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05/23/2013
Work of the Week - Mark-Anthony Turnage: Greek
25 years after its premiere Mark-Anthony Turnage's first opera, Greek , still has massive impact, with new productions almost every year. 26 May is the opening night of one such production at the Landestheater in Salzburg, directed by Andreas Gergen, designed by Stephan Prattes, and with ...
05/22/2013
Happy Birthday, Richard Wagner!
On 05/22/2013, Wilhelm Richard Wagner would have turned 200. He was born in Leipzigin 1913, the youngest of nine children. His stepfather Ludwig Geyer, an actor, poet and painter, introduced him to the theatre and arts at an early age, and this was how he met Carl Maria von Weber among others. ...
05/22/2013
Master of magical narrative power On the occasion of the death of the composer Henri Dutilleux The international music world has lost one of its major figures with the death of Henri Dutilleux. The French composer Henri Dutilleux, born in Angers in 1916, created a personal and distinctive ...
05/20/2013
Walter Reiter/Robin Bigwood: Baroque Violin Anthology Vol. 1 - Sheet music for violin - Featuring 38 beautiful pieces scored for violin and keyboard accompaniment, this collection includes pieces by well known figures such as Bach, Handel and Purcell, as well as lesser-known ...
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05/15/2013
Gerald Barry Wins 2013 RPS Award
We are delighted to announce that Gerald Barry's The Importance of Being Earnest has won the 2013 RPS Music Award for Large-Scale Composition. Barry's audacious operatic approach to Oscar Wilde's masterpiece triumphantly confounds all expectations. As Barry describes it: 'The play's bones ...
05/15/2013
World Premiere of Pierre Jalbert's Ultraviolet
On May 19, the Hoff-Barthelson School presents the premiere of Pierre Jalbert's new work for ensemble, Ultraviolet , in Scarsdale, NY. Performed by Jered McInerney, violin; Emma Berry, clarinet; Issei Herr, cello; Charlotte Hill, piano, the work is performed as part of the school's 24th annual ...
05/15/2013
Gavin Bryars in Residence at Canberra International Music Festival
The 19th annual Canberra International Music Festival features the music of Composer-in-Residence Gavin Bryars, May 10-19. Hosted by the Australian National University School of Music, the festival presents selections from Bryars’s Second Book of Madrigals as well as The Porazzi ...
05/15/2013
Bernard Rands's Concertino & Ceremonial in Performances in Oberlin, Rochester, and Toronto
In anticipation of the composer's 80th birthday year in 2014, performances of Bernard Rands’s music continue to dot this season’s calendar around the country. This month Timothy Weiss leads the Oberlin Sinfonietta in a performance of Rands Concertino for oboe and ensemble, featuring Oberlin faculty ...
05/15/2013
In honor of its impending grand opening in 2015, The Opera San Antonio hosts an inaugural gala concert on May 23 at the Majestic Theatre in San Antonio, featuring performances from Tobias Picker’s An American Tragedy . Tobias Picker, Artistic Director of The Opera San Antonio, has curated a ...
05/15/2013
Boston Modern Orchestra Project Debuts Andrew Norman’s Play
Fresh off his most recent premiere with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Andrew Norman switches coasts this month for the world premiere of his newest orchestral work for the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), conducted by Gil Rose. On May 17, BMOP premieres Play , a new work for chamber ...
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This new app is the ideal trainer for rehearsing opera arias and other repetoire. It offers sheet music that can be set to the individual needs of the singer and includes an adaptable audio version.