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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-14 15:45:32
A Long Road of Remembrance and Hope
[…] infernal periods of enslavement and genocide. For centuries, literature about the Roma came exclusively from the ‘outside’, by non-Roma authors looking in, and it is precisely this literature that has persistently perpetuated ethnic, social and cultural stereotypes that have proven so harmful to this minority. It is not until the twentieth century – but essentially only in the past fifty years, that Roma poets and writers have begun to express themselves in written form in Romani (or Romanes), a macrolanguage of Romani communities, or in the vernacular of the countries or regions within which they reside. These are watershed years, since for the first time, the Roma ‘speak’ from ‘within’ to authentically express what has been shrouded in the fog of popular imagination for ages. And who are the Sinti? They are a subgroup of Romani people who mostly live in Germany for the past 600 years. Is it fair […]
2024-01-09 07:51:31
Jacob Larwood (1827-1918), THE HISTORY OF SIGNBOARDS: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
2023-11-07 19:55:00
New York Philharmonic. Susanna Malkki, conductor; Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano; Jeno Lisztes, cimbalom. November 3, 2023.
David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. Orchestra 1 (Seat Y105, $90).Aimard and Malkki after the Ligeti piano concerto. The orchestra did not seem particularly large, but there were a lot of instruments involved.ProgramHungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp minor, S.244/2H (1847; arr. 2017) by Liszt (1811-86), arr. Listztes (b. 1986).Romanian Folk Dances, BB 76 (1915; orch. 1917) by Bartok (1881-1945).Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1985-86/1988) by Ligeti (1923-2006).Pictures at an Exhibition (1874; arr. 1922) by Musorgsky (1839-81), arr. Ravel (1875-1937).This is an eclectic program. It begins with two short pieces based on Hungarian and Romani tunes, followed by a piano concert by Ligeti. The second half was Russian music orchestrated by a French composer, but remains undoubtedly Russian in character. The audience was also treated to the cimbalom, a Hungarian variation of the hammered dulcimer. Individual pieces have their merits, but I can't see how the pieces constitute a coherent concert […]
2023-10-13 15:21:53
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