Scene & Herd: A writing experiment pays off Oct 1, 2009
On Oct. 9 Mary Jane Rupert, piano, and Cynthia Forbes, cello will play Bach, Beethoven, Ysaye and Debussy. The Lexington Historical Society will host its first-ever Golf Classic event at the Lexington Golf Club with Patriot Partners, lead sponsor, and MKS Instruments providing generous support. (Lexington Minuteman, MA)
Fame: More Kids Who Want to Live Forever Sep 25, 2009
" It's such a cheesy line, but Dutton delivers it gently enough that you want to run away to Manhattan and perch at his knee. As the avuncular piano teacher Joel Cranston, Kelsey Grammer is just right: he cocks his head and gives fond smiles to the good students and occasional exasperated lectures to the more challenging ones, like Victor (Walter Perez), who thinks Bach is lame. More of a surprise is Megan Mullally, who finally sheds her Will persona with the character of voice teacher Fran... (Time.com)
What pops up when you put someone's music on random Sep 18, 2009
Partita No. 3, J.S. Bach. I studied classical music before I discovered punk rock. (Boston Globe)
PSO stops in Bonn, honors Beethoven Sep 17, 2009
Nearly 200 years after his death, and many musical styles later, no composer is performed more than Beethoven on the orchestral stage, and only Mozart and Bach sell more recordings ... Whereas Bach, Mozart and Haydn wrote just as much emotion into works, Beethoven did so in a patently direct and visceral way. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Harbison takes a jazz turn Sep 16, 2009
When he was a teenager, Bach and Louis Armstrong were equal protagonists in his life ... Harbison concedes that, for all their skill and artistry, Emmanuel singers will have to stretch to step from the button-down world of Bach cantatas into the looser terrain of jazz and pop - and from churches and concert halls into a nightclub. (Boston Globe)
Chamber Orchestra to play Northern Michigan venues Sep 12, 2009
Beginning in October, the GLCO is bringing Layton Skip James from the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra to perform Bach s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 with the orchestra s concertmaster, Paul Sonner, and principal flute, Bonnietta Benn. Titled Baroque Fireworks, the program includes Handel s popular Royal Fireworks Music and a Concerto by Tomaso Albinoni. (Gaylord Herald Times, MI)
Weekend Events Sep 11, 2009
The Sunday Morning Music Program, 10 a.m., at the Luther Memorial Church, 225 West 10th St., will feature Molly Dugan, soprano, accompanied by organist Erik Meyer, performing selections from Handel, Mahler, Bach and Schubert. Cost: Free. (Erie Times-News, PA)
Click to read:Kennedy Hailed as 'Greatest Legislator' Aug 30, 2009
my faithful servant". Your life was an inspiration to many. We thank you. by IrishWench01 August 29, 2009 1:00 PM EDT AMEN!! by socalsage August 29, 2009 1:23 PM EDT Take another deep drink of that Kool Aid. Because Ted had three brothers who died somehow that makes him special..What about his cheating in college, Mary Jo, the almost rape of a waitress my him and Chris Dodd, the cheating and a abuse of his first wife, etc...?No Ted Kennedy was a low life that just had lots of money behind him... (CBS News)
A final farewell Aug 30, 2009
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma played a mournful Sarabande from Bach s Cello Suite No. 6. The melancholy voice of tenor Placido Domingo filled the sanctuary as he sang Panis Angelicus. (Boston Globe)
David Fray to perform with the BSO at Tanglewood Aug 21, 2009
Here are some of the things that French pianist David Fray does when he plays Bach: gaze beatifically at some indefinable point in the middle distance; slouch at the piano and hang his head down just inches over the keyboard; punctuate a phrase with a flirtatious expression, eyebrows raised suggestively; throw his head back and stare at the ceiling as a particularly anguished chord sequence resolves. The quirks, or mannerisms, call to mind another Bach pianist: the legendary Glenn Gould ... Like... (Boston Globe)
Orchestra celebrates Mahler's majesty Aug 21, 2009
Midori will return to play violin concertos by Stravinsky and Mozart, and Nigel Kennedy will be back to play and direct Bach and Duke Ellington and take the orchestra on tour to Brisbane and Canberra ... Simone Young, whose recent concerts were successes with audience and orchestra, will return in a program of Wagner, Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No. 1 (with the remarkable German violinist Arabella Steinbacher as soloist) and Bruckner's Seventh Symphony. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Classical music: Historical feast Aug 20, 2009
Rather, musical works and stylistic movements are presented in context so that, for example, the origins of the dynamic, dramatic style of Mozart and Haydn are shown to lie in Italian opera buffa rather than in the architecturally static idiom of Bach and Handel. Second, and despite the sense of flying through the terrain at breakneck speed, the level of detail remains high, with extended commentaries on individual works that show how they were originally conceived and understood. (The Economist)
Music from Angel Fire's annualclassical repertoire ready to return Aug 18, 2009
The Tuesday, Aug. 25, concert includes works of J.S. Bach, the Baroque composer who inspired Mendelssohn for much of his life. It was Mendelssohn who was responsible for the revival of Bach's music and who brought one of the greatest works of Bach, the St. Matthew Passion, back to life after more than 70 years in obscurity. (Raton Range, AL)
Nostalgic trip back to postwar Europe Aug 18, 2009
Peter Sculthorpe's Chaconne, a premiere performance, was a short neo-Baroque remembrance of Bach, as might be used in a film scene. It could tolerate greater extension. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
There's Radiohead and Mozart but no pop sluts Aug 14, 2009
For its ''Bach and Beyond'' tour, the ACO will perform three works by Bach, a mass, a motet and a cantata, and works by the 20th-century composers Dmitri Shostakovich, Arvo Part, Arnold Schoenberg and Diana Burrell. The program will harness the vocal powers of soprano Sara Macliver, mezzo-soprano Fiona Campbell, tenor Nicholas Mulroy and bass-baritone Matthew Brook. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Fine-tuning an education Aug 7, 2009
Her middle school students are playing Beethoven, Bach and Bernstein and finding a new genre of music to respect and understand. I am pleased to be part of the music program here at West, said Blanchard. (Muscatine Journal, IO)
Magical mystery tour is full of delights Aug 4, 2009
THE Australian Brandenburg s Bach and the Barber concert opened with a puzzle ... Bach s Ich habe genug was a thoughtful bridge from the abstract sound of Wassenaer to the drama of Handel. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Country profile: Germany Aug 3, 2009
As the birthplace of Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms, among others, Germany's gift to European classical music is colossal while Goethe, Nietzsche, Kant and Brecht are giants in the world of letters and philosophy. Facts. (BBC News -- Europe)
A flying priest, a wounded wife, a lot of blood Aug 2, 2009
(Indeed, a Bach cantata forms the basis for the score in "Thirst."). Mr. Park, your reputation in the United States is mostly as a director of violent thrillers or horror films. (Salon)
New world at their fingertips Jul 27, 2009
Other composers on the program are Shostakovich, Bach, Piazzolla and Grammy Award winner Osvaldo Golijov. "I believe in attracting new people to classical music by making it accessible," Bogosavljevic says. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Local resident to perform lecture recital Sunday at MTSU Keathley Center Jul 24, 2009
As a result of his research, it was discovered that people of African descent had written in the same vein as Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Stravinsky, etc. The purpose of the lecture recital is to create an awareness of these composers. (Columbia Daily Herald, TN)
Stern-Elliott duo to perform at SunnyBrook Jul 22, 2009
James will be performing a Haydn sonata, in addition to works by Scarlatti, Bach and Chopin. James is a graduate of Washington niversity and received his MBA from NYU.. (Fort Madison Daily Democrat, IO)
Skaneateles Festival to celebrate 30 years Jul 21, 2009
Robinson's granddaughter Joanna Manring will sing Bach's Cantata No. 51 for Soprano and Trumpet ... Other Week Two concerts will include pieces by Mendelssohn and his contemporaries, such as Bach, Handel and Mozart. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
Violinist David Garrett channels... Jul 17, 2009
As comfortable playing Bach's "Air on the G String" as he is Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters" (both of which appear on the album), Garrett makes no bones about the fact he's trying to attract a younger audience to classical music by injecting shots of rock and pop. ... I just use these semi-classical works in order to get younger people interested in what I do when I play the Beethoven, the Bach, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, which is a big piece of my heart. (CNN -- Law)
CBS pulls plug on WBCN Jul 15, 2009
Instead of Bach, listeners that evening heard I Feel Free, by the Eric Clapton-led rock band Cream, and right then Boston s local music scene was transformed. Yesterday, it was upended yet again, by the same station. (Boston Globe)
Kindle the Muse: Sheet Music Now Available For Download Jul 13, 2009
Major composers (J. S. Bach, Mozart and Beethoven) are well-represented, but the collection also contains traditional songs and works from popular songwriters like Stephen Foster and George M. Cohan. About FreeHand Systems, Inc.. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Prominent writers featured in free readings Jul 12, 2009
She opened with Debussy's "The Girl with the Flaxen Hair" and continued with quiet selections by Bach, Franck and Vivaldi. The church's musical director, Douglas Lindsay, concluded the "meditation" with a few remarks, including the observation that he'd never heard the place so quiet, even during times of prayer. (Anchorage Daily News)
Bang on a Can to perform and teach in North Adams Jul 10, 2009
The title of Lang s work refers to Bach s Passions, an allusion that recasts its moral message. A recording was released last month on the harmonia mundi label, and it shows a piece that is in many ways atypical for the composer. (Boston Globe)
City eyes new direction on 1919 Building (1) Jul 9, 2009
The statement identifies at least 10 groups that might stage productions there, including Lakeland Opera, Polk State College, the Bach Festival of Central Florida and the Florida Dance Theater. When this building is complete, it will be a true gem for all of East Polk County to enjoy, Otte added. (Lake Wales News, FL)
CAMILLE PAGLIA Jul 5, 2009
Readers weigh in: Bush loyalists, gun lovers, Bach and Bowie fans, soldiers and a poignant letter from the widow of an American lost in Iraq. By Camille Paglia July 11, 2007. (The Drudge Report)
Music May Have A Future Role In Heart And Stroke Patient Rehabilitation Jul 1, 2009
Five random tracks of classical music were played including selections from Beethoven s Ninth Symphony; an aria from Puccini s Turandot; a Bach cantata (BMW 169); Va Pensiero from Nabucco; Libiam Nei Lieti Calici from La Traviata as well as two minutes of silence. Researchers found. (Science Daily)
Tiempo Libre adds some funk to Bach fugue Jul 1, 2009
Tiempo Libre reworks Bach and adds some funk to the fugue ... If Bach were alive, he d flip that periwig to hear one of his neat fugues reworked by the congas, fiery vocals, and noisy brass section of a Latin band ... Jorge Gomez, the leader of the Miami-based Cuban group Tiempo Libre, thinks Bach might even hit the dance floor on hearing the ensemble s latest release, Bach in Havana (Sony Masterworks). (Boston Globe)
Backyard Bach & Blues party in Spencer Jul 1, 2009
Sioux City Journal : Backyard Bach party in Spencer ... Backyard Bach party in Spencer ... Posted: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 SPENCER, Iowa -- This year's Backyard Bach party, "A Taste of Tuscany," an annual fundraiser for the Spencer Area Arts Council and Arts on Grand, will be 7 p.m. July 18. (Sioux City Journal)
Anniversary nod to Haydn opens Bach fest Jun 29, 2009
EUGENE -- For the past dozen years, the Oregon Bach Festival has flung open its doors with the sound of children singing ... The Oregon Bach Festival is all about choral singing, which is one reason it started the Pacific International Children's Choir Festival (PICCFEST) ... Friday's fine opening was No. 40 for the Oregon Bach Festival. (OregonLive, OR -- Living)
Critic’s classical performance picks Jun 28, 2009
ASTON MAGNA FESTIVAL The multi-venue summer festival opens this weekend with a program that includes Haydn s Arianna a Naxos Cantata and Bach s Wedding Cantata as well as a Haydn Quartet (Op. 33, No. 1) and Villa-Lobos s Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5. (Boston Globe)
Haydn's ‘Creation’ opens Oregon Bach Festival Jun 27, 2009
Haydn's Creation opens Oregon Bach Festival ... EUGENE Launching the Oregon Bach Festival s tribute to major anniversaries of great composers, Helmuth Riling, the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus and Orchestra, and a trio of international soloists will perform one of the most beautiful and joyous of choral works, The Creation by Joseph Haydn at 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 26, at the Hult Center ... Last Feb. 14 in New York City, Rilling led the famed Carnegie Hall Choral Workshop in The Creation, capping... (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Heart Beat: Music May Help Keep Your Cardiovascular System in Tune Jun 25, 2009
While participants listened to five random selections of Beethoven, Bach, Puccini and other classical artists as well as a two-minute segment of silence, monitors recorded physiological signals. The researchers found that selections with crescendos, especially those with a series of them (think: ), led to proportional constriction of blood vessels and increases in blood pressure, heart rate and respiration. (Scientific American)
Music to Calm the Heart? Jun 25, 2009
In contrast, a more "intellectual" solo singing piece by Bach had relatively little effect on cardiovascular rhythms. The researchers point out that the cardiovascular responses were seen even in the absence of emotional responses to the music and altered breathing was not necessary to see cardiovascular effects. (Newsmax)
Music Can Make the Heart Beat Faster Jun 24, 2009
The Pavia researchers played classical music, including selections from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, a Bach cantata, and arias from operas by Puccini and Verdi. They also measured the effects on the cardiovascular systems of two dozen volunteers in their mid-20s, half of whom were trained singers, who listened through headphones. (MEDLINEplus)
Opera music strikes right notes for the heart, Italian experts say Jun 23, 2009
They included selections from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, an aria from Puccini's Turandot, a Bach cantata (BMW 169), Va Pensiero from Nabucco and Libiam Nei Lieti Calici from La Traviata. Every musical crescendo - a gradual volume increase - "aroused" the body and led to narrowing of blood vessels under the skin, increased blood pressure and heart rate and increased respiratory rates. (BBC News -- Europe)
Yehudi Wyner recalls his expansive career Jun 21, 2009
When he eventually began teaching composition at Yale, he continued his conducting work with the New Haven Opera, and his piano playing with the Bach Aria Group. He came to teach at Brandeis University in 1986. (Boston Globe)
Orlando for Grown-ups Jun 20, 2009
Also in Winter Park: The Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Bach Festival Society, the well-known annual Winter Park Sidewalk Arts Festival every March and Annie Russell Theatre. The Polasek, for example, features 200 works by the Czech sculptor, his lakeside home and studio on the National Register and three acres of gardens. (Suite101.com)
Chintimini musicians get tuned up for annual festival Jun 19, 2009
Other featured composers will include Bach Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms, Vitali and a world premiere of a piece called The Power of Humanism by Ghanaian drummer and dancer Obo Addy, who is credited with introducing the worldbeat music scene to the Northwest in the 1970s ... COMPOSERS: Bach Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Vitali and a world premiere by Obo Addy. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Resurrecting the band Jun 17, 2009
Beethoven (keyboards, organ and Moog synthesizers): We were going to go with Bach, but we were worried the cosmos might screw up the order and send us Sebastian Bach instead. Jaco Pastorius (bass): Look him up on YouTube. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Hylie Pappenheimer, 86, violin teacher in Cambridge Jun 5, 2009
"When I was a kid, she gave me Pete Seeger and Joan Baez, even though she also wanted me to listen to Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms.". Plant, the only of her three children to become a professional musician, went to Berklee College of Music and studied jazz theory, a genre distant from the classical music his parents embraced. (Boston Globe)
Sierra Vista symphony making changes Jun 4, 2009
The first half will include music by Bach, Saint Saens and Wagner. Well-known Beatles tunes in concert setting will be performed in anticipation of the musical group. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
• Events Calendar May 22, 2009
The Wesley Bell Ringers of Christ United Methodist Church in Salt Lake City play their nearly 200 hundred precision-tuned handbells in a concert at 7:30 p.m. JUNE 13 at First United Methodist Church, 360 Shoshone St. E. The program includes sacred and secular music, with works as diverse as "Little Fugue" by J.S. Bach, arranged by Michael Kastner, and "Good Vibrations" by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, arranged for bells by Matthew Prins, along with other arrangements and compositions. The choir... (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Scene & Herd: Discovering the delights of home May 21, 2009
The Concord Chamber Players will be on Friday, May 29, performing Bach s Brandenburg Concertos 1 and 3 and his Cantata 51 with Alan Yost conducting and soprano Judi Hitzhusen singing. Light refreshments are served after each concert. (Lexington Minuteman, MA)
What Bach and Beethoven have to say to Bjork May 18, 2009
au/news/entertainment/music/what-bach-and-beethoven-have-to-say-to-bjork/2009/05/17/1242498636810. htmlsmh. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Kevin Frisch: Another old-time radio voice fades away May 15, 2009
Jimmy Durante, P.D.Q. Bach, Allan Sherman, Tom Lehrer, even an occasional Frank Zappa composition would fill the airwaves. A series of short essays and features (most from the previous week s 6-10 a.m. Sunshine Show, which working people presumably had missed) rounded out the free-for-all. (Belmont Citizen Herald, MA)
JOHN PAUL JONES: Learning at the fountain of my youth May 9, 2009
Names like Tchaikovsky, Bach, Wagner, Bizet, Verdi and many others wouldn't become known to me until I grew up, but the strains of their genius lived in my imagination, thanks to cartoons. If the cartoons were fun and frivolous, Saturday afternoon westerns were deadly serious object lessons. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
* [ EVENTS & ENTERTAINMENT ] May 8, 2009
Hualien Bach Hall (U), 221 Boai St, Hualien City (R221). Tickets are NT$500, available through ERA ticketing or online at www. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Steinway Reports Q1 2009 Results May 6, 2009
Its notable products include Bach Stradivarius trumpets, Selmer Paris saxophones, C.G. Conn French horns, Leblanc clarinets, King trombones, Ludwig snare drums and Steinway & Sons pianos. Through its online music retailer, ArkivMusic, the Company also distributes classical music recordings. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
* [CLASSICAL CD REVIEWS] May 6, 2009
I tend to prefer the confident mastery of Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart, Bellini or Verdi to the contortions of early 20th century anguish. But in a sense these young Venezuelans converted me, and I have listened to this remarkable CD over and over again. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Film lost in music, weak storyline May 1, 2009
Fans of classical music will enjoy the film's soundtrack, which is lovingly constructed of classical compositions, mostly by Ludwig van Beethoven and Johann Sebastian Bach. However, the filmmakers often get lost in the music and forget about the story they're trying to tell. (Daily Collegian, PA)
* Diminishing degrees of separation May 1, 2009
In celebration of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakamis 30th year as an author, a series of matinee concerts is planned for this month and next and will feature the classical music in Murakamis novels, with artists playing works by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Chopin. A small cafe next to the studio serves snacks, coffee, tea and alcoholic beverages. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
May Calendar Apr 30, 2009
For Bach lovers: Luther Memorial Concert Series presents Bach festival, 7 p.m. Also, May 16, 7 p.m.; and May 17, 10 a.m., Luther Memorial Church, 225 W. 10th St. Free. Call 454-0106. (Erie Times-News, PA)
Pianist keys on composers who mixed things up Apr 29, 2009
Chi opened with two refashionings of J.S. Bach by Ferruccio Busoni. His transcription of the chorale prelude "Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ" was Romantic in the extreme, with Chi using a deep-fathom sound and an extreme flexibility of tempo, drifting in the sea of Bach's notes ... Similarly, Busoni's "Fantasia nach J.S. Bach" intersperses a potpourri of Bach themes with rippling, cloudy harmonies, a Wagnerian Rhine giving forth Lutheran piety rather than gold. (Boston Globe)
Singer not song Apr 28, 2009
By now every media commentator in Britain on every subject including global warming has delivered his or her opinion about Susan Boyle, the woman of unremarkable appearance who went on Britain's Got Talent and proved to have such a remarkable voice that an aria from Les Miserables acquired the celestial overtones of a solo passage from a cantata by Bach and even such exalted arbiters of taste as Piers Morgan and Simon Cowell were reduced to helpless protestations of awe. Limping along two weeks... (BBC News -- UK)
Spring Concert Apr 19, 2009
This concert will feature works by Bach, Beethoven, Purcell, Sibelius, Strauss, and more. The concert is free. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Opera and oratorio highlight weekend's events Apr 18, 2009
You know you are living the good life when in one weekend, without boarding a train or a plane, you can enjoy two illustrious musical dramas: Giacomo Puccini's 1904 tragic opera, "Madama Butterfly," and Johann Sebastian Bach's stirring 1724 oratorio "The St. John Passion.". So it is this week, as Boheme Opera mounts Puccini's moving tale of Cio-Cio-San and her misplaced love for an American officer in turn-of-the-century Japan tonight and Sunday afternoon at Trenton War Memorial's Patriot's... (NJ.com -- Times)
Music review: MTT, YouTube Symphony Orchestra Apr 18, 2009
It was good to see more modern and eclectic fare programmed, in addition to music by more often spotted masters, namely Bach, Brahms, Debussy, Dvork, Gabrieli, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Villa-Lobos and Wagner ... Violinist Gil Shaham joined the YouTube Symphony for a charismatic rendering of Mozart's finale from the "Turkish" Concerto, and cellist Joshua Roman, making his Carnegie debut, delivered a thoughtful Sarabande from Bach's First Solo Cello Suite, inexplicably accompanied by... (San Francisco Chronicle)
YouTube orchestra prepares for Carnegie debut Apr 16, 2009
Their performance will include works by Gabrieli, Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Villa Lobos and John Cage as well as Internet Symphony No. 1 "Eroica," written by Tan Dun, the Oscar-winning Chinese composer of the film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.". "This is a modern, ancient arranged marriage by Google and YouTube," Dun said. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Variations on a thread Apr 16, 2009
Photos provided Simone Dinnerstein became a classical music sensation with her version of Bach's Goldberg Variations ... Not surprisingly, there's a logic behind Sunday's concert program, which include solo piano works by Anton Webern, Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert and Johann Sebastian Bach ... That was the year she released her recording of Bach's iconic Goldberg Variations, a self-funded recording that reached the top of the classical charts. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
YouTube orchestra makes its debut Apr 16, 2009
They performed an extensive programme that included works by Bach, Mozart, Villa Lobos, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Lou Harrison, John Cage, and a specially written piece called Internet Symphony No 1, Eroica, by Chinese composer Tan Dun. Astonished. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
