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Czech conductor, music educator and composer (1910-2004)
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2021-11-02 10:54:43
Written the day after the bombing, Vilém Tauský's Coventry: A Meditation returns to the city for the City of Culture celebrations
Coventry Cathedral after the Blitz in November 1940 I principally associate the name of Czech conductor and composer Vilém Tauský (1910-2004) with light music, as that is what he often conducted on the radio when I first started listening to BBC Radio 3, but as a conductor and composer he had a far wider range than that. Born in Moravia, Tauský came from a musical family (his mother sang Mozart in Vienna under Mahler), and he studied with Leoš Janáček and later became a repetiteur at the Brno Opera. But being of Jewish ancestry he fled just before the Second World War and joined the Czech Free Army. After the war he stayed in the UK and introduced many Czech operas including Smetana's The Kiss, Janáček's Osud and Smetana's The Brandenburgers in Bohemia. In 1955 he also conducted all six symphonies by his friend Martinu in London, marking the composer's 65th birthday. But Tauský […]
2015-06-16 12:49:45
STRAUSS The Virtuoso Johann Strauss: Paraphrases and Arrangements of Favourite Strauss Melodies by Rosenthal, Tausky, Godowsky and Schulz-Evler LABE (piano) (Dorian Discovery DIS 80102) TT: 73.31 (DDD) Full price * * (*) Godowsky was the one who used to play two Chopin études simultaneously, just to make them sound harder. A difficult feat; and one would have hoped it was impossible. The transcriptions here share the same tigerish bravura, and if you recall the old cartoon of Liszt, in a monsoon of fingers stripping the keys off a piano, you might be able to appreciate the wars of calculated attrition that virtuosi used to embark on with their fists. This is what the pianism of a lost age was all about. When Moriz Rosenthal quipped that Schnabel failed his Austrian Army medical because he had no fingers, he referred not to the fumblings of later years but to the young […]
2015-05-01 06:06:00
NJ State Theatre, Orchestra (Seat K6, $15). ProgramLe Tombeau de Couperin (1914-17, orch. 1919) by Ravel (1875-1937).Piano Concerto in G Major (1929-31) by Ravel.March “Crown Imperial”(1937, rev. 1953, edited Vilem Tausky) by William Walton (1902-83).Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 (1905-6, rev. 1914) by Vaughan William (1872-1958).The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra – variations and fugue on a theme of Henry Purcell, Op. 34 (1945) by Britten (1913-76). Amazon Local had tickets on sale for $15 each, which was just too good a bargain to pass up, even though that meant a third concert in three days. Lockhart is well-known for leading the Boston Pops Orchestra, it turns out he is also the principal conductor for this BBC Concert Orchestra. BBC has many different ensembles, I have no idea where this ranks in terms of prestige, other than it’s not being a “full” orchestra. The orchestra managed to […]
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2014-07-15 15:58:20
A Glyndebourne conductor has died
Sad news from the other side of the world: Passing of Conductor Myer Fredman. The ABC has announced the death of conductor Myer Fredman, who passed away on Friday 4th July, 2014 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia aged 82. Internationally acclaimed in the symphonic and operatic repertoire, Myer Fredman studied at the Dartington College of the Arts before being awarded the Eileen Joyce Scholarship to study in London with Vilem Tausky and Peter Gellhorn and he later for some special lessons with Sir Adrian Boult. In the early years of his career he assisted the emminent conductors Dr. Otto Klemperer, Maestro Vittorio Gui, Sir Charles Mackerras and Sir John Pritchard. From 1959 to 1974 he worked at the Glyndebourne Festival and from 1961 conducted during every season and was instrumental in creating Glyndebourne Touring Opera (now Glyndebourne on Tour) and appointed its initial Music Director. That same period […]
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