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2020-03-17 13:13:00
My contribution to stopping COVID - Pappano, Britten, Vaughan Williams
As my contribution to stopping COVID, knowingly or unknowingly, I refrained from going to what would otherwise have been a perfect programme for me, Antonio Pappano conducting Britten's Violin Concerto (soloist Vilde Frang, whom I've heard doing this piece before) and Ralph Vaughan Williams Symphony no 6. at the Barbican with the LSO. But in times like these that's when background counts. No concert ever exist in limbo. Context matters, absolutely. Pappano's programme is particularly relevant in these times, too, because both pieces deal with almost apocalyptic situations, so bleak that even the power of music cannot articulate.Britten, like so many others knew all too well what the rise of Hitler meant for Europe. Our Hunting Fathers, his op. 8 was a specific response to the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, which dehumanized Jews, gays, intellectuals and "modernists". Indeed there are very specific references embedded in the text. As a protest […]
2019-02-06 01:29:51
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2018-04-05 22:00:42
The BBC Symphony Orchestra is currently accepting applications for the ‘Co-Principal Cello’ position. Applications to be received by 13th of April, 2018. For further details, visit: ici The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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