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2024-03-25 23:45:00
Der Ring des Nibelungen, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 18, 19, 21, and 24 March 2024
[…] – Dmitri TcherniakovRevival directors – Lilli Fischer, Thorsten CölleCostumes – Elena ZaytsevaLighting – Gleb FilshtinskyVideo – Alexey Poluboyarinov Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Dani Juris)Staatskapelle BerlinPhilippe Jordan (conductor) Returning to Dmitri Tcherniakov’s Berlin Ring a year after I first saw it, it seems very much the same production: thought-provoking, amenable to almost endless further questioning, and yet, as we reach the denouement, seemingly turning aside: not, I think, or at least not straightforwardly, as George Bernard Shaw accused Wagner of having done in Götterdammerung, on account of succumbing to the ‘love panacea’, but rather from having failed to see its Konzept through. I decided this time to write a single review rather than four instalments, partly so I could make connections between the four parts more readily, not necessarily explicitly, but at least writing with the whole in min. Comparison with what went before last year, with a largely yet […]
2024-03-04 11:00:27
Born on this day in 1929 conductor Bernard Haitink
2024-01-16 20:02:00
New Jersey Symphony. Xian Zhang, conductor; Augustin Hadelich, violin. January 13, 2024.
Count Basie Center, Red Bank, NJ. Orchestra (Seat H-104, $68).Augustin Hadelich and Xian Zhang after the Beethoven Violin Concerto.ProgramI am a white person who __ Black people by Daniel Bernard RoumainViolin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61 by Beethoven.Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky/Ravel.The main draw for the program is of course Hadelich performing the Beethoven violin concerto. Indeed that's the headline on the Program Notes handed out at the concert. For me the Mussorgsky/Ravel piece is also interesting on two fronts: the music itself is very enjoyable; and, having listened to it at a NY Phil concert a couple of months prior, I wonder how NJS would compare.Roumain (DBR) is NJ Symphony's "Resident Artistic Catalyst." No idea what the job description is, but seeing his work on the program would not surprise anyone. He did come on the stage to talk a bit about the work. It was composed for […]
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2024-01-11 18:31:58
The American composer Ron Nelson, who wrote numerous works for wind ensemble, as well as for orchestra and chorus, passed away on December 24, 2023. He was 94. Leonard Slatkin once called Nelson a “quintessential American composer,” and praised his “ability to move between conservative and newer styles with ease,” adding, “The fact that he’s a little hard to categorize is what makes him interesting.” Born in Joliet, Illinois, Nelson studied with Louis Mennini, Bernard Rogers, and Howard Hanson at […] The post appeared first on Serenade.
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