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2022-02-23 12:23:07
Düsseldorf’s Tonhalle Awards its 2022 Human Rights Award to Jailed Turkish Cultural Promoter Osman Kavala
Düsseldorf's Tonhalle concert hall has named the Turkish cultural promoter Osman Kavala as the recipient of its 2022 Human Rights Award. Kavala is the founder and chair of the Turkish cultural nonprofit Anadolu Kültür, which alongside its funding of the arts is also involved in promoting the causes of a number of social justice […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2021-10-16 04:29:00
Classical Music News of the Week, October 16, 2021
[…] Studies on Sunday, November 21, 2021 at 5:00pm at their home, The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania. The program, which digs deep into 21st-century American life, features two world premieres, Justine F. Chen’s Shallow Breath and Stealth and Gabriel Kahane’s Choral Music, and includes the second performance and premiere of the revised version of Nicholas Cline’s Watersheds with Matthew Levy on the saxophone.Justine F. Chen’s 30-minute Shallow Breath and Stealth (2021) is based on Jena Osman’s book Motion Studies, an extended poem that follows a couple hoping to live surveillance-free in a world obsessed with data collection. Osman will do a reading of Motion Studies on Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 7:00pm at Stotesbury Mansion. (Free. RSVP required, find it here.) Jena Osman is also the author of Corporate Relations, the book that inspired Ted Hearne’s Sound from the Bench, a 2014 commission of The Crossing that was a Pulitzer […]
2021-10-16 04:29:00
Classical Music News of the Week, October 16, 2021
[…] Studies on Sunday, November 21, 2021 at 5:00pm at their home, The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania. The program, which digs deep into 21st-century American life, features two world premieres, Justine F. Chen’s Shallow Breath and Stealth and Gabriel Kahane’s Choral Music, and includes the second performance and premiere of the revised version of Nicholas Cline’s Watersheds with Matthew Levy on the saxophone.Justine F. Chen’s 30-minute Shallow Breath and Stealth (2021) is based on Jena Osman’s book Motion Studies, an extended poem that follows a couple hoping to live surveillance-free in a world obsessed with data collection. Osman will do a reading of Motion Studies on Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 7:00pm at Stotesbury Mansion. (Free. RSVP required, find it here.) Jena Osman is also the author of Corporate Relations, the book that inspired Ted Hearne’s Sound from the Bench, a 2014 commission of The Crossing that was a Pulitzer […]
2021-05-25 07:09:24
Exploring the operas of Gustav Holst at the Leeds Opera Festival
[…] the festival's emerging artist chorus, which will be giving a lunchtime concert too. Holst's The Wandering Scholar, based on Helen Waddell's book The Wandering Scholars, was his final opera and there are indications that he intended to revise it but he was too ill and never saw the work performed. The festival will be presenting a touring production which will visit eight community venues in Leeds and West Yorkshire, with a production directed by Jim Osman and conducted by David Ward. Holst had a great interest in Sanskrit and early Indian culture. He did his own English versions of poems from the Rig Veda which he set for women's chorus, and the libretto of Savitri was created by Holst from the episode of Savitri and Satyavan from the Mahābhārata. So it is apposite that the festival is highlighting the cross cultural links of Savitri, by commissioning (with South Asian Arts […]
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