Dudley Buck News
American composer and organist (1839–1909)
- pipe organ, organ
- opera
- United States of America
- composer, music journalist
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2023-11-13 04:30:00
Tubin: Kratt - Suite from the Ballet; Bacewicz: Concerto for String Orchestra; Tubin; Music for Strings; Lutoslawski: Musique Funèbre (CD Review)
[…] in 1944 Tubin was forced to flee Estonia for Sweden, where he wound up living for the remainder of his life.) Typical of a score based on a ballet, the music is episodic, shifting in tempo and mood as it moves from scene to scene. As presented on this CD, the Suite is divided into three tracks, each including scenes described and follows: I. Introduction / Peasant Dance / Dance of the Goblin (5:03); II. Long Dance / Peasant Waltz / Buck Dance (6:52); III. Interlude / Dance of the Exorcists / The Goat / The Cock / Dance of the Northern Lights (11:41). It’s a lively, colorful piece, of course infused with dance rhythms throughout. It’s not as savage as The Rite of Spring or as dramatic as The Firebird, but is more charming than either of those two more well-known ballet scores. Perhaps it would have been better to have programmed Kratt as the final rather than first work on the disc, because […]
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2023-09-08 06:39:52
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2023-08-29 23:17:00
The Brandeis University Department of Music has issued the following statement after learning that the university's administration has decided to close down the graduate programs in music.Response to the Proposed Closures of the PhD Programs in MusicOn Thursday, culminating a laborious and costly PhD review process whose findings were ultimately disregarded, Brandeis Provost Carol Fierke announced the administration’s plans to end both PhD programs in the Department of Music. The Provost’s letter describing the proposed closures made no reference to the outcomes-based criteria by which the PhD review team had claimed that programs would be evaluated. Rather, in meetings this week, Provost Fierke indicated that the PhD review process had found both of Music’s doctoral programs to be excellent – but that they would be cut anyway as part of a “strategic decision” to “lean into the sciences.”To justify their actions, the administration insinuated without evidence – in the pages […]
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