Posts Tagged ‘Berlin Times’
Thursday, April 4th, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid The Festtage of the Staatsoper Berlin, founded by Daniel Barenboim in 1996, is not officially an Easter Festival. But while the Berlin Philharmonic left the Philharmonie for some mountain air (taking up residence for the first time this year in Baden-Baden), the maestro— between conducting the first full cycle of the Cassiers/Bagnoli […]
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Tags: Alessandro Manzoni, Berlin Times, Bernarda Fink, Daniel Barenboim, Daniela Barcellona, Fabio Sartori, Fesstage, Frank Xaver Süßmayer, La Scala, Maria Bengtsson, Maria Segreta, mozart, René Pape, Rollando Villazòn, Staatskapelle Berlin, verdi
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Friday, January 25th, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid It hardly needs to be said that contemporary music enjoys a privileged status in Germany. Even with the heavily protested merger of the SWR (Southwest German Radio) Orchestras currently in effect, the support of public broadcasting for cutting-edge programming everywhere from Donaueschingen to ‘poor but sexy’ Berlin creates an atmosphere of seemingly […]
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Tags: Aurélio Edler-Copes, Berlin Times, Christopher Trapani, Deutschlandradio, Dietmar Wiesner, Emmanuel Nunes, Ensemble Modern, Erik Charles Nielsen, FritzClub, Hanspeter Kyburz, Johannes Kreidler, Kaspar Hauser, Kulturradio RBB, Matthias Pintscher, New Forum—Jeune Création, Rebecca Schmid, Saar Berger, The New Yorker, Ultraschall Festival, Vito Žuraj, Wolfgang Rihm
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Sunday, January 20th, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid Berlin may be the capital residence for young composers today, and no other time of year makes this more apparent than the Ultraschall Festival for New Music. They gathered in strong numbers during freezing temperatures for a concert on January 19 at the Haus des Rundfunks, where Brad Lubman led the Deutsches […]
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Tags: Berlin, Berlin Times, Brad Lubman, Bruno Schulz, Chaya Chernowin, cleveland orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, Deutschlandradiokultur, Georg Friedrich Haas, Kulturradio RBB, Magarete Zander, Maria Staud, Michael Jarell, musical america, Rebecca Schmid, Ultraschall Festival, W.A. Mozart
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Friday, January 11th, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid Journeys have provided powerful inspiration to writers, painters and composers alike, opening eyes to new ways of seeing the world. The broadening of artists’ palettes has sometimes allowed them to capture a landscape more vividly than the natives could themselves. One only has to think of Dvorak’s New World Symphony, Gauguin’s portraits […]
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Tags: Andreas Ottensamer, Berlin Philharmonic, Berlin Times, bruckner, Daishin Kashimoto, Dvorak, Gauguin, Mendelssohn, musical america, Philharmonie, Rebecca Schmid, Riccardo Chailly, Switzerland
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Thursday, April 5th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid The author Karl Scheffler famously described Berlin as condemned to forever becoming but never being. When I arrived here nearly two years ago as a DAAD grantee in journalism, the city sprawled out like an unfinished collage. The Philharmonie on the gleaming, rebuilt Potsdamer Platz where I heard Daniel Barenboim perform and […]
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Tags: Beethoven, Berlin, Berlin Times, DAAD, Daniel Barenboim, Don Giovanni, Karl Scheffler, New York, Offenbach, Potsdamer Platz, wagner, Zürich Mozart
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