Holiday Preview: Classical Picks Nov 22, 2009
Messiah Harry Christophers leads the Handel and Haydn Society s annual performances of the holiday staple. Dec. 4, 5, and 6. (Boston Globe)
Lake Wales Choraleconcert is Friday Nov 19, 2009
The first part of the concert program includes a seldom heard choral masterpiece, Haydn s Salve Regia, an agitated and dramatic outpouring from the usually light and humorous composer, as well as a serene choral prayer by Rheinberger. The second half will feature the bright and ebullient Magnificat by John Rutter, with special guest artist Patrice Rasmussen as soprano soloist. (Lake Wales News, FL)
Emmanuel Music gives spark to an odd coupling Nov 16, 2009
Emmanuel Music is devoting this season to Haydn and Schoenberg ... The piece ends with the women of the chorus singing the note C. Harbison held that final moment; then, with barely a pause, he brought the orchestra in on the same note: This was the opening of The Representation of Chaos, the harmonically adventurous prelude to Haydn s oratorio The Creation ... Haydn follows that picture of disorder with art of supreme order - a ceaselessly inventive portrayal of the wonders of both heaven and... (Boston Globe)
U2 eclipse Mariah Carey at Grammys Nov 15, 2009
A major recording project of all 104 Haydn Symphonies, compiled on 33CDs, including the extraordinary No.45 Farewell, and of course the magnificent late London Symphonies. From: 66. (Yahoo News -- Grammy Awards)
Same-sex couples make a statement with philanthropy Nov 10, 2009
A Handel and Haydn Society board member chose not to discuss the issue as well. For Ludden and Fiske, donating as a duo was old news. (Boston Globe)
Musica Sacra and Chorus pro Musica open their seasons Sunday Nov 6, 2009
Burleigh nourishes a deep love of Haydn and wants to do The Seasons, his less popular yet highly entertaining oratorio. For Beekman it s Benjamin Britten s massive War Requiem, which she calls the apotheosis of choral music. (Boston Globe)
Stalin failed to suppress this humane radiance Nov 4, 2009
The Classical predates Stravinsky's neoclassical works and is nothing more than a brilliant, sometimes acerbic and always enjoyable attempt to recreate a symphony in the style of Haydn, with piquant modernist twists of rhythm, harmony and orchestration. Ashkenazy conducted the Fifth Symphony for the stirring, positive work it is, balancing moments of warm, radiant woodwind to bring out their human glow. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The Shakespeare of Music Nov 4, 2009
Here are details of Beethoven s apprenticeship under Haydn s tutelage, during which a guarded mutual courtesy failed to hide a seething mutual impatience. Here is Haydn in his pathetic old age, suffering a kind of torture inflicted by the body on the brain ... Here is a long, elaborate description of Beethoven s first outright masterpiece, the Funeral Cantata For Joseph II, which could well have given Haydn some ideas for certain passages in the latter s oratorio The Creation, although Morris... (The American Conservative)
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)
Music in mind, Levine talks health Oct 22, 2009
For a time, he served as music director of the N.C. Symphony and the Handel and Haydn Society. Not long after starting in North Carolina in 2004, he reduced his workload in Boston from 10 weeks to about three weeks per season. (Boston Globe)
Scholl and Spinosi open H&H season Oct 10, 2009
The Handel and Haydn Society opened its 195th season last night in Symphony Hall with a program showcasing the acclaimed countertenor Andreas Scholl ... HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY Jean-Christophe Spinosi. (Boston Globe)
Somerville cancer survivor lends hand to Hoffman Breast Center Oct 9, 2009
It was a subdued venue for Durkin, a professional singer since high school who was trained at Harvard and Boston universities and has sung with the Back Bay Chorale and the Handel and Haydn Society, but it was important for her to offer support to the center that had supported her. All of a sudden I felt like I was sitting in a little hardback chair out in the universe, said Durkin, a licensed therapist, of her initial experience after diagnosis. (Somerville Journal, MA)
* Classical music Oct 4, 2009
My English heart gave a quite unjustified leap of pride when I read that Haydn got the idea of writing The Creation (Die Schopfung) after hearing Handels Messiah in Londons Westminster Abbey ... The Chernobyl disaster had happened two months before this was recorded, he says, and Haydns masterpiece reminds us like nothing else of the beauty and wonder of a world were on the brink of destroying ... But what need had Haydn of doctrine. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Busyness of being Brett Dean Oct 4, 2009
They are by Gubaidulina, Haydn and MacMillan ... He will conduct the first concert performed by the ANAM orchestra and featuring Joe Chindamo on piano accordion and cellist Timo-Veikko Valve, while the Haydn work will include interpolations by modern composers including Dean, Andrew Ford and didjeridoo player William Barton. (The Age, Australia -- Entertainment)
Boston Singers’ Relief Fund concert Oct 2, 2009
More than 50 Boston singers will deliver noteworthy performances of Mendelssohn, Puccini, Strauss, and more, representing Boston Baroque, Emmanuel Music, Opera Boston, the Handel and Haydn Society, and other organizations. The choral clan will follow the baton of conductor Murray Kidd, accompanied by pianist Timothy Steele and organist Fred MacArthur. (Boston Globe)
Opera house at palace of Versailles reopens Sep 22, 2009
The program of Monday's inaugural concert featured works by Mozart, Haydn and Gluck. One upcoming highlight is a Jan. 9 concert by soprano Barbara Hendricks. (FOX61, CT)
PSO stops in Bonn, honors Beethoven Sep 17, 2009
Whereas Bach, Mozart and Haydn wrote just as much emotion into works, Beethoven did so in a patently direct and visceral way. It is not unlike film or popular music. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Eight arts leaders provide new direction in their first seasons Sep 13, 2009
HARRY CHRISTOPHERS, 54 Artistic director, Handel and Haydn Society. Recently: Founder/director of the Sixteen, an early music choral group in London. (Boston Globe)
Classical music events this fall Sep 13, 2009
LONGY SCHOOL OF MUSIC This year s SeptemberFest focuses on Haydn and those he influenced ... HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY The Society spotlights the countertenor Andreas Scholl in works by Handel and Vivaldi ... EMMANUEL MUSIC A season-long survey of music by Haydn and Schoenberg gets underway with a chamber program that includes Schoenberg s Serenade. (Boston Globe)
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)
A (too?) comfortable day of dance at Tanglewood Aug 8, 2009
Each half started off with an older work, beginning with A Lake (1991), set to Haydn s Horn Concerto No. 2. This is an innocent peasant pastoral with dancers circling, tumbling, and parading, often in an old variant of ballet s third position, with a single arm in the air. (Boston Globe)
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)
Holding back Jul 22, 2009
"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 in concerts. "At the premieres of Haydn and Beethoven they would do two movements and then have a ballet or a singer. Often they would have refreshments. (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)
Making music, bridging cultures Jul 17, 2009
And the Boston Landmarks Orchestra continues its series of Hatch Shell concerts next Wednesday with a program of Haydn s First Cello Concerto and Brahms s First Symphony. BEMF 20th anniversary Familiar faces, local groups, and newcomers will all be part of the Boston Early Music Festival s 20th anniversary season of concerts. (Boston Globe)
The week ahead: music Jul 16, 2009
BOSTON LANDMARKS ORCHESTRA The ensemble s series of free outdoor performances on the Esplanade continues this week with Charles Ansbacher leading Brahms s First Symphony, and the young cellist Jacqueline Choi appearing as soloist in Haydn s Cello Concerto No. 1. July 22, 7 p.m., Hatch Shell at the Esplanade, 617-520-2200. (Boston Globe)
Bang on a Can to perform and teach in North Adams Jul 10, 2009
Among local music groups to receive the grants of between $25,000 and $50,000 are the Boston Academy of Music, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Emmanuel Music, and the Handel and Haydn Society. Copyright 2009 Globe Newspaper Company. (Boston Globe)
Anniversary nod to Haydn opens Bach fest Jun 29, 2009
Only half the hall had sold before Friday's opening concert of Franz Joseph Haydn's choral masterpiece, "The Creation." It was the same in Portland, where the festival traveled to perform "The Creation" at Schnitzer Hall on Saturday. Granted, Haydn isn't Bach, a more popular choice of composer for opening night, but the economy must be a factor this year ... Still, Haydn, who died 200 years ago, was a natural choice for a festival that specializes in large choral works. (OregonLive, OR -- Living)
Critic’s classical performance picks Jun 28, 2009
TANGLEWOOD The Juilliard Quartet takes the Ozawa stage today with an all-Haydn program that features four of the Op ... 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. (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 ... In commemoration of the 200th year since his Haydn s death, it s an ideal time to recognize and remember one... (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Cellist Haimovitz is free-spirited about mixing classical, modern Jun 26, 2009
The Juilliard String Quartet visits on Sunday with a concert devoted to four of the six Opus 20 quartets of Haydn. The performance will be the quartet s last with first violinist Joel Smirnoff, who is retiring. (Boston Globe)
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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)
Classical music picks Jun 5, 2009
The stalwart local ensemble offers a pair of recitals, with the first, on June 6, featuring works by Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Faure, and the second, on June 13, celebrating the 80th birthday of the widely admired composer Yehudi Wyner. At 8 p.m., $15-$25, Slosberg Music Center, Brandeis University, 781-736-3400 or. (Boston Globe)
Hylie Pappenheimer, 86, violin teacher in Cambridge Jun 5, 2009
Mrs. Pappenheimer's tastes ran to chamber music, and she counted among her favorites the quartet compositions of Franz Josef Haydn. "But she was willing to listen to anything, even though she was a classical musician," her daughter said. (Boston Globe)
In Haydn commemorative year it's - mostly Mozart Jun 1, 2009
Joseph Haydn died 200 years ago Sunday, and Austria has been officially marking the occasion with hundreds of concerts, exhibitions and other events dedicated to the music and memory of one of the country's greatest sons. There is no doubt that Haydn was a giant ... But Haydn has it hard in a country that also gave birth to Amadeus. (AZCentral -- News)
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Celebrating 200 years of Haydn masterworks May 7, 2009
BEIJING, May 7 -- Haydn's works will be performed on May 17 by pianist Fou Ts'ong and on May 28 by the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and Zurich Boys Choir, reports Nie Xin. To mark the 200th anniversary of Haydn's death, Shanghai Concert Hall will host performances of the master's works - symphonies, piano sonatas and variations, concertos, reveries and cantatas ... Following Fou, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and Zurich Boys Choir, under the baton of Tang Muhai, will present a Haydn masterpiece, "The... (Xinhuanet, China)
Boston Baroque gives younger Haydn his due May 5, 2009
Boston Baroque gives the younger Haydn his due ... We will hear a lot of music by Haydn this year - Franz Joseph Haydn, that is, not his younger brother, Michael, who has suffered the obscurity of many a younger brother of not-quite-equal genius ... Known in his day as one of the great church composers, the younger Haydn was respected by Mozart and revered by Schubert, fell into obscurity in the 19th century, and will disappear again, after a partial revival of interest since World War II,... (Boston Globe)
Boston Musica Viva marks close of 40th season May 1, 2009
The other Haydn Michael Haydn is known to us as the younger, and less talented, brother of Franz Joseph Haydn ... The group is offering a rare performance of the younger Haydn's somber Requiem in C minor tonight and tomorrow night ... In his liner notes, Pearlman quotes a contemporary of the composer's who said that "as a composer of sacred music Michael Haydn ranks amongst the finest of any age or nations. . . . In this field he is fully his brother's equal; in fact, by the seriousness of his... (Boston Globe)
Athens Master Chorale brings 'An Evening with Mozart' Apr 30, 2009
Some of the singers before him were there for that first concert in April of 1989, when the group - then 31 members strong - sang the work of 18th-century Austrian composer Joseph Haydn and 20th-century American composer Norman Dello Joio, showing even in their first concert a taste for diversity. On Friday, the group will perform "An Evening with Mozart," singing "Gloria (12th Mass)," "Ave Verum" and "Requiem" to celebrate its 20th birthday. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Pianist keys on composers who mixed things up Apr 29, 2009
Three French tributes to Joseph Haydn written for the 1909 centennial of his death diverged. Maurice Ravel's "Menuet sur le nom de Haydn" is paradoxically lush and self-effacing; Chi captured its soft-edged reticence ... Reynaldo Hahn's "Th?me Vari?" is trompe-l'oeil classicism, pinning Haydn's era like a butterfly. (Boston Globe)
Why the West is Boyle'd Apr 28, 2009
Singer Susan Boyle, our latest instant celebrity, reminds me of any number of singers I conducted in amateur renditions of the easier Schubert or Haydn masses, or the sort of matron who sings "Katti-Shaw" or "Buttercup" in the local Gilbert and Sullivan production. Musical talent springs up like grass, and engaging voices are a dollar a dozen. (Asia Times Online)
A Norrington farewell Apr 28, 2009
Sir Roger Norrington ended his three seasons as artistic adviser to the Handel and Haydn Society this weekend with a pair of concerts titled "Haydn in London." The widely varied program approximated a concert the composer might have heard on his visits to London in the 1790s, landmark events in his career ... Rounding out the smorgasbord was a familiar Haydn score, the "Oxford" Symphony (No ... HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY Sir Roger Norrington, conductor. (Boston Globe)
Music review: Dramatic concerto from Adès Apr 4, 2009
The remainder of Wednesday's short program (just 90 minutes with intermission) was devoted to symphonies by Haydn and Mozart, done in powerful, vivid performances that confirmed the wisdom of this plan. Haydn's Symphony No. 52 in C Minor, which opened the evening in its first Symphony performance, is a stormy, angular affair with a few touches of gentle parody to leaven the mood. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Music: Georgian splendour Mar 21, 2009
Mozart, Haydn and Gluck were strong admirers and Beethoven described him as the greatest composer that ever lived. The celebrations of the centenary of Handel s birth set a pattern for the next 150 years that did his music no favours. (The Economist)
Henry Schwartz, influential Boston artist and teacher; at 81 Mar 15, 2009
When his building went condo, "I felt it was better to buy my apartment than to leave Beethoven and Haydn," he told the Globe in 1982. An amateur musicologist who stumped all comers with his encompassing knowledge of classical composers, Mr. Schwartz rigged headphones to a transistor radio years before the advent of the Walkman, let alone the iPod. (Boston Globe)
Roxbury Latin opens up a world of classical music Mar 12, 2009
The quartet played selections from Franz Josef Haydn, Felix Mendelssohn and Marice Ravel. Sydney Balise of Roslindale and Kathy Robinson of West Roxbury read about the event in the newspaper, and visited the school for the first time to attend. (West Roxbury Transcript, MA)
Willamette Valley Concert Band visits’ France Mar 6, 2009
Albany Democrat Herald: Entertainer Columnists - Local Knowledge. Last modified: Thursday, March 5, 2009 3:37 PM PST. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Critics' picks for pop music Mar 6, 2009
WINSOR MUSIC The Winsor Outreach Quartet led by oboist Peggy Pearson performs music by Haydn, Britten, and Beethoven in a concert to benefit Project STEP, a string training program dedicated to working with black and Latino musicians and ultimately increasing their representation in classical ensembles. March 8 at 3 p.m., $25-$100 (free for ages 6 to 18), St. Paul's Church in Brookline, 617-267-5777 or. (Boston Globe)
Complete S.F. Symphony 2009-10 schedule Mar 4, 2009
Brett Dean: "Carlo"; Haydn: Symphony No. 94 in G, "Surprise"; Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 ... Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1; Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, "Eroica.". (San Francisco Chronicle)
Orpheum ready for Iowa Piano Competition Mar 4, 2009
He has also appeared on radio and television in Russia, Europe and the US, including Russian National Television and Radio, and Minnesota Public Radio, performing works by Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev. Denis Evstuhin is a laureate of numerous international piano competitions. (Sioux City Journal)
Music for Organ and Trombone Feb 23, 2009
As trombonist, Wauchope has performed with the Boston Symphony, the Boston Pops and Esplanade Orchestras, the Boston Opera Company, the Handel and Haydn Society. He also has been the bass trombonist for the Chorus of Westerly under George Kent for 38 years. (Westerly Sun, RI)
U2 eclipse Mariah Carey at Grammys Feb 22, 2009
A major recording project of all 104 Haydn Symphonies, compiled on 33CDs, including the extraordinary No.45 Farewell, and of course the magnificent late London Symphonies. From: 66. (Yahoo News -- Grammy Awards)
Looking back on BSO conductor James Levine's first five seasons Feb 22, 2009
After his first seasons with the BSO, he concluded that the ensemble would benefit more from a sustained re-immersion in the core classical and early Romantic repertoire: Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert. This literature after all contains the symphonic master grid - the fundamentals of orchestral communication on which everything else rests. (Boston Globe)
Churches and fine arts join hands Feb 22, 2009
The former Fresno resident will perform works by Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Scriabin, Schumann and Prokofiev. "Music is a very important part of our church," says Linda Berg, co-chair of ministry of music at First Congregational Church. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Weekend Highlights Feb 19, 2009
Dale Warland conducts the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and Chorale (651-291-1144) in Haydn s The Creation today through Saturday at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts. Romeo and Juliet runs through March 15 at the Children s Theatre Company of Minneapolis (612-874-0400). (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
A great symphonic journey Feb 12, 2009
This anticipated concert, titled "Great Symphonic Journey", to be held this Friday from 7:30 p.m. at Balai Sarbini Hall, is built upon the shoulders of two giants in classical music: Franz Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven ... Haydn, born in Rodrau, Austria, worked for some time for the noble Esterhazy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the city of Eisenstadt in Austria's east ... Now, in the building when he once worked, the Haydn Conservatory holds regular concerts celebrating his works. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia)
Musical novel has a soundtrack all its own Feb 9, 2009
Composers like Beethoven, Stravinsky, Mozart and Haydn have captured the minds of millions of people through their notes and melodies ... Young Theresa Maria is the daughter of a violinist in the orchestra of Prince Nicholas Esterhazys court in 18th-century Vienna an orchestra led by Franz Joseph Haydn ... And for that matter, Haydn, who is also her godfather. (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
Brangelina twins finally seen in public Feb 8, 2009
Haydn Keenan is making a four-part documentary series, Persons Of Interest, about people who have come under scrutiny by the country's security service. He has about 10 subjects lined up for interviews, including some famous lefties, but wants more stories from suspicious types and anyone who worked for ASIO.. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
