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2022-11-26 01:30:41
November 24, 2022 – Karl Hirzer, the associate conductor of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, has been announced as the recipient of the Heinz Unger Award. This privately funded award, administered by the Ontario Arts Council, is presented biennially to Canada’s most promising emerging conductor. Karl will receive this $8,000 award at the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra [...]
2021-04-26 16:37:00
'John Cage had been one of my heroes since the age of seventeen'
[…] that tour, our driver, Walter Gundy, needed to pick something up from his house in upstate New York, and I went with him. There were two units in his rental, and he mentioned John Cage lived in the other half, when he wasn't staying in the city. Cage had been one of my heroes since about the age of seventeen, when I read his book Silence and first heard his music while working with Hans Unger, so I was keen to meet him. Sadly he wasn't there, but his apartment was interesting - there was rush matting on the floor, a simple single mattress in a corner, plain white walls and a small book-shelf with musical scores and books on Zen. After that, I decided to go minimalist myself." I wonder how many classical commentators, yet alone classical musicians, will be name-checking Richard Thompson and other non-classical musicians in […]
2021-01-20 21:16:37
Eiji Hashimoto is remembered by his students and colleagues as as a brilliant performer, a distinguished scholar of baroque music and a dedicated teacher of the harpsichord. Mr. Hashimoto died in Cincinnati on Jan. 14 at the age of 89. “His legacy is great,” said Michael Unger, associate professor of organ and harpsichord at CCM. […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2018-02-28 15:36:40
Picasso At His Most Revolutionary And Most Repugnant: 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'
Sure, most of us who know about the painting know why it's revolutionary: it's arguably the birth of Cubism. On the other hand, says Picasso scholar Miles J. Unger, "You can't look at Les Demoiselles d'Avignon without suspecting that this is a man who had some issues with women."
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