http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/index.html?_NewsSearch=1&_NewsSearch_page=6 schott-music.com - News en-UK thomas.fischer@schott-music.com (Thomas Fischer) Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Fri, 24 May 2013 03:23:40 +0200 Schott Music - CMS http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,8932.html?newsCategoryId=18 25 years after its premiere Mark-Anthony Turnage's first opera, Greek , still has massive impact, with new productions almost every year. 26 May is the opening night of one such production at the Landestheater in Salzburg, directed by Andreas Gergen, designed by Stephan Prattes, and with Leo Hussain conducting the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg. Commissioned for the Munich Biennale in 1988, ... Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 +0200 http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,8932.html?newsCategoryId=18 schott-music.com - News Work of the Week http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,8909.html?newsCategoryId=19 On 05/22/2013, Wilhelm Richard Wagner would have turned 200. He was born in Leipzigin 1913, the youngest of nine children. His stepfather Ludwig Geyer, an actor, poet and painter, introduced him to the theatre and arts at an early age, and this was how he met Carl Maria von Weber among others. At the age of 20, Wagner composed his first opera ('Die Feen'). A special kind of birthday song, 'Geburtstags-Idyll',... Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,8909.html?newsCategoryId=19 schott-music.com - News New Issues http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,8929.html?newsCategoryId=15 Master of magical narrative power On the occasion of the death of the composer Henri Dutilleux The international music world has lost one of its major figures with the death of Henri Dutilleux. The French composer Henri Dutilleux, born in Angers in 1916, created a personal and distinctive musical language glowing with tonal originality and visual radiance with its foundations in the traditions... Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,8929.html?newsCategoryId=15 schott-music.com - News Composers News http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,8671.html?newsCategoryId=19 Walter Reiter/Robin Bigwood: Baroque Violin Anthology Vol. 1 - Sheet music for violin - Featuring 38 beautiful pieces scored for violin and keyboard accompaniment, this collection includes pieces by well known figures such as Bach, Handel and Purcell, as well as lesser-known and rarely available works from a range of other composers. Suitable for students of ca. 1-2 years of... Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,8671.html?newsCategoryId=19 schott-music.com - News New Issues http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,8896.html?newsCategoryId=12 We are delighted to announce that Gerald Barry's The Importance of Being Earnest has won the 2013 RPS Music Award for Large-Scale Composition. Barry's audacious operatic approach to Oscar Wilde's masterpiece triumphantly confounds all expectations. As Barry describes it: 'The play's bones are unshatterable. My version is an X-ray of it.' Commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the... Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,8896.html?newsCategoryId=12 schott-music.com - News News from Schott London Composers News http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,8897.html?newsCategoryId=13 On May 19, the Hoff-Barthelson School presents the premiere of Pierre Jalbert's new work for ensemble, Ultraviolet , in Scarsdale, NY. Performed by Jered McInerney, violin; Emma Berry, clarinet; Issei Herr, cello; Charlotte Hill, piano, the work is performed as part of the school's 24th annual Festival of Contemporary Music. Jalbert writes: Ultraviolet was written for the Hoff-Barthelson... Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,8897.html?newsCategoryId=13 schott-music.com - News News from Schott New York Composers News http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,8898.html?newsCategoryId=13 Th­­e 19th annual Canberra International Music Festival features the music of Composer-in-Residence Gavin Bryars, May 10-19. Hosted by the Australian National University School of Music, the festival presents selections from Bryars’s Second Book of Madrigals as well as The Porazzi Fragment , conducted by the composer. The event culminates in a portrait concert, featuring several ... Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,8898.html?newsCategoryId=13 schott-music.com - News News from Schott New York Composers News http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,8899.html?newsCategoryId=13 In anticipation of the composer's 80th birthday year in 2014, performances of Bernard Rands’s music continue to dot this season’s calendar around the country. This month Timothy Weiss leads the Oberlin Sinfonietta in a performance of Rands Concertino for oboe and ensemble, featuring Oberlin faculty soloist Robert Walters, and the University of Rochester Wind Symphony presents Rands’ Ceremonial ... Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,8899.html?newsCategoryId=13 schott-music.com - News News from Schott New York Composers News http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,8900.html?newsCategoryId=13 In honor of its impending grand opening in 2015, The Opera San Antonio hosts an inaugural gala concert on May 23 at the Majestic Theatre in San Antonio, featuring performances from Tobias Picker’s An American Tragedy . Tobias Picker, Artistic Director of The Opera San Antonio, has curated a diverse line-up of opera highlights for the event, with performances by star singers including Patricia... Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,8900.html?newsCategoryId=13 schott-music.com - News News from Schott New York Composers News http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,8901.html?newsCategoryId=13 Fresh off his most recent premiere with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Andrew Norman switches coasts this month for the world premiere of his newest orchestral work for the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), conducted by Gil Rose. On May 17, BMOP premieres Play , a new work for chamber orchestra commissioned as part of Andrew Norman’s Music Alive residency, a program of Meet the Composer... Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,8901.html?newsCategoryId=13 schott-music.com - News News from Schott New York Composers News http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,8855.html?newsCategoryId=19 Hegel: Bach for Guitar - Sheet Music for Guitar - This collection includes pieces originally composed for a variety of different instruments and ensembles (including orchestral music, piano pieces, solo suites for violin, cello or lute and organ music), which may now be performed effectively on the guitar. The compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach combined in this book definitely... Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,8855.html?newsCategoryId=19 schott-music.com - News New Issues http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,8890.html?newsCategoryId=18 When Ariadne auf Naxos is staged on 20 May 2013 in Stuttgart, a hundred years will have passed since its world premiere at the Stuttgarter Hoftheater. Spanning a bridge from its first run during the 1912/13 season to the present, stage designer Anna Viebrock uses the modern Großes Haus stage to recreate the original Kleines Haus, destroyed during WWII. The production by directors Jossi Wieler and... Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,8890.html?newsCategoryId=18 schott-music.com - News Work of the Week http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,8871.html?newsCategoryId=19 Braccini: European Vocabulary of Music - Italian - English - German - French - This new four-language dictionary of music contains more than 4000 terms and is a great resource for musicians, teachers, students and amateurs who wish to understand and use specialist musical terms. The book is based on practical experience, derived from the research of directions given on a large number... Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,8871.html?newsCategoryId=19 schott-music.com - News New Issues http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,8828.html?newsCategoryId=19 Juchem: Latin Standards - Sheet music with CD - In this new volume Dirko Juchem combines 14 of the most passionate Latin songs in easy-to-play and professional arrangements. Latin American music with its infectious rhythms and grooves is great fun to play and has soft and easy-to-sing melodies. All pieces on the accompanying CD have been recorded by the author himself and are... Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,8828.html?newsCategoryId=19 schott-music.com - News New Issues http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,8879.html?newsCategoryId=15 We are very sad to announce that Steve Martland, one of the outstanding voices in British music since the mid-eighties, died in his sleep on the night of 6 May 2013. He was born on 10 October 1959 in Liverpool and studied composition in Holland with Louis Andriessen. His lifetime preoccupation was with the function of the composer in society. Steve was a unique figure, an independent,... Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.schott-music.com/news/archive/show,8879.html?newsCategoryId=15 schott-music.com - News Composers News