quiz # 1
1 Who said “Only when I experience intensely do I compose.
Only when I compose do I experience intensely.”
2 What famous pianist said “I was not my father's pupil for any significant length of time. I was a student of Leonid Kreutzer.”
3 Who said (and about whom was it said) “Such an astounding lack of talent was never before united to such pretentiousness.”
4 What English conductor said about the harpsichord “Sounds like two skeletons copulating on a corrugated tin roof.”
5 What famous pianist died on stage during a performance of the Grieg Piano Concerto?
6 What two composers insisted that their choral masterpieces came from above?
7 What German composer said “Never look at the trombones. It only encourages them”
8 Of what composer did Berlioz remark “He was dying all his life.”
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Anya Laurence has been a writer (four published books) for a long time and had a career as a concert pianist. She studied with the late Rudolf Firkusny in New York. She has written over 215 articles, many about concerrt artists and performers. One of her books is "Women of Notes: 1,000 Women Composers Born Before 1900."
Answers to Classical Quiz No. 1
1 Gustav Mahler
2 Karl Ulrich Schnabel
3 Peter Tchaikowsky about Richard Strauss
4 Sir Thomas Beecham
5 Simon Barere
6 Josef Haydn about “The Seasons;” George Handel about “Messiah.”
7 Richard Strauss
8 Frederic Chopin
This quiz was created by Anya Laurence. Ms. Laurence has been a writer (four published books) for a long time and had a career as a concert pianist. She studied with the late Rudolf Firkusny in New York and has written over 215 articles, many about concerrt artists and performers. One of her books is "Women of Notes: 1,000 Women Composers Born Before 1900."
Music composed by Hilary Kleinig. Performed for Australian ABC TVs Sunday Arts Programme 2008. Classy Adelaide based quartet featuring.....
Belinda Gehlert and Emily Tulloch - violins
Anna Webb - viola
Hilary Kleinig - cello
Joshua Bell reminisces about his teacher, Josef Gingold, and plays a short piece, at the Indiana University auditorium, on November 1. The finale of the 100th birthday celebration.
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Distinguished Professor Menahem Pressler finds harmony between performance and instruction. The Grammy Award-nominated musician and founding member of the Beaux Arts Trio reflects on a rich life dedicated to music and teaching in this video produced by Chris Meyer.
The Emerson String Quartet has been around for more than three decades and pianist Menahem Pressler for nearly twice as long.
The opening Gala concert of the first Music and Beyond festival featured these artists and was thus steeped in tradition.
The program was pretty traditional, too, featuring three familiar works by Dvorák and Janàcek's String Quartet no. 1, nicknamed the Kreutzer.
The Emerson violinists switch chairs from piece to piece and it fell to Eugene Drucker to lead the opening work, Dvorák's Quartet in E-flat major, op. 51.
Listeners who remember the crystalline perfection of the Emersons' earlier performances here, especially in the mid-1990s, were doubtless disappointed. The former clarity of line has given way to a more homogenous sound without, however, resulting in a particularly good blend.
Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/Opening+concert+reveals+uneven+Emerson+quartet/3239370/story.html#ixzz0tE0hgjqc
Violinist Nick Eanet, the newest member of the Juilliard String Quartet, is to step down as first chair at the end of next season. He replaced Joel Smirnoff just last September, when Smirnoff became head of the Cleveland Institute.
Nick Eanet, who joined the Juilliard String Quartet less than a year ago as first violinist, is resigning for health reasons, the group said on Tuesday. Mr. Eanet has “an acute digestive ailment” that makes it difficult for him to take part in the quartet’s extensive touring, according to a statement. The condition is not life-threatening, it said. Mr. Eanet will spend next season with the quartet while a replacement is sought.
NEW YORK (AP) New York's Metropolitan Opera has survived a brutal fiscal year.
According to 2009 tax returns filed this week the company lost tens of millions of dollars on Wall Street while expenses kept climbing. The Met finished the year with its net worth down to $236 million from $380 million a year earlier.
General Manager Peter Gelb tells The Associated Press the costs of running the world's biggest opera house have always been greater than its earned revenues. But he says the Met is now attracting larger audiences with new productions and high-definition live broadcasts in movie theaters.
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New York (CNN) -- Renée Fleming's new album "Dark Hope" has found the light, having earned the operatic soprano a spot on the Billboard Top 200 chart for the first time.
While debuting at No. 151 might not put her up there with Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga, a place on the pop charts is a feat for any artist whose album success has mostly been measured on the classical chart (which Fleming has topped five times).
The new territory could be attributed to Fleming's radical departure from diva to rocker. On the album she trades velvet gowns and soaring arias for freshly cut bangs and covers of songs like indie-rock band Muse's "Endlessly" and Death Cab for Cutie's "Soul Meets Body."
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U.S. Gov't To Target Music, Movie Pirates
June 22, 2010 - Legal and Management | Digital and Mobile
By Reuters
The United States will go after foreign websites that pirate American music and movie as part of a new national strategy to reduce intellectual property theft, Vice President Joe Biden said on Tuesday.
"This is theft, clear and simple," Biden said at a meeting with Attorney General Eric Holder, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and other Cabinet officials to discuss the new strategy, which also includes steps to reduce piracy and counterfeiting within the United States.
"It's 'smash and grab,' no different than a guy walking down Fifth Avenue and smashing the window at Tiffany's and reaching in and grabbing what's in the window," Biden said, referring to the jewelry store in New York City.
U.S. businesses estimate they lose billions of dollars annually due to piracy and counterfeiting of items including films, music and consumer goods, and blame the illegal trade for U.S. job losses as well.
The U.S. Trade Representative's office has battled to close websites in Russia, China and other countries that sell pirated American music and films.
Biden said the United States would exert increased pressure on............
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The economically troubled, controversy-racked Pasadena Symphony and Pops announced Wednesday that it has hired an artistic advisor – and, for two October concerts , a conductor -- in James DePreist, who led the Oregon Symphony for more than 20 years and is current director of conducting and orchestral studies at the Juilliard School in New York City.
DePreist will conduct the Pasadena Symphony Oct. 23 in its first two concerts at its new home, the Ambassador Auditorium. But Paul Jan Zdunek, the orchestras’ chief executive, said DePreist is not a successor to Jorge Mester, whose 25-year tenure as music director ended last month amid conflicting accounts as to whether he had cut off contract negotiations and resigned, or been fired even after offering to take a substantial cut from a salary in the low $200,000s.
Zdunek said that DePreist will advise on picking guest conductors for three of the other four classical concert programs for 2010-11 and probably for at least another season beyond that.
Instead of beginning a formal search for a new music director, Zdunek .................
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quiz # 1
1 Who said “Only when I experience intensely do I compose.
Only when I compose do I experience intensely.”
2 What famous pianist said “I was not my father's pupil for any significant length of time. I was a student of Leonid Kreutzer.”
3 Who said (and about whom was it said) “Such an astounding lack of talent was never before united to such pretentiousness.”
4 What English conductor said about the harpsichord “Sounds like two skeletons copulating on a corrugated tin roof.”
5 What famous pianist died on stage during a performance of the Grieg Piano Concerto?
6 What two composers insisted that their choral masterpieces came from above?
7 What German composer said “Never look at the trombones. It only encourages them”
8 Of what composer did Berlioz remark “He was dying all his life.”
For answers, click here.
Anya Laurence has been a writer (four published books) for a long time and had a career as a concert pianist. She studied with the late Rudolf Firkusny in New York. She has written over 215 articles, many about concerrt artists and performers. One of her books is "Women of Notes: 1,000 Women Composers Born Before 1900."
Answers to Classical Quiz No. 1
1 Gustav Mahler
2 Karl Ulrich Schnabel
3 Peter Tchaikowsky about Richard Strauss
4 Sir Thomas Beecham
5 Simon Barere
6 Josef Haydn about “The Seasons;” George Handel about “Messiah.”
7 Richard Strauss
8 Frederic Chopin
This quiz was created by Anya Laurence. Ms. Laurence has been a writer (four published books) for a long time and had a career as a concert pianist. She studied with the late Rudolf Firkusny in New York and has written over 215 articles, many about concerrt artists and performers. One of her books is "Women of Notes: 1,000 Women Composers Born Before 1900."
Rolls, Drags and Flams
Stylus Symphony
Composer David Cope
Sept. 20, 2006
El Sistema in Boston
Concert review
Review
The Emerson String Quartet has been around for more than three decades and pianist Menahem Pressler for nearly twice as long.
The opening Gala concert of the first Music and Beyond festival featured these artists and was thus steeped in tradition.
The program was pretty traditional, too, featuring three familiar works by Dvorák and Janàcek's String Quartet no. 1, nicknamed the Kreutzer.
The Emerson violinists switch chairs from piece to piece and it fell to Eugene Drucker to lead the opening work, Dvorák's Quartet in E-flat major, op. 51.
Listeners who remember the crystalline perfection of the Emersons' earlier performances here, especially in the mid-1990s, were doubtless disappointed. The former clarity of line has given way to a more homogenous sound without, however, resulting in a particularly good blend.
Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/Opening+concert+reveals+uneven+Emerson+quartet/3239370/story.html#ixzz0tE0hgjqc
Violinist Nick Eanet, the newest member of the Juilliard String Quartet, is to step down as first chair at the end of next season. He replaced Joel Smirnoff just last September, when Smirnoff became head of the Cleveland Institute.
Nick Eanet, who joined the Juilliard String Quartet less than a year ago as first violinist, is resigning for health reasons, the group said on Tuesday. Mr. Eanet has “an acute digestive ailment” that makes it difficult for him to take part in the quartet’s extensive touring, according to a statement. The condition is not life-threatening, it said. Mr. Eanet will spend next season with the quartet while a replacement is sought.
NEW YORK (AP) New York's Metropolitan Opera has survived a brutal fiscal year.
According to 2009 tax returns filed this week the company lost tens of millions of dollars on Wall Street while expenses kept climbing. The Met finished the year with its net worth down to $236 million from $380 million a year earlier.
General Manager Peter Gelb tells The Associated Press the costs of running the world's biggest opera house have always been greater than its earned revenues. But he says the Met is now attracting larger audiences with new productions and high-definition live broadcasts in movie theaters.
continue reading
New York (CNN) -- Renée Fleming's new album "Dark Hope" has found the light, having earned the operatic soprano a spot on the Billboard Top 200 chart for the first time.
While debuting at No. 151 might not put her up there with Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga, a place on the pop charts is a feat for any artist whose album success has mostly been measured on the classical chart (which Fleming has topped five times).
The new territory could be attributed to Fleming's radical departure from diva to rocker. On the album she trades velvet gowns and soaring arias for freshly cut bangs and covers of songs like indie-rock band Muse's "Endlessly" and Death Cab for Cutie's "Soul Meets Body."
continue reading
U.S. Gov't To Target Music, Movie Pirates
June 22, 2010 - Legal and Management | Digital and Mobile
By Reuters
The United States will go after foreign websites that pirate American music and movie as part of a new national strategy to reduce intellectual property theft, Vice President Joe Biden said on Tuesday.
"This is theft, clear and simple," Biden said at a meeting with Attorney General Eric Holder, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and other Cabinet officials to discuss the new strategy, which also includes steps to reduce piracy and counterfeiting within the United States.
"It's 'smash and grab,' no different than a guy walking down Fifth Avenue and smashing the window at Tiffany's and reaching in and grabbing what's in the window," Biden said, referring to the jewelry store in New York City.
U.S. businesses estimate they lose billions of dollars annually due to piracy and counterfeiting of items including films, music and consumer goods, and blame the illegal trade for U.S. job losses as well.
The U.S. Trade Representative's office has battled to close websites in Russia, China and other countries that sell pirated American music and films.
Biden said the United States would exert increased pressure on............
continue reading
Review by Mark Swed
The economically troubled, controversy-racked Pasadena Symphony and Pops announced Wednesday that it has hired an artistic advisor – and, for two October concerts , a conductor -- in James DePreist, who led the Oregon Symphony for more than 20 years and is current director of conducting and orchestral studies at the Juilliard School in New York City.
DePreist will conduct the Pasadena Symphony Oct. 23 in its first two concerts at its new home, the Ambassador Auditorium. But Paul Jan Zdunek, the orchestras’ chief executive, said DePreist is not a successor to Jorge Mester, whose 25-year tenure as music director ended last month amid conflicting accounts as to whether he had cut off contract negotiations and resigned, or been fired even after offering to take a substantial cut from a salary in the low $200,000s.
Zdunek said that DePreist will advise on picking guest conductors for three of the other four classical concert programs for 2010-11 and probably for at least another season beyond that.
Instead of beginning a formal search for a new music director, Zdunek .................
continue reading