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Polish composer
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- pianist, composer
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2023-10-01 15:37:15
In 2016, Augusta Read Thomas founded the Chicago Center for Contemporary […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-08-24 13:25:23
Music Remembers Wartime Trauma
Yet it is not only we who remember music. Music also remembers us. For myriad reasons, Jeremy Eichler’s “Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and The Music of Remembrance” makes for an unusually important and continuously compelling read. His dual passions as music critic and cultural historian fuse to offer extraordinary ways of reconsidering and hearing four of the 20th century’s most significant musical works: Eichler places these works Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen, Arnold Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw, Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13 (Babi Yar), and Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem and their composers within a richly detailed historical and cultural context. “Witness to history and a carrier of memory … they stood at four different windows overlooking the same catastrophe. Each responded to the rupture through intensely charged memorials in sound.” Even those who feel conversant with the biographies of these composers will learn much from the extravagance of historical detail […]
2022-06-25 04:08:00
Classical Music News of the Week, June 25, 2022
ICE & The New School’s College of Performing Arts Present “Ensemble Evolution”This summer, the International Contemporary Ensemble, in partnership with The New School’s College of Performing Arts, presents “Ensemble Evolution”--a hybrid summer intensive designed to foster a holistic understanding of the artist as a global citizen--from Saturday, June 25 to Saturday, July 2. Now in its sixth year, “Ensemble Evolution” brings together participants and faculty through music making, community building, and creative producing to explore and transform the ways that music is created and experienced. This summer, the weeklong intensive is offered both online and in-person at The New School’s Arnold Hall in New York City, and culminates in a large-scale online digital festival on Saturday, July 2 at 7:00pm ET featuring Ensemble Evolution participants alongside faculty members and special guests.Now celebrating its 20th anniversary season, the Ensemble brings together a roster of renowned faculty and guest presenters for “Ensemble […]
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