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2024-03-27 10:00:12
Born on this day in 1950 mezzo-soprano/soprano Maria Ewing The post appeared first on parterre box.
2023-11-10 11:00:35
On this day in 1994 Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk finally bows at the Met.
2022-08-22 14:33:55
Lukas Foss and Ivry Gitlis, 2022
[…] better known as a recitalist and concert singer, especially in the contemporary repertoire and Baroque music. She was at her peak in 1950s and 60s, when she often sung with the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Leonard Bernstein. She later taught at the Manhattan School of Music – Dawn Upshaw was one of her students. Though not especially relevant, but Adele Addison, like Leontyne Price, Shirley Verrett, Grace Bumbry, Jessye Norman, and Maria Ewing, is black.) We also have another centenary: the Israeli violinist Ivry Gitlis was born on August 22nd of 1922 in Haifa. His parents had emigrated from Kamianets-Podilskyi in western Ukraine the previous year. Ivry took up the violin at the age of five, and at the age of eight played to Bronisław Huberman, the famous Polish violinist who was visiting Palestine (several years later, in 1936, Huberman founded Israel’s first symphony orchestra, the Palestine […]
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