Newsletter Vol: 210 | 15 Oct 2018 Enjoy Les Huguenots in a futuristic setting, discover the most striking composition by George Crumb, and how are bugs portrayed in music?   Orchestral Pipe Dreams Symphonic Works with Organ Feeding the Muse Inspired by Ray Bradbury Cello Concerto Overview The Ought to Haves   Event Wexford Festival Opera Established in 1951, the Wexford Festival Opera has been one of the world’s most well-known cultural landmarks in Ireland, attracting hundreds of thousands of music lovers around the globe each year. Located at the charming seaside town on Ireland’s southeast coast, the festival offers a serene setting to host world class productions... more... Date: October 19 to November 4, 2018 Country: Ireland website What's New Music and Nature: Bugs Les Huguenots at Bastille Opera Bugs and music – hmm, not as common as birds, but then when you start to think about it, they start to creep up on you. Probably the first piece of bug music you might have learned was Frank Loesser’s Inchworm, brought to the silver screen in the movie Hans Christian Anderson. The song has always seemed slightly sad... This was the first time since 1936 that Paris put on Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots, the quintessentially French grand opera. While a popular and influential work since its world premiere in 1836, the enormity of the work, the five-act four-hour plus dimension, and the difficulty of casting make it a challenge for any opera company... more... more... Composers and Their Poets George Crumb Classical Music for All One of the most striking of George Crumb’s compositions is his 1970 song cycle Ancient Voices of Children. Based on fragments of poetry by Federico García Lorca, this work challenges the singer to extremes of vocalizations, set against an ensemble that spans the world in its inclusion... When you ask non-classical music lovers why they are not fond of classical music, the most common answers include “I am not intelligent enough to appreciate it”, “I don’t know music theory” and “it’s so boring”. However, does it really take an intellectual to appreciate the beauty of classical music? more... more... Enjoy My music Video Forgotten records Bersa: Piano Sonata No. 2 in F Minor Prokofiev: Toccata (Haochen Zhang) Liszt: Spanish Rhapsody, S. 254 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.