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2022-04-16 04:23:00
Classical Music News of the Week, April 16, 2022
[…] Cleveland, Toronto, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, and Boston, the concert is dedicated to the people of Ukraine. The program includes performances by the New England Conservatory’s Contemporary Improvisation Klezmer Ensemble; the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Roots, Jazz and American Music (RJAM) program; and music from the Colburn School’s Ziering-Conlon Initative for Recovered Voices, dedicated to reviving works by composers suppressed by the Nazi regime. The concert also features works by Schubert, Bartók, Paul Taffanel, Miroslav Skoryk, and David Popper by students of the Cleveland Institute of Music, Curtis Institute of Music, Manhattan School of Music, the New World Symphony, and The Royal Conservatory’s Glenn Gould School.--Lisa Bellamore, Crescent CommunicationsNew Artistic Leadership Team for Helsinki Philharmonic OrchestraThe Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra is renewing its artistic leadership model with a three-member Artistic Leadership Team. This team will comprise Chief Conductor and Artistic Director Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Principal Guest Conductor and Artistic Co-Director […]
2017-11-16 12:20:12
EQUATORIAL WINDS + 1: Playing Wind Quintets & Sextets by Farrenc, Taffanel and Thuille, Nov. 26 2017 @ Kenton College, Kileleshwa
Date: November 26, 2017 Venue: Kenton College, Kileleshwa Time: 3 PM Tickets: KES 500
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2017-01-23 04:14:42
Eight BSO principal wind and string players joined three BSO colleagues and pianist Randall Hodgkinson this afternoon at Jordan Hall in French chamber works by Taffanel, Saint-Saëns, Tanguy and Françaix dedicated to the memory of long-time BSO principal cellist Jules Eskin, a founding member of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players. To honor him, Malcolm Lowe and Steven Ansell preceded the formal program with the Andante from Mozart’s K. 423 Duo for Violin and Viola, beautifully evoking Eskin’s spiritual presence and creating a soft lullaby to wish him a peaceful eternal rest. To borrow a line from Mel Brooks, Paul Taffanel is famous to those who have heard of him. Known as the founder of the French School of flute playing, he arrived on the scene shortly after the improved Boehm flute was developed; he also modernized the French conservatory curriculum and led the early music revival throughout Europe. His Wind Quintet […]
2016-09-11 15:05:07
[…] Her Concertino for Flute and Piano has remained her most well-known work. Initially this work was written for flute and piano, however in later years it has been orchestrated for flute and orchestra (for this blog I will be referring to the original arrangement for flute and piano). The piece was commissioned by the Paris Conservatoire in 1902 to be an examination piece for flute students. The Concertino is dedicated to flautist and teacher, Paul Taffanel. There is a legend behind the composition of this work, which nobody is sure whether it is true or not. Supposedly, Chaminade wrote this work to punish a flute-playing lover after he left her to marry somebody else. She thus wrote an extremely difficult concertino which he would not be able to play (though legend says he was able to play it!). The piece has remained popular in flute repertoire and is still used […]
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