Tag: Music
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Maestro John Mauceri talks about his book, The War on Music: Reclaiming the Twentieth Century @maucerij1, @houghhough, @classicalcritic, @@LSHMWAH,
The brilliant and much-needed book explores how aesthetic criteria masked the political goals of countries during the three great wars of the past century.
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A discussion with Daniel M. Grimley about his book, Delius and the Sound of Place @deliussociety, @brownhawker, @classicalcritic, @cambridgeup,
Few composers have responded as powerfully to place as Frederick Delius (1862–1934). Born in Yorkshire, Delius resided in the United States, Germany, and Scandinavia before settling in France, where he spent the majority of his professional career. This book examines the role of place in selected works, including ‘On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring’,…
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Composer John Bortslap discusses Wagner’s Parsifal, Der Meistersinger, and The Ring @ BostonWagner, @LSHMWAH,@ClassicalCritic, @kenwoods, @BrendanEWK,
Some comments about John Bortslap and his music: Alfred Brendel, pianist: ‘Borstlap’s Fantasia captures splendidly the spirit of Liszt’s late music, and develops it in a personal and convincing way.’ Libor Pesek, Conductor Laureate of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra: ‘I was immediately captured by the way he creates music. John Borstlap is the rare sort of…
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Dutch Composer John Bortslap plays and explains how Christianity ungirds Western music @LSHMWAH,@ClassicalCritic, @kenwoods, @BrendanEWK, @radical_middle, @francis_ogorman,
John Borstlap is a composer and author on cultural subjects, covering music and the visual arts. As a composer, he has been pioneering with a revival of tonal traditions since the seventies of the 20th century, comparable with a similar movement in contemporary architecture: new classicism. Although born in the Netherlands, his music is rooted…
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Guy Rickards plays and discusses the music of Franz Schmidt @LSHMWAH,@ClassicalCritic, @kenwoods, @BrendanEWK, @fschmidtproject,
Franz Schmidt was born on 22 December 1874 in Preßburg. The Schmidt family – part of it was of Hungarian origin – moved to Vienna in 1888. This meant for the musical ‘prodigy’ that he was able to study at the former ‘Conservatory of the Society of the Friends of Music’. Franz Schmidt influenced the…
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Brendan Carroll discusses the life and work of Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Brendan Carroll is the president of the International Korngold Society and the author of the definitive biography of the composer — The Last Prodigy: A Biography of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, 1997, Amadeus Press.
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Composer John Kinsella talks about his life as a composer and why he rejected serialism
Obituary from the Irish Times, January 15, 2022 John Kinsella Born: April 8th, 1932 Died: November 9th, 2021 John Kinsella, one of Ireland’s foremost composers and a former head of music at RTÉ, has died aged 89. Deemed to be the most prolific Irish symphonist to date, the Dublin-born self-taught composer wrote 11 symphonies, several…
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Music critic Jens F. Laurson plays and discusses excerpts from the music of Walter Braunfels
Walter Braunfels (b Frankfurt, 19 Dec 1882; d Cologne, 19 March 1954) was an important composer in Germany in the 1920’s and 30’s until his music was banned as “degenerate” and he was branded a half–Jew. Most famous as a composer of opera and oratorio, he also wrote several significant orchestral and chamber pieces. Largely…
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Music critic Jens F. Laurson plays and discusses the music of Othmar Schoeck
Othmar Schoeck was an important Swiss composer during the first half of the twentieth century. In contrast to the more dissonant style pursued by contemporaries, Schoeck is known for his essentially tonal music and his attention to melodic values, rather than dissonant effects. As to his many works, Schoeck made major contributions to lieder with…
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John Kinsella plays and discusses his 6th Symphony, Prelude and Toccata, and lovely Homage a Clarence
JOHN KINSELLA WAS Born in Dublin in 1932, He studied viola at the College of Music (now the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama) in Dublin. He had early success with a. number of works written in the style of serial tone poems, accepted for performance by RTÉ ensembles, including A Selected Life (1973), a…
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