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[@3 min] Alright, this week…we go Inside the Huddle with Gemma New. Having already achieved operatic glory in Opera Theater St Louis's acclaimed production of Susannah, find out how the Kiwi conductor is preparing for her upcoming debut at Santa Fe Opera! [@17 min] Then...in Monday Evening Quarterback, we give you the play by play of the US premiere of a new orchestration of Scott Joplin's Treemonisha- which gets us thinking, what are the best operas never to be seen by their composers? [@42 min] Opera Theatre names Patricia Racette as its new Artistic Director, and Sonya Yoncheva wants to teach your children about classical music..first lesson, Tosca! GET YOUR VOICE HEARD operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 operaboxscore.bsky.social
This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 21st, 2024.This podcast was generated by wondercraft.ai(00:37): Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper ZeroOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39452494&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(02:26): Gemma: New Open ModelsOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39453271&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(03:54): The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is videoOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39458264&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(05:34): iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic ProtocolOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39453660&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(07:25): ChatGPT went berserkOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39450669&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(09:21): Stop postponing things by embracing the messOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39451793&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(10:55): Pijul is a free and open source (GPL2) distributed version control systemOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39452543&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(12:32): Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made UpOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39455131&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(14:05): Useful Uses of catOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39457875&utm_source=wondercraft_ai(15:34): Things I don't know about AIOriginal post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39453622&utm_source=wondercraft_aiThis is a third-party project, independent from HN and YC. Text and audio generated using AI, by wondercraft.ai. Create your own studio quality podcast with text as the only input in seconds at app.wondercraft.ai. Issues or feedback? We'd love to hear from you: team@wondercraft.ai
Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto is a landmark of his dark and restless middle period, here featuring Seong-Jin Cho, whose 2018 Chicago debut offered “about as thrilling a display of sheer powerhouse keyboard bravura as one is ever likely to encounter” (Chicago Classical Review). Gemma New conducts the program, which closes with Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony, evoking highland mists, warring clans and long-lost folk dances. Learn more: cso.org/performances/23-24/cso-classical/seong-jin-cho-plays-beethoven
Am 15. und 16. September dirigiert die Neuseeländerin Gemma New die Bamberger Symphoniker beim Festival "Mozart@Augsburg". Dort dirigiert sie zwei echte Klassiker: Gershwins "Rhapsody in Blue" und Beethovens Fünfte Symphonie.
This week on Beethoven Walks into a Bar, New Zealander Gemma New reflects on her week with the Kansas City Symphony conducting Ravel's Mother Goose Suite, a new violin concerto by Chris Rogerson and Saint-Saëns' epic "Organ" Symphony. We chat about her journey from playing violin to conducting orchestras all over the world, including a stint here in Missouri as the resident conductor of the St. Louis Symphony. She also shares her passion for experimenting with concert formats and experiences. Enjoy that and more this week on Beethoven Walks into a Bar. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1trRFGF7CfWWhLwvZNvYGM?si=1ec52d444f534569 (Episode 508 Playlist) https://sounz.org.nz/ (https://sounz.org.nz)
One of the bonuses of making this podcast is meeting new people and finding out how lovely they are in person. Gemma New definitely falls into this category! We discussed the difficulties we have both encountered when conducting Schools, Family, and Pops concerts, she gave the most creative answer yet to the question "when traveling abroad, what item could you not leave home without", and is it Hamilton, Hamilton, or Hamilton?! If you would like to financially support the podcast, why not subscribe at https://www.patreon.com/amiconthepodium, and for a monthly fee starting from just £5 a month, you can access two new series of interviews, group Zoom meetings with other fans of the podcast and myself, a monthly bulletin about the podcast and my own career as well as articles, photos, videos and even conducting lessons from myself. Alternatively, if you would prefer to make a one-off donation, go to https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/a-mic-on-the-podium and any donation you make will be greatly appreciated and help the podcast live on into the future. This interview was recorded on 5th November 2020 via Zoom.
Her name is Gemma New, and she's been hailed as "one of the brightest rising stars in the conducting firmament". More important - to us at any rate - is that the in-demand conductor was born and bred in Wellington New Zealand. Here she is conducting Lilburn's Overture Aotearoa. After concerts were cancelled leading to 5 months of enforced semi-isolation in the US where she's based, Gemma's back here to work with several orchestras, including the NZSO.
This week I was proud to join the Phoenix Orchestra's livestream at twitch.tv/thephoenixorch for a quarantined conductor's roundtable featuring Matthew Szymanski, Aram Demirjian, and Gemma New. We discussed what it is that conductor's do, the art of rehearsing, batons, the psychology of working with large groups, our craziest stories from doing the job, and much much more. This was such a fun experience and we're going to be doing it again very soon. We hope you enjoy it and will join us for the next one!
Recipient of the prestigious 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the 2017 Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists, violinist Paul Huang is considered to be one of the most distinctive artists of his generation. The Washington Post proclaimed Mr. Huang as "an artist with the goods for a significant career" following his recital debut at the Kennedy Center.This summer, Mr. Huang made highly acclaimed debut at Bravo!Vail Music Festival stepping in for violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter in the Mozart’s Violin Concerto No.4 with Chamber Orchestra Vienna-Berlin. Recent and forthcoming engagements include his recital debut at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, Aspen Music Festival, as well as appearances with the Mariinsky Orchestra with Valery Gergiev (St. Petersburg's White Nights Festival), Berliner Symphoniker with Lior Shambadal (Philharmonie Berlin debut), Detroit Symphony with Leonard Slatkin, Houston Symphony with Andres Orozco-Estrada, Orchestra of St. Luke's with Carlos Miguel Prieto, Seoul Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony and Grant Park Festival Orchestra with Markus Stenz, North Carolina Symphony and Charlotte Symphony with Gemma New, Buffalo Philharmonic with JoAnn Falletta, Pacific Symphony with Carl St. Clair, National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan with ShaoChia Lu and the Taipei Symphony with Jahja Ling (both in Taipei and on a U.S. tour). 2019-20 season will also see Mr. Huang giving the German premiere of Tan Dun’s Violin Concerto “Fire Ritual” with the Nuremberg Symphony with Kahchun Wong and appearances in the U.S. with the Tucson Symphony, New Mexico Philharmonic, Long Beach Symphony, Brevard Symphony, and Mobile Symphony.Recital and chamber music performances this season will include Mr. Huang’s recital debut for People’s Symphony Concerts in New York, a recital tour across North America and Taiwan with pianist Helen Huang, as well as his debut at the Wolf Trap in Washington D.C. He will also return to Camerata Pacifica in Santa Barbara and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center for three separate tours in the U.S., Europe, and the Far East.Mr. Huang's recent recital engagements included Lincoln Center's "Great Performers" series and return engagement at the Kennedy Center where he premiered Conrad Tao's "Threads of Contact" for Violin and Piano during his recital evening with pianist Orion Weiss. He also stepped in for Midori with Leonard Slatkin and the Detroit Symphony to critical acclaim. Mr. Huang has also made debuts at the Wigmore Hall, Seoul Arts Center, and the Louvre in Paris.His first solo CD, Intimate Inspiration, is a collection of favorite virtuoso and romantic encore pieces released on the CHIMEI label. In association with Camerata Pacifica, he recorded "Four Songs of Solitude" for solo violin on their album of John Harbison works. The album was released on the Harmonia Mundi label in fall 2014.A frequent guest artist at music festivals worldwide, he has performed at the Seattle, Music@Menlo, Caramoor, Bridgehampton, La Jolla, Santa Fe, Moritzburg, Kissinger Sommer, Sion, Orford Musique, and the PyeongChang Music Festival in Korea. His chamber music collaborators have included Gil Shaham, Cho-Liang Lin, Nobuko Imai, Mischa Maisky, Jian Wang, Frans Helmerson, Lynn Harrell, Yefim Bronfman, and Marc-Andre Hamelin.Support the show (https://thatsnotspit.com/support/)
All summer long, WMHT Listeners have a front row seat for concert performances and interviews recorded at Tanglewood, on Tuesday’s with the TMC. Hosted by Michael Nock of the Famed Tanglewood Music Center, this podcast features some archival performances as well as some of the current season’s finest concert recordings. On this episode, Gemma New conducts a late Symphony of Mozart, music for Brass and more.
Hamilton Philharmonic Music Director Gemma New leads the DSO this weekend as part of the Davidson Neighborhood Series. WRCJ’s Peter Whorf speaks with Gemma about the program of Haydn, Mozart and Edvard Grieg’s Holberg Suite: In The Olden Style.
Pictured: Paul Huang; Photo by Marco Borggreve. The Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient Paul Huang speaks about playing the Dvořák Violin Concerto. He joins the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra under the direction of guest conductor Gemma New.
Having an elevator pitch is crucial for young musicians to learn how to differentiate themselves and communicate successfully about who they are and what they do. Believing that classical music can comment on current political campaigns HELLO STAGE started crowdfunding for a BREXIT Fanfare. And news on the signing of young conductors Gemma New and Marta Gardolinska. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Rising-star conductor Gemma New talks about her approach to working with an orchestra, and the increased demand for conductors to be the public face of their organizations. We also hear an excerpt from St. Louis Symphony Orchestra's rehearsal of Elgar's "Enigma Variations."
New Zealander Gemma New is the Associate Conductor of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra as well as the founder and director of the Lunar Ensemble. At 27, she has already garnered international success and accolades in the company of such luminary maestros at Kurt Masur, Gustav Meier and Marin Alsop. Gemma is truly an inspiration for rising talent among female conductors. You can find out more about Gemma and her concert calendar on her website here. Post your comments on our Facebook Page at Chris Stafford Radio and follow on Twitter @chrisestafford. This podcast is available for download from the iTunes Podcast store to your Smartphone Podcast App. [Photo: Fred Stucker]