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Czech music educator and composer
Commemorations 2024 (Birth: Heinrich Kafka)
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2024-03-28 16:48:11
Saturday, March 30th: Kafka Fragments at Tenri On Saturday at 8 PM, Kafka-Fragmente by György Kurtág will be performed at Tenri Cultural Institute (43A West 13th Street,New York NY), by soprano Susan Narucki and violinist Curtis Macomber (tickets). Earlier this week, they performed it at another venue also abundantly supportive of contemporary classical music, Buffalo […]
2024-02-26 04:30:00
Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa (Book Review)
[…] In particular, his recordings of Ravel with the BSO are among the finest available. Later in his career he returned to Japan and made some outstanding recordings with the Saito Kinen Orchestra, which he founded. There is most likely a subset of classical musical fans that includes fans of the Japanese author Haruki Murakami. I first became acquainted with his writing when I pretty much randomly picked up a paperback copy some years ago of his novel Kafka on the Shore to read while recuperating from some impending surgery. I found myself spellbound, and since then have read just about every book he has ever published, fiction and non-fiction as well. When Absolutely on Music was first published in 2016, I eagerly borrowed a copy from my favorite library and dug right in. What a delightful, educational, absorbing book it turned out to be! Note the subtitle: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa. Note also that the […]
2024-02-06 18:50:00
Rusalka, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 4 February 2024
[…] of this social divide. She only discovers – and this is entirely faithful to the work – where she might have done far too late. There is, again as in the work, a sort of tragic communion in that the Prince realises too late; he can only do what is right (for him, as much as ethically) by surrendering his life, which, movingly he does. In a programme interview, Mundruczó says he kept thinking of Kafka when working on the opera: doubtless a surprising reference for some of us, the Prague connection, albeit intergenerational, notwithstanding. But that may be to fall for outdated ‘national’ histories of music. Why not, after all? It certainly comes into his own in the third act here, where the action transfers less to a house than a cellar of horrors. Having returned to Ježibaba, been scorned and perhaps even poisoned, Rusalka leaves behind the world […]
2022-09-19 13:45:51
Arnold Schoenberg, part II, 2022
This Week in Classical Music: September 19, 2022. Schoenberg, Part II, 1905 to WWI. We ended our first entry about Arnold Schoenberg around 1905. It a the time of great flourishing of the Austro-Jewish culture – think of Gustav Mahler, Zemlinsky and Erich Korngold, the writers Arthur Schnitzler, Stefan Zweig and Franz Kafka, the founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud and numerous other scientists, artists and intellectuals – but parallel to that, also a time of rising antisemitism: Karl Luger, for example, was the mayor of Vienna, a famous antisemite and the founder of the Christian Social Party, often viewed as a proto-Nazi organization. Schoenberg would not be able to avoid it. Schoenberg was struggling financially, as his teaching classes were bringing in very little money. Mahler, a staunch supporter, lent him some money, and his student, Alban Berg, collected funds on Schoenberg’s behalf. All along, his music was developing in more […]
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