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Vol: 123 | 1 Mar 2015
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Discover musical form in architecture,
enjoy Wagner’s thrilling opera,
and do you know the difference
between violin and viola?
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“In The Zone”
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How Performers
Do It
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Weapons of War
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Music as Propaganda
and Torture
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Amadeus Makeover
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Beautiful transcriptions
of Mozart
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| Event |
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Budapest Spring Festival
Established in 1980, the event is one of Hungary’s most prominent cultural festival that attracts music and art enthusiasts from all around the world every year. Since its first inception, the festival has featured a diverse series of programmes, covering orchestral concerts, chamber evenings, church concerts, opera performances, musicals, folk dance, exhibitions and more. |
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Date: April 10 to 26, 2015
Country: Hungary
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| What's New |
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| Instruments of the Orchestra II: The Viola |
Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev
Pianist, Scholar and Composer |
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Ah, the poor viola, butt of a thousand jokes (What’s the difference between a violin and a viola? The viola burns longer), but, in the end, provides the warm sound that counteracts the often brittle violin sound. In a string quartet, the viola is the filmic best friend: provides a lot of support but rarely gets the girl (or the melody)... |
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When Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev (1856-1915) attended the funeral of his student Alexander Scriabin in 1915, he caught a rather severe flu. Instead of taking proper medicine and rest, he continued to resist the virus and persisted with his demanding performance schedule... |
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Musical Form in Architecture
August Endell (1871-1925) |
Der Fliegende Holländer
ROH, February 17, 2015 |
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Believe it or not, the dictionaries and most prominent reference books of 1878 did not have a word to identify what we now think of as abstract art. The best anybody could do at the time was to compare paintings to work of music, and specifically to works of absolute music like the symphony or the nocturne... |
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Richard Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) is an opera with unusually extensive chorus segments. And Director Tim Albery’s production at the Royal Opera House puts the chorus to unusually good use. Enthusiastic, dramatically intense and vocally polished, this chorus lit an explosive spark to an already supercharged set and performance... |
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| My music |
Video |
Forgotten records |
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Pictures at an Exhibition
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Bartok Viola Concerto
Maxim Rysanov
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Stravinsky: Italian Suite – Introduction
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