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Austrian writer, music critic and musicologist (1868-1922)
- Austria-Hungary, Austria
- writer, music critic, musicologist, university teacher, music historian, opinion journalist, librettist, translator
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2020-04-02 22:50:00
John Malveaux: NYTimes.com: Ellis Marsalis Jr., Jazz Pianist and Music Family Patriarch, Dies at 85
Ellis Marsalis with three of his sons, Delfeayo, left, Branford and Wynton, in 2011. Credit...Chad Batka for The New York TimesJohn Malveaux brings this article to our attention: The New York Times The father of Wynton and Branford Marsalis and a prominent performer and educator, he succumbed to complications of the coronavirus.By Giovanni Russonello and Michael Levenson Published April 1, 2020 Updated April 2, 2020, 4:47 p.m. ET This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Ellis Marsalis, a pianist and educator who became the guiding force behind a late-20th-century resurgence in jazz while putting four musician sons on a path to prominent careers, died on Wednesday in New Orleans. He was 85. The cause was complications of Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, his son Branford said […]
2019-01-15 11:50:29
A celebration of Plácido Domingo
Plácido Domingo, KBE (Image: Chad Batka) On Monday 28 January 2019, the International Opera Awards is presenting an event which is not to be missed, a Celebration of Placido Domingo at the Royal Society of Arts, London WC2N 6EZ, in support of the International Opera Awards Foundation. The event will include a Q&A between Helena Matheopoulos and Placido Domingo, during which audience members will have the chance to pose their own questions, as well as Matheopoulos' illustrated talk The Domingo Phenomenon. The event concludes with a reception.Tickets are £110 per person, and these include a donation to the International Opera Awards Foundation. The foundation, created in 2012, awards annual bursaries to aspiring operatic talent. There are no restrictions on age or nationality, nor is support limited to singers, applications are encouraged from any artist working toward a career in opera, who needs financial support to achieve their career goals.Further details […]
2017-02-09 21:40:59
Comet and find me
[…] balcony. Sam Pinkleton’s choreography is so diverse—one minute you’re at a Russian wedding, the next minute you’re at a rave. The show never becomes pretentious, never loses its momentum. But I can’t really descibe the musical very well. You really just have to see it for yourself. But this is how much I enjoyed the show: when I got home the first thing I did was download War and Peace onto my kindle. Photo: Chad Batka.
2014-09-20 07:00:47
Classical music: Which contemporary composer is Bach and which one is Handel? And is it peace or a truce? Philip Glass and Steve Reich appear together at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Which one do you prefer?
[…] Glass, left) and Steve Reich, by Betana Sikoria for The New York Times.) By all accounts it was a momentous event, with sold-out houses, that stirred audiences to loud cheers when they played, including Steve Reich’s “Four Organs,” which is featured at the bottom in a YouTube video of the original 1970 recording that also featured Philip Glass. (Below, the two are performing the same work in a photo at BAM by Chad Batka for The New York Times.) Here is a story from the Deceptive Cadence blog by National Public Radio (NPR): http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2014/09/10/347392860/philip-glass-and-steve-reich-at-bam-together-again-yet-still-apart And here are two stories — one is a preview for background and the other is a review — that compared their friendship to a piece of music by Reich -– from The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/arts/music/philip-glass-and-steve-reich-reunite-at-bam.html http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/15/arts/music/after-decades-steve-reich-and-philip-glass-reunite-at-bam.html The Ear tends to like the music of Philip Glass more […]
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