Posts Tagged ‘Strauss’
Friday, April 12th, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid If tradition means not preserving the ashes but fanning the flames, in the words of Gustav Mahler, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is celebrating its 125th anniversary with one foot firmly planted in the past and the other striding fearlessly into the future. Between a tour of six continents this season, the orchestra […]
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Tags: Bavarian Radio Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, Beyond the Score, Bob Zimmerman, Ernst von Siemens Prize, Gramophone, Janine Jansen, Lang Lang, Mahler, Mariss Jansons, musical america, New World Symphony, Prince Willem-Alexander, Princess Máxima, Prokofiev, Queen Beatrix, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Saint-Saens, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Thomas Hampson, Vienna Philharmonic, wagner, Willem Mengelberg
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid The theme of this year’s Dresdener Musikfestspiele, “Herz Europas” (the Heart of Europe), inventively returns the East German city to its roots as a thriving cultural hub. While today’s united Germany is roiled by the end of the ‘Merkozy’ era and Eurobond controversy, the emphasis of the festival (May 15-June 3) on […]
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Friday, May 4th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid While Berlin can boast its share of world premieres, the cancellation of Oswaldo Golijov’s Violin Concerto with Leonidas Kavakos and the Philharmonic last month dealt a blow to what would have been one of the most exciting events of the season. Even though the announcement came as little surprise given that he […]
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Tags: Berlin Philharmonic, Deutschland Radio, Eugene Symphony, Gustavo Dudamel, Holger Hettinger, Korngold, Laboratorium, Leonidas Kavakos, Ligeti, Lucerne Festival Academy, Nancarrow, Oswaldo Golijov, Patrick Crossland, Ravel, Strauss, Vivier
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