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2024-03-18 08:39:00
Breezes of Spain: discovering the music of Óscar de la Cinna
Óscar de la Cinna in 1875Pianist and composer Óscar de la Cinna (1836–1906) is not a household name. Born in Hungary, he was musically educated Prague, Warsaw and Vienna, studied with Czerny and was a classmate of Liszt. A virtuoso pianist, he moved to Spain as piano tutor to the Spanish Royal family, before finally settling in Andalucia. There he was influenced by Spanish folk songs and Moorish dance music.On Friday 29 March 2024, there is a chance to get to know Óscar de la Cinna's music when a piano and dance performance, Breezes of Spain (Brisas de España) is being presented at The Horton, the renovated Grade II-listed former Horton Chapel in Epsom that is now an arts venue.The performers are Yoel Vargas (dance and choreography) and José-Vicente Riquelme (piano), both of whom took part in the Horton's Spanish season last year. There is also a preconcert talk about the […]
2022-10-11 01:56:00
The day has arrived or is arriving: the gut-renovated David Geffen Hall, reduced by about 500 seats and now more of a grapevine theater, the staged moved way out from the rear wall, is re-opening. Everyone has been complaining about the acoustics of the theater since it opened nearly 60 years ago, and everyone is hopeful that the new theater will sound good to the audience* and that musicians on the stage, crucially, will be able to hear each other - particularly the musicians of the NY Philharmonic, who've suffered for all that time. Their first concert is on Wednesday, October 12, in two days.Highlights from the re-opening of Geffen Hall, various NY Times reporters. Note that the musicians quoted sound happy!Michael Kimmelman, A Notoriously Jinxed Concert Hall is Reborn, Again, NY Times. A superb survey of the hall's history.Javier C. Hernandez, A Pioneering Orchestral Boss Had `Unfinished Business`, So […]
2022-10-03 10:00:49
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2022-09-02 05:05:00
Michael Tilson ThomasPhoto by Brandon Patoc (c), 2019Courtesy of San Francisco SymphonyMTT visits Massachusetts, and more articles get written and more interviews take place than usual, owing to the gravity of his glioblastoma diagnosis.David Allen, NY Times, writes about MTT at Tanglewood and reviews a program of his.Javier C. Hernandez, NY Times, interviews MTT and writes about his career.Jeremy Eichler, Boston Globe, talks with MTT.Christopher Benfy, Boston Globe, reviews one of his Tanglewood programs.
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