Newsletter Vol: 203 | 1 Jul 2018 Enjoy Bach’s joke in the Peasant Cantata, discover the Chirogymnast from musical torture chambers, and what happens when Girls are Boys?   Classical Music for Alien Civilizations The Golden Record Should I be applauding now? The Appropriateness of Applause Fall of the Gods Engaging the Mozart Myth   Event Festival d’Aix-en-Provence First held in 1948, the event is an annual international music festival dedicated to opera. Taking place each summer in Aix-en-Provence, the house programme also features concerts of orchestral, chamber, vocal and solo instrumental music. History has seen the expansion of festival venues from the courtyard of the former archbishop’s palace to the majestic architecture of the Grand Théâtre de Provence... more... Date: July 4 to 24, 2018 Country: France website What's New When Girls are Boys The Chirogymnast We’ve all been to the opera when they cast young men with unchanged voices in operatic roles and, well, they may not just have, let’s say, the vocal maturity to carry this off. Time for the women to take charge! In some cases, the vocal problem comes from changing audience taste. Beginning with the very first operas... The importance attached to virtuosity at the beginning of the 19th century is evidenced by the publication of an enormous number of new methods for piano. The great majority was directed towards the acquisition of practical and technical perfection in performance. Carl Czerny made a good living churning out his famous Klavierschule... more... more... Bach Makes a Joke The Peasant Cantata Music for the Eyes From Music Catalogue Breitkopf & Härtel In 1742, Bach, late in his career, took a long look back at the music of his day and made such a thorough-going parody of it that we’re still not sure if he was making a social commentary or a musical joke. The Peasant Cantata, BWV 212, also has the title of Mer Hahn en neue Oberkeet, which in local Saxon, for We have a new Governor... No other invention had a greater impact on how music found its way from the composer to the public than the printing of music. After Ottaviano Petrucci published the first edition of the famous Harmonice Musices Odhecaton A in Venice in March 1501, the musical world would never be the same... more... more... Enjoy My music Video Forgotten records Gordon Jacob: Violin Concerto II. Andante espressivo Gounod: Ave Verum Handel: Concerto for Organ in G 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.