Upcoming Performances & Anniversaries
Carl Orff
born: July 10th, 1895
died: March 29th, 1982
nationality: Germany
Upcoming:
Carmina Burana
September 11th, 2010 | Hamardomen - Hamar - Norway
Carmina Burana
Conductor: Jacques Lacombe
September 12th, 2010 | Place des Arts, Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier - Montréal - Canada
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News
08/10/2010
12 August 2010 marks the centenary of the birth of the distinguished Swiss composer Heinrich Sutermeister who was born in the Swiss canton Schaffhausen on 12 August 1910 and died in Vaux-sur Morges on 16 March 1995. Following initial philological studies in Basel (musicology with Karl Neff and German ...
04/27/2010
schott aktuell - the journal 3/2010 online
Love Songs Contents: p 3: Editorial · Contents pp 4-7: World Premieres: Chaya Czernowin: Lovesong · Jörg Widmann: Liebeslied · Wilfried Hiller: Cappella Sistina · Andrew Norman: The Companion Guide to Rome · Benjamin ...
01/25/2010
Work of the Week - Carl Orff: De temporum fine comoedia
A new production of Carl Orff’s final stage work De temporum fine comoedia (The Play of the End of Times) will receive its first night at the Staatstheater Darmstadt on 30th January. The staging of the opera will take place alongside the performance of Orff’s first opera Gisei ...
01/13/2010
Carl Orff: World Première after 97 Years of 'Gisei - The Victim'
On 30 January Carl Orff´s opera Gisei - Das Opfer (Gisei - The Victim) will receive its world première. 97 years after its composition the Staatstheater Darmstadt, Germany, is presenting the first production ever, directed by John Dew and under the baton of Constantin Trinks. ...
01/07/2010
O Fortuna tops The People's Classical Chart
O Fortuna from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has been named the 'most listened to piece of classical music' in a new poll. The People's Classical Music Chart, was compiled by PPL for BBC Radio 2 and charts the most played pieces of classical music over the past 75 years. Aside from regular ...
12/24/2009
schott aktuell - the journal 1/2010 online
The Tragic Muse in Opera Contents: p 3: Editorial · Contents pp 4-7: World Premières: Peter Eötvös: Die Tragödie des Teufels in Munich (D) · Carl Orff: Gisei - Das Opfer in Darmstadt (D) · Aribert Reimann: Medea in Vienna (A) ...
08/27/2009
schott aktuell - the journal 5/2009 online
- Strictly Strings - Contents: p. 3: Editorial · Contents pp. 4-7: World Premieres; Peteris Vasks: Vox amoris in Sydney, Gavin Bryars: Four Songs from Northern Seas in Leeds, Chaya Czernowin: Algae in Leuven (B), Huw Watkins: Miniatures in Norfolk, et ...
05/14/2009
Ullmann's "The Emperor of Atlantis," Orff's "The Clever One" in the Hull of the Queen Mary
Long Beach Opera pairs Viktor Ullmann's The Emperor of Atlantis ( Der Kaiser von Atlantis ) and Carl Orff's The Clever One ( Die Kluge ) in new productions this month directed and conducted by Andreas Mitisek. Though created under very different political circumstances, both works were composed ...
05/06/2009
Work of the Week - Carl Orff: The Clever One
On May 8 th , Carl Orff’s opera The Clever One ( Die Kluge ) is produced in Long Beach, California. Two further performances follow on May 17 th . The production is part of a program that brings two one-act operas from 1943 together on the same stage: Viktor Ullmann’s ...
12/08/2008
Schott Music Advent Calendar - December 8
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" is a Christmas hymn or carol written by Charles Wesley, the brother of John Wesley. It first appeared in Hymns and Sacred Poems in 1739. The ...
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