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2016-08-21 22:25:00
There are indeed disturbing inequalities between sports and arts funding in the UK. But before classical music's great and good serve up a second round of sour grapes on the subject they should reflect on two points. The first is that a little more positive recognition of the truly remarkable achievements of our sportswomen and men at the Olympics would win classical music some badly needed friends beyond its own vocal mutual admiration society. The second thing to reflect on is the following vignette. I have been a committed supporter of classical music for fifty years and rarely watch sport. But the performances of Laura Trott and Jason Kenny - seen above - and many other athletes moved and inspired me far more than any performance I have seen by the current generation of lavishly remunerated celebrity classical musicians. Yes, we need to make the case for increased arts funding. […]
2016-01-05 01:33:00
Benjamin Appl Eichendorff Lieder Wigmore Hall
[…] Die Stadt, and Pfitzner must have known the masterpiece setting thereof. Similazrly, Pfitzner's setting of Zum Abschied meiner Tochter describes a physical situation, the autumnal images in nthe poem nicely translated into sound, Yet again, though, Pfitzner underestimates the horror in the final strophe, disguised by mechanical images : "Die Gassen schauen nochnächtlich, Es rasselt der Wagen bedächtig – Nun plötzlich rascher der Trott Durchs Tor in die Stille der Felder, Da grüßen so mutig die Wälder, Lieb Töchterlein, fahre mit Gott! Probably no other composer set Eichendorff as brilliantly as Hugo Wolf (though I wouldn't, couldn't be without Schumann). Wolf was so intent of expressing poems through music that he called his songs "poems", and wrote in bursts of frenzied inspiration. Appl […]
2016-01-02 07:00:05
[…] who resurrected the New York Philharmonic and helped broker German reunification ; or the distinguished Czech pianist Ivan Moravec, who also played the music for the Oscar-winning film “Amadeus”? Is it because one of them, Metropolitan Opera’s weekly radio host Margaret Juntwait , died much too young from cancer? Is it because a local link, because the dramatic tenor Jon Vickers (below top in a 1998 photo by Graham Trott; and below bottom, as Benjamin Britten ’s Peter Grimes) performed in Madison when the Madison Opera was still coming of age? Is it because it was someone who helped us, who brought us new beauty, as Robert Craft (below top, signing a copy of his memoir for Naxos) did with his championing of Igor Stravinsky ? (In the photo below, Craft, left, is seen with Stravinsky.) […]
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