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Czech conductor and composer (1915-1940)
Commemorations 2025 (Birth: Vítězslava Kaprálová)
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2023-10-05 23:44:00
The Alexander String Quartet almost always has a Saturday morning series at Herbst, accompanied by talks by composer/musicologist Robert Greenberg. This year's series is called Music as a Mirror of Our World: The String Quartet from 1905 to 1946. The title is....partially correct. It's a mirror of our world if you think only white men compose string quartets.Here's the programming for the full series. For each concert, I've suggested an alternative quartet they might have programmed.Program 1: Austria. Quartets by Schoenberg and Webern. Add Johanna Beyer String Quartet 1 or 2.Program 2: Russia. Quartets by Stravinsky and Prokofiev. No obvious pick here, so let's go for the unknown-to-me Varvara Adrianovna Gaigerova, who wrote two strings quartets.Program 3: Czechoslovakia. Quartets by Haas and Janacek. Vítězslava Kaprálová wrote eight string quartets; take your pick.Program 4: United States. Quartets by Barber and Piston. Add Ruth Crawford Seeger's sole quartet.Program 5: Austria. Quartets by Zemlinsky and Korngold. The loveliest girl in […]
2022-06-27 10:10:24
Vítĕzslava Kaprálová: Elegy Context Vítĕzslava Kaprálová (1915-1940) was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, to musical parents. By age 9, Kaprálová was composing her own music after learning with her parents at home. In 1930, Kaprálová was offered a place to study at Brno Conservatory, where she studied composition, choral and orchestral […] The post appeared first on Classicalexburns.
2022-04-21 21:24:28
Montreal, April 12th, 2022 – For its last concert of the Cartes blanches series, Pro Musica invites music lovers to visit the music of Eastern Europe. The duo Brian Manker, cello, and Angela Park, piano, will perform a repertoire focusing on works by Rachmaninov, Martinu and Kaprálová. Program Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sonata for Cello and Piano [...]
2022-04-19 11:20:03
Classical performance is a visual as well as aural experience, so why are female soloists’ choices of outfit so rarely discussed, apart from in diminishing terms? Last November, pianist and scholar Dr Samantha Ege gave a recital of works by Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, and Vítězslava Kaprálová at Milton Court Concert Hall. It’s music that’s rarely heard on UK stages, and critics welcomed “the emotional pull to these works” while Ege was praised for her “finely honed performances born of deep study and analysis. What none mentioned, though, was Ege’s outfit. She was radiant in what she described to me as “a muted red fishtail dress, influenced by west African styles.” The bodice was nipped in at the waist with a customised appliqué belt that glimmered under the spotlights, emphasising hints of silver in the large ammonite-like swirls covering the fabric.
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