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2020-02-03 10:29:36
The death has been announced of Major General Viktor Afanasyev, commander of the Military Band Service of the Armed Forces...
2017-04-06 14:09:47
The Soldier's Tale review – City of London Sinfonia make Stravinsky's devilish piece too well mannered
[…] for the final event of its current season: a performance of Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale with Simon Russell Beale as narrator, Ivanno Jeremiah as the Soldier and Janet Suzman as the Devil.Suzman was credited as director of the show, too, though this seemed to be a straight concert performance of a piece that Stravinsky and his librettist CF Ramuz devised to be “read, played and danced”. Intended as a cheap, easily portable dramatic reworking of Afanasyev’s Russian folk story, The Soldier’s Tale is effectively music theatre in kit form; a text-linked sequence of self-contained musical numbers and dramatic tableaux that can accommodate a whole range of interpretations, depending on the budget. It showed that music drama did not need to come with all the expensive trappings of opera, and it became hugely influential later in the 20th century. It was one of the models, alongside Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, for the […]
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2016-09-27 19:49:16
London orchestra plays to near-empty Munich hall
It appears the organisers of a Bartok for Europe series forgot to promote the concerts. This is the audience that greeted the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Vladimir Jurowski and soloist Valery Afanassiev, yesterday (Monday) evening. Our correspondent in the hall thought the concert was terrific, albeit somewhat private. The concert management, in a private communication, blamed the October beer festival for the hall being ‘half-empty’. right-click on image to enlarge it in new tab
2016-02-27 13:00:01
Saturday, February 27, 2016 You can listen to the Classical Music Almanac Podcast Daily here. Birthdays Hubert Parry In 1848 Hubert Parry was born in Bourneouth. Parry’s first major works appeared in 1880. As a composer he is best known for the choral song “Jerusalem”, the coronation anthem “I was glad”, the choral and orchestral ode Blest Pair of Sirens, and the hymn tune “Repton”, which sets the words “Dear Lord and Father of Mankind”. His orchestral works include five symphonies and a set of Symphonic Variations. After early attempts to work in insurance, at his father’s behest, Parry was taken up by George Grove, first as a contributor to Grove’s massive Dictionary of Music and Musicians in the 1870s and 80s, and then in 1883 as professor of composition and musical history at the Royal College of Music, of which Grove was the first head. In 1895 […]
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