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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-08 18:08:24
Dance Music of the Germania Musical Society
A free concert resulting from the research of this writer along with the efforts of the Harvard Musical Association Library Committee takes place on March 3rd at 3:00, at St. John’s Church, 27 Devens Street, in Charlestown. Just show up (entry is free). Leave a comment below if you have questions. Winsome duo-pianists Chi-Wei Lo and Xiaopei Xu, collectively known as Psychopomp Ensemble (guide of souls), who have been reinventing the recital, once brilliantly interpolated the Beatles’ “Imagine” into the Gottschalk’s “The Union” HERE at 52:40; they will preside in an acoustically warm sanctuary on a restored 1870 Chickering concert grand. A light reception will follow. The Germania Musical Society deserves to emerge from the cocoon of writings by musicological specialists and reclaim the interest of a larger public. Twenty-four virtuosi, most from Josef Gungl’s orchestra, left Germany after the revolutions of 1848-1849, with utopian and transcendental expectations for a musical […]
2023-10-02 08:01:27
2021-11-15 08:00:01
The composer didn’t write his songs to be played at stuffy recitals by musicians in ties and tails. A new project aims to put the fun back into Franz I’m at a festival on the west coast of Denmark, in an industrial port that started out as a handful of farms in the 16th century and ended up having the longest Dock in Europe, 12km long, by the late 19th. On my way to rehearsals, music fills the squares of the town. It’s a lively, noisy place. The auditorium itself is full, and spontaneous applause keeps interrupting the flow. We’re not entirely sure why (was it the wine-tasting that preceded the concert?) but the audience hang on every moment, word and gesture. We’re performing a song cycle by Franz Schubert, set to words by Wilhelm Müller, called Die Schöne Müllerin (The Lovely Maid of the Mill). A love-sick boy is […]
2021-09-03 09:11:00
With sets shipped from Europe stuck on a boat that can't Dock because of coronavirus disruption, LA Opera went to work building new sets, cramming months of work into ten days.
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