Newsletter Vol: 197 | 1 April 2018 Embark on a musical train journey, meet with the influential cellist Felix Salmond, and enjoy Gilad Hochman’s Fantasia-Concertante.   Anatoly Lunacharsky More than the Saviour of Prokofiev At the Center of the Musical Universe Robert and Clara Schumann Sounding Cosmology Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)   Event SWR Schwetzinger Festspiele Founded in 1952, the festival is held annually in the historical town of Schwetzinger in southwestern Germany. Situated in the Schwetzingen Castle, a beautiful 250-year-old palace and park near Heidelberg, concerts are mainly presented in the historic Schlosstheater Schwetzingen. The event is well-known for its world premiere of both new opera productions... more... Date: April 27 to May 26, 2018 Country: Germany website What's New In Touch with Gilad Hochman IC2018 Guest Artist Forgotten Cellists XIII Felix Salmond Gilad Hochman, one of Israel’s leading young composers, will be the guest composer for one week of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s annual Intimacy of Creativity festival. Intimacy of Creativity (IC), is where composers and performers meet for two weeks of creative interaction... Felix Salmond (1888-1952) was one of the most influential cello teachers in America. As a professor at the Juilliard School, and later the Curtis Institute of Music, his pupils include Leonard Rose, Samuel Mayes, Orlando Cole, Bernard Greenhouse, Frank Miller, Eleanor Aller, Elsa Hilger, and others... more... more... Full Steam Ahead Musical Train Journeys Nemorino in Tokyo An Interview with Saimir Pirgu In the early 1920’s, steam locomotives were at the forefront of modern technology. To be fair, the automobile had started to catch the public’s imagination and passenger airplanes appeared in the sky, but steam was still the preferred high-speed transport. Trains certainly fueled the imagination... In discussing the wide-range of characters he’s sung and his current role, lyric tenor Saimir Pirgu says he likes the roles where he doesn’t die at the end, contrasting his current role of Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore at the National Theatre in Tokyo and his title role last month in Romeo and Juliet... more... more... Enjoy My music Video Forgotten records Widor: Introduction et Rondo Op. 72 Schubert: Erlkönig by Benjamin Appl Balakirev: Sonata for piano in B-flat minor listen watch listen Copyright Interlude.hk 2018 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.