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... British conductor Mark Wigglesworth in charge of most of the podium duties, the highlight of the evening was Alban Berg 's exquisite, too rarely heard Seven Early Songs in a spellbinding performance by Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman, an ... Comment?
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Opera lovers score an off-season affair
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Twentieth-century opera includes no more shat tering experience than Alban Berg's 1925 hit, Wozzeck . Comment?
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From Mozart to Mahler, it was a bounteous year for classical recordings
... a wonderful balance between desolation and acceptance, with luminous sonics to match. 2. Mozart: "Serenade in B-flat"; Berg: "Chamber Concerto." Mitsuko Uchida, piano; Christian Tetzlaff, violin; Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez, conductor ... Comment?
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Stop the presses: Astoria Festival to do 'Wozzeck'
You read that right. Ruth Dobson, an organizer of the Astoria Music Festival, confirmed today that the festival will perform Alban Berg's opera "Wozzeck" next summer. Comment?
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The cassette tape winds its way back to popularity
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... their debut album, selling 1.5 million copies worldwide. Other producers are also looking to aid the revival. Brian Berg, managing director of Universal Music's UMTV label, said that some of his albums could be released on cassette next year. He ... Comment?
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Audio cassettes make comeback
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... debut album, selling 1.5 million copies worldwide. Other producers are also keen not to miss out on the trend. Brian Berg, managing director of the label Universal Musics UMTV said that some of his albums could be released on cassette next year. He ... Comment?
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Frosh Meet Faust, Break Dance in Annenberg Posted
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... "The floor was a little slippery for breaking, though." Winston S. Waters II '13 added that letting loose in the - Berg made the dining hall seem more "homey" for the freshmen. "I danced until the very end when they made us leave," Deisy Y. Ruiz '13 ... Comment?
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Kelly's Koffee: The Soft Rock cafe
... culture and opened her doors to musicians. Laurie Lewis, a Pipestone classical guitarist and vocalist and Holly Vanden Berg, a Pipestone pianist, are becoming regulars at the Eighth Ave. NE coffee shop and in the future, LaRock has plans to add more ... Comment?
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Kavakos and co | Classical review
... Gautier CapuA on, Kavakos began with Schnittke's String Trio from 1985, composed as a centenary tribute to Alban Berg, but less concerned with celebrating the composer, one suspects, than with exploring Schnittke's own predicament. Both of the ... Comment?
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A Firmly Middle-Class Wozzeck
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In 1927 the Mariinsky Theatre in Leningrad became only the third opera house to stage Alban Berg's "Wozzeck," after the opera's 1925 premiere in Berlin and a production in Prague. Comment?
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Schnittke festival | Classical review
... more satisfactory. Schnittke's Third Symphony was placed alongside Webern's Passacaglia, Lindberg's Chorale and Berg's Violin Concerto, the point being that all four works take Bach as one of their points of departure. Leonidas Kavakos was the ... Comment?
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... and Boris but also for many tragic roles in Verdi, a powerfully portrayed Doctor in the 1959 Prague production of Berg's Wozzeck and his wonderful acting and singing in the operas of Smetana, Dvorak and Janacek. Martinu also featured in his ... Comment?
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Soprano known for subtle working of music
... such complex characters as Leonore in Beethoven's Fidelio , Tatyana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Marie in Alban Berg's Wozzeck . She had a versatile lyric soprano voice and a wide-ranging repertoire that included more than 50 roles in 10 ... Comment?
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... Christmas in the Park will begin its 12th year Friday, opening for the first visitors of the season at 6 p.m. Brian Berg, co-chairperson of the Christmas in the Park committee, said funds raised by the show will go towards the general projects ... Comment?
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Elisabeth Soderstrom, 82, famed Swedish opera singer
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... complex characters as Leonore in Beethoven's "Fidelio,'' Tatyana in Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin'' and Marie in Alban Berg's "Wozzeck.'' She had a versatile lyric soprano voice and a wide-ranging repertoire that included more than 50 roles in 10 ... Comment?
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Canada travel information and guide
... recitals at smaller venues. The productions range from well-trod warhorses like Carmen to edgier works like Alban Berg's Wozzeck , all performed by local singers and name talent from around the world. The annual lineup is announced in May, and ... Comment?
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... Gallery of Art in Washington DC. Moscow Wozzeck On Tuesday the Bolshoi brings to the stage a new production of Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck , based on the 1836 play by Georg BA1 4chner. Berg's masterpiece, about a soldier driven mad by his wife's ... Comment?
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Obituary: Swedish soprano Elisabeth S derstr m
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... Jenufa. At the Royal Opera, she also loved playing the Governess in Britten's The Turn of the Screw and Marie in Berg's Wozzeck, two further distressed women. But she also revelled in lighter things, such as Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus and Saffi in ... Comment?
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This week's music previews
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... violinists. The Southbank's current artist in focus , Kavakos appears as a soloist with the London Philharmonic in Berg's violin concerto (Wed); directing the Salzburg Camerata, for whom he was artistic director from 2007 until this autumn (28 Nov); ... Comment?
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... splash of rustic colour. The first major composer to write seriously for the accordion was Paul Hindemith, while Alban Berg incorporated it into his opera Wozzeck; in neither case did the music stray far from its proletarian roots. Then came Mogens ... Comment?
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