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Italian tenor (1874-1951)
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2020-12-06 10:42:18
The rising toll: This week’s Covid losses
124 Bulgarian tenor Kamen Tchanev, 56 125 Lee Dykes, music teacher, father of six 126 Sudanese singer Hamad Al-Rayah, 80 127 Russian curator Irina Antonova, 98 128 Bengali sarod maestro Ustad Shahadat Hossain, 62 129 Chicago producer Matthew Agostini, 50 130 Pennsylvania jazzman Russ Neff 131 Yo Yo Ma ensemble player Bassam Saba, 61 132 […]
2019-07-29 13:38:47
Concerto delle donne, 2019
[…] a violist, so much so that her performances were depicted in books. Molza most likely didn’t sing in Concerto herself but rather coached the singers. A widow, Molza had an affair with Giaches De Wert; as a lady-in-waiting she was considered a nobility, and De Wert,though a well-known composer, was of a servant class. Such a liaison was scandalous, and in 1589, when it was found out, Molza was banned from Ferrara. Court composers Lodovico Agostini and Ippolito Fiorini wrote madrigals for Concerto and so did Luzzasco Luzzaschi. Alfonso II died in 1597 without issue, Ferrara was annexed by Pope Clement VIII, the court moved to Modena, and Concerto del donne was disbanded. What is left is a large number of madrigals that were written for this remarkable ensemble. Here’s Luzzaschi’s madrigal O dolcezz' amarissime d'amore. Even today it requires virtuoso performers, like Dame Emma Kirkby and other singers […]
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Faces of classical music
2018-12-10 10:51:00
“Debussy: one of the most original of moderns”, 1908, & “French composer Claude Debussy dies”, 1918 – Two articles from the Guardian archive
Debussy at the piano in the home of the composer Ernest Chausson(who is turning the pages), 1893. De Agostini/Getty Images Debussy: one of the most original of ‘moderns’2 February 1908: On his first visit to London, The Observer reviews Claude Debussy conducting his works at the Queen's HallM. Claude Debussy, who by nature is almost as shy and retiring as his music is diaphanous, came to London during the week and appeared as conductor at the Symphony Concert of the Queen's Hall Orchestra yesterday. It was decidedly interesting to see this imaginative modern in the flesh and to hear his interpretation of two of his works. His appearance in our concert-room emphasises rather curiously the extreme slowness of our methods in matters operatic, or, perhaps it would be better to say, our strange attitude towards the lyric art.M. Debussy is unquestionably one of the most original of "moderns", and yet […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2017-11-08 13:46:52
Court OKs Berkshire Museum's Sale Of Art
"Judge John Agostini ruled that plaintiffs in two civil actions, and the state Attorney General's Office itself, failed to make their cases to halt a large-scale deaccession by the museum. The judge is unsparing in his view that the Attorney General's Office conducted an anemic review of the art sale after it was notified about […]
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