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2020-11-07 06:05:00
Classical Music News of the Week, November 7, 2020
[…] to reinterpret the North Carolina State University Brickyard, the university’s beloved and iconic gathering area outside of D.H. Hill Jr. Library, as a virtual space in which the musical performance will unfold. Hundreds of audio recordings are being integrated into the work, created over the course of the fall 2020 semester by individual student and community musicians playing and singing in isolation. Jason Evans Groth, Digital Media Librarian; Colin Keenan, University Libraries Specialist; and Kyle Langdon, University Library Specialist and Audio Engineer; along with Ian Boyd, NC State University Library Specialist and Sarah Hassan, NC State University Libraries Pentair Fellow, have created the VR environment.For more information, visit https://music.arts.ncsu.edu/brickyard-broadcast/--Christina Jensen, Jensen ArtistsYPC Alumna Jordan Reynoso's "Grown": Now Streaming“Just Songs” (Unplugged) is a new series of original songs written and performed by Young People’s Chorus of NYC talent and inspired by the significant issues of social equity facing our communities. This […]
2020-10-26 05:01:00
Brown: Wild Symphony (Digital review)
Miran Vaupotic, Zagreb Festival Orchestra. PARMA Recordings. By John J. Puccio Yes, THAT Dan Brown. Who’d have thought Dan Brown, who wrote the best-selling series of Robert Langdon thrillers (Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, Inferno, etc.), would follow them up with a children’s book and a “symphony” to go with it? Seems Mr. Brown considered a career in music working as a composer and lyricist before he became a full-time writer. I guess now that he has conquered the world of adult fiction, he decided to turn to children’s books and children’s music. The music is, in fact, children’s music. Not that adults can’t enjoy it, but it is highly derivative, rather brief and direct, and meant primarily to accompany his book Wild Symphony with sound. The book describes animals, and the music describes the animals. Here’s the way Brown explains it: “My intent with Wild Symphony is to provide a fun, […]
2020-09-19 06:00:00
Classical Music News of the Week, September 19, 2020
[…] by individual student and community musicians playing and singing in isolation under the guidance of Lisa Bielawa; Dr. Peter Askim, Director of Orchestral Studies, NC State Department of Music; and Dr. Nathan Leaf, Director of Choral Activities, NC State Department of Music. Musicians from NC State University choirs, NC State’s Raleigh Civic orchestras, and the Concert Singers of Cary will be participating. Jason Evans Groth, Digital Media Librarian; Colin Keenan, University Libraries Specialist; and Kyle Langdon, University Library Specialist and Audio Engineer, will lead the creation of the VR environment and the online premiere performances. For more information, visit http://www.lisabielawa.net/brickyard-broadcast --Christina Jensen, Jensen Artists Orli Shaham’s MidWeek MozartOrli Shaham's MidWeek Mozart continues this week with the third movement from Sonata No.9, K. 310 - available to stream for free beginning Wednesday, September 16 at https://orlishahammozart.com/. "This breathless, restless movement continues the turbulence established in the previous movements," says Ms. […]
2020-03-26 12:45:00
Interpreting Wagner's Dreams: Staging 'Parsifal' in the Twenty-first Century
[…] [4] Richard Wagner, ‘Über das Dirigieren’, Gesammelte Schriften und Dichtungen, 4th edn, 10 vols. (Leipzig, 1907), viii.261–337. [5] Erling E. Gulbrandsen and Per-Erik Skramstad, ‘Stefan Herheim on Working with Daniele Gatti, the Choice of Tempi and the Staging of Preludes’, tr. Jonathan Scott-Kiddie, http://www.wagneropera.net/Interviews/Stefan-Herheim-Gatti-Preludes.htm(accessed 18 Mar. 2017). [6] Ibid. [7] An Autobiography (New York, 1956), 59. [8] ‘Monsieur Croche the Dilettante Hater’, tr. B. N. Langdon Davies, in Three Classics in the Aesthetic of Music (New York, 1962), 46–9. [9] On Wagner and the Philosophie der Tat, see Mark Berry, Treacherous Bonds and Laughing Fire: Politics and Religion in Wagner’s ‘Ring’ (Aldershot and Burlington, 2006), 28–9, 175–81. [10] Letter of 28 Sep. 1880; Selected Letters of Richard Wagner, tr. and ed. Stewart Spencer and Barry Millington (London, 1987), 903. [11] ‘Time re-explored’, Orientations: Collected […]
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