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Modest Mussorgsky, born Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, on March 9 [March 21, New Style], 1839, in Kare
2017-03-21 13:41:20
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (March 21 [O.S. March 9] 1839 – March 28 [O.S. March 16] 1881) was born into a wealthy rural, landowning family. He began by picking out on the piano the tunes he heard from the serfs on his family’s estate. At the age of six, he began to study piano with his mother. His parents initially set him out on the career of military officer. He became a cadet and finally commissioned in an elite imperial regiment. Two years later, in 1858, he resigned his commission. During this time, he met a musically-inclined army doctor: Alexander Borodin. The two became friends. In 1861, with Russia’s emancipation of the serfs, his family lost significant income, and he was forced to earn a living. In 1863, he began a spotty career in the civil service…In 1856, he met the composer Dargomïzhsky, who in turn introduced him to Cesar Cui, […]
2017-03-04 03:03:34
I have broad, perhaps somewhat eclectic taste in music. This is by accident rather than design. Most of the genres outside what gets airplay on popular radio I have luckily stumbled upon while on other paths. Our culture doesn’t really expose young people en masse to much more than current popular music, and that’s a shame. I feel like it’s a good idea to do my bit to mitigate our cultural musical myopia. Below are links to 31 works of classical music composed by artists born in March whose works I have enjoyed – one for each day of the month, plus links to other widely known composers and/or widely known compositions. Portrait of J S Bach by E. G. Haussmann You know their names: J S Bach Béla Bartók Frédéric Chopin Maurice Ravel Johann Strauss I (the […]
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2016-11-02 16:39:19
Russian conductor contemplates gay-themed Onegin
Teodor Currentzis, the Perm music director who holds a Russian passport, tells forumopera.com i t would be truly dangerous if he ever got around to conducting Tchaikovsky’s male-jealousy opera. Apparently, he has been doing research on the gay and cross-dressing scene in late Tsarist Russia: Vous avez dirigé des opéras de Chostakovitch et de Prokofiev, mais à part Iolanta, vous n’avez guère abordé le grand répertoire russe. Cela ne vous tente pas ? Pour être honnête, j’aimerais beaucoup diriger Eugène Onéguine, La Dame de Pique ou Boris Godounov. Je veux les aborder un jour, mais il faut que je trouve le bon metteur en scène, donc pour l’instant ce sont des œuvres que je garde pour plus tard. Et si je peux faire Onéguinecomme j’en ai envie, cela sera dangereux pour tout le monde ! Dangereux sur quel plan ? Pour la voix des chanteurs ou pour leur santé mentale […]
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