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2021-03-10 10:49:56
Rising star, 27, dies in helicopter crash
The fastest rising music talent in Botswana, the jazz singer Sasa Klaas, has died in an air crash at a game reserve. Daughter of the politician Anna Mokgethi, Sasa had her own television show in South Africa and was destined for greater things. Botswana Musicians Union boss Pagson Ntsie said: ‘This was a sudden shock […]
2021-01-30 17:44:00
Anglais - Contemporary opera: A conversation with Vasco Mendonça
Vasco Mendonça is one of the rising stars among contemporary composers. In addition to his studies with Klaas de Vries and George Benjamin, he has participated in the Rolex Mentor and Protegé Arts Initiative along with Kaija Saariaho and represented Portugal at UNESCO’s International Rostrum of Composers. His first piece of musical theatre, Ping, was adapted from a Samuel Beckett monologue and premiered in 2011. The House Taken Over (2013) – based on Julio Cortázar’s short story La casa tomada– was commissioned by the Aix-en-Provence Festival, and Bosch Beach (2016) – which illustrates some contemporary facets of Hieronymus Bosch's painting The Seven Deadly Sins– was composed to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Flemish painter's death through a commission by the Jheronimus Bosch 500 Foundation. We had the opportunity to ask Vasco Mendonça about how he sees the creative process and what he has learned from his experience with George Benjamin and Kaija Saariaho. […]
2019-10-02 00:16:00
Eric Conway: MDTheatreGuide.com: ‘The Glass Menagerie’ at Theatre Morgan
[…] both theaters, up-and-coming playwright Tennessee Williams premiered what would become his first major work, in Chicago. A self-described “memory play” set in late Depression-era St. Louis, “The Glass Menagerie” launched Williams’ career, which would eventually establish him as one of the 20th century’s most important American authors. Several fine stagings of “Menagerie” have appeared in Baltimore through the years – perhaps most notably the 1994 production of AXIS Theatre’s first season, directed by Brian Klaas. 25 years later, it’s time to add another highlight to the list: the current production by Theatre Morgan, running for only two weekends, is as powerful a telling of this story as we’ve ever seen. Go see Theatre Morgan’s ‘The Glass Menagerie’ while you can.
2019-09-05 11:30:00
Musikfest Berlin (3) - Ensemble Modern/Lubman - Varèse, Neuwirth, and Andriessen, 4 September 2019
Philharmonie Varèse: Déserts, for fourteen wind instruments, piano, percussion, and three interpolations for electronically organised sound (1949-54, revised 1960-61) Neuwirth: locus…doublure…solus, for piano and ensemble (2001) Andriessen: De Materie, Part III: ‘De Stijl’, for four women’s voices, female speaker, and large ensemble (1985) Hermann Kretzchmar (piano) Catherine Milliken (speaker) Norbert Ommer (sound direction) Chorwerk Ruhr (chorus director: Klaas Stok) Ensemble Modern Brad Lubman (conductor) 'De Stijl' (images: © Adam Janisch) ‘I no longer believe in concerts, in the sweat of conductors and the flying storms of virtuosi’s dandruff, and am only interested in recorded music. That is why I must wait. There are more opportunities in Europe for this kind of activity, but one would have to be there, and unfortunately Europe is no place to make a living. It will come, and in the States.’ […]
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