05/01/2008
Peter Eötvös' "Angels in America" in New Production at Fort Worth Opera
Peter Eötvös' opera Angels in America , based on the Pulitzer-Prize winning play by Tony Kushner with a libretto by Mari Mezei, sees a run of performances this month at Fort Worth Opera conducted by Christopher Larkin and directed by David Gately. Originally a stage work of daunting proportions, the ...
05/01/2008
Bang on a Can Marathon Features Chaya Czernowin
The 2008 Bang on a Can Marathon commences on Saturday, May 31 at 6 PM in the Winter Garden of the New York City World Financial Center. An innovative twelve-hour festival of continuous music where artists of the various and sometimes disparate scenes of new music converge, the marathon brings together ...
05/01/2008
Morton Subotnick Featured at Iceland's Raflost Festival
This month Morton Subotnick appears as the featured guest composer at Iceland's Raflost Festival, an annual arts festival of electronic media. As part of his Icelandic visit, Subotnick will give a lecture at the Iceland Academy of the Arts on April 25 and his works The Other Piano , for piano and ...
05/01/2008
Praise for American Opera Projects' Premiere Production of Lee Hoiby's "This Is the Rill Speaking"
Lee Hoiby's This Is the Rill Speaking received its premiere production by American Opera Projects at SUNY Purchase and at New York City's Symphony Space in April. The opera, based on the play by Lanford Wilson and with a libretto by Mark Shulgasser, is in one act and perfectly suited for young voices. ...
04/30/2008
Work of the Week - Jörg Widmann: Eleven Humoresques
On 4 May Jörg Widmann's new work Eleven Humoresques receives its world premiere in New York. The soloist is the highly acclaimed pianist Yefim Bronfman who will perform the work in the great Stern Audtorium at Carnegie Hall. Since Robert Schumann, the originally literary genre of the ...
04/29/2008
Play Guitar with Old Mac Donald
Peter Ansorge, Bruno Szordikowski: Old Mac Donald plays Guitar. This wonderful collection contains a wide selection of children's and folk songs: From canons to movie melodies and international folk songs. The edition is suitable for one to three young guitarists. The easy to play ...
04/24/2008
Over 20.000 Music Lovers Visit Musicora in Paris
The 23rd Musicora took place in Paris on April 4th to 6th. As in the last years the fair for classical music is able to report a great success. More than 20.000 music lovers pilgrimaged to the “Carrousel du Louvre” to get in touch with the latest editions exposed by 255 exhibitors from 17 different ...
04/23/2008
schott aktuell - the journal 3/2008 online
Thema: New Brass Concertos Contents: p. 2-5: World premieres: Krzysztof Penderecki: Concerto per corno e orchestra in Bremen - Elisabeth Naske: Die rote Zora in Lucerne - Jörg Widmann: Elf Humoresken in New York etc. p. 6-7: First nights: Hans Werner Henze: The Bassarids ...
04/22/2008
Work of the Week - Lee Hoiby: This Is the Rill Speaking
On Saturday, April 26, American Opera Projects, in collaboration with Purchase College Opera, presents the world professional premiere of Lee Hoiby's This Is the Rill Speaking at the Recital Hall of SUNY, Purchase, New York. The opera, with a libretto by Mark Shulgasser based on Lanford Wilson's ...
04/22/2008
Flute Music by Female Composers. In this collection, Elisabeth Weinzierl-Wächter and Barbara Heller present works for flute and piano by 13 female composers: starting with the 18th century, with sonatas by Anna Amalia von Preußen and Anna Bon di Venezia, via the 19th century with ...
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