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Month: December 2007
Beyond The Media Avatar
Imagine a mild December night, with some three hundred people queueing for a concert ticket on Siena’s horseshoe-shaped Piazza del Campo.
Barenboim to debut with Wagner as principal guest conductor at Verdi’s La Scala
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/04/arts/Music-Barenboim-La-Scala.php
Tenor Turns His Focus to the Art of the Song
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/arts/music/04pole.html?_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin
Arts: Concert halls target the younger listener
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/74309694-a142-11dc-9f34-0000779fd2ac.html
Pieczonka among many UWO music faculty success stories
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Today/Music/2007/12/04/4706268-sun.html
KINKEL: An Imaginary Voyage through Europe. 32 Songs
Johanna Kinkel (1810-1858) was a talented contemporary of Fanny Hensel, and other fine musicians of the first half of the nineteenth century. Her legacy includes some fine Lieder, which are collected as An Imaginary Voyage through Europe in an arrangement that represents the various themes she explored in her music.
Giulio Cesare in Chicago
Peter Schickele, channeling P.D.Q. Bach, was wont to say, “Most classical scholars were
unaware Iphigenia was ever in Brooklyn … and I think the cantata, Iphigenia in Brooklyn, does for Iphigenia what the Vinland Map did for Leif Ericsson.”
Bolcom’s ”View” brilliant at WNO
The American Dream and the tragic vision of ancient Greece are miles and millennia apart; yet they merge seamlessly in William Bolcom’s “View from the Bridge,” on stage in November at the Washington National Opera.