Posts Tagged ‘Berlin’
Friday, July 27th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid The New York-based composer Annie Gosfield is best known for her synthesis of industrial sounds and other unconventional sampling into rock-inflected, yet often intricately wrought, compositions. As a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin last semester, she researched encrypted radio broadcasts from World War Two—part of a long-standing fascination with archaic […]
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Tags: Almost Truths and Open Deceptions, Andrew Russo, Annie Gosfield, Assaff Weisman, Azica Records, Bartok, Berlin, David Cossin, Debussy, Felix Fan, Israeli Chamber Project, Itamar Zorman, Jorge Luis Borges, Juilliard, Martinu, Matan Porat, Roger Kleier, Saint-Saens, Sivan Magen, Tchaikovsky Competition, The Pearls Before Swine Experience, Tibi Cziger, Tzadik Records
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Friday, July 6th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid A timpanist just tall enough to rumble his mallets over the kettle drums stares out from beneath his specs as Lars Vogt slides onto the bench for the opening chords of Grieg’s Piano Concerto. “I like that sound!” says Music Director Donato Cabrera to the young percussionist as he walks out into […]
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Tags: Alasdair Neale, ascap, Berlin, Donato Cabrera, Grieg, John Adams, Lars Vogt, Liam Boisset, Mahler, Michael Tilson Thomas, Midori, Omar Shelly, Philharmonie, Ronald Gallman, San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, Shaker Loops, Sir Simon Rattle, Yo-Yo Ma
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Friday, April 13th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid The Staatsoper’s annual spring Festtage has become an even more distinguished event now that Daniel Barenboim serves as music director to La Scala in addition to his Berlin opera house. The festival, originally launched by the maestro in 1996 with Harry Kupfer’s Ring, features coveted soloists and premiere productions, as well as […]
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Tags: Alisa Weilerstein, Berlin, Daniel Barenboim, Festtage, Filarmonica della Scala, Staatskapelle Berlin
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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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Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
by Sedgwick Clark Many years ago I was sitting next to the p.r. director of the Berlin Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall when a cellphone went off as Simon Rattle conducted. When the piece ended I asked him if that happened in Berlin. “Everywhere,” he said sadly. I left for vacation two days after the cellphone brouhaha at the New […]
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Tags: Alan Gilbert, Berlin, carnegie, Carter Brey, Clark, Herbert von Karajan, Kurt Masur, Mahler, New York, Newark, orchestra, Sedgwick, sedgwick clark, Sibelius, Simon Rattle, Sir Thomas Beecham, symphony, Tony Tommasini, Valery Gergiev
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