Toyota to Hold 2010 Toyota Master Players Concert Series Nov 18, 2009
The Wien Grand Concert, meanwhile, will present famous pieces from Schumann and Nicolai, in part to mark the 200th anniversary their births. The Wien Grand Concert will also present Bruckner's Symphony No. 7, conducted by Tadaaki Otaka. (JCN Network, Japan)
Rachmaninoff's 'Bells' rock Davies Hall Nov 10, 2009
Nor is there any denying that Bychkov - the chief conductor of the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne, who returns to Davies this week with a more varied program of Dutilleux, Schumann and Sibelius - brings out the best in this orchestra. All evening, the musicians mustered a robust and keenly Romantic sonority - the strings dense and full-throated, the woodwinds brightly gleaming. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
The Shakespeare of Music Nov 4, 2009
One day, probably in Leipzig during the 1830s, Robert Schumann attended a performance of Beethoven s Fifth Symphony. At this performance, amid the lead-in to the finale the passage where soft strings trace ghostly patterns against a drum tattoo still menacing after even the nth rendition Schumann noticed that a small boy in the next seat pressed closer and closer to me; when I asked him why he did so, he answered, I am afraid. (The American Conservative)
A Muse of Fire Oct 31, 2009
(It failed to beguile Schumann, though. Of Wagner, Schumann complained: He talks without ever stopping ... Of Schumann, Wagner complained: One cannot converse with anyone who never opens his mouth. (The American Conservative)
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)
Playing the White House: music on a higher scale Oct 20, 2009
The hour-long concert was serious, featuring works by Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, and Francois Couperin, and closed with a powerful encore. "You might know this song," Casals said, almost weeping. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Weekend Guide: Music Oct 17, 2009
ZANKEL HALL: The Takacs Quartet perform works from Schumann, Wolfgang Rihm and Beethoven's the "Razumovsky" Quartet No. 1 in F major ... ZANKEL HALL: The Takacs Quartet perform works from Schumann, Wolfgang Rihm and Beethoven's the "Razumovsky" Quartet No. 1 in F major. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Dudamel Conducts Mahler's Symphony ... Oct 11, 2009
In the words of Schumann, Hats off gentlemen, he s a genius. As the eleventh Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, the 28-year old virtuoso has already earned the trust of the musicians and has ignited a new passion for classical music throughout Los Angeles. (Suite101.com)
Area native to sing at Royal Opera House Oct 9, 2009
Ebel will perform the Diary of a Young Poet two more times in the context of a larger show titled, The Truth About Love, which will also include works by Robert Schumann and Benjamin Britten. Within these performances Ebel's new song cycle will be integrated with those of Schumann and Britten in a musical and theatrical event at the Royal Opera House. (Watertown Daily Times, WI)
Sting attempts to 'open up opera' Sep 30, 2009
Sting takes the role of Robert Schumann, while Trudie Styler is his wife Clara. Sting is hoping to attract new fans to opera with his latest release, a film in which he and wife Trudie Styler tell the story of composer Robert Schumann ... Sting and Styler read the love letters between Schumann and his wife Clara. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
PSO stops in Bonn, honors Beethoven Sep 17, 2009
As far as music history goes, Bonn arguably is home to a more significant building -- the sanatorium in which the composer Robert Schumann spent his final years after attempting suicide. But it hardly warrants a mention in any guide. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
City Beat (3) Sep 13, 2009
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. Pre-concert conversation with some of the artists and reception immediately following in the SCA Gallery. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Classical music events this fall Sep 13, 2009
BOSTON CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA Steven Lipsitt leads music by Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Beethoven. Sept. 26-27. (Boston Globe)
Classical music with a twist in Lawrence Sep 11, 2009
Today s music covers four centuries with works by Henry Purcell, Robert Schumann, Noel Coward, and Scott Wheeler. Boston mezzo-soprano Krista River will be accompanied by pianist Brett Hodgdon. (Boston Globe)
The tunes, they are a-changin' Aug 31, 2009
When he was commissioned to write a song cycle for Carnegie Hall's centenary, Corigliano searched for an American poet whose verse he could put to music in much the same way Brahms and Schumann had interpreted Goethe's poetry. I was talking to friends and one of them said, 'Look at the lyrics that Bob Dylan wrote. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
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. $32, 508-945-8060 or. (Boston Globe)
Alex Ross: The music of fictional composers. Aug 17, 2009
Writer describes the work of E. T. A. Hoffman and his fictional composer Johannes Kreisler, who affected the real music of the nineteenth century, inspiring Robert Schumann. Tells about Balzac s 1837 novella Gambara about Paolo Gambara, an Italian composer living in Paris. (New Yorker)
Critic's picks - classical music Aug 16, 2009
For its final weekend of the season, Monadnock today presents the composer Sebastian Currier discussing his piece Clockwork, which will be heard alongside works by Vaughan Williams and Schumann at the Jaffrey Center Meeting House. 800-868-9613 or. (Boston Globe)
UGA announces Thursday Scholarship Series Aug 16, 2009
Feb. 11, 2010: Schumanniad - An evening of Lieder, vocal and instrumental chamber works by Robert Schumann to commemorate the bicentennial of the composer's birth. March 18, 2010: A Night at the Opera - The UGA Opera Ensemble and Athena Opera, under the direction of Frederick Burchinal, Metropolitan Opera Baritone and Wyatt and Margaret Anderson Professor of Voice, present opera favorites. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Music: the week ahead Aug 13, 2009
MONADNOCK MUSIC For its final weekend of the season, Monadnock presents the Borromeo Quartet tomorrow in an all-Beethoven program at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, N.H. Saturday, tenor Philippe Castagner and pianist Emma Tahmizian perform an all-Schumann recital in Peterborough Town Hall. And Sunday the composer Sebastian Currier is on hand to discuss his piece Clockwork, which will be heard alongside works by Vaughan Williams and Schumann at the Jaffrey Center Meeting House. (Boston Globe)
Infinite Playlist Aug 3, 2009
ra (courtesy of the European arts channel Arte); took in Mahler s Ninth at the Proms (courtesy of BBC 3); and then bought a virtual seat in the Berlin Philharmonic s Digital Concert Hall, which had an HD video of Simon Rattle conducting Robert Schumann and Bernd Alois Zimmermann, the agility of the camerawork outdoing the robotic Great Performances standard. (Berlin s harp-cam is especially cool. (New Yorker)
Pacific Trio to open Idyllwilds Summer Chamber Music Concert Jul 30, 2009
Evocative trios by Argentine tango composer Astor Piazzolla will showcase Kupka, Walz and Ashcraft, Schumann s magnificent Piano Quintet, with Long Beach Symphony concertmaster Roger Wilkie will close out the series. These performances are scheduled for Tuesday, August 4; Thursday, August 6 and Saturday, August 8 at 8 p.m. in Stephens Recital Hall on the campus of Idyllwild Arts at 52500 Temecula Drive in Idyllwild. (Desert Entertainer, CA)
Alcorn to perform recital in Coppell Jul 28, 2009
Alcorn will be performing works by Mozart, Robert Schumann, Joaquin Rodrigo, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Samuel Barber during the one hour recital. Alcorn will return to Oberlin College following the internship in New York. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
Entertainment briefs Jul 24, 2009
The first pre-concert will be 2 p.m. Sunday called "Classics of Musical Theater," which will include favorites from "Oklahoma!," "South Pacific," "Show Boat," "The Music Man," and "Cabaret." The second pre-concert will be at 2 p.m. Aug. 2 called "The German Romantics" and will include string and vocal music by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Strauss and Mahler. 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... (Brainerd Daily Dispatch)
'Tis the season to be naughty Jul 17, 2009
The funny, sexy, slightly twisted and shambolic chanteuse has just finished some serious shows of Schubert and Schumann songs in Melbourne and is itching for something more light-hearted. "This little Christmas show is really madness and joy with a kind of punky edge, as I must," she says. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Cellist Haimovitz is free-spirited about mixing classical, modern Jun 26, 2009
Were he around 150 years ago, I d be perfectly happy working with [Robert] Schumann on his concerto and playing it around, he says during a phone conversation from his home in Montreal ... He returns next month to play the Schumann concerto at Jordan Hall with the Youth Orchestra of the Americas. (Boston Globe)
On the beauty of fine music and the sadness of losing good and long-time Lodians Jun 4, 2009
While it is a requiem, written on the occasion of a death (in this case, two deaths: Brahms' mother, and composer and friend Robert Schumann), Maestro Peter Jaffe pointed out that is a work of great consolation and comfort, as illustrated by the Bible verses included. Here is one, apt for these times: "Ye now have sorrow, but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoice and your joy no man taketh from you" (John 16:22). (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Sting's message Jun 1, 2009
Sting was at the literary festival in Powys with his wife, the actress and producer Trudie Styler, to discuss True Sprits, a play they performed on Broadway as an Aids beneft about the 19th Century German composer Robert Schumann and his wife Clara ... The Schumanns' story ended tragically, with Robert confined to a mental institution at the end of his life ... But despite his problems Schumann was highly productive, and in 1840 alone wrote about 100 songs. (BBC News -- UK)
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Variations on a thread Apr 16, 2009
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 ... For instance, she said she particularly likes how Webern's Variations a minimal, paired-down piece leads into Schumann's Kreisleriana, which she described as an outburst of sound. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
UW-L symphony concert to feature Brazilian soprano Mar 22, 2009
Other music on the Masterworks Concert Series program includes the Julius Caesar overture by Robert Schumann, Bach s Come Sweet Death and Passacaglia from the second symphony by David Phipps, a UW-L violin instructor who plays with the symphony. The concert is at 3 p.m. in the Cartwright Center s Valhalla on the UW-L campus. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
He's the bomb Mar 12, 2009
A few years training in England made Finley realize he could have a career in music a career that now has him performing in opera houses around the world and has just netted him a Juno nomination for his 2008 CD, Schumann: Dichterliebe & Other Heine Settings. Now he's keen to sing a full operatic role in Canada, which has proved unfeasible until now because his schedule was locked up so far in advance. (Globe and Mail)
Orpheum ready for Iowa Piano Competition Mar 4, 2009
Mr. Levyatov made his New York concerto debut in 2005 as the winner of the Dora Zaslavsky Koch Competition performing the Schumann Piano concerto under the baton of Philippe Entremont. He also performed the Schumann Piano Concerto in his Israeli debut with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and was subsequently featured in a rare performance of the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.4 with the same orchestra. (Sioux City Journal)
Complete S.F. Symphony 2009-10 schedule Mar 4, 2009
Detlev Glanert: new work; Schumann: Cello Concerto; Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 ... Schumann: Symphony No. 4; Zemlinsky: "Lyric" Symphony ... Robin Holloway: "Clarissa Sequence"; Mozart: "Bella mia fiamma - Resta o cara," K.528; Schumann: Symphony No. 3, "Rhenish.". (San Francisco Chronicle)
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)
Fame finds Lexington's Gabriela Montero Feb 15, 2009
She began with some Beethoven and Schumann, and then finally summoned the courage to improvise what she called a musical portrait of Argerich ... "Being a single mom in a way has given me the strength and the focus to also build my career, for my kids, for myself. I do it because I need to give my message through music - or the composer's message - and to relate to Schumann, to Rachmaninoff, to Brahms. It connects me to their humanity, and to what links us as human beings. It's a very... (Boston Globe)
