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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-28 23:24:03
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony needs no tribute on its 200th birthday, but is being honored with repeat performances everywhere, including several nearby; on May 12th Lexington Symphony will essay it in a matinee. Retired professors are often the only ones who have time to present research findings at conferences; thus a small cohort of Beethoven experts and their friends (even a few graduate students) gathered on Wednesday in Hillel House at Boston University to honor the forthcoming (on May 7th) bicentennial in “Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony: a 200-year Perspective.” Organized by the founding co-directors of the Boston University Center for Beethoven Research, Jeremy Yudkin (Boston University) and Lewis Lockwood (Harvard), whose Beethoven’s Lives: The Biographical Tradition Boydell & Brewer recently published, the festival heard from six scholars including one visitor from overseas. Beate Angelika Kraus of the Beethoven Archive in Bonn has just prepared and published, based on dozens of different manuscript […]
2022-11-09 17:17:14
Ben Woodward spent lockdown rearranging the Ring Cycle for an orchestra one-fifth the size of Wagner’s. As Regents Opera opens Das Rheingold, he explains how, and why, and that he still has 400 more hours to go‘Beware the Ring,” sings Erda the omniscient Earth mother in the final scene of Das Rheingold. Her warning is conspicuously ignored by the gods, men, valkyries, giants and dragons who inhabit the world that Wagner creates – and destroys – over the course of the four operas in his Ring cycle.It has also almost destroyed many musicians, and indeed opera companies, who, failing to Heed Erda, have fallen under its spell.
2021-08-11 13:12:00
Royal Albert Hall, London, 10.8.2021 (MB) Britta Byström: Parallel Universes (world premiere) Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, op.47 Schumann: Symphony no.3 in E-flat major, ‘Rhenish’, op.97 Liza Ferschtman (violin)BBC Philharmonic Orchestra John Storgårds (conductor) Fine performances here from the BBC Philharmonic and John Storgårds, from violinist Liza Ferchtman too. If my enthusiasm was considerably stronger for the second half (rather less than half) of the concert than the first, that was on account of repertoire rather than performance. Britta Byström’s Parallel Universes was another of this year’s Proms commissions. Where Augusta Read Thomas, two nights previously, had presented a ballet of proteins, reflecting in contemporary terms on the hall’s Albertine heritage of arts and sciences, Byström’s inspiration came from the cosmologist Max Tegmark’s conception of parallel universies, ‘in which we might encounter exact copies of ourselves’. Its four sections, or ‘levels’, corresponded to Tegmark’s four levels of […]
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