Ivan Wyschnegradsky News
Russian composer
- piano
- classical music, microtonal music, modernism
- Russian Empire, Soviet Union
- composer, music theorist
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2019-05-18 05:38:00
Classical Music News of the Week, May 18, 2019
[…] performances at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco. On Friday, June 15, 2019 at 8:00 p.m., a large-scale commissioned work by Oakland-based composer Brian Baumbusch, entitled "The Pressure," will receive its world premiere featuring the composer's own Lightbulb Ensemble, San Francisco-based Friction Quartet, two organists, four singers, and narrator. On Saturday, June 16, 2019 at 7:00 p.m., Other Minds will present its second showcase of music by Franco-Russian microtonal composer Ivan Wyschnegradsky. A program of the composer's selected piano works will be highlighted by three U.S. premieres including Cosmos, op. 28 for four pianos and two solo piano works, Three Pieces for Piano, op. 3 and Étude sur le carré magique sonore, op. 40. Tickets range in price from $28 to $55 and can be purchased online at http://www.ybca.org or by calling 415.978.2700. $30 student tickets are available with a valid student ID. For further information […]
2019-02-23 06:27:00
Classical Music News of the Week, February 23, 2019
[…] Award, a new award named for SFGC's founder. The award will be presented annually to an individual who has made profound contributions to the Chorus and the broader Bay Area performing arts community. A limited number of individual tickets are available for $350, with tables sponsorships starting at $3,000. For more information on the gala, tickets or table sponsorships, please visit sfgirlschorus.org or call (415) 863-1752 x306. --Brenden Guy PRU.S. Premieres of Works by Ivan Wyschnegradsky Other Minds opens Festival 24 on Saturday, March 23, 8:00 p.m at the Wilsey Center Taube Atrium Theater, San Francisco, with the first of two performances dedicated to the rarely heard piano and string chamber works of Franco-Russian microtonal composer Ivan Wyschnegradsky. The Arditti Quartet of London, champions of Wyschnegradsky's works and leading contemporary music interpreters, will present an entire program of U.S. Premieres including the composer's String Quartets No. 1-3, Composition for String […]
2018-01-17 13:06:01
If composers have generally lost a lot of the romanticised mystique and puffery that used to surround them (no bad thing), there remains one area where compositional intent is still likely to raise eyebrows and/or hackles, and confine the composer to a box labelled ‘weirdo’: non-standard tunings. Due to the mental and physical reconfigurations it demands, the act of turning away from the haven of semitones and octaves in favour of alternate divisions of pitch still has a tendency to …
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