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Stokowski Spectacular! (CD mini-reviews)
By Karl W. NehringOne of the most fascinating conductors of modern times was the late Leopold Stokowski (1882-1987), whose life story is one of the most colorful imaginable. If you have never read about this now largely-forgotten conductor, do some web browsing and prepare to be entertained. For example, Stokowski was in the audience in Vienna in when Gustav Mahler conducted the premiere of his Symphony No. 8. With the political situation in Vienna deteriorating, Stokowski obtained a copy of the score and managed to smuggle it in his luggage and bring it back to Philadelphia with him, where he was at that time the newly appointed conductor of the then relatively unknown Philadelphia Orchestra. He insisted that the orchestra present the work and demanded on staging it with a choral force of 950(!) singers – an expense that the orchestra’s board thought way too financially risky. Through sheer force […]
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2020-09-15 18:03:52
Old White Lighthouse Gets Wildly Colorful New Paint Job (And Some Critics Blanch)
“For almost a century, the lighthouse, near the Cantabrian town of Ajo, was a mute, monochrome sentry beaming its light out over the Atlantic. Now … the 16-metre tower is a collision of colours, geometric shapes and animals, which is intended to boost visitor numbers to one of the lesser known spots on the [northern] […]
2019-03-21 22:23:18
BY CARISSA DYALL AlchemyAndrew Blanch and Ariel NurhadiMelbourne Guitar FestivalWyselaskie Auditorium, 9 March Alchemy: Guitar Duets from Around the World is the project of Sydney-based
2019-02-12 20:35:53
Anglais - A New Opera: l'Enigma di Lea
Finally, after many years, Liceu has hosted the world premiere of an opera, L’enigma di Lea by Benet Casablancas with text by Rafael Argullol. Casablancas, born in 1956, is one of the main current Catalan composers. Although his catalogue is long and varied this is his first opera. Rafael Argullol, born in 1949, is a poet, novelist, philosopher, essay writer and university professor in aesthetics and art theory. The piece, described by the librettist as a ‘mythical tale’, takes place initially in an atemporal dystopia without any references and later in a psychiatric asylum in the present time. The piece presents the figure of Lea, a woman who was possessed physically by divinity, and who therefore accessed the secret of immortality. However, because of this, she is also condemned to wonder for eternity through time and space in an eternal present and to be nothing else but fire and […]
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