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I recently registered with my local library and duly received a plastic card that gives me borrowing rights. Covering the front of the card is a quotation: “The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of a library.” Albert Einstein I wondered how many ‘books/livres/Bücher’ I could locate in my own
2019-12-01 17:57:00
Mourning Mariss Jansons
Mariss Jansons has died, aged only 76. "An era draws to a close" as BR Klassik has announced. "Es war diese glühende Intensität, die das Musizieren von Mariss Jansons so unverwechselbar machte. Sein Leben war von rigorosem Arbeitsethos geprägt, von unermüdlichem Partiturstudium und schonungsloser Selbstdisziplin." (He had a glowing intensity that made his musicianship distinctive. His life was marked by a rigorous work ethic, tireless score study and relentless self-discipline". Jansons wasn't flashy, he wasn't vulgar and he didn't pander to popularity. He was motivated above all by music and his love for his art. His mother was an opera singer, but, because she was Jewish, she bore him under harsh conditions in a camp in 1943. Her family didn't survive. His father Arvid Jansons (1914-1984) conducted the Riga Opera. Latvia was soviet bloc, so in Cold War times, he also worked in Leningrad, with Mravinsky and Sanderling. As a small child, Mariss […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2019-10-31 12:09:15
Catholic Group Tries To Shut Down Brussels Opera Production With Nude Joan Of Arc
The Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Belgium’s national opera house, is presenting a staging of Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher (Joan of Arc at the Stake) by provocative director Romeo Castellucci in which the Maid of Orléans is shown, in extremis, unclothed. A group called the Pro Europa Christiana Federation has petitioned both La Monnaie’s […]
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Clairvoyant Classical Music
2019-10-19 08:43:29
This is a Bucher reed-making machine. One of only a couple of hundred and ridiculously expensive.
This is a Bucher reed-making machine. One of only a couple of hundred and ridiculously expensive. To
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