Upcoming Performances & Anniversaries
Nino Rota
Born: December 3rd, 1911
Died: April 10th, 1979
Country of origin: Italy
Upcoming:
Concerto No. 2
Conductor: Stefan Solyom
June 3rd, 2012 | Weimarhalle - Weimar - Germany
Concerto No. 2
Conductor: Stefan Solyom
June 4th, 2012 | Weimarhalle - Weimar - Germany
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News
04/22/2012
Work of the Week - Nino Rota: Il Gattopardo
With a career that included wining an Oscar and working with the great film directors Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti, Nino Rota has long been considered one of the most famous Italian film composers. Now Riccardo Muti, already well known for conducting Rota’s music, with the Chicago ...
12/26/2011
Work of the Week - Nino Rota: Lo scoiattolo in gamba
Nino Rota’s children’s opera Lo Scoiattolo in Gamba (The witty squirrel)works on many different levels; funny, entertaining (for both children and adults) and colourful it is the perfect work to brighten the winter months. A new production of this delightful opera will open on 28th December ...
12/01/2011
Nino Rota: 100th Birthday on 3 December 2011
Nino Rota once said: ’Composing does not seem like work for me.’ This could be because music was already a completely familiar language to Rota from his early childhood; he experimented with composition at the same time as learning to write and began singing while learning to speak. His first ...
11/15/2011
On the 3rd of December 2011 Nino Rota would have celebrated his 100th birthday and over the coming weeks there will be many special concerts to remember the world famous Italian composer. Highlights of this international focus on Rota's music include the French accordionist Richard Galliano ...
11/09/2011
Nino Rota Honored at Columbia University’s Italian Academy
On Saturday, November 19, the Fall concert series at Columbia University’s Italian Academy in New York celebrates the centenary of Italian composer Nino Rota. The concert, which takes place in the theater of the Italian Academy, features works by Rota that span a period of creative output from 1945 ...
10/24/2011
schott aktuell - the journal 6/2011 online
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA As orchestras continue to focus on innovation in the concert hall, chamber orchestra repertoire is increasingly becoming a fixture in concert programming. Perhaps one reason for this is clear: a smaller, more nimble ensemble opens up endless possibilities for alternative ...
09/12/2011
Nino Rota: Charming clarinet tones
Clarinet fans pay attention: Schott Music presents the first publication of Nino Rota´s Allegro danzante for clarinet and piano! Besides this edition from Schott, only the original manuscripts of this piece exist at the Rota Archives in Venice. In this three-part album leaf from 1977, ...
08/24/2011
schott aktuell - the journal 5/2011 online
Stage Animals Scientists estimate that there are 1,367,555 animal species currently known on earth. Insects and spiders constitute the largest group by far with a total exceeding a million different species. The figure is somewhat more modest in the world of theatre, or to be more precise, ...
04/21/2011
schott aktuell - the journal 3/2011 online
21ST CENTURY CELLO CONCERTOS If you ask cellists about the special character of their instrument, they will above all enthuse about the cello’s extensive range and wide dynamic spectrum, taking in the sonorous ’masculine’ tone of the bass and the luminously bright timbre in the highest parts ...
10/28/2010
schott aktuell - the journal 6/2010 online
PURE ORCHESTRA p 3: Editorial · Contents pp 4-5: World premieres: Toshio Hosokawa: danses imaginaires II · Douglas Cuomo: Black Diamond Express Train to Hell · Bernard Rands: Three Pieces for Piano · Nino Rota: Concerto per violoncello ed orchestra · Enjott Schneider: ...
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