05/02/2012

US Premieres for Toshio Hosokawa and Toshi Ichiyanagi at Spoleto Festival

The Spoleto Festival USA, one of America’s premier performing arts festivals seated in historic Charleston, South Carolina, continues its dedication to new music this year with eight US and two world premiere performances. Two of the works to receive US premieres will be Toshio Hosokawa’s shimmering ...

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04/23/2012

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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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03/12/2012

Work of the Week - Toshio Hosokawa: The Raven

Toshio Hosokawa’s new monodrama The Raven will receive its world premiere on 17 March 2012 at La Raffinerie, Brussels. Hosokawa will conduct The United Instruments of Lucilin and mezzo-soprano Charlotte Hellekant to whom the work is dedicated to. Based on the narrative poem by Edgar ...

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02/23/2012

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Hymns and their close relations odes and dithyrambs provide artistic expression for mankind’s desire to celebrate and sublimate existence, liberating us from the limitations of everyday existence and lifting us towards universal and even transcendental principles. In ancient times, the hymn ...

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09/05/2011

Work of the Week - Toshio Hosokawa: Autumn Wind

For many years, Toshio Hosokawa has been one of the central figures on the international music scene receiving numerous commissions and performances around the world. On Sunday 11th of September, Hosokawa’s latest work, Autumn Wind for shakuhachi and orchestra will receive its world premiere ...

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08/24/2011

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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, ...

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07/06/2011

Hosokawa’s Blossoming II Premieres in Edinburgh; Music in Bloom from Schott Aktuell

The summer issue of Schott Aktuell is hot off the press, with a repertoire focus entitled Music in Bloom on the occasion of the world premiere of Toshio Hosokawa’s Blossoming II at the Edinburgh International Festival on August 21. This issue offers a specially curated repertoire listing of ...

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06/21/2011

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MUSIC IN BLOOM Flowers and Gardens: although we all use the same words, their meaning and significance can be completely different depending on our cultural background. Some of you may bring to mind roses or snowdrops; our ancestors, however, used the word for cherry or plum blossoms. I agree ...

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05/02/2011

Work of the Week - Toshio Hosokawa: Matsukaze

On 3rd May, Matsukaze , the new opera by Japanese composer Toshio Hosokawa, received its World Première at the theatre La Monnaie | De Munt in Brussels. To introduce Hosokawa's unique musical language to the audience, his chamber opera Hanjo was presented at the same venue last month. ...

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04/21/2011

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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 ...

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