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2016-01-13 18:18:19
Yesterday I had the pleasure of hearing the Calidore String Quartet perform at the Merkin Concert Hall, a part of the Kaufman Music Center on W. 67th Street in New York City. The name of the quartet is a combination of their origin Cali-Fornia and the French word dore’ which means “golden” so thus the golden state Calidore Quartet! Their ingenious name also describes their golden performance of works by Haydn, Webern and Beethoven. Haydn and Beethoven along with Mozart make up what is referred to as the “First Vienna School” of music while Webern along with Schoenberg and Messian are often referred to as the “Second Vienna School” of music. The first school establishing firmly the classical melody/harmony method of composition while the second school thought that by their time in the early 2oth century pretty much everything that could be said using the “classical composition style had been […]
2011-12-21 22:47:00
DECEMBER 22 Today in classical music history
[…] Fampas. Search Dimitri FAMPAS.1921 Birth of composer Robert KURKA. d-12 DEC 1957. Search Robert KURKA.1922 Birth of American soprano Anne Bollinger in Lewiston, Ohio. Died 11 July 1862, Debut as Frasquita in Carmen (Bizet) 1 Nov 1949 Teachers:- Rosalie Miller, Lotte Lehmann.1928 Death of vocal coach Selma Nicklass-Kempner. Born 2 Apl 1849. Debut 1867 Teacher :- Jenny Meyer Pupil :- Rita Fornia, Gertrude Forstel, Mary Hagen, Frieda Hempel Estelle Liebling, Ottilie Metzger-Lattermann, Rachel Morton Ursula van Dieman, Julie Shelley.1935 Birth of Rumanian mezzo-soprano Viorica Cortez in Bucium, Rumania. Debut as Delilah in Samson et Delilah […]
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