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Vol: 141 | 1 Dec 2015

Discover the long tradition of riots in famous concert halls,
enjoy John Williams’ memorable film music,
and who’s the muse behind Grieg’s Violin Sonata?

 
Music and Art
Watteau
Les fêtes galantes
Shakespeare and
Music I
Romeo and Juliet
Voices of the Central
Conservatory of Music
in Beijing I
Tan Dun, Chen Yi,
and more
 
Event
York Early Music Christmas Festival
Established in 1977, the festival is an important arts offerings in Britain dedicated to music from and before the eighteenth century. As Britain’s premier festival of historically informed performance, the event is set in some of the country’s most beautiful historic venues including York Minster, Harewood House and the National Centre for Early Music...
Date: December 4 to 13, 2015
Country: United Kingdom
What's New
John Williams and the
Sound of Our Lives
Violent and Unnatural Deaths in Opera II
Film music has always tread that fine line between classical and not-classical. Should it be considered ‘light’ classical or not classical at all? But film music itself is an interesting genre. There are so many films for which the music itself is a wash – nothing memorable comes out of the theatre with us...
In general, weddings tend to be rather happy occasions. This was certainly true, at least initially, for Orfeo and Euridice. The master musician and the most radiant beauty of the ancient world were passionately in love. But on the wedding day a messenger brings the news that while gathering flowers, Euridice has received a fatal snakebite...
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To Boo, Not to Boo or Shriek Bravo – Unruly Audiences Muses and Musings III
Edvard Grieg and Teresina Tua
Does an audience have a right to boo? Or is it boorish, arrogant and rude? There is a long tradition of riots in the concert hall complete with hissing and catcalls and throwing food—tomatoes, radishes (in the case of Maria Callas) turnips (Renata Scotto) and even punches. As far back as the 1600’s, organized groups of professional applauders were hired to incite the audience...
“To all appearances,” Edvard Grieg wrote in 1882,”I am living a more peaceful life than ever before, but in reality it is a life full of inward struggle. I am both spiritually and bodily unwell and decide every other day not to compose another note, because I satisfy myself less and less...”
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Enjoy
My music Video Forgotten records

Rode: Violin Concerto no 2
in E Major Op.9 –
II Siciliano

Price’s farewell
at the MET

Roussel: Three Piano Pieces,
op. 49 –
Allegro con spirito

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