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2022-09-17 13:17:00
To bear witness and build solidarity: Luigi Nono and the creative imperative in Ricorda cosa ti hanno fatto in Auschwitz and Quando stanno morendo
[…] life to a mass movement in concrete solidarity with the Polish people and their freedom of expression.Resistance and organization, like human activity in general, were complex, not simple. Art was no mere protest; nor was solidarity. Nono’s friend and comrade, the philosopher Massimo Cacciari, assembled the written texts from verse by Czesław Miłosz (1980 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature), Endre Ady and Alexander Blok (Part I); Velemir Chlebnikov (Part II); and Boris Pasternak, Miłosz and Chlebnikov (Part III). Voices are to the fore in the first (initially, quasi-monodic) and third parts; instruments in the second, where text-setting is at first less fragmentary, more immediately comprehensible, until instruments and electronics do their invasive, even corrosive work. ‘The music “contracts”’, to quote Jürg Stenzl, although an a cappella close offers greater prospect of hope than had been permitted by the Auschwitz work. Where sound and music then had been […]
2022-07-20 13:23:00
21st Birthday: Oxford Lieder Festival comes of age with a celebration of Friendship in Song
[…] are study events exploring the rich history of salon music making, as glamorous social gatherings and safe spaces for new or forbidden ideas, on Richard Strauss and the importance of song and domestic music making throughout his long life, looking at Sir Isaiah Berlin and the important cultural friendships he fostered, and the contemporary Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov (whose Quiet Songs are performed during the festival by Lotte Betts-Dean and Natalie Burch), and on artist Leonid Pasternak and his network of friends and connections.The British-Chinese composer Alex Ho is the festival's new Associate Composer. Alex will write two major new song cycles this year and next. For this year, he will write for the mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron and pianist Kunal Lahiry, setting a specially-commissioned text by Singaporean poet Theophilus Kwek.Whilst there will still be concerts at St John the Evangelist, many of the recitals are returning to Holywell Music Room (hurrah), whilst […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2020-11-19 22:23:42
The Slipped Disc daily comfort zone (238): It was 50 years ago today
… that Maria Yudina died. She was, with Maria Grinberg, the foremost Russian interpreter of the Beethoven sonatas. Partly because they were women, they never received the attention granted to Richter and Gilels. It also did not help that they were Jewish and, in Yudina’s case, a convert to Russian Orthodoxy. A friend of Pasternak […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2019-12-06 19:28:00
New Book: Albert Camus Was Killed By The KGB
Camus had sided publicly with the Hungarian uprising since autumn 1956, and was highly critical of Soviet actions. He also publicly praised and supported the Russian author Boris Pasternak, who was seen as anti-Soviet. – The Guardian
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