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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-28 23:24:03
[…] different manuscript sources, what will likely be the definitive orchestral score of the Ninth Symphony for years to come. Mark Evan Bonds (University of North Carolina) spoke about an alleged confession to Carl Czerny, repeatedly challenged by later scholars, that Beethoven may have felt that he had made an “error of judgment” (Mißgriff) in composing a choral finale for the Ninth Symphony instead of a purely instrumental movement, and that debate endures. David Levy (Wake Forest University) surveyed the Ninth as an iconic political force that endures to this day, whose historical roots can be found in Schiller’s “An die Freude” text of 1785. Elaine Sisman (Columbia), focusing on the second movement, explored the spectrum of humor (scherzo, scherzoso, even scherzando in other Beethoven works) to wonder about how much that abiding sonata form is really a joke. James Parsons (Missouri State University) demonstrated how the Choral Fantasy, op. 80, […]
2024-03-25 09:57:00
Aldeburgh Festival at 75: Blond Eckbert and Curlew River, plus Unsuk Chin, Judith Weir, Alban Gerhardt and Daniel Pioro as featured artists
The 75th Aldeburgh Festival opens on 7 June and runs until 23 June 2024. The festival features stagings of Judith Weir's Blond Eckbert and Britten's Curlew River, and the festival's featured musicians are composers Judith Weir and Unsuk Chin, violinist Daniel Pioro and cellist Alban Gerhardt.Judith Weir's Blond Eckbert is being staged as a co-production between Britten Pears Arts and English Touring Opera, and the work is directed by Robin Norton-Hale, conducted by Gerry Cornelius with a cast that includes Simon Wallfisch and Aoife Miskelly. Ryan Wigglesworth will conduct the Knussen Chamber Orchestra in the premiere of Weir's The Planet and Wigglesworth also conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Weir's Forest. Soprano Claire Booth performs Weir's solo opera, King Harald's Saga whilst the BBC Singers perform Blue Remembered Hill. The Leonkoro Quartet premiere Weir's second string quartet, The Spaniard, and there are performances of more of Weir's music from pianists Stephen Osborne and Rolf Hind, Trio Boheme, […]
2024-03-20 10:00:00
MIZU is an artist who knows how to distill the mosaic process of defining oneself. On her debut record, Distant Intervals.. The post appeared first on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN.
2024-03-16 09:57:00
From Early Music to contemporary: the Royal Festival Hall organ is 70 and organist James McVinnie is celebrating with a Southbank Centre residency
[…] and Hallelujah Junction. The concert is on the final weekend of the Southbank Centre's year when there is a festival across the whole Southbank, which James calls a wonderful place.James grew up as a pianist, where the default is performing on your own and he thought that this was the norm, whilst other instruments need other performers. He loves performing with others, both in his ensemble and in concertos with orchestras.Premiere of Gabriella Smith's Breathing Forest at Walt Disney Hall with James McVinnie, Los Angeles Philharmonic & Esa-Pekka Salonen - Feb 2022The June concert includes music by American composer Gabriella Smith, and looking ahead James will be performing Smith's organ concerto Breathing Forests with the Cleveland Orchestra, conductor John Adams in Severance Hall, Cleveland on 4 and 6 April 2024. The work was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic for James and premiered in 2022 by them at Walt Disney […]
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