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05/02/2012
Pierre Jalbert’s String Quartet No. 5 in German Premiere
On May 16 the Emerson String Quartet presents the German premiere of Pierre Jalbert’s String Quartet No. 5 at Musik im Riesen 2012 . Commissioned by the Emerson String Quartet, the 27-minute piece premiered in April, 2011 at Rice University as part of the Houston Friends of Chamber Music series. ...
04/23/2012
schott aktuell - the journal 3/2012 online
A featured theme in this years Salzburg Whitsun Festival is ‘Queen Cleopatra’. The legendary, beautiful Queen, shrouded in mystery has been the subject of literature and arts. Rodion Shchedrin chose the scene of Cleopatra’s death from her dramatic life for a work commissioned by the festival. This ...
04/20/2012
The full schedule for the 2012 BBC Proms was announced at the Proms annual press conference yesterday evening and a wide selection of works from the Schott catalogue have been programmed throughout the festival which runs from 13th July until 8th August 2012. The First Night of the Proms on ...
04/16/2012
Howard Shore’s Mythic Gardens Debuts with Sophie Shao and American Symphony Orchestra
Howard Shore’s new cello concerto Mythic Gardens sees its world premiere performances with the American Symphony Orchestra led by Leon Botstein and featuring cellist Sophia Shao at Bard College’s Richard B. Fisher Center on April 27 and 28. Shore first worked with Shao when she performed solo cello ...
04/12/2012
Gavin Bryars - The Sinking of the Titanic
To mark the 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster, Gavin Bryars' classic work for ensemble and tape will be performed by the Gavin Bryars Ensemble on 13th April in Birmingham and 15th April in London. A special 72 minute version of the work that was first prepared by ...
04/11/2012
World première: Teufel Amor by Jörg Widmann in Vienna
After the rejection of his drama Fiesco in Mannheim, Schiller offered his poem Teufel Amor to a bookseller in Frankfurt for 25 guilders. As the bookseller only offered him 18 guilders for the poem, ‘[Schiller] preferred to remain destitute rather than wasting his poetry on a skinflint who was unappreciative ...
04/09/2012
World Première: Border by Ludger Vollmer in Cologne
Border takes up motifs from the tragedy The Children of Heracles by Euripides and transfers them into the world of young people living now under a totalitarian regime who are in fear of their lives. The constraints to which Makaria and her siblings are subjected while fleeing after the politically ...
04/03/2012
Alex Mincek’s Pendulum IX: “Machina/Humana” Premieres With Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
The world premiere of Alex Mincek’s Pendulum IX: “Machina/Humana” this month marks the final premiere of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra’s innovative Project 440. A commissioning collaboration with New York City’s WQXR radio in celebration of Orpheus' 40th anniversary, Project 440 has featured new ...
04/03/2012
Two World Premieres for Hannah Lash
April brings the world premiere of Lash’s Requiem Pro Avibus Mortuis (Requiem for Extinct Birds), performed by the Park Avenue Christian Church Choir on April 22 in a special concert honoring Earth Day. The performance will be conducted by Paul Vasile. As the Church describes it, “with texts drawn ...
04/03/2012
Bernard Rands’ Danza Petrificada At Carnegie Hall
Ronald Zollman and the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic had the honor of presenting the New York premiere of Bernard Rands’ Danza Petrificada at Carnegie Hall on April 2. Written for Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and premiered in May of 2011 to celebrate Maestro Muti's inaugural ...
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