Here's a sample: Cellist Sujari Britt, 8, completes her performance at the classical music series workshop in the East Room of the White House. November 4, 2009. ---------Official White House Photo by Samantha Appleton President Barack Obama greets young musicians Sujari Britt, 8, and Josh Yoder,16, following a concert celebrating classical music in the East Room of the White House. November 4, 2009....
There is a centuries old method for teaching young musicians how to compose classical music. In fact many of the great composers underwent the exact same kinds of exercises and compositional procedures that are taught today. There has been somewhat of an erosion of these principals, most noticeably in Universities, however many schools of music and conservatories still preserve the older traditions....
US President Barack Obama walks with First Lady Michelle Obama to host an event celebrating classical music in the East Room of the White House on November 4, 2009 in Washington, DCClassical Music Takes Center Stage at the White HouseREMARKS BY THE FIRST LADY AT CLASSICAL MUSIC SERIES WORKSHOPSClassical guitarist Sharon Isbin performs Isaac Albeniz’s Asturias and Agustin Barrios Mangoré’s...
With opera house attendances falling alarmingly, venues such as La Scala in Milan are trying to titillate and lure the young The image appears to come straight from a horror movie. A woman cries out in pain and anguish, her cheek streaked with blood. Behind her, figures perform an elaborate dance of death. In letters of crimson red, the tagline screams: "Two fell in love, the others massacred...
Today has been a wonderful, if very long, day. I was up bright and early fo r my LUVU training day [although sadly the weather remained its dismal self - it has literally not stopped raining for what must be weeks now!] and got there bang on time. Of course, it took a while to get started as everyone else got sorted but that gave me a few minutes to talk to the people sat nearby, so that was alright....
The broadcast of Puccini's opera Turandot will be presented live for only one day on Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT in select movie theatres. Director Franco Zeffirelli's breathtaking production of Puccini's last opera is a favorite of the Met repertoire.The Metropolitan Opera: TurandotLength: 3 hours, 25 minutesTurandot Synopsis from the Metropolitan Opera: ACT I. Peking,
Photo credit by Clive Barda & San Francisco Opera We love it when our friends visit other cities. And that's because they love telling us all about the amazing operas they saw! D.S. Spring and Diana Herbst spent last week in San Francisco and was at the opera. Three nights in a row! That's devotion. D.S. and Diana thoroughly enjoyed the San Francisco Opera and were literally blown away by both...
I didn't listen to pop music for almost 40 years until recently when I moved here. I prefer opera but only the local NPR station plays classical music and then only for half the time. The other half is taken up with commie politics. So, if you want to listen to the radio while driving long distances, you've got a choice between the local talk radio station (which is only interesting when they run the...
Here's Maria Callas singing the pathetically touching pre-suicide song of a princess forced to become a nun after she had conceived a love child out of wedlock, in Puccini's short story, Sister Angelica . The Anchorage Opera is presenting this brief masterpiece, along with Leoncavello's Pagliacci , in a duo billing that is elegant in its juxtaposition of these two short operas, together. Usually, Pagliacci...