Pianist Till Fellner’s run of Beethoven continues with this cycle Oct 30, 2009
Pianist Till Fellner s run of Beethoven continues with this cycle - The Boston Globe ... His run of Beethoven continues with this cycle ... Austrian pianist Till Fellner is in the midst of a two-year project of playing all of Beethoven s sonatas. (Boston Globe)
MIDEM Classical Awards 2010: Four Artists and a Label Already Confirmed Oct 29, 2009
Hewitt is a proven specialist of Johann Sebastian Bach's music and is just as successful with Chopin, Beethoven or Schumann. In 2005, she launched the Trasimeno Music Festival held annually in Magione. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
What would Borat say? Kazakh orchestra to visit MIT Oct 28, 2009
The orchestra has a vast repertoire spanning Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Lizst, Saint-Saens, Bizet, Ravel, Frank, Mahler, Orf, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Musorgsky, Shostakovich, and many others. In recent years the orchestra has been actively collaborating with French conductors Christophe Mangou and Nicolas Kruger as part of its International Program of Cooperation with the Paris National High Conservatory of Music and Dance. (Cambridge Chronicle, MA)
Beethovens nephew comix Oct 27, 2009
I enjoy both Beethoven's ego and his temper ... the pose in Panel Two about sums up Beethoven XD ... I love Beethoven's freak-out face. (Harper's Magazine)
Music in mind, Levine talks health Oct 22, 2009
Levine, 66, had originally been expected to return tonight to launch what has been lauded as one of the BSO s marquee events of the season, a performance cycle of all nine Beethoven symphonies ... That includes missing one of his pet projects, a 2008 Tanglewood festival centered on contemporary composer Elliott Carter, and now the first two programs of a Beethoven cycle. (Boston Globe)
Arts draw audiences despite economy Oct 18, 2009
The concert series welcomes another stellar performer, Garrick Ohlsson, who will perform works by Beethoven, Liszt and Chopin in a concert 8 p.m. Friday. Ohlsson was the winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition. (Fresno Bee)
New conductors in LA, NY pose a challenge to the BSO’s agenda Oct 18, 2009
Back surgery has recently sidelined BSO music director James Levine, who is now scheduled to return to the podium on Oct. 30, midway through the orchestra s Beethoven cycle ... One of the year s big artistic projects is a seemingly redundant cycle of Beethoven symphonies, music that is already ubiquitous at the BSO and that had been partially explored in the rich context of the Beethoven/Schoenberg series just three years ago ... What s more, when the BSO s winter tour was canceled and more... (Boston Globe)
'Keeping Score' returns to KQED Oct 14, 2009
The first season ran in 2006 and featured Beethoven, Stravinsky and Copland ... She laughs recalling a recent comment by a third-grade student, who tugged on her sleeve one day and said, "Hey, I like that Beethoven guy.". (San Francisco Chronicle)
* Conductor to auction his baton for charity Oct 10, 2009
On June 19, 2007, Chiang made a highly acclaimed debut at Carnegie Hall in New York, conducting the New England Symphonic Ensemble in a program that featured Beethoven and Mozart. The invitation to the prestigious Young Euro Classic Festival in Berlin in August 2008 was a great honor for our 99-member orchestra, Chiang said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Full list of 2009 ARIA Award nominees Oct 8, 2009
The Goldner String Quartet - Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets (ABC Classics/Universal Music Australia). Best Jazz Album. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Teen-whiz pianist Zhang comes to Fresno Oct 6, 2009
The Beethoven Sonata and the Ravel are a big contrast (From German Classical to French Impressionistic), with the interesting Bates White Lies as a fresh connection between them ... Among all the pieces I am going to play in Fresno, I am most fond of the Beethoven Sonata, not only because its been publicly considered one of the most difficult piano sonatas ever written in terms of musicality, but more because of the spiritual depth Beethoven brings out in this piece, which is almost like a... (Fresno Bee)
Conservatory student releases debut album Oct 6, 2009
"The piano can do a lot more than just play Beethoven sonatas.". A year later, she saw Ben Folds Five in concert. (University News, MO)
New concert hall in Atherton Oct 6, 2009
Music@Menlo will mark the grand opening of the Center for the Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton High School at 4 p.m. Sunday with a chamber program of music by Beethoven and Brahms ... The 2009-10 season of the Morrison Artists Series at San Francisco State University begins at 8 p.m. Friday with a recital by the Eroica Trio of music by Brahms, Beethoven and Joan Tower. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Daily guide to television and radio Oct 3, 2009
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, music by Carter, Debussy and Williams with Ms. Hobson Pilot, and Ravel: La Valse. MOVIES Benji: Off the Leash. (Boston Globe)
Parsing the impact of another Levine leave Oct 2, 2009
In the short term, one of the BSO s marquee projects for this year - a traversal of all nine Beethoven symphonies - is on the line ... But if the recovery takes a bit longer, Levine could miss the entire Beethoven cycle he has planned over a concentrated 16-day period from Oct. 22 to Nov. 7 ... The Beethoven cycle had been billed as one of the season s major events if not its capstone. (Boston Globe)
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)
Again, surgery will pull maestro Levine off BSO stage Sep 30, 2009
But Ronald A. Wilford, his manager, said in an interview yesterday that he expects Levine back by Oct. 22, when he is set to lead the BSO in three Beethoven symphonies that begin a series of concerts, Beethoven: The Complete Symphonies. Dr. Brian Kwon, a spine surgeon at New England Baptist Hospital who is not Levine s doctor but routinely treats patients with similar ailments, said that recovery time from such surgery can be as short as two to four weeks. (Boston Globe)
Isle debut planned for Princess Ka'iulani film Sep 19, 2009
Over the next two Mondays, the Chamber Music Hawaii season also opens at Doris Duke Theatre, Honolulu Academy of Arts, with The Galliard String Quartet being joined by oboist J. Scott Janusch and flutist Claire Starz Butin for a program of Beethoven, Britten, Ginastera, Holst and Martinu. HonoluluAdvertiser. (Honolulu Advertiser)
PSO stops in Bonn, honors Beethoven Sep 17, 2009
PSO stops in Bonn, celebrates Beethoven ... Beethoven Hall in Bonn, Germany ... It just so happens that this hometown hero is none other than Ludwig van Beethoven, who was born here in 1770 and went on to become the most famous composer in the world. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Stage: Best bets for the beginner Sep 16, 2009
The Phoenix Symphony opens its season with Beethoven's monumental Symphony No. 9 with the "Ode to Joy." In April, it plays five more Beethoven symphonies in a Beethoven Festival, and the Violin Concerto with concertmaster Steven Moeckel ... Details: Beethoven's Ninth: 8 p.m. Sept. 11-12 at Symphony Hall, 75 N. Second St., Phoenix ... Beethoven Festival: April 1-11, at Symphony Hall; the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, 7380 E. Second St.; Pinnacle Presbyterian Church, 25150 N. Pima... (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Loyola continues partnership with youth orchestra Sep 16, 2009
"The Greater Baltimore Youth Orchestra does not, they play the real thing. Beethoven wrote it, they play every note Beethoven wrote. Tchaikovsky wrote it, its every note that Tchaikovsky wrote.". For the past twelve years the conductor of the group was Jason Love. (The Loyola Greyhound, MD)
Classics reinvented as recording stars change their tune Sep 15, 2009
You won't see a Beethoven symphony in the top 20 sellers now, it's compilations and cross-over. Compilation albums have almost turned classical music into pop, with 15 different tracks on a CD.. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
City Beat (3) Sep 13, 2009
The Cleveland Play House presents Hershey Felder s one-man show Beethoven, as I Knew Him through Oct. 4 in its Bolton Theatre ... Cleveland State University and Solon Center for the Arts Chamber Music Collective presents six Cleveland Orchestra and Cleveland State University musicians performing works by Paul Leary, Schumann, Beethoven and Brahms at 3 at Solon Center for the Arts, 6315 SOM Center Road. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Classical music events this fall Sep 13, 2009
James Levine conducts that evening, and embarks on a cycle of Beethoven symphonies Oct. 22 ... BOSTON CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA Steven Lipsitt leads music by Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Beethoven ... QUARTET CYCLES The Muir Quartet and the Chiara Quartet are both performing complete Beethoven Quartet cycles this fall, the former at Boston University s Tsai Performance Center (next program Oct. 7) and the latter at Harvard s Paine Concert Hall (beginning Dec. 2). (Boston Globe)
Music, memorabilia worthy of a museum Sep 13, 2009
His favorite piece, however, is Beethoven's 1810 piano solo "Fur Elise," "because when my daughter Elisa Marie was a child, I convinced her that Beethoven had composed the tune just for her.". The oldest -- and probably most rare -- of Gropper's equipment collection is a small cast-iron player molded in the shape of a lyre. (Daytona Beach News Journal -- Local)
A little risk-taking enhances fine arts Sep 6, 2009
Rather than open his first show with a classical hit, Mozart or Beethoven, perhaps, Shizuo Z Kuwahara (above) has chosen to announce his presence with a performance of the ambitious Sound the Bells, by contemporary American composer John Williams. Originally written to honor the wedding of Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito and Masako Owada, the piece was inspired by the Japanese tradition of ringing large bells to commemorate significant moments. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Celebrating 100 years of community music Sep 4, 2009
One set of performances seems particularly intriguing: the entire cycle of Beethoven symphonies in arrangements for solo piano, four-hand piano, and two pianos. That series - which opens with the first two symphonies on Dec. 10 - should provide an interesting counterpart to the Boston Symphony Orchestra s performances of the symphonies. (Boston Globe)
Click to read:Kennedy Hailed as 'Greatest Legislator' Aug 30, 2009
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Taking Liberties Aug 24, 2009
Beethoven carried on the tradition the darkly rumbling cadenza that he devised for Mozart s D-minor Piano Concerto is a fascinating case of one composer meditating on another but he also helped to kill it. In the first movement of the Emperor Concerto, the soloist is told not to make a cadenza but to play the following a fully notated solo. (New Yorker)
Folks our features staff would have loved to follow on Twitter: Aug 23, 2009
If they were still here imagine what they'd tweet. Search post-gazette NOW. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Critic’s Picks: Classical music Aug 21, 2009
CAPE COD CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL The Boston-based Jupiter String Quartet drops by Wellfleet s First Congregational Church today, where Maria Bachmann (violin), Geraldine Walther (viola), Amit Peled (cello), and Jonathan Feldman (piano) gather for works by Beethoven, Schumann, Smetana, and Casals as part of a tribute to the cellist Bernard Greenhouse ... Today he leads Haydn s Symphony No. 88, Beethoven s First Symphony, and Mozart s Piano Concerto No. 25 with David Fray as soloist ... On Sunday... (Boston Globe)
Hildegard Behrens, singer famed for Wagnerian roles, 72 Aug 21, 2009
Between her Met debut as Giorgetta in Puccini s Tabarro in 1976 and her appearances as Marie in Berg s Wozzeck in 1999, she sang 171 performances with the company, including Leonore in Beethoven s Fidelio, Elettra in Mozart s Idomeneo, and the title roles in Strauss s Salome and Elektra. She sang the title role in Puccini s Tosca opposite Placido Domingo in the premiere of the popular Franco Zeffirelli staging introduced in 1985, a production later broadcast on public television. (Boston Globe)
Daily television guide Aug 15, 2009
5) Andre Previn conducts Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2, with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and Ravel: La Valse. MOVIES. (Boston Globe)
A (too?) comfortable day of dance at Tanglewood Aug 8, 2009
For the two premieres, Morris chose slightly edgier music than usual: Beethoven s Cello Sonata No. 4 in C, for a dance titled Visitation, and Ives s Trio for Violin, Violincello, and Piano, for Empire Garden. (Ma and Ax were superb in the Beethoven, and joined by violinist Colin Jacobsen, they gave an equally intense reading of the Ives ... One couldn t say that Morris captured the bleaker side of the Beethoven, and Empire Garden was a joyous and visually gorgeous romp - fecund as insect life,... (Boston Globe)
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)
Holbrook pianist Rolland Platteel finishes third in competition Aug 6, 2009
Rolland likes classical music and along with Mozart, he s fond of Frederic Chopin, Johann Strauss, II, and Ludwig wan Beethoven. He s not a big fan of today s popular music, he said. (Holbrook Sun, MA)
Music: a guide to the week ahead Aug 6, 2009
CAPE COD CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL On Monday, the Tokyo String Quartet drops by First Congregational Church in Wellfleet for a program of works by Beethoven, Berg, and Brahms with guest clarinetist Jon Manasse. On Tuesday at the Cotuit Center for the Arts, the festival s artistic directors, Manasse and Jon Nakamatsu, will premiere a new work for clarinet and piano by Paquito D Rivera. (Boston Globe)
After the flood, flute power and Beethoven at Tanglewood Aug 5, 2009
After the flood, flute power and Beethoven ... LENOX - Sir James Galway was feted at Tanglewood this weekend and the pianist Leif Ove Andsnes gave a superb account of Beethoven s Piano Concerto No. 3 ... On the first half, he was a particularly fine accompanist for Andsnes, who gave a gorgeously weightless and lithe account of Beethoven s Third Piano Concerto. (Boston Globe)
At 18, hes got soul Aug 4, 2009
His favorite group of all time is Tower of Power, but he s also taken with a local group, Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes, out of New Orleans, a group of classically trained musicians who play everything from guitar to fluegelhorn to electric cello and, according to their Web site, steal as much from Beethoven as we borrow from The Meters. When I was a little kid, David said during a break at Birdies, my grandmother played big band and 40 s music in the kitchen and we would walk around the... (Bogalusa Daily News, LA)
Classical music picks Aug 2, 2009
TANGLEWOOD Today the excellent Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes returns for Beethoven s Piano Concerto No. 3. The work will be paired with Rachmaninoff s Second Symphony on a program led by Thomas Dausgaard. (Boston Globe)
Symphony’s sweet tweets have concert-goers a’Twitter Jul 31, 2009
Under the experiment, live program notes will be sent via Twitter during a performance of Beethoven s Pastoral Symphony at a concert at the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in Washington. The conductor, Emil de Cou, will send text messages highlighting the countryside sights and sounds rattling carriage wheels, singing birds to which Beethoven was paying homage in the symphony ... "I have designed the tweets to go perfectly with ideas I have about the piece as I conduct it, but... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Love may fade but the letters still sizzle Jul 30, 2009
When Beethoven died, a letter to his "Immortal Beloved" was found among his things. Nobody knows who this woman was, but Beethoven had a string of illicit and doomed romances. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Elizabeth Farrelly Jul 29, 2009
You know," simpers the doctor's wife, palely fondling her brandy balloon, "there's a little piece of Beethoven I still quite like. " In my family this little tale was regarded as the ultimate dinner party put-down, icing as it does the snobbery of classical learning with the greater snobbery of having outgrown it, writes Elizabeth Farrelly. Thursday January 08, 2009 'Fog!" the kids shout excitedly as we round the bend above Bronte. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
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)
Entertainment briefs Jul 24, 2009
The first Lakes Area Chamber Music Festival concert will be at 2 p.m. Aug. 9 at Lord of Life Lutheran Church in Baxter where Lykins will perform works by Beethoven, Schumann, Poulenc and Prokofiev. A second concert called "A Night at the Opera" will be at 7 p.m. Aug. 12 at Lutheran Church of the Cross in Nisswa with vocal chamber music and opera scenes by Eastman students and guest artists. (Brainerd Daily Dispatch)
Stern-Elliott duo to perform at SunnyBrook Jul 22, 2009
This year, she is performing a late Beethoven sonata, a Rachmaninoff prelude, Chopin's 4th Scherzo and movements from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet suite. She is pleased to play this beautiful music at SunnyBrook in advance of her appearance at the Colorado festival. (Fort Madison Daily Democrat, IO)
Holding back Jul 22, 2009
"The last note isn't the end of the music, the silence completes the music. In Beethoven's 9th, a massive choral outpouring, you can't help but clap, but in other works like Mahler 9 these are the final symphonies, the end of the life. They end in silence." ... "Clapping in between the movements was common in Beethoven's day - it isn't a religious service." ... "I'm a specialist in 18th and 19th Century music. It was customary to not only applaud but to stop and do other things between movements... (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Skaneateles Festival to celebrate 30 years Jul 21, 2009
The week's concerts feature works by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and Prokofiev, and will include performances by cellist Steven Doan, violinist Mark Kaplan and oboe player Peggy Pearson, all of whom Freer said have become festival fixtures through the years. Week One's Saturday concert at Brook Farm will include a tribute to SkanFest co-founder the late David Robinson. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
Violinist David Garrett channels... Jul 17, 2009
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: It has always been difficult for classical musicians to bring in a younger audience. (CNN -- Law)
The week ahead: music Jul 16, 2009
Tonight Frankl and violinist Donald Weilerstein will be among the performers on a program of works by Saariaho, Mozart, Beethoven, and Faur. Tuesday s concert is devoted to the music of this year s composer-in-residence, Leon Kirchner. (Boston Globe)
A Brighter Tune Jul 16, 2009
Add therapist to Beethoven s list of talents. After listening to the master s third and fifth sonatas, depressed patients in a recent study felt happier. (Scientific American)
They Know How To Stick It Jul 14, 2009
WHEN Alan Gilbert conducts the Philharmonic in Central Park tonight, you can count on several things: Mozart, Beethoven, fireworks -- and several hundred people thinking, "How hard can it be?". Those whose classical-music education ended with Bugs Bunny should know that most conductors today are SOBs -- Students of (Leonard) Bernstein. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
I've Found Heaven ... in Northern Michigan Jul 14, 2009
Over here a pianist is working on a Beethoven sonata, and from that hut waft the strains of "Aida" on the trumpet. My 13-year-old son, Ben, explained as he squired me around, "Mom, you can't stop every time you hear beautiful music here or you'll never get anywhere.". (Townhall.com)
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)
What's happenin' Sunday Jul 12, 2009
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Festival’s founder shares his passion for Beethoven Jul 9, 2009
Festival s founder shares his passion for Beethoven - My LIVE ... Festival s founder shares his passion for Beethoven By TERRY RINDFLEISCH / Lee Newspapers ... The president and CEO of RTP Co. in Winona is the man behind the Minnesota Beethoven Festival. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Symphony enticing video gamers Jul 7, 2009
Mr. Tallarico began studying the masters and became a devotee of Beethoven. He believes marrying his two great passions -- video games and music -- is an idea that Beethoven would have embraced, but that classical musicians and audiences of today need a little push in that direction ... "I can tell you from being a huge Beethoven fan, from reading his diaries, some of his greatest moments as a conductor, he would write, were when people could no longer control their emotions during a performance... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
St. Louis a bounty of cheap travel Jul 5, 2009
The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, the nation's second-oldest, will celebrate its 130th birthday with a 2009-0 season that includes a Beethoven Festival, Yo-Yo Ma and segments on the music of movies, including Hollywood great Bugs Bunny. The symphony ( ) offers 50 free tickets for regular orchestral concerts as well as discounts for children, seniors and students. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Thomas Hampton to take stage at Beethoven festival Jul 5, 2009
Thomas Hampson, a leading American baritone, has chosen the Minnesota Beethoven Festival in Winona to open his 2009 Song of America recital tour ... MINNESOTA BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL SCHEDULE. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
BSO kicks off Tanglewood season Jul 3, 2009
Later Sunday, at an hour when other soloists might be relaxing over dinner, Tetzlaff will return to Ozawa Hall with the first of three programs traversing the complete Beethoven Violin Sonatas, partnered by pianist Alexander Lonquich. The program includes the first four Sonatas, and Tetzlaff s Beethoven series continues July 7 and 9. (Boston Globe)
Expert claims to solve riddle of Beethoven's 'Elise' Jul 1, 2009
Expert claims to solve riddle of Beethoven's 'Elise ... One of Ludwig van Beethoven's last scores in Cologne ... Alongside the opening bars of his Fifth Symphony, "Fuer Elise" is one of Beethoven's best-known melodies, prompting scholars down the years to puzzle over her real identity. (Yahoo! Asia News)
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)
Jackson, death by showbusiness... Jun 27, 2009
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770-1827. Walter Burns on June 26, 2009 at 11:13 AM. (The Drudge Report)
Stoneham Education Foundation awards grants Jun 26, 2009
g. Abraham Lincoln, Beethoven, Einstein and Mother Theresa). Stoneham High School Junior National History Day. (Stoneham Sun, MA)
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)
