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Italian operatic contralto (1910-1962)
- mezzo-soprano
- Italy, Kingdom of Italy
- opera singer
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2022-11-17 02:08:00
I don't know that I need to offer too many words to present this bit of silliness, but I do like tracing a journey that ends so unexpectedly. Indeed, a few days ago I had no reason to imagine any of this would happen.Our story begins this past summer when 1) I twice heard a legendary piece of music performed and I became somewhat obsessed with it. I won't reveal the piece in question now, but I will say that 2) I've devised a situation in which my violinist daughter will be performing this music. It has some tricky, high-flying passages, and she was playfully complaining about one by 3) singing it in a high, silly voice that sounded like Elmo from Sesame Street. 4) I mentioned this in an online chat with some friends and expressed my regret that I had not recorded the Elmo-style violin singing. 5) One of […]
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2020-06-23 13:32:04
Joel Schumacher, Who Directed A Series Of Hollywood Hits, Dead At 80
“A journeyman director who shepherded a new generation of young stars to the big screen in St. Elmo’s Fire and steered the Batman franchise into its most baroque territory in Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, … he established himself as a filmmaker of great flair, if not often good reviews, in a string of […]
2020-01-15 09:20:20
Notable debut: the Armenian State Symphony orchestra's first Barbican appearance gave us music from Armenia alongside Bruch and Ravel with the orchestra's artist in residence, Maxim Vengerov
Armenian State Symphony Orchestra (Photo Lusine Sargsyan) Alexey Shor, John Ter-Tatevosian, Max Bruch, Maurice Ravel; Maxim Vengerov, Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, Sergey Smbatyan; Barbican Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 14 January 2020 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) On a rare visit to the UK, the Armenian orchestra brings a programme mixing popular classics with rarer Armenian classical repertoire and a new work by the orchestra's composer in residenceThe Armenian State Symphony Orchestra made its Barbican debut on Tuesday 14 January 2020, as part of a European concert tour supported by the European Foundation for Support of Culture, visiting Germany, Austria, the UK, the Czech Republic and Russia. Conducted by Sergey Smbatyan, the orchestra was joined by its artist in residence, violinist Maxim Vengerov, for St. Elmo Barcarolle by Alexey Shor, Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.26 and Maurice Ravel'sTzigane, and we also heard the UK […]
2020-01-12 10:13:00
Verdi - Falstaff - Toscanini - RCA (1990 & 2000 remasterings)
Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)Giuseppe Valdengo, Herva Nelli, Nan Merriman, Cloe ElmoFrank Guarrera, Teresa Stich-Randall, Antonio MadasiNBC Symphony OrchestraArturo ToscaniniNBC Broadcasts of April 1&8, 1950RCA (1990) GD60251 ADD mono 2 CDsRCA (2000) 74321 ADD mono 2 CDs UV22 Super CD Encoding[cue & flac; inlays, booklet & cd scans) I offer here the two remasterizations that RCA made of these Falstaff broadcast in 1990 and 2000. I also leave Kenneth Meltzer’s review for Classicalcdreview on these two remasterings, where he writes among other things about the difference in sound between them as well as some editing detail. Review "The relationship between Giuseppe Verdi and Arturo Toscanini is well known and documented. It was in Rio de Janeiro on June 30, 1886 that a 19-year old Toscanini was pressed into service to make his last-second conducting debut. The opera was Verdi’s Aida. The following year, Toscanini […]
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