Posts Tagged ‘J.S. Bach’
Sunday, May 14th, 2017
By: Frank Cadenhead Today, Sunday May 14, 2017, Emmanuel Macron, the newly-elected President of France is officially installed with much ceremony including a parade down the Champs-Elysées. In an interview on a French classical music website in April, he was asked about his favorite composer. This is his reply: “I have a great admiration for […]
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Tags: Emmanuel Macron, Franz Liszt, Giacomo Rossini, J.S. Bach, Robert Schumann, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing
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Sunday, April 19th, 2015
The dance company founded by Paul Taylor in 1954 returned for their annual season (March 10-29) to the former New York State Theater, but it returned under a different name: Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance Company. This is significant. New to the company’s title are the words American and Modern. Taylor, now 84 years old and considered the surviving grand master of American modern dance, appears to be concerned about the health of his chosen genre. With his company’s new title comes a new mission: to present works by other choreographers, both young and old, who are perceived to be part of the American modern dance family tree.
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Tags: Cultural Revolution, Doris Humphrey, Esplanade, J.S. Bach, John Martin, new york times, Passacaglia, Paul Taylor, Paul Taylor's American Modern Dance Company, Rachel Straus, Rite if Spring, Shen Wei, Shen Wei Dance Arts
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2014
By Rebecca Schmid Richard Strauss was a man of many masks, from his intimate piano songs to the demonic outpourings of his stage works and tone poems. Following a semi-staging of his second opera, Feuersnot, in Dresden, where it premiered in 1901, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig came to the Saxon capital on June 9 to stake […]
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Tags: Alter Schlachthof, Cameron Carpenter, Dresden, Dresdner Musikfestspiele, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, J.S. Bach, leonard bernstein, Riccardo Chailly, Richard Strauss, Semperoper, touring organ
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Friday, February 28th, 2014
By Rebecca Schmid In the final scene of Bach’s St. John Passion, staged by Peter Sellars at the Philharmonie on Feb.27, the members of the Rundfunkchor gather in meditation around a spotlight, the rest of the hall submerged in darkness. The body of Jesus has been quietly removed during a lament of Mary Magdalene, his […]
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Tags: Anna Prohaska, Berlin Philharmonic, Camilla Tilling, Christian Gerhaher, Concentus Musicus, Dido and Aeneas, Dixit Dominus, J.S. Bach, Les Arts Florissants, Magdalena Kožená, Mark Padmore, MusicAeterna, MusicalAmerica.com, Nurial Rial, Perm Opera, peter sellars, Philharmonie, Rebecca Schmid, Roderick Williams, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle, St Matthew Passion, St. John Passion, Teodor Currentzis, Thomas Quasthoff, Topi Lehtipuu
Posted in Berlin Times | Comments Off on Ritual in the Philharmonie: Bach’s ‘St. John Passion’ and MusicAeterna
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
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Friday, June 15th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid The motto of this year’s Bachfest Leipzig, “…ein neues Lied” (a new song), could not be a more fitting choice to honor J.S. Bach’s legacy in the city where he spent his final 27 years as cantor. Upon arriving in 1723, he set out to write a cantata every week, enlisting as scribes […]
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Tags: Alisa Weilerstein, An den Wind, Andreas Richter, Ascension Oratorio, Astrud Gilberto, Aventis, Bachfest Leipzig, Christian Lehnert, Christoph Biller, Colin Jacobsen, Der Geist hilft under Schwachheit auf, DJ Georg Conrad, Gewandhaus Orchestra, Hans Werner Henze, Heinz Holliger and Krzysztof Penderecki, J.S. Bach, Jochen Sandig, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Martin Lattke, Pablo Heras-Casado, Phaedra, Radialsystem, Rondeau Productions, Sasha Waltz, Shostakovich, St. Thomas Boys Choir, St. Thomas Church, St.-Thomas-Ostermusik, Stalin
Posted in Berlin Times | Comments Off on Bachfest Leipzig’s Musical Offerings; Radiale Nacht with Colin Jacobsen and Alisa Weilerstein
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
There is nothing like a good ballet spoof. At New York City Ballet’s January 21 matinee performance, the company danced at Lincoln Center Jerome Robbins’ “The Concert” (1956). Whether you get the inside jokes regarding specific ballets, Robbins’s jabs at ballet traditions—the good, bad and the ugly—directly communicate.
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Tags: Amanda Hankes, Andrew Veyette, Cameron Grant, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet Theater, concerto in d minor for two violins, Concerto Nuovo, Dancers Responding to AIDS, Danny Kaye, Frederic Chopin, J.S. Bach, Jeremy McQueen, Jerome Robbins, Knock on Wood, lincoln center, Maria Kowroski, Michael Kidd, New York City Ballet, Paramount Pictures, Russian ballet, The Concert
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