Word: haydn
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...great conductors firsthand and by studying at the academy with one of the great teachers of the 20th century, Hans Swarowsky. The Vienna Philharmonic opened my ears and Swarowsky opened my mind to the treasures of the Viennese classics. To this day, the huge musical arc that starts with Haydn and goes to Webern constitutes 80% of my repertoire...
...Peter Haydn, an editor of the B.U. Free Dally Press, said yesterday that the newspaper and believes that strike is a " "silly" idea. "They will go home when they get hungry," be added...
TIME: How will the BPO's repertoire change under your direction? RATTLE: There are a lot of areas of music that the orchestra has not played much in the last years, surprisingly including Haydn and Mozart. I like to have a good deal of unusual music in a season, but that does not necessarily have to be contemporary...
...started with a week in New York City preparing for a concert with the New England Symphonic Ensemble. The week had been adventurously assorted: visiting friends, discovering the parks, street fairs, libraries and museums with my mom, practicing Haydn and Vivaldi in my hotel room, performing with the orchestra and several choirs to a crowd...
...half the noblest clans in Spain, she was the most cultivated, educated and liberal woman of her age: patron of writers and artists (including, notably, Goya), with her own theater where new plays by the leading dramatists of the day were given, her own chamber orchestra to play Haydn and Boccherini to her guests, and a deep involvement with issues of women's rights and education. She gazes at us with an expression of limitless composure, looking neither down on her viewers nor up at them, serene and in every sense noble: an ilustrada de primera clase, a living epitome...