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Chilean composer
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2022-11-11 14:28:27
The American composer, living in Italy until his death last year, was prompted by the 1973 overthrown of Chilean president Salvador Allende to compose 36 variations on the fallen regime’s populist campaign song, El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido. Despite lasting almost an hour and containing episodes of atonal fury, the piece was quickly and [...]
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ArtsJournal: music
2020-02-20 16:05:02
A Huge Frank Stella Painting Disappeared In Chile And Ended Up Being Used As A Lunch Table
“It’s a little known fact that in 1972, minimalist artist Frank Stella donated the painting Isfahan III (1968) to the Museo de la Solidaridad in Chile, a new institution that invited artists from around the world to donate art in honor of Chilean president Salvador Allende’s new socialist government.” And then came Augusto Pinochet’s coup […]
2020-01-21 16:50:00
Usher, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 18 January 2020
Alter Orchesterprobensaal Images: Martin ArgyrogloLady Madeline (Ruth Rosenfeld) Roderick Usher – David Oštrek The Friend – Martin Gerke Lady Madeline – Ruth Rosenfeld Doctor – Dominic Kraemer Philippe Quesne (director, set designs, lighting) Christin Haschke (costumes) Sébastien Alazet (sound design) Members of the Staatskapelle Berlin and its Orchestral Academy Marit Strindlund (conductor) What to do with an unfinished artwork? It is not, perhaps, the right question: different works or part-works, different circumstances, different performers, different listeners, will have different answers. Right or wrong, however, we continue to ask it, and at that level of generalisation or abstraction, there is more than one possibility. One can perform a fragment, with or without reconstruction. The answer to whether to reconstruct will depend both on inclination and on possibility: the condition of fragments will be such that what one saw or heard […]
2019-07-11 07:00:00
Mexico News DailyA month of chamber music is coming up in San Miguel de Allende, where visiting performers come for the destination, the performance space and the format.
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