […]
2024-02-18 12:27:00
Wake up and listen to the music
[…] text of the 1960 and 70s counterculture. It inspired Claude Vivier's eponymous orchestral work composed in 1976 to a commission from the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. Claude Vivier (1948-1983) died in 1983 at the age of 35. He is one of a number of hugely talented but rarely performed composers whose cause is not helped by current classical programming which places more emphasis on click bait potential than artistic merit. John Cage and Philip Glass are the two modern composers usually linked to Buddhism. Whereas Philip Glass is associated with the esoteric school of Tibetan Buddhism, John Cage drew inspiration from the more austere Zen tradition. Zen scholar and teacher D. T. Suzuki inspired a generation of American Buddhists, and John Cage was particularly influenced by the teachings of the Heart Sutra on sunyata - emptiness. The Heart Sutra's core teaching that "form is emptiness, emptiness […]
2024-02-06 13:09:08
The late American composer John Cage left it up to the performer to decide how long his work, Organ2/ASLSP, should take. A group in Germany is testing the limits.
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