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Batiashvili/BPO/Petrenko - Brahms, Szymanowski, and Strauss, 15 February 2024
Philharmonie Brahms: Tragic Overture in D minor, op.81 Symanowski: Violin Concerto no.1, op.35 Strauss: Symphonia Domestica, op.53 Lisa Batiashvili (violin)Berlin Philharmonic OrchestraKirill Petrenko (conductor)Image: Lena Laine For me, the highlight of this concert from the Berlin Philharmonic and Kirill Petrenko was the performance of Szymanowski’s First Violin Concerto, for which they were joined by the equally outstanding violinist Lisa Batiashvili. Almost any few bars – the sound and the direction it took – would have been enough to justify attendance; it was not, though, necessary to choose. Its opening, a fairyland in which orchestral children of Mendelssohn and Debussy took flight to the emergent strains of a silken violin line spun with longing and languor presaged what was to come, such interactions, melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and timbral the stuff on which dreams were made on—at quite a temperature. Whatever its twists and turns, there was no doubting the musical line […]
2018-07-22 01:05:00
OperaCreole: WWNO: Edmond Dédé: The Classical Composer You've Never Heard Of
Edmond Dédé The Historic New Orleans Collection, Gift of Mr. Al Rose OperaCreole forwards this transcript: New Orleans Public Radio Jul 19, 2018 By Laine Kaplan-Levenson I crashed an opera rehearsal the other day. A large group of vocalists, young, old, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, all the genders, belted out in long rows surrounding a piano. They were preparing for the 75th anniversary celebration of the New Orleans Opera Association. I was there to talk to a mother-daughter opera combo: Givonna Joseph and Aria Mason. “When she was little people would always say ‘Are you going to sing like your mom?’” Givonna told me. “It would drive her crazy. ‘Im so tired, no, I’m not gonna sing… And I said, ‘you’re going to be […]
2018-07-12 23:37:00
OperaCréole Founders: WWNO Radio TriPod, and Bastille Day Event, New Orleans
[…] broadcast will be a two part series focused on Opera in New Orleans from pre-Civil War to Reconstruction. Givonna Joseph, and Aria Mason cover the 19th Century contributions of African Americans to New Orleans-The First City of Opera, as musicians, composers and conductors. And we also discussed their fight for integrated theater seating, and their ultimate exclusion from opera and classical music at the dawn of Jim Crow. Part I Laine Kaplan-Levenson interviews OperaCréole founders Aria Mason, and Givonna Joseph, she also speaks with New Orleans Opera historian Jack Belsom and author John Baron. Part II Givonna and Aria's interview continues. Ms. Kaplan-Levenson also interviews Harold and Wesley Dede, great-great nephews of Edmond Dédé (1827-1901), 19th Century New Orleans free composer of color. Parts I and II can be heard together onlinehttp://wwno.org/programs/tripod-new-orleans-300 and also on iTunes Podcast----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday is […]
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