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German priest, musicologist and music historian (1873-1929)
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Vanhal: Missa Pastoralis & Missa Solemnis (Uwe Grodd, Arcadia Ensemble)
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ArtsJournal: music
2017-04-24 20:31:57
Contemporary Criticism Is Having An Identity Crisis
The primary concern of contemporary criticism is not whether a given cultural object is good or bad, but how that object reflects the realities of the social world, and how it can potentially (re)shape that same world. For Weinmann, “this new turn of criticism, this emphasis on the politics behind art, may be better for a work’s reputation than criticism that ignores politics.”
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2017-01-08 17:19:25
[…] to keep the action flowing. Because the creators haven’t set an ambitious enough agenda for themselves, each evening of performances features a revolving cast who start their journeys at intervals timed half an hour apart. Music Directors assigned to each cast stay with their performers and help guide the audience from scene to scene. Brendan Shapiro guided the 7:30 Friday night performance, playing with great taste and sensitivity throughout. BOC co-directors Greg Smucker and Patricia-Maria Weinmann have chosen not to merge their approaches and team-direct each cast, but instead have divided the casts between themselves; therefore, depending on when you arrive, you may see Smucker’s version of the show, or Weinmann’s. I caught Weinmann’s staging, and I must say it’s some of the best work I’ve seen her do. Her cast never sets a foot wrong, and the arc of the relationship between the two characters develops naturally, with an […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2017-01-02 15:33:20
Chamisso wrote of a woman’s love. Turning the expression of a conventional song cycle graphic supports suspension of disbelief for some and suppresses it for others able to fantasize richly. Some pieces exist to burst genres—a ballet of the Matthew Passion and an opera of Mendelssohn’s Elijah come instantly to mind. An April outing had mezzo Susan Graham bring heightened intensity to lieder in a Celebrity Series recital [interview here ]. Which brings us to Boston Opera Collaborative’s upcoming operatic non-opera: a January 6–8 “pictorialization” of two song cycles, in which 12 groups of 15 auditors will follow paired singers and pianists through domestic parlors of Longy’s Zabriskie House. BMInt had questions for co-artistic director Patricia-Maria Weinmann. FLE: Why are you doing this labor-intensive expansion or retelling of Schumann’s Frauenliebe und -leben and Dominick Argento’s From the Diary of Virginia Woolf? PW: Usually art song is performed in a formal […]
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