Newsletter Vol: 140 | 15 Nov 2015 Meet with soprano Julie Fuchs, the rising talent, discover the art of page-turning, and have you ever heard of the “Resonant Chamber”?   Variations on a Subject In Poetry, Music and Art Muses and Musings II Bohuslav Martinů and Albert Einstein Susan Wadsworth Great Women Artists Who Shaped Music   Event Lucerne Festival at the Piano The prestigious Lucerne Festival had first begun in 1938 in the gardens facing Richard Wagner’s villa in Tribschen. Its first season had featured the legendary Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini conducting an élite orchestra specially assembled for the occasion... more... Date: November 21 to 29, 2015 Country: Switzerland website What's New Impossible Instruments Music and Art: Goya II Man’s creativity comes to the fore in music: new sounds, new rhythms, new combinations. But, are there times when imagination can outstrip reality? We’ve found a couple of impossible instruments that seem to meet that criterion. The cat piano or cat organ was designed, but we hope, never built... We looked earlier at the Spanish artist Francisco Goya (1746 – 1828) and how his ‘maja’ pictures influenced the 20th century Spanish composer Enrique Granados (1867-1916) to create his Goyescas. Other engravings by Goya from his series Los Caprichos were similarly influential on the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968)... more... more... Julie Fuchs Page Turning; it’s harder than you think… Recently returning from her Paris Opéra debut, singing La Folie in Rameau’s Platée, and finding a moment of respite before a run of Il viaggio a Reims in Zurich, soprano Julie Fuchs is building an acclaimed reputation in the operatic world. A joint study of violin and voice quickly made it apparent that singing was Julie’s true calling... I’m often asked to turn the pages for pianists at my local music society, but I tend to decline because the responsibility of page-turning is one which should not be taken lightly. An ability to read music well does not automatically qualify one for the role, and many people do not realise that page-turning is an art in itself... more... more... Enjoy My music Video Forgotten records Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 8, 21, 32 (Giltburg) Scriabin's Prometheus: Poem of Fire Schumann: Fantasy in C major, op. 17 listen watch listen Copyright Interlude.hk 2015 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.