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Instead of performing the first act, the ballet company will perform four pieces of their own. The four pieces will feature the music of classical composers such as Schumann and Chopin and from more modern movies, including "The Godfather" and "Orlando."
What did Beethoven's symphonies sound like to Beethoven? The composer was deaf for most of his creative life, so he heard his music in his head, but what sounds was he imagining as he wrote a score? And what did the music sound like to his listeners, before whose...
We tend to hear Beethoven today as the precursor to the Romantics. Gardiner takes the opposite tack; for him, Beethoven is the natural successor to the classical school of Haydn (his teacher) and Mozart. After all, Beethoven did not know Bruckner and Mahler were on their way, but he certainly...
I have the somewhat dubious distinction of owning the entire discography of Midori on compact disc, from Bartok to her two recital collections. Naturally, for completion's sake, I picked up her latest offering on Sony Classical--a coupling of the Sibelius violin concerto and Max Bruch's Scottish Fantasy...
His theater isn't realist, like Caravaggio's, but it is based on a codification of reality, a formal, elevated representation of passion and thought. In this he was absolutely French -- the contemporary of Pierre Corneille, whose tragedies revolved around ideas of free will, exemplary virtue and conflicts between desire...