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2023-06-10 23:49:00
Leipzig Bach Fest No. 27. Organ Concert. Michael Schonheit, conductor and organ.
[…] however, if singers techniques have changed over the centuries. Do people try to research what they were, and try to replicate them? I was under the impression most high voices were sung by countertenors and castratos, but those parts are now routinely sung by women. So changes are accepted, after all.This was my first visit to the legendary Gewandhaus, at least in terms of its succession of distinguished conductors. Mendelssohn about 200 years ago, and Masur more recently. (Right now it is Andris Nelsons, who also leads the Boston Symphony.) And reality didn't meet expectations, at all.View from Gewandhaus. The building across Augustusplatz is Leipzig Opera.One can see these huge wall paintings inside the concert hall. The Gewandhaus website has a section dedicated to the story behind the building of the hall, and describes this as "a striking mural encompassing a vast area of the main foyer's sloping ceiling and […]
2023-02-21 14:30:00
[…] the school-age participants in the New York Philharmonic Very Young Composers Program.Jaap van Zweden’s most recent recording is the 2020 release of the World Premiere of David Lang’s prisoner of the state, following the 2019 release of Julia Wolfe’s Fire in my mouth,Yeah, this isn't on the scale of what MTT and Esa-Pekka Salonen did and are doing at their respective orchestras, but these efforts at the NY Phil were certainly forward movement from the days of Mehta, Masur, and Maazel. Previously: Speculation: LA Philharmonic's Next Music Director
2022-07-29 20:39:00
[…] of the Lahti Symphony, an excellent orchestra whose conductors have included Osmo Vänskä. Here are a few other people in classical music who have the parental-musician advantage:Conductor Joshua Weilerstein (parents are both prominent teachers)Cellist Alisa Weilerstein (parents are both prominent teachers)Conductor Alan Gilbert (parents were both members of the NY Philharmonic)Conductor Marin Alsop (parents were both members of the NYCO orchestra)Composer Samuel Adams (father is a well-known composer)Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas (show-biz parents and grandparents)Ken-David Masur (father was a well-known conductor)Stage designer Mathias Fischer-Dieskau (father was a very famous baritone, mother was a cellist)Conductor Martin Fischer-Dieskau (father was a very famous baritone, mother was a cellist)Cellist Manuel Fischer-Dieskau (father was a very famous baritone, mother was a cellist)I'm sure that you can think of many more examples. Growing up with musical parents, going to the right schools and knowing the right people provide big boosts.
2022-02-07 00:27:54
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Aaron Diehl joins Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra in Florence Price's Piano Concerto in D minor & William Grant Still's "Out of the Silence"
Pianist Aaron Diehl with Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (Jonathan Kim, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Elaine Schmidt Special to the Journal Sentinel February 5, 2022 Friday evening’s Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra performance in the Bradley Symphony Center felt like a wander back in time. Playing under the baton of music director Ken-David Masur and joined by pianist Aaron Diehl, the orchestra delivered the final installment in a three-weekend festival of music of the 1930s, a time when the former movie palace had just opened. The evening’s fare of American music included pieces by such familiar figures as George Gershwin and Charles Ives as well as gems by Florence Price and William Grant Still. Brilliantly programmed, the concert featured five distinctly American pieces that were each distinctly different in sound. *** Diehl gave an energized performance, playing with a wide range of colors, […]
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