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2017-06-30 01:42:07
Classic music ensemble, led by ND native and Central grad, to give first Grand Forks performance - Grand Forks Herald
"There was a rich tradition of classical music among immigrants and others in this area and in rural communities," said Pederson, whose grandparents, the Herfindahls and Pedersons, homesteaded on land north of Williston, N.D., after emigrating from ...
2016-12-13 01:00:00
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Sonata in F major, Op. 17 (1800) Friedrich Kuhlau (1786-1832) Andante and Polacca (1822) Carl Oestreich (1800-1840) Andante (ca. 1830) Nikolaus von Krufft (1779-1818) Sonata in E major (1812) Louis-Francois Dauprat (1781-1868) Sonata in F major, Op. 2 (1815) Kristin Pederson Thelander, Natural Horn [Flac & Scans]
2015-11-27 02:24:28
“I am a HAL 9000 computer” from 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick’s timeless visionary epic, originally billed (and titled) as a “journey beyond the stars,” is a film that’s solemn and slow moving, stately and portentous to the nth degree, but a bona fide science-fiction classic nonetheless. The elegance, serenity, poetry and majesty and, above all, the mystery of outer space are preserved in all their widescreen, Cinerama-esque splendor. Released a little over a year before NASA successfully landed two astronauts on the Moon, 2001: A Space Odyssey, while certainly not the first (nor, heaven forbid, the last) FX-laden extravaganza to depict the hazards of space travel, is considered by many followers of the genre as the granddaddy of all those intergalactic sleigh rides we’ve grown accustomed to viewing throughout the years, among them the Star Trek and Star Wars series, Alien and its progeny, Outland, The Right […]
2015-10-05 16:00:32
Head over heels
I Parterriani stayed away from last week’s post, Fibich’s spectacular The Bride of Messina, like Democrats from the last mid-term elections, garnering less than 50 “listens” in a week. So I guess you have spoken: “Bring us insane divas in operas we already know!” Accordingly, I give you a completely over-the-top Salome with Mara Zampieri as Strauss’ darling little Lolita, Leonie Rysanek interpolating her trademark Sieglinde scream as her doting mommy, and Horst Hiestermann determined to chew as much scenery as possible as daddy. I had originally planned to do a history lesson, as it’s been a while since I posted anything from (cough, cough) before our time, and had lined up a live 1947 Salome with Maria Cebotari, but decided that this red meat performance will likely get more attention. Please let me have your thoughts: do you want me to scale back on posting rare and recently-rediscovered […]
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