The Dutch government has honored the composer on a 25 guilder banknote, above. Sunday is busy. Details in our Concert Listings. Martin in the Fields a city tour , as well as some cliff-hanger situations involving such artists as Lang Lang.
Now they face even longer lines and staff shortages at American embassies and consulates around the world. The earliest available appointments for visa interviews in some cities are for next spring, months after some artists have scheduled performances.
Another Times article that appears in print today follows up on the recent controversy involving University of Michigan distinguished composition professor Bright Sheng. Read a story by Cathy Parlow Strauss here.
On October 16 , Dutch organist and composer Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck died in Amsterdam, where he spent his entire career, although his fame spread elsewhere. He was known in Germany for his mentoring of young organists and in England for his keyboard compositions, which found their way into the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.
A modern edition of this vast collection of keyboard music was co-edited by British musicologist William Barclay Squire , who was born on October 16, Also at , Oberlin Conservatory begins a Fridays Finney series featuring its large ensembles in a new rotation plan. Popular soprano Amanda Forsythe is among the soloists. Planning a visit? Click here for ticket details. The pandemic has upset travel plans for countless musicians, among them the Danish String Quartet.
The quartet, who visit the U. Last night, the Orchestra gave their first in-person performance in the newly-named Mandel Hall since the pandemic shut public concerts down. Another step toward normality. Speaking of concert halls, two celebrated performance venues opened their doors on October Boston Symphony Hall in , and the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco in , the first municipally-owned opera house in the country.
Organists should take note of the birth on this date in of Hamilton C. With some chapters and 12, members throughout the United States and abroad, the AGO has recently invested its energies into the recruitment and training of young musicians.
He studied in Madrid, and moved on to Buenos Aires to work with Alberto Ginastera before returning to his native Caribbean Island in to become one of the leaders in the new music movement of the s. Listen to a compilation of four of his works here. And on this date in , Broadway mourned the final curtain call of composer and lyricist Cole Porter, who created both book and music for more than 20 musicals — mostly in the s, but his late career hit, Kiss Me, Kate revived the popularity of a composer renowned for his witty, urbane lyrics.
During his undergraduate days at Yale, Porter wrote some songs, one of which is sung here by the Whiffenpoofs, of which he was a member. Tickets are available online. Click here to read an interview with Jones and here for an interview with Alisa Weilerstein.
Food trucks will be available. The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra announced on Wednesday that it had chosen Nathalie Stutzmann, a conductor and singer from France, as its next music director. Stutzmann, 56, will be only the second woman in history to lead a top-tier American orchestra when she takes the podium in Atlanta next year. Read the New York Times article here. Today marks the passing of American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein , who died on this date in of a heart attack in his New York apartment at The Dakota.
He was 72 years old. Click here to read more about the work. After weathering the forced sabbatical of the pandemic, during which VOCES8 launched a series of intriguing online events, things are gradually returning to something approaching normal for the ensemble.
Free seating on the lawn if you bring your own chairs or blankets. Details here. Click here for a list of area theaters and to reserve tickets. More information to come in January. On this date in , Ralph Vaughan Williams was born in Down Ampney, Yorkshire, a village after which the British composer named one of the popular hymn tunes he wrote while serving as editor of The English Hymnal, published in Local Real Estate Blog.
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