December, 2016

41 Posts
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Happy New Year from Franz Schubert and the Nonsense Society
In April 1817, a merry little band of artists decided to form a small private club called the “Unsinnsgesellschaft” (Nonsense Society). Based in Vienna, this congenial group of artistic friends published a weekly magazine, the “Archiv des menschlichen Unsinns” (Archive
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Holiday Fun: The Nutcracker
From its first notes, Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker takes us to someplace warm and magical. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71: Overture (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Simon Rattle, cond.) The ballet originates in a story by E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Nutcracker and the
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Jean-Baptiste Krumpholtz: La Harpe reine
Jean-Baptiste Krumpholtz III. Rondo – Allegro From Jean-Baptiste Krumpholtz: La Harpe reine (2016) Released by Harmonia Mundi Jean-Baptiste Krumpholtz: Concerto for Harp and Orchestra No. 5 in B-Flat Major, Op.7 – III. Rondo – AllegroThe Triumph of the Harp! When
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Composers and Their Poets: Wolf II
Wolf took up the poetry of Goethe and in his Goethe-Lieder collection, set 51 poems. They came from a variety of poetic sources, including the influential Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (1795-96) and the wonderfully named West-östlicher Diwan (1819), as well as
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Holiday Fun: Hansel and Gretel
The tale of the two children and how they fool the wicked witch who has captured them in her gingerbread house has become a holiday opera. The recasting of the Grimm Brother’s tale into something more family friendly was done
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Unsung Concertos
Dmitri Kabalevsky: Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 49
For primarily political reasons, the music of Dmitri Kabalevsky never really enjoyed great popularity in the West. Despite writing in a readily accessible musical style that was primarily rooted in folk music, his name was listed in the infamous 1948
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The New World of the New Composer: An Interview with William Cole
William Cole is a recent graduate of Cambridge and a new student in the Masters in Composition and Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London. We spoke with him recently to talk about what a new composer does
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Minors of the Majors
Aram Khachaturian: Othello Suite
“Minors of the Majors” invites you to discover compositions by the great classical composers that for one reason or another have not reached the musical mainstream. Please enjoy, and keep listening!
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