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krj
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KRJ's Classical Music Diary
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Apr 19 04:27 UTC 1999 |
Mostly I write about popular music, but since I'm married to a classical
singer I also get lots of classical music in my life. So I thought I'd
start a journal, which may amount to little more than a listing of
artists heard. Feel free to kibitz.
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krj
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Apr 19 04:35 UTC 1999 |
The Polish contralto Ewa Podles sang a recital at Mendelsohn on Saturday
night. Podles made her Ann Arbor debut two years ago when she was
brought in at the last minute to replace an ailing Cecila Bartoli for
a big Hill Auditorium concert. On that program she sang lots of
coloratura stuff and pretty much wowed everybody. This year's program,
however, included no coloratura material -- it was pretty much all
drama and power. The program included: a set of Polish songs by
Chopin; a opera-ish cantata on Ariadne by Hayden; a set of Tchaikovsky
songs; and the finale was a set of four songs about Death by Mussorgsky.
The piano accompanist was Garrick Ohlson. Curiously, he was a late
addition to the program: the tickets for the event listed a different
pianist. Ohlson is a solo performer in his own right -- usually
recital accompanists don't have their own independent careers --
so I'm guessing that he was doing this for fun. He had a big smile
on for much of the evening, he seemed to be really enjoying himself,
and Leslie was impressed with his playing.
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krj
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response 2 of 38:
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Apr 19 04:38 UTC 1999 |
((( Classicalmusic #47 <---> Music #189 )))
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krj
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response 3 of 38:
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Apr 19 04:41 UTC 1999 |
I seem to have left out any mention of how expressive and interesting
Podles is in recital. Voice recitals can tend to lull me to sleep, but
she didn't; I had my attention focussed for the entire program.
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response 4 of 38:
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Apr 20 03:57 UTC 1999 |
Podles's usual accompanist, her husband Jerzy Marchwinski, is
unfortunately no longer able to play the dewmanding concert schedule,
although he does still teach. Garrick Ohlsson was introduced to Podles
via a cassette sent him by UMS' director of programming, Michael
Kondziolka, and promptly fell in love with the idea of playing with her,
even though his solo career is so strong that he need not play
accompanist to anyone. There is a nice article in a recent Ann arbor
news about it.
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sysroot3
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response 5 of 38:
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Apr 22 21:44 UTC 1999 |
Personally I prefer new age music. Like techno. I like all sorts of it, they
are many different styles such as: trance, house, drum n' bass, jungle and
much more. TO learn more about this music visit http://zap.to/hexion
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mcnally
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response 6 of 38:
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Apr 23 02:54 UTC 1999 |
That's probably the first time I've heard someone use the term
"new age" to include techno, drum'n'bass, etc..
Usually when *I* think "new age" I think Windham Hill, Enya, and
<shudder> Yanni..
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krj
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Jun 18 21:29 UTC 1999 |
Ramblings from radio I heard on the drive home last night...
A long violin & piano piece turned out to be Beethoven's Violin Sonata #9,
by Anne-Sophie Mutter. (I'm always getting her confused with the singer
Anne-Sofie von Otter, which does NOT help with web searches.)
I've drifted through an album of Beethoven violin sonatas before --
one of those chance encounters in a record shop -- and in general I've
been feeling that Beethoven is one of those pathways which I need to
pursue.
Everybody's got a web page. http://anne-sophie-mutter.de/a
And I see in cdnow.com that the new Mutter recording of the Beethoven
violin sonatas is a four (?) disc set, judging by the price.
Following that was one of Brahms' Hungarian Dances. This was an
orchestral setting, conducted by Fritz Reiner; I'd had a vague
memory that these were piano pieces originally, and I thought I had
a recording of them. Am I wrong?
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