Newsletter Vol: 158 | 15 Aug 2016 Celebrate Misia’s friendships with various artists, meet with Mozart of the 20th century, and how did Debussy change a scholar’s fate?   Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Great Women Artists Who Shaped Music Musical Giants of the 20th Century Orchestra Conductors Misia Sert Muse and Patron to Poets, Painters and Musicians   Event Musikfest Bremen Founded in 1990, Musikfest Bremen has been a cultural enrichment in the famous Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. Apart from regular recitals and concerts, the festival also presents interesting events like the Surprise Festival (Musikfest Surprise), which features some freshly experimental productions and interpretations of familiar classical repertoires... more... Date: August 20 to September 10, 2016 Country: Germany website What's New An Artist at the Opera David Roberts A Piece Whose Time Has Finally Come It’s often said of artists that they need a solid job they can go back to once that artist thing doesn’t work out. For painter and scenic designer David Roberts (1796-1864), that solid job he could go back to was, in fact, painting, but house-painting, not fine art painting... Pianist Sarah Beth Briggs was asked to play a piano reduction of Hans Gál’s Cello Concerto when her friend Antonio Meneses was working on it and was so impressed with Gál’s orchestral writing that she asked her producer, Simon Fox- Gál, if she could look at the score for his grandfather’s piano concerto... more... more... How Debussy changed a Scholar’s fate The Twentieth Century Mozart Fifty years have passed since China’s Cultural Revolution, during which citizens were severely oppressed by restrictions on culture. Unbelievably, the incendiary spark of the Cultural Revolution was a critique titled “Notes on the New Historical Drama ‘Hai Rui Dismissed from Office’” published in the Wenhui Bao... Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s parents named him after Mozart. Against all odds, Erich lived up to the hype by becoming one of the greatest prodigies in music history. The little boy was born in May 1897 in Brünn (now Brno in the Czech Republic). His mother was an amateur pianist and singer named Josefine... more... more... Enjoy My music Video Forgotten records Kapustin: Cello Concerto No. 2 Op. 103 Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 conducted by Arturo Toscanini Mendelssohn: Sextet in D major listen watch listen Copyright Interlude.hk 2016 All rights reserved. Important: If you are not receiving Interlude's newsletter regularly, please check your spam folder. Also add the address info@interlude.hk to your addressbook.