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Hugues Cuenod, the oldest singer ever to debut at the Metropolitan Opera, celebrates his 105th birthday with a message to his younger colleagues: Don't shout.
Cuenod, until recently the world's oldest active opera performer, was
known
throughout his seven-decade career for his acting and a light, natural
tenor ...
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At age 18, Dominik Maican is already an acclaimed composer, with six symphonies, a mass, chamber music pieces, solo piano works and songs to his credit. Dominik is a U.S. citizen, but was born in Koln, Germany, and moved to Washington, DC, in 1991 with his parents Drs. Valerica Maican and Marcel Maican. Dominik beganstudying piano at the age of 3 and composition at the age of 5 with his mother. He isthe proud recipient of nine piano awards and over 40 awards for musical compositionThis fall Maican will attend Indiana University, home to one of the largest music schools in the United States. He says he hopes to get a well-rounded education and leave some of his concentrated music studies behind.
JACK GALLAGHER [photo] Diversions Overture; The Kiev Philharmonic; Robert Ian Winstin, cond.
MOZART Violin Concerto No 4 K218; Maxim Vengerov, violin-cond; UBS Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra
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BIZET Petite Suite, pieces (5) for orchestra (orchestration of Jeux d'enfants Nos. 6, 3, 2, 11, 12); Bastille Opera Orchestra; Myung-Whun Chung, cond.
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...and many other selections.
The San Antonio Symphony named Ken Masur, the son of
longtime New York Philharmonic music director Kurt Masur, its new
resident
conductor. ...
At the annual Ceremonial of the American Academy of Arts
and Letters in New York, Steven Stucky [left] was inducted as a newly-elected
member, and George Tsontakis [right] was honored with the fourth Charles Ives
Living Award, which provides a generous stipend for three years, enabling
the composer to concentrate on composition, without other salaried
employment during that time.
Was a former conductor of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra.
Efrain Guigui died
Monday 18 JUN 2007, in Los Angeles from complications of cancer. Guigui was
81. Music Director and Conductor Efrain Guigui's experience included the Puerto Rico Symphony, the Casals Festival, the Vermont Symphony, the Dartmouth Symphony, and the Panama Symphony. He premiered a great number of contemporary works and was honored with the Ditson Conductors Award for 1986. Maestro Guigui guest conducted in the United States and abroad.
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RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 1; Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano; Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam; Bernard Haitink, cond.
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GRANADOS Intermezzo from Goyescas London Symphony Orchestra; Rafael Frubeck de Burgos, cond. ALTERNATE ALBUM NOTES | Read more about Granados
PROKOFIEV Symphony No 1 Op 25 Classical; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Sir Georg Solti, cond.
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A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
I am an inventor of music.
I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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