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... luminaries from across Europe, including such composers as Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schoenberg, Giacomo Puccini, and Alban Berg. These HD broadcasts won't replace the thrill of hearing an un-amplified human voice fill a hall at a live performance. ...
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... after all, whose series of plays ending up being the basis for the Louise Brooks "Pandora's Box" silent film and Alban Berg's "Lulu" opera. There's not a sentimental bone in Wedekind's body, while Broadway musicals tend towards the mushy and ...
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Christine Schafer Sings SchoenBerg
... String Quartet op.10 (for two violins, viola, cello and soprano), Anton Webern's heavenly Langsamer Satz , and Alban Berg's Lyric Suite with the "secret part for voice" that was found out to exist some time in the late 70s. It'd be a dream of a CD ...
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Music Director Sir Andrew Davis wins Gramophone Award
... music director since 2000, and will conduct four of this season's eight productions: a new production of Alban Berg's Lulu, a revival of Puccini's Madama Butterfly, the David Hockney-Los Angeles Opera production of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, and a ...
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... 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Lyric Opera Lectures: The Pearl Fishers by George Bizet will be 2 to 3 p.m. Oct. 5 and Lulu by Alban Berg will be 2 to 3 p.m. Oct. 19. Quinceanera for a Day: 1 to 4 p.m. Oct. 11, experience the traditional Hispanic celebration of ...
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... classical music stretching behind him. The score for The Fly brings to mind operas by composers as dissimilar as Alban Berg and Philip Glass ( Einstein on the Beach , another opera about scientific discovery, is an obvious reference), but lacks the ...
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Lyric Opera of Chicago Offers Free Pre-Opera Lectures
... (mat.), 22, 25, Nov. 1, 4. Evening pre-opera lectures begin at 6:30 p.m.; matinee lectures begin at 1 p.m. LULU / Alban Berg (new production): Lyric Dramaturg Roger Pines, lecturer. Nov. 7, 10, 15, 19, 22, 25, 30 (mat.). Due to the early evening ...
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Classical music preview: Big names take the baton
... two composers so long embraced by the CSO. At Lyric Opera of Chicago, Marlis Petersen will sing the title role of Alban Berg's "Lulu" (here at the Hamburg State Opera in Germany). (Courtesy) Haitink, now leading the orchestra on a pre-season ...
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... p.m. Sept. 17: "Manon" in River Forest; 2 p.m. Oct. 5: "The Pearl Fishers" in Oak Park; 7 p.m. Oct. 29: "Lulu" by Alban Berg in River Forest. For more information, call the Oak Park Public Library at (708) 383-8200 or the River Forest Public Library ...
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Learn about Lyric's shows before season
... of this season's operas. They are Jules Massenet's season-opening "Manon," George Bizet's "The Pearl Fishers," Alban Berg's "Lulu," George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess," Giacomo Puccini's "Madama Butterfly," Richard Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde," the ...
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CD: Classical review: Schoenberg: String Quartet No 2; Webern:...
... and still shedding the trappings of late romanticism. Schoenberg Schfer/Petersen Quartet (Phoenix) But Alban Berg's contribution to this disc is much more problematic. Die Geheime Gestimme is the title given here to the last movement of Berg's Lyric ...
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Kermes gives Kraus' cantatas vocal heft
... Carlo Cava's large-scale Bartolo and Hugues Cuenod's classic Basilio. At a time when Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg were in the vanguard of serial music, Austrian composer Joseph Marx continued to write tonal music in a late romantic style. ...
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A Modern Mass With Notes of Messiaen
... e "Gurrelieder," leading the world premiere of "Ameriques" by Edgard Varese, and conducting the American debut of Alban Berg's "Wozzeck." Stoky would have been proud.
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... - 'a great opera that doesn't have a lot of great music. Once favorably compared to the expressionist operas of Alban Berg, it now seems to come up short. The classical structures that underlie its often unsettling scenes, as in Wozzeck , are ...
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The Arts Critic In A Non-Elitist World
... Verdi's Otello begins with a rumbling six-note dissonance; Strauss's Elektra with a souped-up D-minor detonation; Alban Berg's Lulu with a sharply stabbing figure that foreshadows the heroine's fate. Bernd Alois Zimmermann's 1965 opera Die Soldaten ...
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Staunton Music Festival marking 11th season
... Trinity Episcopal Church, 213 W. Beverley St., Downtown Staunton, featuring ensemble music by Johann Strauss and Alban Berg, songs by Gustav Mahler and Franz Schubert's "Trout Quintet." The Festival Gala Dinner and Concert is set for Saturday, Aug. ...
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... "Otello" begins with a rumbling six-note dissonance; Strauss's "Elektra" with a souped-up D-minor detonation; Alban Berg's "Lulu" with a sharply stabbing figure that foreshadows the heroine's fate. Bernd Alois Zimmermann's 1965 opera "Die Soldaten," ...
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Audio: A Musical Voyage of Discovery
Groansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: If you have four superb string players on hand, invent the genre to fit: that's what Joseph Haydn did The Alban Berg Quartet says farewell, with their very last ...
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From Germany, an opera engulfed by shadows of war
... opera, "Die Soldaten," which was hailed after its 1965 premiere as the most important German opera since those of Alban Berg. Sarah Caldwell's Opera Company of Boston gave its American premiere in 1982, New York City Opera mounted it in 1991, and ...
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In Vast Park Avenue Armory, Noisy `Soldaten' Moves the Unmoved: John Simon
... like howls and yowls, shrieks and screams, bangs and whines, sometimes approaching jazz, other times vainly aping Alban Berg . There are collage bits of Bach and proto-Debussy, even distant echoes of Stravinsky and Milhaud. Apparently, none of this ...
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