Newsletter Vol: 229 | 1 Aug 2019 Embark on a trip to the Moon, enjoy the voice of vibrato, and who are the ensemble players in The Wedding at Cana?   Is Classical Music “Elitist”? No, But You Might Be! Who Actually Won At the Tchaikovsky Competition? A Trip to the Moon Apollo 11, 20 July 1969   Event The International Music Festival Chopin and his Europe First organized in 2005 by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, the festival was immediately recognized as a major artistic event. Its main purpose is to present the music of Chopin in a broad cultural context, indicating the varied inspirations of his ingenious style in addition to his relations with other 19th century composers and artists of later generations. more... Date: August 14 to September 1, 2019 Country: Poland website What's New The Voice of Vibrato Musicians and Artists: Ortiz and Veronese Vibrato can make you feel more than what is intended. String instruments pronounce it, woodwinds make it felt, brass, well maybe it only slightly works for them, but the human voice excels with applied vibrato. Select and functional vibrato can change the whole tone of a song or a piece of music... Art historians have been arguing about the identity of the players since the 1670s. A new study in 2017 suggests that the model that Veronese used for the viola da gambist was keyed to the arrival in Venice of the Spanish master of the instrument, Diego Ortiz, chapel master at the Court of Naples... more... more... Thou Shall Not Steal Piano Competitions Olympics for Pianists or an Important Part of a Young Musician’s Development? The more I compose and create, the more I agree with this well-known Picasso quote—or Stravinsky for the same matter, as the ambiguity on the ownership persists. Actually, thanks to Cage and his writings, I have been refining my definition of a composer to: organiser of sounds... Piano competitions assemble the most prodigious pianists from around the world, whose playing is assessed by a specially appointed jury, usually consisting of piano ‘celebrities’ and acclaimed teachers, the unquestioned authorities on piano playing... more... more... Enjoy My music Video Forgotten records Bennett: Piano Sextet in F-Sharp Minor Spohr: Nonet in F major Op.31 (Chineke! Orchestra) Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 in G minor listen watch listen Copyright Interlude.hk 2019 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.