Posts Tagged ‘mozart’
Tuesday, January 21st, 2014
By: James Jorden Our old friend Heather Mac Donald is back, ostensibly to mourn the loss of “Petrarchan intimacy with the past“ in the study of the humanities, but, reliably enough, she can’t help taking a swipe at Regietheater while she’s at it. Now, my contact with academia has been scarce and spotty since I […]
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Tags: Big Macs, cell phones, heather mac donald, kinky sex, mozart, nudity, psychopaths, rough and regie, slobs, sluts, snide put-downs of American capitalism, Tchaikovsky, verdi, wagner
Posted in Rough and Regie | Comments Off on Want not
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
Posted in Berlin Times | Comments Off on Requiem aeternam
Sunday, November 11th, 2012
The world premiere of Kyle Abraham’s Pavement, seen at the Harlem Stage Gatehouse on November 3, evokes a vision of urban youth careening through a dark world. Abraham begins Pavement by marking a spot with his downcast arm. Then he lassoes his body, drawing a circle with his outstretched limbs. He moves loose, full force and in searching manner, as if looking for a clear compass. When a white dancer enters, he stops Abraham, lies him face down on the floor, and brings his hands to the base of his spine. Abraham’s arrest is done without emotion. This lack of drama makes the event feel doubly devastating.
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Tags: Benjamin Britton, Boyz n the Hood, Donny Hathaway, Fred McDowell, Harlem Stage Gatehouse, Hurricane Sandy, J.S. Bach, John Singleton, Kyle Abraham, mozart, Pavement, peter grimes, Philippe Jaroussky, Rena Butler, Sam Cooke, Some Day We'll All Be Free, Souls of Black Folk, The Wasteland, W.E.B. Dubois, West Side Story, What's the Matter Now
Posted in The Torn Tutu | Comments Off on A Dance Labyrinth by Kyle Abraham
Friday, September 21st, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid In Berlin, where contemporary music thrives from the Philharmonie to off spaces, it is a widespread perception that New York’s mainstream institutions are afraid to program anything past Stravinsky. A look at Alan Gilbert’s recent undertakings with the New York Philharmonic, notably in a hugely successful “360” concert of Mozart, Stockhausen, Boulez […]
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Tags: Alan Gilbert, avery fisher hall, Beethoven, Berlin, Boulez, Ives, Kurtag, Leif Ove Andsnes, mozart, New York, New York Philharmonic, Rebecca Schmid, Stockhausen, Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, Vaslav Nijinsky
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Thursday, July 12th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid Infektion!, the name of the Staatsoper’s annual Festival for New Music Theater could easily extend to describe the presence of John Cage in Germany this year. No other country outside the U.S. has planned as many events for his centenary of his birth, and Berlin is in some people’s minds already ‘Caged […]
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Tags: Akademie der Künste, Alfredo Daza, Carl Darlhaus, Daniel Barenboim, Darmstadt, Die Zauberflöte, Dionysus, Don Giovanni, Elin Rombo, Esther Lee, Europeras, Frankfurt, Günther Albers, Infektion!, Ingo Metzmacher, Isabel Ostermann, James Cleverton, Joan La Barbara, John Cage, Jonathan Meese, Jorge Jara, Julia Faylenbogen, Liszt, MärzMusik, Matthias Klink, Mojca Erdmann, MOMA, mozart, Nicholas Isherwood, Nietzsche, Pierre Audi, Proserpina, Qi Gong, René Pape, Robert Farkas, Roman Trekel, Ruhrtriennale, Salzburg Festival, Schiller Theater, Sonic Arts Lounge, Sophia Simitzis, Staatsoper Berlin, Virpi Raisanen, wagner, Walkyrie, Wolfgang Rihm
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Friday, June 29th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid Few operas in history have gripped the human psyche to the same extent as Don Giovanni. Pushkin, Kierkegaard, and Bernard Shaw count among the literary figures to have written their own account of the daemonic seductor since Mozart and Da Ponte staged their ‘drama giocoso,’ a tragi-comedy, in Prague. Since the 19th […]
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Tags: Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Andrea Palent, anna netrebko, Anna Prohaska, Anthony Holgborne, Berlin Philharmonic, Boulevard Unter den Linden, C.P.E. Bach, Christian Schmidt, Christopher Maltman, Claus Guth, Da Ponte, Daniel Barenboim, dante, Don Giovanni, Dowland, Emmanuel Pahud, Erwin Schrott, Fine Arts Brass, Freundschaftsinsel, Friedrich the Great, Giuseppe Filianoti, Handel, Haydn Mendelssohn, Jürgen Flimm, La Scala, Maria Bengtsson, Meccore Quartet, mozart, Musikfestspiele Potsdam sanssouci, Peter Maxwell Davies, Potsdam, Purcell, Quantz, Robert Carsen, Röschmann, Rousseau, Salzburg Festival, Sanssouci, Schiller Theater, Staatsoper Berlin, Stefan Kocan, Water Music
Posted in Berlin Times | Comments Off on Claus Guth’s Forest-bound ‘Don Giovanni’ at the Staatsoper; Musikfestspiele Potsdam’s new Pleasure Garden
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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Tags: Academy of Ancient Music, Allen Boxer, Alte Gemälde Galerie, Anja Zügner, Baltic Youth Orchestra, Bartok, Britten, bruckner, Canaletto, Christian Thielemann, Cimarosa, Concentus Musicus Wien, Daniel Liebeskind, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Dresden, Dresdener Musikfestspiele, Dresdner Kapellsolisten, Gläsener Manufaktur, Großer Garten, Helmut Branny, Herald Tribune, Honegger, Ian Bostridge, Il Giardino Armonico, Ilhun Jung, Jan Vogler, Kristian Järvi, Marinsky Orchestra, Matthias Henneberg, MDR Symphony Orchestra, mozart, Music Critics Association of North America, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Princess Amalie, Raphael, Ravel, Rossini, Staatskapelle Dresden, Steven Devine, Strauss, Tehila Nini Goldstein, Valery Gergiev, Volkswagon
Posted in Berlin Times | Comments Off on Dresdener Musikfestspiele pay Tribute to Eastern Europe
Friday, May 18th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid Hillary Hahn’s taste for the unconventional has in recent years taken her career onto a trajectory unlike that of most violin prodigies. Last October, she appeared on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert Series improvising to traditional American melodies that inspired the works of Charles Ives, donning a fedora for the occasion. She maintains […]
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Tags: Christina Landshamer, concerti, Deutsche Grammophon, Gerschwin, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Hauschka, Hélène Grimaud, Hillary Hahn, Mahler, mozart, NPR, Ravel, Riccardo Chailly, Silfra, Tom Brosseau, Yellow Lounge
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
by Sedgwick Clark I first met Omus Hirshbein in Carnegie Hall’s executive offices, where he worked for a brief time in 1973 between tenures at the Hunter College Concert Bureau and the 92nd Street Y. He was walking out of a planning meeting, saying in frustration to anyone nearby, “They won’t listen to me—they should […]
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Tags: Aaron Kernis, Alicia de Larrocha, Allan Kozinn, Berg, Brian Kellow, carnegie hall, Christopher Hunt, Clark, classical music, Deborah Borda, Festival, Jane Moss, Juilliard, Kirk Varnedoe, lincoln center, Mary Lou Falcone, mozart, musical america, New York, new york times, orchestra, performer, Schmidt, Sedgwick, sedgwick clark, symphony, Town Hall
Posted in Why I Left Muncie | Comments Off on Omus in Person
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
By Alan Gilbert I have been thinking generally about how orchestras define themselves and, specifically, about what the New York Philharmonic means to the public we serve. Last week’s Philharmonic production of The Cunning Little Vixen was a joy to work on, and I am hugely proud of what we achieved as an institution. For […]
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Tags: Alan Gilbert, Janacek, Kraft, Ligeti, Lindberg, Macabre, mozart, New York Philharmonic, Vixen
Posted in Curiously Random | Comments Off on Afterthoughts