The TIME: SPANS festival of 21st-century music, produced by the Earle Brown Music Foundation, runs August 10 to 24 at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in New York and features the Wet Ink Ensemble, which includes faculty artist Sam Pluta, performing the world premieres of Kate Soper’s Epithets and Alex Mincek’s Nomadic Science August 15.
Conductor Gemma New (MM ’11, Conducting) returns to the BBC Proms August 16 at the Royal Albert Hall, leading the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra through Mel Bonis’ Salomé, Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A minor featuring soloist Anthony McGill, and Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream featuring the National Youth Choir of Scotland; tickets available online and […]
Sarah Kirkland Snider: Forward Into Light Christopher Theofanidis: The Universe in Ecstatic Motion Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, op. 55, “Eroica”
Charles Washington: Midnight Child Ludwig van Beethoven: Cavatina from String Quartet, Op. 130 in B-flat major Cavani String Quartet Annie Fullard and Catherine Cosbey, violins Samuel Rosenthal, viola Kyle Price, cello Johannes Brahms: Rhapsody in E-flat major, Op. 119, No. 4 Yang Gao, piano
Giuseppe Verdi was possibly the most important and influential composer of Italian opera of the mid to late 19th century. He was always appreciative of great writers and playwrights. His favorite was William Shakespeare. Verdi set three of Shakespeare's plays into opera. The first was Macbeth (1847), the second Otello (1887) and the work of […]