Topic: PREMIERE
Italy's Spoleto Festival to Feature Modern World Premiere of Forgotten Vivaldi Opera...LINK
Wednesday, 10 May 2006
Topic: PREMIERE American composer Elliott Carter is about as old as modern music itself. He was born in December 1908, the same month that Schoenberg began his siege on tonality with the premiere of his Second String Quartet. Mahler would soon compose his Ninth Symphony. Charles Ives, at that point an unknown composer, later wrote Mr. Carter's recommendation for college. And there he was on Friday night at Carnegie Hall, 97, standing to receive applause after the New York premiere of "Intermittences." ...LINK to complete story
Friday, 28 April 2006
Topic: PREMIERE
Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance" marches have been Proms favourites for years. And this summer, more than 70 years after his death, the premiere of a new one is likely to be a high point of the Proms festival. ...LINK to complete story
Thursday, 27 April 2006
Topic: PREMIERE
NY Philharmonic Postpones May 24 World-Premiere of Peter Lieberson's The World in Flower ...LINK to complete story
Monday, 10 April 2006
Topic: PREMIERE
Nagano's Inaugural Bavarian Staatsoper Season to Feature Two World Premieres, Four New Productions ...LINK to complete story
Sunday, 9 April 2006
Topic: PREMIERE
Cellist Matt Haimovitz will give the world premiere of Apres Moi, le Deluge, a "post-Katrina lament" for cello and choir by Luna Pearl Woolf, in Madison, Wisconsin, today [Sunday, April 9, 2006] ...LINK to complete story
Thursday, 6 April 2006
Topic: PREMIERE
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales returns to Mid Wales this month and will perform the world premiere of the Oboe Concerto by Guto Puw, the orchestra's new Resident Composer. The Oboe Concerto was written especially for the Orchestra's Principal Oboe, David Cowley.
...LINK to complete story
Topic: PREMIERE
Hitting a Low Note
Passed Up by the NSO, Concerto For Contrabassoon Premieres in Norway
...LINK to complete story
Wednesday, 8 February 2006
Topic: PREMIERE
The Philadelphia Orchestra has postponed the world premiere of Bright Sheng's Concerto for Orchestra: Zodiac Tales, which had been scheduled for February 23. ...LINK to complete news story
Tuesday, 31 January 2006
Topic: PREMIERE
SACRAMENTO CALIFORNIA Philharmonic's 2006-07 season will feature a trio of new works
The Sacramento Philharmonic's 2006-07 season will feature three world
premieres, two from California composers who are writing works about the
Chinese American experience, plus a rescheduled premiere of a symphonic
work by Andre Previn.
...LINK to complete news story
Thursday, 5 January 2006
Topic: PREMIERE
The Cleveland Orchestra Performs the U.S. Premiere of Marc-Andre Dalbavie's Piano Concerto
Assistant Conductor James Gaffigan stands in for the Ailing Franz Welser-Most
...LINK to complete news story
Tuesday, 13 December 2005
Topic: PREMIERE
Next year's Edinburgh International Festival will see the first performance of King of the Wood, a new opera written by Scottish composer Stuart MacRae. A rapidly rising star on the classical music scene, MacRae has teamed up with the poet Simon Armitage for his first attempt at at opera. Together, they are adapting an ancient Roman myth about the goddess Diana and her priests for the stage. ...LINK to complete news story
Friday, 2 December 2005
Topic: PREMIERE
Peter Lieberson's new set of love songs to his wife is a thing of silvery, 3 a.m. beauty. In the half-light and glimmer of the orchestra, a melody leaps languidly upward like a dancer on the moon. This is music of untethered lyricism, born of the voice - specifically, the burnished-copper mezzo of its dedicatee, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson.
...LINK to complete news story
Monday, 28 November 2005
Topic: PREMIERE
Philadelphia-based Jennifer Higdon's Percussion Concerto, premiered Friday by the Philadelphia Orchestra, was bound to be one of her most original pieces. ...LINK to complete news story
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American composer Elliott Carter is about as old as modern music itself. He was born in December 1908, the same month that Schoenberg began his siege on tonality with the premiere of his Second String Quartet. Mahler would soon compose his Ninth Symphony. Charles Ives, at that point an unknown composer, later wrote Mr. Carter's recommendation for college. And there he was on Friday night at Carnegie Hall, 97, standing to receive applause after the New York premiere of "Intermittences."
