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painter and opera singer (1829-1894)
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Most music tries to control its circumstances
Most music tries to control its circumstances, just as most of us do. But there's another way to live. Accept indeterminacy as a principle, and you see your life in a new light, as a series of seemingly unreleated jewel-like stories within a dazzling setting of change and transformation. Recognise that you don't know where you stand, and you will begin to watch where you put your feet. That's when a path appears - Kay Larson, Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists Recent listening and reading: Kailash, Popol Vuh/Florian Fricke. (Header image is Florian Fricke.) Per Nørgård String Quartets 7,8,9 and 10, The Kroger Quartet The Art of Looking Sideways, Alan FletcherMozart, Bernstein, Lennon, Iiro RantalaHigh: A Journey Across the Himalayas Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal and China, Erika Fatland
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2017-06-22 03:04:51
Washington National Opera Parts Ways With Its Music Director
Philippe Auguin, 56, will have completed eight seasons with WNO by the time he steps down from his post. Having made his company debut in 2009 as an 11th-hour replacement for his ailing predecessor, Heinz Fricke, in a concert version of Wagner’s “Twilight of the Gods,” he has particularly excelled in Wagner, leading “Tristan and Isolde” in 2013 and Francesca Zambello’s “Ring” cycle in 2016, which counts as one of the company’s great triumphs.
2016-11-18 22:10:00
K A Hartmann Simplicius Simplicissimuss with Independent Opera at the Lilian Baylis Studio this week, with Stephanie Corley, Timothy Redmond conducted the Brutten Sinfonia. This was the first ever staging in the UK, and for a good reason. Simplicius isn't really an opera at all and much of its pungency derives from the fact it's written with some Bavarian dialect. Hartmann's source was H J Chr. Grimmelhausen, whose book Der Abenteuerliche Simplicismuss (1669), is set in the Thirty Years War, one of the defining traumas of German history, and indeed world history, since it was the first truly global war, acted out in South America and Asia as well as in Europe. "Anno Domini 1618 wohnten 12 millionen in Deutschland" quotes Hartmann in his introduction. "Da kam der grosse Kreig". Thirty years later, only 4 million remained. In Hitler's Proclamation to the German People, […]
2016-08-02 12:21:23
A new set of recommendations before I go on holidays. Hope you enjoy it: LISTEN TO: Peer Gynt (Edvard Grieg ) Peer Gynt is a five-act play in verse by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. But the Peer Gynt I want to talk you about is the incidental music that Grieg composed fot this play. (lelt’s say the soundtrack) Maybe you already heard some of the parts of this composition but you are not aware of it. Give a gift to yourself, sit and relax while listening to this beautiful piece of musical art WATCH: Chronos – Ron Fricke Time. Time measures everyting whether we like it or not. Time is our past. Time is our future. Time is now. Time is us. Time. Chronos is 42 minutes long and has no actors or dialogue. The […]
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