The compositions of John Tavener, Arvo P‰rt, and Henryk GÛrecki have accustomed us to the degree that religious spirituality has found serious musical voice in the late twentieth century. In their works, a profound language of musical mysticism is wed to various liturgical evocations, creating compositions that seem both authentic in their expression and unusually personal in their genesis.
LANGGAARD: Antikrist
Watching this DVD, your reviewer suddenly recalled a brief exchange from the film Reversal of Fortune, when the Ron Silver/Alan Dershowitz character says to the Jeremy Irons/Claus von Bulow one, ìYou are a very strange man, ì and Irons, in the moment that may have won him the Academy Award, replies with eerie blandness, ìYou have no idea.î
Thomas Hampson in Recital
Monday evening, November 21, 2005, I was fortunate enough to attend a benefit recital given by Thomas Hampson in the Fox Theater in Spokane, Washington.
Is a Free Tuition in Music Worthwhile? An Argument For
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/28/arts/music/28yale.html
It’s the eternal triangle, if you don’t count the beast
http://www.smh.com.au/news/arts/its-the-eternal-triangle-if-you-dont-count-the-beast/2005/11/27/1133026342731.html
Operetta with two left feet
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17383145%255E5001562,00.html
How the son of Mozart is finally finding a voice
http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=2312342005
GINASTERA: Musica de camera y Canciones
Orfeo has joined the ranks of CD companies adding artwork to the inner casing beneath the disc. For this recording of Argentinean composer Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983), a series of photographs of gauchos riding horses on the pampas receives a modified Andy Warhol treatment.