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Commemorations 2024 (Death: Mira Costaperaria Dev)
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- Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Austria-Hungary
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Faces of classical music
2021-09-04 07:35:00
Luka Šulić and Evgeny Genchev at the Union Hall Maribor (HD 1080p)
[…] the music society Glasbena Matica. During the two world wars, the Union building and its hall were a place of musical activities and played an important role in the response of Slovenes to the increasing germanisation in Styria region. In 1910, Slovenes founded the music society Glasbeno društvo, which had its premises in the Union building until 1918. Its heritage was continued by Glasbena Matica – its founder was a composer and choirmaster Oskar Dev (1868-1932) – which from 1919 on organized its own choir, music school, symphonic concerts. In this context, General Rudolf Maister (1874-1934), who has a special significance in Slovene history as a fighter for the northern Slovene border, organized "The Military Music Band for the Lower Styria". After the Second World War, since 1946, the Concert Management which today is considered to be the cultural organizer with the longest tradition in Slovenia began to […]
2021-07-11 07:32:29
Dr Bluebeard will see you now: Gothic Opera remakes Bartok's opera and sets it in an Edwardian sanatorium
[…] in Hungarian, with the surtitles projected on a screen to one side, and the action started with librettist Béla Balázs' spoken prologue given by unseen speakers. The main action took place in and around the stage structure and when each of the doors opened an animation was displayed on the main screen behind. These were created with students from Ravensbourne University, The Torture Chamber - Virginia Anyalee, The Armoury - Klaudia Graczak, The Treasury - Dev Bye-A-Jee, The Garden - Vincent Sautter and Tony Tyler, The Kingdoms -Oliver O'Keefe. So far, so intriguing. But director Julia Mintzer had chosen not to stage Bartok and Balázs' opera, instead giving us a new music-theatre piece which took Bartok's music as its sound-track. We were in Dr Bluebeard's sanatorium, where he worked with three nurses who are his former wives, Alice Usher as The Morning Nurse, Katherine MacRae as The Noon Nurse, […]
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