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Lillian Mae Weingarten Mehr was born in 1926 to immigrant parents from Budapest, Hungary. She grew up in Sharon, Pennsylvania, and began playing the violin from a young age. After graduating from Sharon High School In 1943, Mehr completed a home economics degree from Penn State University, where she met Harold Mehr whom she […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2016-11-18 17:00:16
To weep and remember
[…] opera with its one true musical catharsis. That apotheosis is nearly attained again in Colleen’s closing aria, but the final release, a satisfying resolution is not to be for us. The opera ends quietly. We leave the theater bruised but hopeful. The 11-piece orchestra, under the direction of Kristof Van Grysperre, handles the various styles of the score commendably but would probably benefit from a larger performing space. Designers Hana S. Kim (video) and Dan Weingarten (lighting) do much with little. Director Andreas Mitisek does impressive work in extracting fully committed portrayals from his singers and maintaining clarity in the many shifting episodes of the opera, but even his best efforts can’t completely camouflage an occasional heavy-handedness in the writing. At the center of the cast is the commanding performance of LaMarcus Miller as Lance Corporal Philip Houston. Miller’s rich, resonant, and virile bass-baritone imbues Philip with a pent-up rage […]
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2016-03-24 11:00:41
Zurich slashes festival
The Zurich Festival, founded 20 years ago in a bid to add summer lightness to a somnolent city, is undergoing what bankers call a re-evaluation. As of now, the festival will cease to be an annual event. It will take place in June every other year. The artistic director Elmar Weingarten (once of the Berlin Phil) is being shuffled off into retirement. He’ll be replaced by Alexander Keil, who once worked at Bayreuth. There will be less money.
2016-02-06 01:00:00
J.S. Bach - Organ Works Volume 10Ewald Kooiman - WeingartenWorks by Pachelbel, Walther & BachPiet Kee - WeingartenPiano Works on Organ (Schubert et al)Kees van Houten - aarle-RixtelSpectacular Romanticd (Reger et al)Jos van der Kooy - Haarlem J.S. Bach (1685-1750) Klavierübung III (Teil 1) Präludium & Fuge in Es-dur, BWV 552 Ewald Kooiman - organist Gabler organ (1750), IV/P/63 Klosterkirche Weingarten Label: Coronata COR 2113 Recorded August 1994 If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here [flacs & scans] Download Organ Works of Pachelbel,Walther and J.S. Bach Piet Kee - organistGabler organ (1750), IV/P/63Klosterkirche WeingartenLabel: Chandos CHAN 0520Recorded October 1990Courtesy of member Cadfael If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here[flacs & scans]Download Piano Works on Organ of Mozart, Schubert, Grieg, Schumann, Chopin and others Kees van Houten - organist Smits organ (1854), III/P/28 […]
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