The lunch concerts in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw used to be (possibly still are) often public general rehearsals for the big evening series.
Here we can see the mental transformation of pianist
Maria Joao Pires, who expects another Mozart concerto than conductor
Riccardo Chailly begins to conduct.
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posted by Namlit
on Feb 19, 2011 -
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Mozart's musical diary - kept between 1784 and 1791 - goes online today courtesy of the British Library. There is a helpful audio commentary if you can't decipher his handwriting, plus excerpts from some of his music.
The same site also has works by artists and authors such as Jane Austen, Leonardo da Vinci and Lewis Carroll.
posted by greycap
on Jan 12, 2006 -
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Rondo Alla Iron Maiden (
Program Notes,
mp3s).
As the name suggests, this new work for string quartet is a classical rondo in the style of the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden.
Composer Kurt Mortensen might rather you pay more attention to some of his
other works, like
this charming folk-tinged trio, but I had to go straight for the silly stuff.
posted by Wolfdog
on Sep 28, 2005 -
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It's 25 Years Ago Today Since Maria Callas Died. There's a badly designed but well-intentioned and informative Italian website to commemorate the anniversary and there's the film
Callas Forever, directed by one of her best friends (and the director of many of her most memorable operas,
Franco Zefirelli. It
premiered today. Mozart's
Requiem was also played at the concert held in her honour
tonight in Athens. I can't help thinking, though, that the Web is sorely lacking in resources about one of the greatest, most goosebump-provoking singers who ever lived. In fact, classical singers and classical music in general seem very (
increasingly) badly served. Even the glorious
Andante magazine, which I
recently linked to, looks like it's disappeared...
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Sep 16, 2002 -
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The Shot Chord Heard Round the World! On the morning of
Nine Eleven 2002 at 8:46am, over 160 choirs across the world will sing
Mozart's "Requiem" to metaphorically stand in for the thousands of voices silenced a year ago. Among all the ideas I've heard to commemorate this occasion, this one seems the most dignified, and least cringeworthy. They mentioned it on
NPR's Morning Edition (caution: Real Audio file).
posted by ZachsMind
on Sep 10, 2002 -
33 comments
Not Salieri but Schnitzel the latest theory about what did in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is that he might have contracted trichinosis from some spoiled pork cutlets. "Why Antonio, I'd just die for some wiener schniztel right now," Wolfgang exclaimed. "Yes, you would," sneered Salieri.......
posted by briank
on Jun 11, 2001 -
18 comments
