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American composer
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2017-04-01 15:34:05
Me muero, me sale una hernia!
Born on this day in 1868 playwright Edmond Rostand, whose play Cyrano de Bergerac was adapted into an opera by Franco Alfano, eventually leading to an abdominal hernia for soprano Patricia Racette. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT72U2qXFmk Born on this day in 1697 writer Antoine Francois Prevost. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktyIPFPxZfc Born on this day in 1866 composer Ferruccio Busoni. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyhk6ceg3xc Born on this day in 1873 composer Sergei Rachmaninoff. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS4XgSCItEA Born on this day in 1892 tenor/baritone Renato Zanelli. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ji_yDGLfHY Born on this day in 1911 director and administrator Günther Rennert. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZxhH-gs8jU Born on this day in 1921 composer William Bergsma. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=99hyiyGVTE4 Born on this day in 1928 tenor Hermin Esser. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwMYDLw-9yQ
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Royal Opera House
2017-01-03 19:13:51
Remembering Peter Farmer (1941–2017)
The Sleeping Beauty, The Royal Ballet © ROH/Tristram Kenton, 2014 Peter Farmer , a painter and leading figure in British theatre design, has died. Farmer worked extensively in ballet, both with The Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet , as well as other major international ballet companies. He collaborated closely with Peter Wright , and made a considerable contribution to the repertory of BRB under Wright’s directorship, his design credits with the company including Giselle, The Dream, Paquita, Theme and Variations, Dorian Gray, Les Sylphides, Coppélia and Birthday Offering. Wright has written how he brought ‘a wonderful sense of atmosphere to his sets – a real world on stage’. It was with Wright that Farmer began his career with The Royal Ballet, designing his 1971 production of Giselle. The opening night starred Antoinette Sibley in the title role with Anthony Dowell as Albrecht and Deanne Bergsma as Myrtha. He returned […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-10-10 22:44:12
Radius Brief But Evocative
William Bergsma (file photo) Radius Ensemble started its season on Saturday at Pickman Hall at Longy-Bard with a short program that in large degree reflected composers reacting to genres created by earlier greats. That sense of dialogue with past masters can also be extended to the one work on the program that wasn’t in the mold just described. That latter piece was the opening one, Ravel’s brief but evocative Pièce en forme de habanera, which was here performed by Jennifer Montbach, oboe and Ina Zdorovetchi, harp, in a transcription by the great 20th-century composer and harpist Carlos Salzedo (Montbach said later that Salzedo made the arrangement for harp and “any instrument in C”). Originally called Vocalise-étude en forme de habanera, Ravel wrote it in 1907 on commission from Paris Conservatoire professor A-L Hettich to be used in his voice classes. The original scoring was for low voice and piano, but […]
2016-04-01 15:18:01
Revelry
Born on this day in 1883 American actor, director, and screenwriter Lon Chaney. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_lVqP1-Efo Born on this day in 1697 writer Antoine Francois Prevost. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktyIPFPxZfc Born on this day in 1866 composer Ferruccio Busoni. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyhk6ceg3xc Born on this day in 1873 composer Sergei Rachmaninoff. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS4XgSCItEA Born on this day in 1892 tenor/baritone Renato Zanelli. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ji_yDGLfHY Born on this day in 1911 director and administrator Günther Rennert. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZxhH-gs8jU Born on this day in 1921 composer William Bergsma. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJBtJEaDDsI Born on this day in 1928 tenor Hermin Esser. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwMYDLw-9yQ
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