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German singer and opera singer
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- opera singer, stage actor
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2020-08-16 00:35:00
Baristanet.com: New Jersey Symphony Orchestra at Home Performs Work By Montclair’s George Walker (VIDEO)
[…] piece. In an interview with Baristanet, Gregory Walker, the composer’s son and a renowned musician in his own right, said his father could never forget how surreal it all was. “He was doing things in his community that no one else he was doing,” he said. “But as an artist I’m pretty sure he was just concentrating on quality and originality.” Montclair resident Frank Schramm made this short film about George Walker.
2019-11-28 13:03:00
Samson et Dalila, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 27 November 2019
Images: Matthias Baus Dalila – Elina Garanča Samson – Brandon Jovanovich High Priest of Dagon – Michael Volle Abimelech – Kwangchul Youn Old Hebrew – Wolfgang Schöne First Philistine – Andrés Moreno Garcia Second Philistine – Jaka Mihelač Philistine Messenger – Javier Bernando Samson Double (Dancer) – Nikos Fragkou Dalila Double (Dancer) - Lisa Schramm Damián Szifron (director) Étienne Pluss (set designs) Gesine Völlm (costumes) Olaf Freese (lighting) Tomasz Kajdański (choreography) Romain Gilbert, Heide Stock (assistant directors) Jana Beckmann (dramaturgy) Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Martin Wright) Staatskapelle Berlin Daniel Barenboim (conductor) Hand on heart, I have never seen anything quite like this. From curtain rise to reveal a dog running across stage—accompanied by palpable audience bewilderment and highly audible laughter—to a bizarrely offensive final act seemingly co-directed by David McVicar and ‘Mad’ Melanie Phillips, film director Damián Szifron’s first foray into opera […]
2019-11-02 00:00:00
Beethoven: Violin Concert, Romances, Missa Solemnis, Mass in C Major
Ludwig van Beethoven:Violin Concert in D major Op. 61Romance No. 1 in G major Op. 40Romance No. 2 in F major Op. 50Yehudi Menuhin, violinWiener Philharmoniker resp. Philharmonia OrchestraRegistered 1960Missa solemnis Op. 124Wiener Philharmoniker, directed by Karl BöhmMargaret Price, Christa Ludwig, Wieslaw Ochman, Martti TalvelaRegistered 1975Mass in C Major Op. 86Münchener Bach-Orchester, directed by Karl RichterGundula Janowitz, Julia Hamari, Horst R. Laubenthal, Ernst Gerold SchrammRegistered 1970 TRACKLISTLudwig van Beethoven 1770-1827 Violinkonzert D-dur op. 61 1 I. Allegro, ma non troppo 23.282 II. Larghetto 10.283 III: Rondo (Allegro) 10:41 […]
2019-04-06 00:35:00
New York Times: A Composer’s Final Work Contains ‘Visions’ of an American Master
The composer George Walker died last summer at 96. He was a close friend of the artist Frank Schramm, who documented his final years in photographs. (Credit: Frank Schramm)The New York Times By Thomas May April 5, 2019 SEATTLE — Last fall, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery began to display, among its recent acquisitions, a photograph of the composer George Walker. It shows him close up, his right index finger and thumb bearing down on a pencil with the precision of a surgeon, at work on the manuscript score of his Sinfonia No. 5. The image of Dr. Walker, who died last summer at the age of 96, was captured by the photographer and filmmaker Frank Schramm, a close friend. They had known each other since Mr. Schramm heard a broadcast of Dr. Walker’s Sinfonia No. 3 in 2004 and, he […]
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