Mikhail Volkonsky News
(1891-1961)
- baritone
- Russian Empire, Soviet Union
- film actor, translator, opera singer
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Rating: 0 Biographies Michael Tippett: The BiographyOliver SodenW&N 978-1-474-60602-8 To anyone coming of musical age in 1970s Britain allegiances assumed a binary starkness. Britten or Tippett? The past, (so it seemed), or the future? Paradoxically whereas Britten’s stock subsequently soared, that of the composer Private Eye magazine dubbed ‘Sir Michael Withit’ bombed – a long-overdue revival only relatively recently gaining ground. So, timely as well as dashing is Oliver Soden’s page-turner of a biography whose irresistible brio drills deep into a psychologically complex man, painting a portrait studded with […]
2014-03-16 06:37:09
Song of Crimea
My mailbox is filled with cards and letters, all asking the same question: “Croche, is there a classical music angle to the escalating conflict in Crimea?” My answer is: “Indeed there is!” This past week, Kristina Karamanova, daughter of the Crimean composer Alemdar Sabitovich Karamanov (1934-2007), posted online a small fragment of his seldom-heard oratorio The Heroic Legend of Adzhimushkay Quarry with the following note: The Heroic Legend of Adzhimushkay Quarry, for soloists, chorus and orchestra, was written to words of Boris Serman in 1983. This music, which could also be choreographed, was originally written in Russian, and then translated into Ukrainian. Though I was but a little girl, I remember the premiere at the Ukrainian Theater in Simferopol. People were crying. This work is now of great relevance, it should be heard in CRIMEA! I send this to my friends, to those who remember the horrors of fascisms, […]
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