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Vol: 134 | 15 Aug 2015
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Meet with Edita Gruberová the forever young diva,
enjoy a fun-filled night with Igudesman and Joo,
and discover talents from the Liszt Academy of Music.
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Music and Art
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The Sound of Paintings I
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Marian Anderson
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Great Women Artists
Who Shaped Music
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Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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Virtuoso, Composer,
and Statesman!
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Schubertiade Schwarzenberg (August)
Dedicated to the famous Viennese composer, Franz Schubert, the first Schubertiade was founded in 1976 by Hermann Prey in a small peaceful town in the western part of Austria called Hohenems. Schubertiade hosts four outstanding events annually (two in Schwarzenberg and two in Hohenems) that preserve intimacy and are constantly focused on mastering the impossible... |
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Date: August 22 to 30, 2015
Country: Austria
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| Voices of the Liszt Academy of Music I |
Music and Art: Botticelli |
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Already during his performing days, Franz Liszt lent his name to a number of commercial enterprises, endorsing everything from pianos and furniture to chocolates and liquors. Things got even more interesting after his death, as Liszt’s name adorned all manner of real estate, from streets and squares to public parks... |
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We know Sandro Botticelli as that 15th-century painter who was able to capture the ineffable in his works, be it the personification of a season, the birth of a goddess, or an important Biblical meeting. The early Renaissance painter Botticelli (c.1445-1510) worked in Florence with Lorenzo de’ Medici as his patron... |
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Edita Gruberová
No short cuts in a very long career |
Classical Comedy – Igudesman and Joo Come to Town |
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Gaetano Donizetti’s rarely performed masterpiece Roberto Devereux screams out for a truly great soprano as the Tudor Queen Elisabeth I. Certainly the most successful Donizetti opera commissioned by the great impresario Domenico Barbaja (in 1837), the work was largely forgotten until prima donnas like Beverly Sills and Montserrat Caballé revived it in the 1970s... |
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When William Herschel peered into the night sky on 13 March 1781, he noticed something rather peculiar. One of the celestial bodies he had been observing through his homemade telescope was moving oddly across the sky, and Herschel initially thought that he had found a new comet. After further observations and extended discussions with colleagues and friends, however, Herschel came to the realization that he was not looking at a comet or a star... |
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| My music |
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Forgotten records |
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Chamber Symphonies -
Dmitri Shostakovitch
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Igudesman and Joo
Mozart's Alla Turka
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Nielsen: Concerto for
Violin and Orchestra, op. 33
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