04/23/2012

schott aktuell - the journal 3/2012 online

A featured theme in this years Salzburg Whitsun Festival is ‘Queen Cleopatra’. The legendary, beautiful Queen, shrouded in mystery has been the subject of literature and arts. Rodion Shchedrin chose the scene of Cleopatra’s death from her dramatic life for a work commissioned by the festival. This ...

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07/25/2011

Dartington International Summer Schoool

The 2011 Dartington International Summer School began this week and will continue for the next five weeks with numerous concerts and events.  Sir Michael Tippett and Huw Watkins' music will be featured prominently throughout the summer school and other works by Ligeti, Hindemith, Grainger and ...

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04/06/2011

Two Operas, Two World Premieres

We are proud to announce two landmark opera premieres in April, 2011 by two of the most prominent living composers of our time, Bernard Rands and Gerald Barry . On Friday, April 8, Indiana University Opera Theatre presents the world premiere of Bernard Rands' Vincent , a two-act opera based ...

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04/04/2011

Work of the Week - Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Earnest

My favorite living composer, Irish composer Gerald Barry, finds the hilarious musical equivalent for Oscar Wilde's perfect absurdist paradoxes in his riotously outrageous and funny new setting of The Importance of Being Earnest . (Thomas Adès) Gerald Barry's fifth opera, ...

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03/07/2011

Work of the Week - Gerald Barry: Feldman's Sixpenny Editions

Gerald Barry’s new work Feldman’s Sixpenny Editions will receive its world premiere in London this week on 10th March at the Queen Elizabeth Hall performed by the London Sinfonietta conducted by Thomas Adès. The work was co-commissioned by the London Sinfonietta and The St. Paul Chamber ...

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03/04/2011

Gerald Barry’s Feldman’s Sixpenny Editions Debuts with the London Sinfonietta

Co-commissioned by the London Sinfonietta and The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Gerald Barry’s Feldman’s Sixpenny Editions receives its world premiere in London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall on March 10 with the London Sinfonietta under Thomas Adès. Following the world premiere in London, the work receives ...

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02/22/2011

schott aktuell - the journal 2/2011 online

THE IMPORTANCE OF MAKING OPERA p 3: Editorial · Contents pp 4-7: World Premières: Bernard Rands: Vincent · Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Earnest · Wilfried Hiller: Kaddisch für David Stahl · Kamran Ince: The Invasion · Christian Jost: Symphonische Toccata ...

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10/18/2010

Work of the Week - Gerald Barry: Schott and Sons, Mainz

In his first work since joining Schott Music, Gerald Barry continues his exploration of and fascination with Beethoven in his new work for solo bass and SATB choir, Schott and Sons, Mainz . The world premiere takes place on 21st October at Dublin’s The Hugh Lane Gallery with Stephen Richardson ...

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10/14/2010

Gerald Barry's Schott and Sons, Mainz in World Premiere

A new setting of Beethoven’s letters to the Schott publishing house in Germany towards the end of his life is given its world premiere by the Irish Chamber Choir and bass Stephen Richardson in Dublin’s Hugh Lane Gallery on October 21, with a repeat performance the following evening at the Belfast ...

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04/21/2010

Gerald Barry featured in Boulevard Magenta 2

  A CD of hitherto unreleased recordings of Gerald Barry's music has been brought out to accompany Boulevard Magenta 2, a collection of works ranging across the visual arts, prose, poetry, music, film and architecture published by the Irish Museum of Modern Art.     Echoing early ...

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