All Things Strings:GidonKremer All Things Strings offers violin, viola, cello, and bass resources for Kremer went on to win the 1967 Queen elisabeth Competition and first prize in the http://www.stringsmagazine.com/issues/Strings107/kremer.html
Extractions: The Verbier Music Academy and Festival in Switzerland, where Kremer was in residence last summer to perform Berg's watershed Violin Concerto, is an ideal place to have a casual, thought-provoking conversation with a major player on the world musical stage. It's the sort of place where pianist Evgeny Kissin can be seen buying shoes or you can catch maestro James Levine dining on an outdoor patio or perhaps share a drink with violist Yuri Bashmet at a local after-hours pub. Far removed from the rest of the world amid the Swiss Alps, the festival favors musical excellence over cult of personality. From the casual elegance of his room at the Hotel Vanessa, the sweater-clad Kremer, 55, is at ease, articulate, and poised to answer questions in a careful but interesting way. He is a man who is heavily influenced by the toil in his own homeland—as most Eastern Europeans seem to be—and with good cause. He grew up in what was then the Soviet Union, and has since witnessed powerful changes there. "Living long enough in a totalitarian system was not a holiday," he says, "but it gave me and many of my colleagues a sense that what we were doing in music—in art—had even more meaning. We felt it was not just a career, something you do to entertain people, but something with great spiritual and ethical meaning.
Sydney Symphony Elliott Carter s Violin Concerto and the Violin Concerto of Philip glass.In addition, he has performed world premieres of violin concertos by Ross http://www.sydneysymphony.com/page.asp?p=62
Dolmetsch Online - Composers Biography J Jacquet de la Guerre, elisabethClaude (see Guerre (de la), After the turnof the century, and with the arrival of violin virtuosos such as Viotti, http://www.dolmetsch.com/cdefsj.htm
Extractions: Paris, France among later French composers, Hyacinthe Jadin emerged as a talent and his first set of 3 quartets, dating from 1795 were actually dedicated to Haydn. Jadin was primarily a pianist and was appointed professor of piano at the newly founded Conservatoire. While the earlier quatuor concertant aimed to treat the four instruments equally as regards solo material, in Jadin's music we start to see the first violin emerging as the most important voice. Jadin's individuality shows in his harmonic language, spiced with chromaticism, his sudden shifts of tonality, which would not disgrace Schubert, and in the originality of his movements. One quartet ends with a Polonaise. After the turn of the century, and with the arrival of violin virtuosos such as Viotti, the string quartet in France became more of a miniature violin concerto
Links In English 4 (October 1 To November 29, 1997) Allstar cast, including elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Irmgard 2 for Violin andOrchestra (1) Second Suite for Orchestra. Yehudi Menuhin, violin (1) http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/7863/furt/alfa_english04.html
John Philip Sousa: Biography And Much More From Answers.com Washington, DC He studied violin and harmony in his native city and learned bandinstruments The American Maid, 1909, also known as The glass Blowers. http://www.answers.com/topic/john-philip-sousa
Extractions: showHide_TellMeAbout2('false'); Arts Business Entertainment Games ... More... On this page: Personalities Dictionary Encyclopedia Fine Arts Works WordNet Wikipedia Mentioned In Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping John Philip Sousa Personalities John Philip Sousa Bandleader / Composer "March King" John Philip Sousa was the most famous band leader in the United States during his lifetime, a former U.S. Marine Band leader who composed and conducted some of the most well-known marches in the world. His professional career began as a violinist in travelling orchestras, but his first fame came as the leader of the U.S. Marine Band from 1880 until 1892. Sousa composed the official song of the Marine Corps, "Semper Fidelis" at the request of President Chester A. Arthur (who was looking for a song to replace "Hail to the Chief," or so the story goes). In 1892 he started a civilian band that became internationally famous and hugely popular (in 1910 they toured the world). The band was known especially for marches that Sousa composed, notably "Stars and Stripes Forever," designated in 1987 as the National March of the United States. Sousa also wrote operas and other pieces of music, as well as novels and poetry... In 1917 he enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve (at the age of 62) because of World War I.
Gidon Kremer: Information From Answers.com He began to play the violin at the age of four, receiving tuition from his father He won prizes at the Queen elisabeth Competition in Brussels in 1967 http://www.answers.com/topic/gidon-kremer
Extractions: showHide_TellMeAbout2('false'); Business Entertainment Games Health ... More... On this page: Wikipedia Mentioned In Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping Gidon Kremer Wikipedia Gidon Kremer Gidon Kremer (born February 27 ) is a Latvian violinist and conductor Kremer was born in Riga to parents of German origin. He began to play the violin at the age of four, receiving tuition from his father and his grandfather, who were both professional violinists. He went on to study at the Riga School of Music and with David Oistrakh at the Moscow Conservatory . He won prizes at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels in (Second Prize), the Paganini Competition in Genoa in 1969 (First Prize) and the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1970 (First Prize). Kremer's first concert in the West was in Germany in , followed by appearances at the Salzburg Festival in and in New York in . In Kremer founded a chamber music festival in Lockenhaus Austria , with a focus on new and unconventional programming; since 1992 the festival has been known as "KREMERata MUSICA" and in 1996 Kremer founded the KREMERata BALTICA chamber orchestra, composed of young players from the Baltic region. He was also among the artistic directors of the festival "Art Projekt 92" in Munich and is director of the Musiksommer Gstaad festival in Switzerland Kremer is widely admired for his wide-ranging repertoire, ranging from
Redcliffe Recordings RR007 Miles Baster violin Peter Markham violin Michael Beeston viola Mark Bailey cello So were her close contemporaries Michael Tippett and elisabeth Lutyens, http://www.musicweb-international.com/Redcliffe/RR007.HTM
Extractions: This recording has been made possible with financial assistance from the Worshipful Company of Musicians Priaulx Rainier was born on 3 February 1903 at Howick, Natal, South Africa. Her mother was English, her father of Hugeunot origin. Her childhood was spent in the remote vastness of Natal, on she borders of Zululand. She was unusually aware of the natural sounds around her; and of the traditional music of the natives, their festive processions, their endless beating of drums. In 1913 the family moved to Cape Town, and Priaulx began to study the violin. There was never any doubt that she was to become a musician, and in 1920 she went to London on a scholarship to study the violin at the Royal Academy. It was not until some years later; followings return visit to South Africa, that she felt the first impulse to compose; but in the meantime she obtained her first engagement, as a teacher and violinist at the Badminton School, Bristol. She developed great skill as a teacher; which was to make her much in demand later in life; and playing the violin in a string quartet also proved particularly beneficial.
DrumsOnTheWeb.com - Manufacturers News - Download Your Favorite elisabeth will be on tour in Holland during the month of December. ViolinistLudvig Girdland has been in the studio recording for several TV shows http://www.drumsontheweb.com/DOTWpages/Drumkeypages/manu-newspages/01-manunews/E
Composers Datebook, 8/2/2004 - 8/8/2004 Philip glass (b.1937) Act 2 Interlude, fr Orphée 1972 Wuorinen ViolinConcerto, for amplified violin and orchestra, at the Tanglewood Festival in http://composersdatebook.publicradio.org/listings/datebook_20040802.shtml
CONSERVATORY FACULTY Dedicated to teaching as well as performing, she is professor of violin and head of Bronze medalist of the Queen elisabeth International Competition in http://www.bard.edu/conservatory/faculty/
Extractions: Instrumental and composition faculty will be drawn from the following roster ( in formation as of date of publication ). Applicants may request specific instructors; final assignments, announced at the time of acceptances, will be made by Conservatory faculty and administration based on the availability of spaces in the teachers' studios as well as musical and pedagogical considerations. Most instrumental faculty will also coach chamber ensembles. Laura Ahlbeck oboe
Extractions: KREUZBURGKRILOFF famous as a violinist, playing with great success at various continental capitals. It was to him that in 1803 Beethoven dedicated his famous violin sonata (op. 47) known as the " Kreutzer." Apart, however, from his fame as a violinist, Kreutzer was also a prolific composer; he wrote twenty-nine operas, many of which were successfully produced, besides nineteen violin concertos and chamber music. He died at Geneva in 1831. KREUZBURG, a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Silesia, on the Stober, 24 m. N.N.E. of Oppeln. Pop. (1905), 10,919. It has an Evangelical and a Roman Catholic church, a gymnasium and a teacher's seminary. Here are flour-mills, distilleries, iron-works, breweries, and manufactories of sugar and of machinery. Kreuzburg, which became a town in 1252, was the birthplace of the novelist Gustav Freytag. KREUZNACH (CREUZNACH), a town and watering-place of Germany, in the Prussian Rhine province, situated on the Nahe, a tributary of the Rhine, 9 m. by rail S. of Bingerbruck. Pop. (1900), 21,321. It consists of the old town on the right bank of the river, the new town on the left, and the Bade Insel (bath island), connected by a fine stone bridge. The town has two Evangelical and three Roman Catholic churches, a gymnasium, a commercial school and a hospital. There is a collection of Roman and medieval antiquities, among which is preserved a fine Roman mosaic discovered in 1893. On the Bade Insel is the Kurhaus (1872) and also the chief spring, the Elisabeth-quelle, impregnated with iodine and bromine, and prescribed for scrofulous, bronchial and rheumatic disorders. The chief industries are marble-polishing and the manufacture of leather, glass and tobacco. Vines are cultivated on the neighboring hills, and there is a trade in wine and corn.
Bernard Zaslav: Reviews tones of stained glass supple, yet firm. ardent yet altogether unforced . sonority of the viola in contrast to the alltoo-commonly heard violin. http://www.viola.com/zaslav/reviews.htm
Extractions: (70 min; DDD) "The viola may possess neither the stratospheric brilliance nor the extroverted passion of the violin, but its mellow, yearning eloquence has inspired more than a few composers in the solo realm. 'Brahms and Friends', a two-CD set performed by the Zaslav Duo, further refutes the notion that the stringed instrument in the middle deserves to be the butt of jokes. The programme includes the two magisterial sonatas by Brahms (originally for clarinet, but beautifully adapted by the composer for viola), and pieces by friends, associates, or musicians for whom he provided encouragement or motivation. None of the obscure works on the disc comes close in quality to the Brahms sonatas, though each score abounds in appealing romanticism and highly skilled craftsmanship. Perhaps the finest are the Op 10 Variations for viola and piano by Joseph Joachim, who, while better known as a violinist, was a composer of formidable gifts whose expressive style may have rubbed off a bit on sometime-chum Brahms. Joachim's variations are lyrical and terse, with a hint of Hungarian blood toward the end that gives the set a distinctive tinge. The names of the other composers represented here - Carl Reinecke, Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Friedrich Kiel, Robert Fuchs, Hans Sitt - may ring only a bell or two, pointing out how undeserving musical neglect often can be.
Records International Catalogue September 2001 The Fantasia dates from 1913 when glass was under the influence of Theosophy The first concerto of 1880 uses Mendelssohn s violin concerto as a formal http://www.recordsinternational.com/RICatalogSep01.html
Extractions: Home January 2002 January 2001 January 2000 ... December 1997 Louis Glass Symphony No. 2 Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra SINDING - COMPLETE SYMPHONIES - Special European Import SGAMBATI - PIANO CONCERTO GEIRR TVEITT (1908-1981): A Hundred Hardanger Tunes, Op. 151 - Suites Nos. 1 (1-15) and 4 (46-60). First: many of the tunes are by Tveitt or belong to the Tveitt family. That said, every one of them is drenched in authentic Hardanger feeling; the first suite consists of fifteen tunes creating miniature tone pictures which are unconnected but the fourth suite tells the tale of a wedding from wooing to a bridal voyage in a boat across a fjord to the raucous (and often obscene if we could have the words) post-wedding celebration (one segment is titled "Drunken Talk - Homage to Atonality"). The orchestration is very varied and extremely colorful; sure to appeal to lovers of Bartók and Kodály and Vaughan Williams. Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Bjarte Engeset. Naxos 8.555078 (New Zealand) ERNST TOCH (1887-1964): String Quartet No. 11, Op. 34, String Quartet No. 13, Op. 74. Toch wrote 13 quartets but the first five were those of a teenager self-teaching through reading Mozart quartet scores and those are lost anyway. The eleventh dates from 1924 and was commissioned by Hindemith for the Donaueschingen Chamber Music Festival; it is a very pleasing, serious but not heavy neo-classical work in a free tonal idiom. Its discmate dates from thirty years later and is Toch's only work in twelve-tone form - an accident really since he discovered that his chosen theme was almost dodecaphonic and decided to follow through with it in a very un-Schoenbergian way in what is identifiably his own voice. Buchberger Quartet. CPO 999 687 (Germany)
Pensacola Symphony Orchestra - Profiles Allison received her Bachelor of Violin Performance from Temple University in Frachesca Winters elisabeth Havins, No information available http://www.pensacolasymphony.com/profiles.asp
Extractions: Alan Dornak In demand on both the concert and operatic stage, countertenor Alan Dornak is able to impress with both his singing as well as his acting (Klassik Heute). His numerous appearances in the United States and Europe have led to the praise of his countertenor voice in its atmospheric variations from sensuous to humorous an effortlessly natural voice with a very pleasant timbre (Chemnitzer Freie Presse). Allison Giltinan Has played with the Pensacola Symphony since 1994. Allison received her Bachelor of Violin Performance from Temple University in Philadelphia in 1981, where she studied violin with Helen Kwalwasser and chamber music with Hirofumi Kano. She has been a member of the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra since 1994 and is currently the Principal Librarian for the Symphony.
Recommended CDs: Others An artful and fast performance by Jascha Heifetz (violin), Charles Munch (conductor) The music and lyrics by Philip glass, the contemporary composer. http://www001.upp.so-net.ne.jp/tsuribe/CDs/otherse.html
Extractions: Performer Rec. Notes (Anonymous) Canto Gregoriano Cuesta Gregorian chant. Sung by the Choir of Monks of the Abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos (Coro De Monjes Del Monasterio Benedictino De Santo Domingo De Silos) in Spain, conducted by Ismael Fernandez de la Cuesta. Effective as healing music or the like. This disc sold well around the world since 1993 for some reason, and became the beginning of the popularity of Gregorian chant. (Various) Music of the Gothic Era Munrow A set of 2 CDs that overviews the history of medieval French polyphonic music (from the late 11th century until the early 15th century) based on Gregorian chant. Comprises three parts: "Notre Dame period" (so-called "Notre Dame school". ca.1160-1250. Composed by Leoninus and Perotinus), "Ars Antiqua" (means "Ancient Art" in Medieval Latin. ca.1250-1320) and "Ars Nova" ("New Art". ca.1320-1400. Composed by Guillaume de Machaut and others). Noted as one of the greatest Early Music recordings. Vivid, clear and refreshing performance, without giving any old-fashioned or sombre impression. Performed by the Early Music Consort of London. Conducted by David Munrow. Missa Pange Lingua/
UO Music Service Discographies: Douglass Circulating CD Collection PERFORMERS Weilerstein Duo (Donald Weilerstein, violin and Vivian Hornik PERFORMERS elisabeth Soderstrom, soprano ; Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano. http://libweb.uoregon.edu/music/Discographies/Circoll/circcoll.html
Extractions: UO Music Discography Web Page Music Home The Douglass Room Circulating Compact Disc Collection This discography includes a list of the recordings that provided the start up for the Douglass Room Circulating CD Collection, which became available to all people with UO identification cards on October 1, 2001. The compact discs duplicate those already in the main collection, as well as recordings that accompany musical scores, books, and teaching resources. Each year, additions to the collection are made as we receive them-but only those items that have been specially purchased for the collection (such as the Grammy winners) will be current listings. To search for the latest recordings in the Circulating Collection, as well as the main Douglass Room collection, see
Kronos Quartet and the Queen elisabeth International Music Competition of Belgium. Alexandra du Bois grew up in Virginia, playing the violin from age two and http://www.carnegiehall.org/textSite/box_office/events/evt_4880.html?selecteddat
Kronos Quartet Kronos Quartet ·· David Harrington, Violin ·· John Sherba, Violin Competition and the Queen elisabeth International Music Competition of Belgium. http://www.carnegiehall.org/article/box_office/events/evt_4880_pf.html
Extractions: ·· Jennifer Culp, Cello MICHAEL GORDON Potassium (NY Premiere) BEY (arr. Stephen Prutsman) Evic Taksim (NY Premiere) MONK Stringsongs (US Premiere, Co-commissioned by The Carnegie Hall Corporation and the Barbican) JETHS Intus trepidare (Trembling from Within) (NY Premiere) ALEXANDRA DU BOIS String Quartet: Oculus pro oculo totum orbem terrae caecat (An Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind) (NY Premiere) SANTIAGO CampoSanto (Holy Ground) (NY Premiere)
