When Gustavo Dudamel takes the stage at the Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s Day concert this weekend, he will be the youngest music conductor ever to lead the famed event.
The annual New Year’s Concert, which will be hosted by Oscar-winner Julie Andrews, features melodies from the Strauss Family and their contemporaries — and broadcasts live to over 90 countries.
“You don’t just have to know a lot about music — you have to know a lot about psychology and philosophy,” Dudamel recently told People. “Conducting is being a leader. A hundred people trust that you can guide them.”
Along...
The annual New Year’s Concert, which will be hosted by Oscar-winner Julie Andrews, features melodies from the Strauss Family and their contemporaries — and broadcasts live to over 90 countries.
“You don’t just have to know a lot about music — you have to know a lot about psychology and philosophy,” Dudamel recently told People. “Conducting is being a leader. A hundred people trust that you can guide them.”
Along...
- 12/30/2016
- by Mariah Haas
- PEOPLE.com
In the wake of the terrible attacks in Paris, I found myself listening to a lot of French music and thinking about the Leonard Bernstein quote going around on Facebook: "This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before." This list came to seem like my natural response. A very small response, I know. This list is chronological and leaves off people I should probably include. The forty [note: now forty-one] composers listed below are merely a start.
Léonin Aka Leoninus (c.1135-c.1201)
The Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris in the 1100s was a major musical center, and Léonin (the first named composer from whom we have notated polyphonic music) was a crucial figure for defining the liturgical use of organum, the first polyphony. Earlier organum was fairly simple, involving parallel intervals and later contrary motion, but the mid-12th century brought...
Léonin Aka Leoninus (c.1135-c.1201)
The Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris in the 1100s was a major musical center, and Léonin (the first named composer from whom we have notated polyphonic music) was a crucial figure for defining the liturgical use of organum, the first polyphony. Earlier organum was fairly simple, involving parallel intervals and later contrary motion, but the mid-12th century brought...
- 11/15/2015
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
TV Picks: Merry Christmas Eve! Happy Hanukkah!Stage and screen legend Julie Andrews returns for the sixth time to host the festive annual From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2015 with the Vienna Philharmonic, under the direction of Zubin Mehta, from Vienna’s Musikverein. The Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna State Ballet return for the beloved annual tradition against the joyful backdrop of the scenic cityThis Year Conducted by Zubin Mehta, On Thirteen’s Great Performances Thursday, January 1 at 2:30 and 8 p.m. Et on PBS From PBS/ThirteenFrom Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2015, featuring the infectious melodies of the Strauss Family and […]...
- 12/24/2014
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
This week, Vulture will be publishing our critics' year-end lists. 1. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Metropolitan Opera The Met had a rough year: the threat of a strike, conflict over the allegedly terrorist-loving The Death of Klinghoffer, and a nauseating deficit ($22 million!). But once the curtain goes up, such trivial problems fade in favor of much worse ones, like those playing out in Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. In Graham Vick’s long-absent vintage production, the soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek made killing your husband, banging his employee, poisoning his father, and going on a death march to Siberia into a hugely entertaining evening.2. St. Matthew Passion, Peter Sellars and the Berlin Philharmonic Sellars reconfigured both the Park Avenue Armory and Bach’s oratorio, performing the piece in the round and bringing out the intimate human currents in a monumental, scriptural score. Led by Simon Rattle, it was also terrific theater. 3. Salome,...
- 12/11/2014
- by Justin Davidson
- Vulture
You might think New Year’s Eve TV is all about the countdown, but we at TVLine have compiled plenty of other hidden gems for you to keep on your radar. As 2013 becomes ’14, enjoy marathons of current favorites (The Walking Dead, The Mindy Project), New Year’s specials and, of course, the most important 10 seconds of the year. Enjoy!
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- 12/31/2013
- by riannucci
- TVLine.com
Despite circumstances that would make most men bitter, Anton Bruckner (Sept. 24, 1824 – Oct. 11, 1896) in his mature symphonies and choral works wrote some of the most spiritual music since Bach's. Insecure, he spent his thirties studying with the dictatorial music professor Simon Sechter, who had briefly taught Franz Schubert. Brucker didn't compose a symphony until 1863, the "Study" Symphony, which he withheld (as he did the later so-called No. 0).
In Vienna, Bruckner was considered by many to be a naïve country bumpkin; he got unfairly entangled in the bitter Brahms-Wagner debates that split the city. Bruckner's symphonies were thus the object of myopic criticism from some in the Brahms camp, including powerful critic Eduard Hanslick (however, Wagner, Liszt, and Emperor Franz Joseph I were among those who praised or supported Bruckner). The unprecedented length of Bruckner's symphonies, which develop in slow-moving monoliths of sound, was an impediment for some listeners. Bruckner, an excellent organist,...
In Vienna, Bruckner was considered by many to be a naïve country bumpkin; he got unfairly entangled in the bitter Brahms-Wagner debates that split the city. Bruckner's symphonies were thus the object of myopic criticism from some in the Brahms camp, including powerful critic Eduard Hanslick (however, Wagner, Liszt, and Emperor Franz Joseph I were among those who praised or supported Bruckner). The unprecedented length of Bruckner's symphonies, which develop in slow-moving monoliths of sound, was an impediment for some listeners. Bruckner, an excellent organist,...
- 10/10/2011
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
The British star's performance of Northern Ireland Secretary of State Mo Mowlam - who died aged 55 from a brain tumour in 2005 – in 'Mo' will go up against Adriana Esteves in 'Songs of Betrayal', Noomi Rapace in 'Millennium' and Athena Chu Yan in 'A Wall-less World'. 'Mo' detailed the later years of the politician as she struggled to deal with her own medical issues and fight for peace in Northern Ireland, and has also been nominated in the best TV Movie/Mini-Series category. In the Best Actor list, former 'Doctor Who' star Christopher Eccleston ('Accused') will fight Fabio Assuncao from 'Songs of Betrayal', Jang Hyuk's 'The Slave Hunters' and Michael Nyqvist in 'Millennium'. Singapore series 'The Noose Season 3' has been nominated in the Best Comedy series, against 'Benidorm Bastards' from Belgium, Britain's 'Facejacker' – where members of the public are duped by fictional characters played...
- 10/6/2011
- IrishCentral
Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Julie Walters, Millennium Series: International Emmys 2011 Nominations Arts programming: All My Life: Adoniran Barbosa (TV Globo/Brazil). Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne (Twenty Twenty Television/U.K.). In der Werkstatt Beethovens — Die Neunte, Thielemann und die Wiener Philharmoniker (Unitel GmbH & Co. Kg/Zdf/3sat/Germany). Memories of Origin — Hiroshi Sugimoto the Contemporary Artist(Wowow Inc./TV Man Union, Inc./Japan). Best performance by an actor: Fábio Assunção, Songs of Betrayal, (TV Globo/Brazil). Christopher Eccleston, Accused (Rsj Films for BBC One/U.K.). Jang Hyuk, The Slave Hunters (Korean Broadcasting System/South Korea). Michael Nyqvist, Millenium (Yellow Bird/Svt/Zdf/Nordisk Film /Sweden). Best performance by an actress: Athena Chu Yan, A Wall-less World (Radio Television Hong Kong/Social Welfare Department/Hong Kong, China). Adriana Esteves, Songs of Betrayal (TV Globo/Brazil). Noomi Rapace, Millenium (Yellow Bird/Svt/Zdf/Nordisk Film/Sweden). Julie Walters, Mo (ITV Studios...
- 10/5/2011
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
The Shutter Island soundtrack. Lavish outlays of cash on sonic canvases from the back catalogue of Jumpin’ Prince Mick and the Keefster is probably what most famously characterises the soundtracks of prior Martin Scorsese movies. Whether it be stumping up a third of the, relatively meagre, Mean Streets budget for a couple of Stones cuts, or forking over really big bucks for repeat performances of Gimme Shelter (and others) in Casino and The Departed (the less said about Shine a Light the better). Recent years though have seen the director strike up a productive partnership with Howard Shore – The Lord of the Rings composer scoring the diminutive director’s last three narrative features. And it is orchestral moodiness rather than diner jukebox pillaging which dominates the soundtrack to Scorsese’s latest, the waylaid Shutter Island. However Shore is absent from proceedings, as indeed is a commissioned composer of any identity,...
- 2/21/2010
- by Paul Martin
- Movie-moron.com
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