Tune in here on January 27-28, 2023 for the Junior and Senior Division Final Rounds We’re coming to you LIVE from Detroit, Michigan for the Sphinx Competition 2023. Twenty-one of the USA’s top young Black and Latinx string soloists have competed in the Junior Division (ages 17 and under) and …
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Commissioned to write the soundtrack for a restored print of The Cursed Village, a classic of Spanish silent cinema, Barcelona’s Raül Refree decided to extend the film’s bleak atmosphere and theme of displacement on this concept album, which translates as The Space Between. Having started out in the 1990s in …
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MIT Music and Theater Arts, and Guerilla Opera present the world premiere of The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage. Elena Ruehr’s new comedic new opera imagines that Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, the true-life unsung inventors of the first computer, use their brilliant new invention to “fight crime” in alternative universes. The …
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In an interview with her children, I talk about my late friend Ruth Jordan, biographer of several historical characters including two composers – Chopin and Halévy. For almost every book she wrote, she learned a new language. The post She blew the whistle on Chopin’s anti-semitism appeared first on Slippedisc. …
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An amazing disc , one for pianophiles – and lovers of Schumann – the World over Discoveries aren’t all about pieces of music, they come in the form of performers also: Emile Naoumoff is a treasure of a pianist. This Schumann disc is uterly remarkable, and the programme is perfect: …
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The Sphinx Organization just minutes ago announced 17-year-old cellist Brandon Leonard as this year’s first prize winner Organized by the Sphinx Organization, the national Sphinx Competition is an annual event that offers young Black and Latinx classical string players the opportunity to perform before an internationally renowned jury and be …
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Mahler’s settings of translations of ancient Chinese verses in his symphony Das Lied von der Erde are probably the best known of their kind, but he was not alone in being seduced by the poetry of the Tang dynasty. For this recital, marking the beginning of the Chinese new year, …
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The Rachmaninoff of Dave Malloy’s 2015 musical play “Preludes” exists in and out of time. Performed by a diverse cast of virtuosic Boston award winners, “Preludes” is showing this winter at Boston’s Lyric Stage (I attended on Jan. 26th and performances through February 5th). Information HERE. The play features 13 …
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norman lebrecht January 27, 2023 Here’s a wonderfully revealing reflection on America’s doyen string quartet by our occasional diarist, Anthea Kreston. Some people, well, actually, a lot of people, think you can’t do it all. That you will fail (assuming that’s actually a bad thing), embarrass yourself (ditto above), and …
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J.S. Bach András Schiff Clavichord He was the best organist in Europe and a mean harpsichordist too, but Johann Sebastian Bach loved playing the clavichord. The intimacy of its soft dynamic range, supple tone, and the ability to have an aftertouch with a slight vibrato made the instrument a …
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