Henry Brant News
American composer
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- composer, music teacher, university teacher
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2023-10-29 16:10:28
Jeanine Tesori and George Brant’s “Grounded,” which Washington National Opera premiered on Saturday, is headed to the Metropolitan Opera next year.
2023-09-12 01:30:00
Met Commission
[…] development, and perhaps they'll manage to get more than one work every four years on stage. THE METROPOLITAN OPERA COMMISSIONSUKRAINIAN COMPOSER MAXIM KOLOMIIETS TO WRITE AN OPERA ABOUT BRAVE MOTHERS WHO RESCUED THEIR KIDNAPPED CHILDREN DURING THE WAR New York, NY (September 11, 2023)—As part of its ongoing support of Ukraine, the Metropolitan Opera / Lincoln Center Theater New Works Program announced today the commissioning of a new work by Ukrainian composer Maxim Kolomiiets and librettist George Brant. The story for the opera will be based on the true events of Ukrainian mothers who embarked on an arduous 3,000-mile journey behind enemy lines into Russia to rescue their children forcibly detained there by Russian authorities. Although the characters in the opera will be largely fictional, the story is based on true events on the ground in Ukraine and in the Hague, where Vladimir Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova were accused of war […]
2022-02-16 17:20:39
William Kraft was born in 1923, in Chicago, Illinois. He was a graduate of Columbia University, where he received two Anton Seidl Fellowships and completed a bachelor’s degree cum laude in 1951 and a master’s degree in 1954. He studied composition with Jack Beeson and Henry Cowell, orchestration with Henry Brant, percussion with Morris […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2021-11-08 11:30:07
Gerikh received his first violin lessons at age six with Vladimir Kotsuba and by age 13, was studying with Boris Brant at Odessa’s Stolyarsky School for Gifted Children. He later won second prize at the All-Ukraine violin competition and attended the Odessa Conservatory of Music in 1968, studying with Arthur Zissermann. After serving in […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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