Felix Otto Dessoff News
German conductor and composer (1835-1892)
Commemorations 2025 (Birth: Felix Otto Dessoff)
- classical music
- German Reich
- composer, conductor, music teacher
Last update
2024-04-22
Refresh
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-09 21:08:25
Seiji Ozawa just died in Tokyo at the age of 88. His durable career with the Boston Symphony, where he spent a major portion of his years as music director, spanned 1973 to 2002, the longest such term in the orchestra’s history. The BSO’s press release is HERE. And we embed a video tribute within. Upon his much-heralded arrival here, the young, love-beaded Ozawa appealed to so many…in manifold ways. The many players hired during his run invariably enthused. Older players, whatever their opinions about his interpretative depth in certain repertoire, completely respected his skill at running a rehearsal, and his balletic conductorial craft; indeed his conducting of polyrhythms with various parts of his bods reached a sine qua non. Your publishers’ first exposure came in a 1970 (ish) Dessoff Summer Sings of the Berlioz Requiem, in which a very, very young Seiji prepared us for the unforgettable experience of singing […]
2022-03-24 23:49:41
Dessoff Choirs premieres cantatas by civil rights composer Margaret Bonds April 28 at 7:30 PM, Church of the Heavenly Rest, 1085 Fifth Avenue, New York City, NY
Dashon Burton, Malcolm J Merriweather, Janinah Burnett What: The Dessoff Choirs Performs Margaret Bonds When: Thursday, April 28, 2022, at 7:30 p.m. (pre-concert talk 6:45 p.m.) Where: Church of the Heavenly Rest, 1085 Fifth Avenue, New York City, NY, Trains: 4/5/6 to 86th Street Tickets: General $30 and Up. Seniors/Students $20. To purchase, visit Dessoff.org. New York City, NY (For Release 03.23.22)— Hailed as “one of the great amateur choruses of our time (New York Today) for its “full-bodied sound and suppleness (The New York Times),” The Dessoff Choirs continues its season celebrating African American composer Margaret Bonds (1913-1972), a significant figure in the fight for civil rights. This one-night only concert comprises the New York premieres of the orchestral versions of two neglected Bonds cantatas: Credo inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois’s essay, and Simon Bore the Cross (edition by Malcolm J. Merriweather), a collaboration with Langston Hughes. Conducted by Dessoff’s intrepid Music Director Malcolm J. Merriweather, The […]
2022-01-05 18:20:41
Born in Paris in 1926, Betsy Jolas is a dual citizen of the U.S. and France. After graduating from Bennington College, she continued her studies in Paris in 1946 — studying with Darius Milhaud and Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatory. Originally a pianist and organist, she also sang in the Dessoff Choirs formed by Paul […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2021-08-30 14:33:16
Anton Bruckner 2021
[…] composed in 1863; it was premiered more than a century later, in 1972, and is almost never performed. Then, in 1866, came Symphony no. 1, which Bruckner, famously unsure of himself, rewrote a number of times, and which exists in several versions. But at least this one Bruckner felt was worth performing. Three years later, in 1869, he composed Symphony in D minor. At first, Bruckner called it his symphony number two, but after Otto Dessoff, a prominent composer and conductor with the Vienna Philharmonic, asked him, "But where is the main theme [of the first movement]?” he removed the designation, wrote on the front page that it was nullified and put number zero instead of two. Thus, this symphony is often called “Number 0,” or, in German, “Die Nullte.” By 1872, at the time he composed what we now know as his Symphony no. 2, Bruckner was living in […]
or
- timeline: Composers (Europe). Conductors (Europe). Performers (Europe).
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): D...