Newsletter Vol: 230 | 15 Aug 2019 Enjoy Richard Danielpour’s song cycle, get in touch with Long Yu, and is music a valueless product?   Musicians and Artists Farinelli and Amigoni Must We Have Music With Everything? Aaron Rosand Last of a Generation   Event Musikfest Bremen Founded in 1990, Musikfest Bremen has been a cultural enrichment in the famous Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. Apart from regular recitals and concerts, the festival also presents interesting events like the Surprise Festival (Musikfest Surprise), which features some freshly experimental productions and interpretations of familiar classical repertoires. more... Date: August 24 to September 14, 2019 Country: Germany website What's New Are Classical Musicians “Stuffy”? Long Yu: Guardian of the Orchestral Galaxy Many people, who are not “in the know” – and even some who are! – regard classical music as elitist and its practitioners as either formal and old-fashioned or pretentious so-and-so’s who have set themselves up as demi-gods... If the musicians’ world is a game subject to a set of hidden protocols governing the music industry like a Law of Nature, Long Yu must be its top predator thanks to his powerful friends. Untamed, he rules with pride his three orchestras... more... more... Danielpour’s Talking with Aphrodite and other works Is Music a Valueless Product? In Erica Jong’s 2003 novel Sappho’s Leap, Sappho stands on the edge of the cliff, but now, instead of taking the fatal leap because of her unrequited love for the boatman Phaon, she confronts the Goddess of Love, Aphrodite, and rewrites the lost centuries of her history... The things music has given me and the beauty and pleasure I get from listening to and creating music are beyond almost all other connections in my life. Regardless of what sort of music that comes along, even if I became deaf like Beethoven, music has and always will change and move me... more... more... Enjoy My music Video Forgotten records D'Or: Exaltation João Gilberto: Insensatez Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2 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.