Newsletter Vol: 173 | 1 Apr 2017 Dance with spontaneous jazzy tunes, discover the art of the piano encore, and who is the “Schubert of North Germany”?   Composers and their Poets Hahn Live life! It’s good for you and your music Musical Giants of the 20th Century Trumpets   Event Osterfestspiele Salzburg Commencing as an expansion to the traditional summertime Salzburg Festival, the Osterfestspiele Salzburg was founded in 1967 by Herbert von Karajan. This annual festival is held during Easter week embraces opera and classical music in the delightful city of Salzburg. All the concerts and operas reward the alpine landscape and enthusiastic atmosphere, at the Großes Festspielhaus is where the experience takes place, presenting major opera productions of high artistic standards from the beginning to the end... more... Date: April 8 to 17, 2017 Country: Austria website What's New More please! The Art of the Piano Encore Composers and Their Poets Loewe The concert is complete, the applause is given generously. The performer bows, acknowledging the audience and their applause, and leaves the stage. The applause grows more enthusiastic and the performer returns once again to take a bow and thank the audience for their appreciation... For the singing German 19th century, we tend to focus these days on Schubert and Schumann. But there were many many other lied composers and for an example we can look at Carl Loewe (1796-1869). He was an exact contemporary of Schubert and became known for his own lieder compositions... more... more... Musical Giants of the 20th Century All That Jazz! Nearly a Meisterstueck Kaspar Holten’s Meistersinger von Nuernberg A discussion of Musical Giants would not be complete without naming the towering artists of twentieth century jazz: Clark Terry, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Dizzie Gillespie, Quincey Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Thelonius Monk, Billie Holiday... In his farewell production after a six year tenure as Director of Opera at Covent Garden, Kasper Holten managed a veritable hat trick. He turned Wagner’s notoriously overlong opera (at nearly five hours it is possibly the longest single opera) into a thrilling, thought-inspiring and stimulating evening... more... more... Enjoy My music Video Forgotten records Goetz: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major Dave Brubeck: Take Five Clementi: Sonata in D minor op. 50, No. 2 listen watch listen Copyright Interlude.hk 2017 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.