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In this episode, Dave and Andrew explore the symphony of John Corigliano they don't know. After appreciating Corigliano's first and third symphonies, what will they think of the second? This piece, a rescoring and revision of Corigliano's String Quartet, is another in a recent stretch of winning works that began in a different form. If you'd like to learn more about Corigliano, we recommend: This interview with Corigliano by Living the Classical Life Corigliano's composer's note about the Symphony No. 2 Elizabeth Bergman's “Of Rage and Remembrance, Music and Memory: The Work of Mourning in John Corigliano's Symphony No. 1 and Choral Chaconne.” American Music 31, no. 3 (2013): 340–61
In this episode, saxophonist and professor Stephen Page talks about his upcoming performance of John Corigliano's Triathlon. Stephen discusses the three different saxophones he will use in the concert, as well as some of the challenges and interesting aspects of the piece.
In this episode, Maestro Jerry Junkin discusses the Wind Ensemble's upcoming concert at the Long Center on January 25, featuring John Corigliano's masterpiece, Symphony No. 3: Circus Maximus. He also reflects on commissioning Circus Maximus more than 20 years ago and shares his original notes from John Corigliano about the piece.
CONTACT US TODAY! WTTM is no longer using Twitter/X WTTM is now on THREADS & BLUESKY: Look us up @wttmpodcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@windowtothemagic YouTube: http://youtube.com/windowtothemagic Email: podcast@windowtothemagic.com Voicemail: 1-307-GET-WTTM (438-9886) SEASON 20 CONTINUES! On this episode, Paul give a preview of this months WTTM Recurring Supporters Club Bonus Content (It wass Agatha All Along... kinda) and then John Corigliano plays a holiday themed "WhereinthePark?" Game at WDW's Magic Kingdom Park. Enjoy!! 96 mins ))HD BINAURAL((
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Interlochen faculty pianist Hyemin Kim is presenting a recital of music by composers from the 18th century to the present day. The composers represented on her program include Franz Joseph Haydn, Robert Schumann, Claude Debussy, R. Nathaniel Dett and John Corigliano. She recently visited IPR's Studio A to give a preview of some of the music she'll be presenting Friday night in Manistee.
"Una luz afuera" es un thriller que conjuga drama y misterio. Cuenta la historia de Agustina, una joven artista que entabla una relación amorosa con Gabriel, un peón que trabaja en su casa en el campo, quien con sutil manipulación no revela su personalidad dominante hasta más tarde. La relación se torna sombría y toma un camino distinto al que ambos imaginaron. Gabriel, además, siente que algo en la oscuridad los asecha y ella apelando a la astucia, idea una original estrategia para escapar y evitar así un violento desenlace. Director: José Luis Elizalde Reparto: Miguel Montedónico, Nuria Fló La Banda Sinfónica de Montevideo presentará un concierto el próximo 17 de septiembre a las 20:00 hs. en el Teatro Solís, con un programa sinfónico que promete cautivar y desafiar al público. Bajo la dirección de la reconocida directora griega Zoe Zeniodi, y con la participación especial de la compositora uruguaya Sofía Scheps, el concierto ofrece dos grandes momentos: el estreno mundial de "Todos Solos" de Scheps y la primera ejecución en Sudamérica de "Circus Maximus" del compositor estadounidense John Corigliano.
12tone Ensemble are set to present their second ever concert, “Dream Tryst,” featuring rarely performed choral compositions, right here in Malaysia. Highlights include John Corigliano's "Fern Hill," based on Dylan Thomas' poem, and Benjamin Britten's "Rejoice in the Lamb," set to Christopher Smart's text, among others. Founded in 2023 by Music Director Caeleb Tee, the ensemble comprises experienced choristers from Klang Valley, with Steinway Artist Zhang Chi on piano as a special guest for this concert. Caeleb joins us to discuss what's in store in this exploration of choral literature and poetry.Image Credit: Dream Tryst
"Inspiré de faits réels" de Franck Istasse : « The ghosts of Versailles » (« Les fantômes de Versailles »), un opéra écrit en 1992 par le compositeur américain John Corigliano. Un opéra contemporain qui se passe pendant la Révolution française au château de Versailles, un des lieux historiques les plus hantés au monde, avec un des personnages principaux : Marie-Antoinette. L'écrivain irlandais Colum McCann pour son nouveau livre "American Mother" (Belfond). Comment rester debout face à la violence, à l'horreur ? Comment regarder dans les yeux celui qui vous a enlevé ce que vous aviez de plus précieux ? Comment pardonner à l'assassin d'un des siens ? Comment garder espoir quand tant d'atrocités sont commises au nom de la religion ? Toutes ces questions qui nous assaillent dans une actualité toujours plus tragique, Colum McCann y a été confronté lors de sa rencontre avec Diane Foley. En 2014, le journaliste américain James Foley est exécuté par l'Etat islamique, en Syrie, après en avoir été l'otage pendant deux ans. Jour après jour, il a accompagné Diane Foley au procès des bourreaux de Daech et a vu une mère au courage exceptionnel puiser dans sa foi et son humanisme la force d'affronter un de ceux qui ont torturé et décapité son fils, le journaliste américain James Foley. Le coup de coeur de Gorian Delpâture : "Holly" Stephen King (Albin Michel). Dans une jolie maison victorienne d'une petite ville du Midwest, Emily et Rodney Harris, anciens professeurs d'université, mènent une vie de retraités actifs. Malgré leur grand âge, les années semblent n'avoir pas avoir de prise sur eux. À quelques pas de leur demeure, on a retrouvé le vélo de Bonnie Dahl, récemment disparue. Elle n'est pas la première à se volatiliser dans ce périmètre. Chose étrange : à chaque fois, il s'agit de jeunes gens. Sur l'insistance de la mère de Bonnie, Holly Gibney accepte de reprendre du service. Elle est loin d'imaginer ce qui l'attend : une plongée dans la folie humaine, là où l'épouvante n'a pas de limite. Le talk-show culturel de Jérôme Colin. Avec, dès 11h30, La Bagarre dans la Discothèque, un jeu musical complétement décalé où la créativité et la mauvaise foi font loi. À partir de midi, avec une belle bande de chroniqueurs, ils explorent ensemble tous les pans de la culture belge et internationale sans sacralisation, pour découvrir avec simplicité, passion et humour. Merci pour votre écoute Entrez sans Frapper c'est également en direct tous les jours de la semaine de 11h30 à 13h sur www.rtbf.be/lapremiere Retrouvez tous les épisodes de Entrez sans Frapper sur notre plateforme Auvio.be : https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/8521 Et si vous avez apprécié ce podcast, n'hésitez pas à nous donner des étoiles ou des commentaires, cela nous aide à le faire connaître plus largement.
SynopsisIn 1953, the Louisville Orchestra was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation grant of $500,000 to commission, premiere and record 20th-century music to be issued on its own label, Louisville First Edition Records. By 1997, it had released nearly 150 discs, containing more than 450 compositions by living composers.On today's date in 1980, one of the Louisville commissions premiered and recorded by the orchestra was Tournaments by the then-41-year-old American composer John Corigliano.“As the title implies,” Corigliano writes, “Tournaments is a ‘contest piece,' a sort of mini-Concerto for Orchestra in which first-desk players and entire sections vie with each other in displaying their virtuosity.”The Louisville Orchestra received many awards for its ambitious commissioning project, while Corigliano went on to win Grammys and an Oscar, not to mention the Grawemeyer and Pulitzer prizes.Corigliano also is proud of his teaching positions at the Juilliard School and Lehman College in New York. “I think it's good for a composer to teach,” he says, “because you always have new students, and you have to begin at the beginning and make things clear.”Music Played in Today's ProgramJohn Corigliano (b. 1938) Tournaments Overture; Louisville Orchestra; Sidney Harth, cond. Louisville First Edition LOU-771
SynopsisIn the musical world, there are many creative people with innovative ideas, but far fewer with the ability and persistence to raise the funds necessary to realize their visions.Today, a tip of the hat to American composer John Duffy, who, in 1982, was president of Meet the Composer, an organization that secured funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and other foundations for a large-scale residency program that paired rising American composers with major American orchestras. The composers included John Corigliano, Joan Tower, Stephen Paulus, Christopher Rouse, Libby Larsen and Alvin Singleton. Each wrote special works for their orchestras, works that were premiered and recorded as part of the program — a major career boost for any young composer.For example, Singleton was the composer chosen for the Atlanta residency, and on today's date in 1988, that orchestra premiered his work After Fallen Crumbs.The unusual title doesn't refer to arts funding, however apt that might seem, but derives from an earlier choral piece by Singleton whose text dealt with world hunger and closed with the lines, “An ant can feed a family with the fallen crumbs of an elephant.”Music Played in Today's ProgramAlvin Singleton (b. 1940) After Fallen Crumbs; Atlanta Symphony; Louis Lane, cond. Nonesuch 79231
SynopsisOn today's date in 2000, the Boston Symphony gave the premiere performance of the Second Symphony of American composer John Corigliano. For strings alone, the symphony was a reworking of a string quartet that Corigliano had composed for the farewell tour of the Cleveland Quartet in 1996.The symphony was well received, and the following year was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music. “I am more than shocked. ... I don't know what to say,” Corigliano said upon receiving the news. “It's one of the great surprises of my life.”Perhaps doubly surprising, since, as a young man, Corigliano pretty much ruled out writing even one symphony, let alone two. “My thought then,” he said, “was that there were so many great symphonies [already]. I could satisfy only my ego by writing yet another. Only the death of countless friends from AIDS prompted me to write my Symphony No. 1. ... A world-scale tragedy, I felt, needed a comparably epic form.“Then the Boston [asked] that I write a second symphony to honor the l00th anniversary of their justly famous Symphony Hall. At first I declined, stating my earlier reservations, but they were quite insistent.”Music Played in Today's ProgramJohn Corigliano (b. 1938) String Quartet; Cleveland Quartet Telarc 80415
SynopsisToday we honor one of America's greatest patrons of chamber music, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, who died on this date in 1953.Born in 1864, Elizabeth was the daughter of a wealthy wholesale grocer. She put her inheritance to good use. In 1924, she proposed to the Library of Congress that an auditorium be constructed in Washington, D.C., that would be dedicated to the performance of chamber music. A year later it was built, and Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress still stands today.Not content with just a superb venue for chamber music, Coolidge diligently commissioned new works to be played there. The list of important chamber pieces her foundation commissioned is impressive, and includes Bartok and Schoenberg string quartets, the original chamber versions of Copland's Appalachian Spring, Stravinsky's Apollo ballets, and modern works by American composers as diverse as Samuel Barber, Milton Babbitt, George Crumb and John Corigliano.Coolidge was an amateur composer and accomplished pianist. Her passion for music and enthusiasm for the creation of new works was all the more remarkable considering that tragically she battled deafness from her mid-30s.Music Played in Today's ProgramIgor Stravinsky (1882 – 1971) Apollo ballet; Stockholm Chamber Orchestra; Esa-Pekka Salonen, cond. Sony Classical 46667
SynopsisOn today's date in 1970, a new chamber work by American composer John Corigliano received its premiere performance at a concert given by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the group that had commissioned it.The new piece, Poem in October, was scored for tenor voice and eight instruments and was a setting of poetry by Dylan Thomas, the great Welsh poet who died in 1953.“The thing that most appeals to me is the sound of his words,” Corigliano explained. “Phrases from Poem in October like ‘a springful of larks in a rolling cloud' and ‘the blue altered sky streamed again a wonder of summer' are in themselves musical.”“The music itself,” Corigliano says, “is unabashedly lyrical. I sought to convey a pastoral feeling that would match the directness and simplicity of the text, to deal in understatement and succinctness rather than in complexity and theatrical effect.”Corigliano's chamber scoring includes three “pastoral” wind instruments — flute, oboe and clarinet — plus strings, and, perhaps to give the work a slightly archaic feel, a harpsichord.Music Played in Today's ProgramJohn Corigliano (b. 1938) Poem in October - Robert White, tenor; Thomas Nyfenger, f.; Humbert Lucarelli, ob.; Joseph Rabbai, cl.; American String Quartet; Maurice Peress, cond. and hc. RCA 60395
SynopsisOn today's date in 1984, the Milwaukee Symphony and conductor Lukas Foss premiered a new work for narrator and orchestra by American composer John Corigliano. The new piece was titled Creations,” and was based on the creation story in the Biblical book of Genesis.Creations began as a 1971 commission for a television pilot. The original idea was to have a variety of major composers illustrate in music selected chapters from the Bible, with the text narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier. The TV project fell through, and Corigliano thought this music for the pilot episode, Genesis, would remain unheard. But then, in 1984, Lukas Foss commissioned a revised version for a concert with the Milwaukee Symphony.“Creations challenged me to write specifically for a recorded medium,” wrote Corigliano. “It also offered a chance to build music more abstractly than I'd done before… often out of pure sonority, rather than harmony and line. Much of my later work uses techniques I developed for the first time while scoring Creations… I envisioned the music as growing from abstract sounds into actual themes.”Music Played in Today's ProgramJohn Corigliano (b. 1938) Creations Sir Ian McKellen, narrator; I Fiamminghi; Rudolf Werthen, cond. Telarc 80421
Raymond Bisha introduces Naxos' new album of the complete works for solo piano by leading American composer John Corigliano. During their conversation together, the composer gives insight into the creative genesis of all the works on the programme, which span a period of some fifty years: from the 1968 Piano Concerto (“The first piece I ever wrote for orchestra”) to Prelude for Paul, written in 2021 with an unusual conception. The solo pianist is Philip Edward Fisher, hailed by John Corigliano for his “consummate technique and great musical intelligence.”
Synopsis On today's date in 1959, the Duke University Band under Paul Bryan gave the premiere performance of a new work they had commissioned: the Symphony No. 3 for concert band by the American composer, Vittorio Giannini. With the growth of concert bands in the 1950s, and success of high-profile performing ensembles like Frederick Fennell's Eastman Wind Ensemble, composers like Giannini started getting commissions to write new works for these ensembles. In all, Giannini wrote five pieces for concert band, with his Symphony No. 3 the biggest and best known of the lot. Paul Bryan and Duke University were certainly pleased with the new work. Its resounding success encouraged other band directors to commission new concert works for wind band–and, in one fell swoop, the Duke Band achieved national recognition for its initiative. As for Giannini, in his later years he taught a younger generation of composers, first in New York City at Juilliard and the Manhattan School of Music, then in Philadelphia at the Curtis Institute, and finally at the North Carolina School of the Arts, where he served as that institution's first president. Giannini students included a number of successful composers, including David Amram, John Corigliano, Nicolas Flagello, Adolphus Hailstork, and Alfred Reed. Music Played in Today's Program Vittorio Giannini (1903 - 1966) Symphony No. 3 University of Houston Wind Ensemble; Tom Bennett, conductor. Naxos 8.570130
Synopsis From 1951 to the time of his death in 1976, the Texas-born conductor Victor Alesandro led the San Antonio Symphony. Alessandro was a fine conductor and had a very clever system for attracting talented players to San Antonio. He kept his eyes open for key players about to retire from all the top American orchestras and sent them tempting brochures describing San Antonio's palm trees, old Spanish houses, and mild winters. Many accepted his invitations, settled in San Antonio, and served as mentors for the Symphony's younger players.In 1966, for example, John Corigliano, Sr., facing mandatory retirement as the concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, took up the same position with the San Antonio Symphony.And so it came about that on today's date in 1968, John Corigliano, Sr., then age 67, served as the concertmaster for the world premiere performance of a new Piano Concerto written by his son, composer John Corigliano, Jr., then aged 30. The premiere performers, pianist Hilde Somer and the San Antonio Symphony under Alessandro, even recorded the new work for Mercury Records. Although well received at the time, Corigliano's concerto was rather neglected for many years thereafter, but more recently has been receiving new performances and recordings. Music Played in Today's Program John Corigliano (b. 1938) Piano Concerto James Tocco, p.; Louisville Orch; Lawrence Leighton Smith, conductor. First Edition FECD-0002
Barton and Gabriel sit down to discuss the world of Opera, performance and Gabe's mindset of performing Internationally at the highest level. Highlights from this podcast include: - Life lessons from his Voice Teacher Elizabeth Parham stating "that little voice in your head telling us we're not enough... that is the devil"- How Gabe thinks about performing for thousands of people- what type of things Gabe does to prepare himself for a big performance.- how the voice works and how he's able to create such powerful sound and sing professionally. Gabriel's Bio: Multiple Grammy Award winning baritone Gabriel Manro has been called “a new kind of baritone: not lyric, not helden, not Kavalier, not Bariton-Martin — none of those. Rather, he's a knock-down baritone.” --San Francisco Classical Voice. Indeed, Manro regularly sings dramatic baritone roles such as Don Carlo di Vargas (La forza del destino), Andrei Shchelkalov (Boris Godunov), and Tonio (I Pagliacci) Opera News describes Manro as “Gifted with a striking, sinister baritone that remains strong, even and sonorous throughout the range, he tears into Verdi's music with a vengeance.” -- Opera News.Mr. Manro made his professional operatic debut as Third Inmate in Jake Heggie's ground-breaking opera Dead Man Walking for Opera Pacific with Frederica von Stade. He went on to perform the role of Inquisitor in Opera Pacific's Candide. Mr. Manro has appeared in numerous contemporary and world-premiere operas and musicals:As Muscovite Trader in John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles (Pentatone Music: Grammy--Best Opera Recording), as the Mousling in the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Alice in Wonderland by Unsuk Chin, the Computer in Los Angeles Opera's The Fly by film composer Howard Shore (Lord of the Rings Trilogy); as The Chauffeur in Opera Santa Barbara's Séance on a Wet Afternoon by Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Godspell); and as Angry Voter in Los Angeles Opera's Il Postino (Sony Classical DVD). Manro created the role of President Lincoln in Golden Gate Opera's world-premiere Civil War Epic: Lincoln and Booth. Off-Broadway, Mr. Manro led the original cast of Center for Contemporary Opera's production of Oration by Line Tjørnhøj. On television, Manro appeared as Joel Lynch and Father Jackson in the European premiere live telecast of William Mayer's: A Death in the Family at the Hungarian National Theater and Opéra Grand D'Avignon which was voted “audience favorite” opera. Gabriel also played Jafar in Walt Disney Company's original stage production of Aladdin.Gabe's European operatic debut was as Doctor Bartolo (Il barbiere di Siviglia) with Corfu Opera in Greece. His extensive repertoire and engagements have also included the roles of Bluebeard (Bluebeard's Castle), Count Almaviva, Bartolo, Antonio (Le nozze di Figaro), Guglielmo, Don Alfonso (Cosí fan tutte), Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni). See Mr. Manro next as Osmund in the world-premiere stage production of Siegfried Wagner's Rainulf and Adelasia during this summer's Bayreuth Festival in Germany.http://gabrielmanro.comhttp://instagram.com/g_manroBarton on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bartonguybryan/Podcast Website is: https://www.podpage.com/the-mindset-forge-podcast/Join the Mindset Forge Premium membership for $3 / month (Donor Level) or $150 / month for Coaching: https://themindsetforge.supercast.com
Un día como hoy, 16 de Febrero. Nace: 1543: Kanō Eitoku, pintor japonés. 1884: Robert J. Flaherty, cineasta estadounidense. 1938: John Corigliano, compositor estadounidense.. Fallecen: 1907: Giosuè Carducci, poeta italiano, premio nobel de literatura en 1906. Conducido por Joel Almaguer. Una producción de Sala Prisma Podcast. 2023
[@ 4 min] We go ‘Inside the Huddle' with conductor Gil Rose, founder of Odyssey Opera and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. The companies just completed the second run of John Corigliano's “Lord of Cries” and are preparing the East Coast premiere of the Oliver Sacks opera “Awakenings”… [@ 34 min] In the ‘Listener Mailbag'… A field report on the American Opera Initiative… [@ 37 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill'… Who blinked in the game of opera chicken between English National Opera and Arts Council England…? We're back with an all-new show next week when we go ‘Inside the Huddle' with soprano Kerriann Otaño, Opera Delaware's VP of Engagement… Join us! SHOW NOTES Gil Rose: https://www.gilroseconductor.com/biography Odyssey Opera: http://www.odysseyopera.org/ BMOP: http://www.bmop.org/ AWAKENINGS: https://tobiaspicker.com/opera/awakenings AOI: https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/opportunities-for-artists/competitions-and-commissions/american-opera-initiative/ ENO: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64305759 GET YOUR VOICE HEARD operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore
The tenth episode of Composing Myself sees Wise Music Group CEO Dave Holley and Creative Director Gill Graham once again stretch their hands across the ocean to New York to embark on a wonderful journey of memories, anecdotes and musings with veteran composer John Corigliano. The conversation covers John's formative years growing up in a musical family and how the lingering nerves he reserved for his father affected his professional journey (“for the first ten or fifteen years of buy compositional life I never sat in the hall for a performance”); the impact of the early Disney oeuvre (Bambi, Dumbo etc) on his creative spark; winning Grammys, Oscars and a Pulitzer Prize - and the award he's most proud of; the harrowing story behind Symphony No. 1; how a personal black spot with the catalogue of Bob Dylan led to a Grammy-winning setting of Dylan's poetry; and the painstaking creation of The Ghosts of Versailles. Not to be missed!http://www.johncorigliano.com/John Corigliano's music has been commissioned, performed, and recorded by many of the most prominent orchestras, soloists, and chamber musicians in the world. His honors include the Pulitzer Prize for Symphony No. 2, the Grawemeyer Award for his Symphony No. 1 (given over 300 performances worldwide), the Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Original Score (The Red Violin), and, of his five Grammy Awards, three for Best Contemporary Composition (Symphony No. 1, String Quartet, and Mr. Tambourine Man.)Recent scores include a second opera, The Lord of Cries, with a libretto by Mark Adamo based on The Bacchae of Euripides and Bram Stoker's Dracula. Corigliano's first opera since The Ghosts of Versailles for The Metropolitan Opera in 1991, The Lord of Cries is commissioned by the Santa Fe Opera for premiere in 2021. A new Saxophone Concerto for the San Francisco Symphony's 2020-2021 season will be Corigliano's tenth piece for soloist and orchestra, after his concerti for piano, oboe, clarinet, flute (Pied Piper Fantasy), guitar (Troubadours), violin (The Red Violin), and percussion (Conjurer), as well as the orchestral song-cycles Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan for amplified soprano, and One Sweet Morning for mezzo-soprano. Other scores include Symphony No. 3: Circus Maximus for multiple wind ensembles, as well a rich folio of chamber works.The French premiere of The Ghosts of Versailles, in a co-production with Glimmerglass Festival, is scheduled by the Royal Opera of Versailles for December of 2019; this follows its 2015 staging by Los Angeles Opera, which collected 2017 Grammys for Best Opera Recording and Best Engineered Classical album. In spring of 2019, Corigliano's Symphony No. 1 travelled to Hong Kong and returned to the New York Philharmonic, both engagements conducted by Jaap van Zweden. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In The Empire Strikes Back minutes 51-55, Han and Leia share their first kiss and we meet the Emperor for the first time. Joining me (for the 4th time!) is music theorist/film musicologist Frank Lehman. We discuss the lineage of musical love themes, John Williams's distinctive Lydian signature, the strange proto-Emperor cue, and he gives us a sneak peek of the major updates he's making to the Star Wars Thematic Catalogue. This episode is also on YouTube (with visuals): https://youtu.be/N_jXuEWiaLY Timestamps: 0:00 - Hello there! 3:20 - Teasing the Emperor scene. 8:17 - Augmented hexatonic collection of pitches (characteristic chord type in ESB, 4-20). 11:26 - Yanked out portion of the cue, R5P3 "End Fix" (orchestrated by Angela Morley). 15:05 - Instrumental introduction to Han & Leia's theme. A distinctive treatment of Lydian mode (descending pentachords -- the 5th down to the tonic). 18:50 - The descending Lydian figure is a Williams hallmark of his 80s-ish scores. Examples from E.T. (1993) and ALWAYS (1989). 25:05 - On Han being a "scoundrel." 29:01 - What do you think of the comparisons to Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto? 38:35 - Listening to other love themes: El Cid (Miklós Rózsa), Adagio from Spartacus (Khachaturian) 51:48 - First truly functional chord in a while. Enharmonicism. 57:27 - Throwing down the gauntlet. 58:23 - John Williams holding back on the low bass note until a beat or two after the onset of a theme. 1:00:11 - Proud lineage of musical love scenes that are interrupted. 1:08:50 - Han Solo and the Princess concert arrangements (there are at least 3!) 1:14:56 - Sneak peek of changes to the thematic catalogue. 1:29:36 - Dom shoutout 1. 1:38:21 - Brittle, rocky xylophone. 1:45:39 - 90's Emperor/Energizer Bunny commercial. 1:46:26 - Fascinating musical sequence during the Emperor's first appearance. 1:55:44 - Dom shoutout 2. 1:58:09 - ESB editor Paul Hirsch on temp tracking this scene with Bartók. 2:06:28 - Comparing Ian McDiarmid to the original emperor's voice from 1980 (Clive Revell) 2:13:19 - Dark Side motif. 2:25:00 - SWMM Questionnaire Things to Check Out: Dominic Sewell's analysis of cue 5M4/6M1 "Solo and the Princess" - https://youtu.be/Nxe_rd2GVPY Pitch Class Set Calculator: https://www.mta.ca/pc-set/calculator/pc_calculate.html E.T. excerpt (queued up to the descending Lydian line)- https://youtube.com/watch?v=P7CyzH6R7f4&t=721 "Pete in Heaven" from Always (John Williams) - https://youtu.be/z8v1OEIkp3U Predatory Romance in Harrison Ford Movies (Pop Culture Detective on YouTube) - https://youtu.be/wWoP8VpbpYI Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto - https://youtu.be/QCKL95HAdQ8 Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet - https://youtu.be/finYYXkdYmA "Fossils" from Carnival of the Animals (Saint-Saens) - https://youtu.be/bcAJpsWWuIY Béla Bartók Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta - https://youtu.be/ymqRNY4K4NA?t=1016 Andrew Norman "Play" - Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Cristian Măcelaru https://youtu.be/Dc9rYygfwNI?t=1316 Love Scene from El Cid (by Miklós Rózsa)- https://youtu.be/91SunNLBDoI?t=303 Emperor Palpatine Energizer Bunny commercial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxafIhYFOr0 Adagio from Spartacus (by Khachaturian) - https://youtu.be/LZLMKkEGFRo?t=133 The Red Violin OST (by John Corigliano) - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6Oa6vj9pJz7IPAC5yVw666aU-OReTM1K The Empire Strikes Back - the original Emperor scene from 1980 - https://youtu.be/rKtciRCVpFE Cues: Tail end of 5M3 "Yoda's Entrance" 5M4/6M1 "Solo And The Princess" Musical Themes: 11a. Han & Leia (A Section) 11b. Han & Leia (B Section) 10a. Imperial March (Theme) 24) Imperial March Vamp 16a. Dark Side (Motif) Where are we in the soundtrack(s)?: "Luke's Nocturnal Visitor" "Han Solo and the Princess" --------------- STAR WARS MUSIC MINUTE QUESTIONNAIRE: 1. In exactly 3 words, what does Star Wars sound like? New answer: My lifelong obsession. Solo season: Vaguely remembered music. ANH season: Dissonant pedal notes. Minor planing triads. 2. What's something related to Star Wars music or sound that you want to learn more about? New answer: What was going on in the scoring of Obi-Wan Kenobi? Solo season: Who will be main composer for the Kenobi series? ANH season: What are we musically in store for as Star Wars moves onto the next chapters of its development? What was the actual score to Episode IX supposed to be (before changes)? 3. What's a score or soundtrack you're fond of besides anything Star Wars? New answer: White Lotus (series) (composed by Cristobal Tapia de Veer) Solo season: Severance (series) (composed by Theodore Shapiro) ANH season: Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) (composed by Jerry Goldsmith) --------------- Guest: Frank Lehman Website: https://franklehman.com/ Complete Catalogue of the Musical Themes of Star Wars: https://franklehman.com/starwars/ A Guide to the Musical Themes of Indiana Jones: https://franklehman.com/indiana-jones-themes/ Book: Hollywood Harmony: Musical Wonder and the Sound of Cinema - https://www.amazon.com/Hollywood-Harmony-Musical-Wonder-Cinema/dp/0190606401 Frank's previous episodes: Solo 7: Powell's Fresh Take (Minutes 31-35 with Frank Lehman) - https://youtu.be/x_dF58geISQ ANH 6: Binary Sunset Breakdown (Minutes 26-30 with Frank Lehman) - https://youtu.be/JrCg4KLk054 TLJ 30: Musical DNA of The Last Jedi (Minutes 146-150 with Frank Lehman) - https://youtu.be/NZwIpV3igBo ------------------ If you want to support the show and join the Discord server, consider becoming a patron! https://patreon.com/chrysanthetan Leave a voice message, and I might play it on the show... https://starwarsmusicminute.com/comlink Where else to find SWMM: Twitter: https://twitter.com/StarWarsMusMin Apple Podcasts: https://smarturl.it/swmm-apple YouTube: https://youtube.com/starwarsmusicminute TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@starwarsmusicminute? 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durée : 00:59:32 - En pistes, contemporains ! du dimanche 04 décembre 2022 - par : Emilie Munera - Cette semaine chez les contemporains, trois illustres compositeurs interprétés par Robert McDuffie et Elizabeth Pridgen. Ils 'agit de Philip Glass, John Adams et John Corigliano. Nous écouterons également Duncan Ward ou encore Helmut Lachenmann. - réalisé par : Céline Parfenoff
durée : 00:15:10 - Icons : Philip Glass, John Adams, and John Corigliano - Robert McDuffie - Le pianiste Robert McDuffie et la violoniste Elizabeth Pridgen braquent les projecteurs sur trois chefs-d'œuvre du répertoire pour violon et piano de trois des plus célèbres compositeurs américains du dernier demi-siècle : Philip Glass, John Adams et John Corigliano.
Synopsis On today's date in 1997, violinist Joshua Bell and the San Francisco Symphony gave the premiere performance of an 18-minute “Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra” by American composer John Corigliano. This music was a concert offshoot of Corigliano's film score for Francois Gerard's movie The Red Violin, but debuted months before the film itself was completed. Said Corigliano, “I was delighted when asked to compose the score for Francois Girard's new film. How could I turn down so interesting and fatalistic a journey through almost three centuries, beginning as it did in Cremona, home of history's greatest violin builders? I also welcomed the producer's offer to separately create a violin and orchestra concert piece, to be freely based on motives from the film. “I'd assumed that, as usual in film, I wouldn't be required to score it until it was completed, except for a number of on-camera "cues"… Then plans changed. Filming was pushed back. So the present ‘Chaconne' was built just on the materials I had; a good thing, as it turns out, because I now had the freedom, as well as the need, to explore these materials to a greater extent than I might have had I been expected to condense an hour's worth of music into a coherent single movement.” Music Played in Today's Program John Corigliano (b.1938) selections from The Red Violin Joshua Bell, violin; Philharmonia Orchestra; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor. Sony 63010
Dressing up for a Halloween photoshoot, creepy music, lots of candy and scared kids. Do you need anything else?... Oh yeah! Someone got a new B&K microphone in our giveaway. Enjoy! Mentioned: Shock, Libra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ham4tUgzLkU Suspiria Main Theme, Goblin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esUBqxsiJ-s Altered States Main Theme, John Corigliano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT3AwASbIcI CANDYMAN Helen's Theme, Philip Glass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdPvnKEJYi8 The Ghost And Mr. Chicken, Vic Mizzy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJmpAYNY1NQ Lady Deathstrike Cosplay https://www.instagram.com/p/CgUaCuNL0mU/ Scarecrow Cosplay https://www.instagram.com/p/B8_9WdmJXP8/ ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ Brushes and Keys: instagram.com/BrushesAndKeys twitter.com/BrushesAndKeys Austin Wintory: instagram.com/a.wintory twitter.com/awintory Angela Bermudez: instagram.com/angelabermudeza twitter.com/angelabermudeza Canvas Bermintory: instagram.com/canvasbermintory Email us at brushesandkeys@gmail.com ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈
Synopsis 1991 was a big year for American composer John Corigliano. The Metropolitan Opera premiered his opera “The Ghosts of Versailles” and the 53-year old composer won two Grammys and the Grawemeyer Award for his Symphony No. 1. Corigliano was increasingly recognized as one of the leading American composers of his generation, and was deluged with commissions for new works. But about 10 years before all that, guitarist Sharon Isbin had asked Corigliano to write a concerto for her, and kept on asking him. On today's date in 1993, her persistence paid off when, with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and conductor Hugh Wolff, she gave the premiere performance of Corigliano's “Troubadours — Variations for Guitar and Orchestra.” This piece was inspired by the courtly love tradition of the medieval troubadours, whose songs combined sophisticated word play with simple but elegantly communicative melodies. “For composers the idea of true simplicity — in contrast to chic simple-mindedness — is mistrusted and scorned,” wrote Corigliano. “But the guitar has a natural innocence about it… So the idea of a guitar concerto was, for me, like a nostalgic return to all the feelings I had when I started composing — before the commissions and deadlines and reviews. A time when discovery and optimistic enthusiasm ruled my senses… Troubadours is a lyrical concerto.” Music Played in Today's Program John Corigliano (b. 1938) Troubadours Sharon Isbin, guitar; Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Hugh Wolff, cond. Virgin 55083 On This Day Births 1870 - French composer and organist Louis Vierne, in Poitiers; 1930 - Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu, in Tokyo; 1953 - English composer Robert Saxon, in London; Deaths 1834 - French composer François Boieldieu, age 58, in Jarcy; Premieres 1903 - Nielsen: "Helios" Overture, in Copenhagen; 1943 - Stravinsky: "Ode" (in memory of Natalie Koussevitzky), by the Boston Symphony conducted by Serge Koussevitzky; 1960 - Prokofiev: opera "The Story of a Real Man" (posthumously) at the Bolshoi in Moscow; A semi-public performance of this opera was given in Leningrad on Dec. 3, 1948, but the opera was rejected by Soviet authorities for subsequent performances during the composer's lifetime; 1966 - Stravinsky: "Requiem Canticles," in Princeton, with Robert Craft conducting; 1992 - Ligeti: Violin Concerto, in Cologne, by the Ensemble Moderne conducted by Peter Eötvös, and Saschko Gawriloff the soloist; 1993 - Corigliano: "Troubadours (Variations for Guitar and Orchestra)," at the Ordway Music Theater in St. Paul, with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra conducted by Hugh Wolff, and guitar soloist Sharon Isbin; 1999 - Kernis: "Garden of Light" and Torke: "Four Seasons" (both commissioned by the Disney Company at the urging of its Chief Executive, Michael Eisner), for the Millennium season of the New York Philharmonic, with Kurt Masur conducting the orchestra, vocal soloists, and choirs in both pieces; Others 1739 - Handel completes in London his Concerto Grosso in a, Op. 6, no. 4 (Gregorian date: Oct. 19); 1898 - The first issue of the magazine "Musical America" is published. Links and Resources On John Corigliano On Sharon Isbin
Synopsis Franz Liszt, the inventor of the "symphonic poem," wrote 13 of them. The second, "Tasso," had its first performance on today's date in 1849. The occasion was a festival celebrating the 100th birthday of the great German national poet and playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the author of "Faust." The festival was in Weimar, Germany, the city where Goethe died and was buried in 1832. Liszt's "Tasso" was written to serve as the overture to Goethe's drama about the Italian poet "Torquato Tasso," and its premiere performance was conducted by its composer. The main theme of the work is said to be a tune Liszt claimed he heard sung by an Italian gondolier in Venice. One of the more surprising tributes to Goethe occurred not in Germany, but in scenic Aspen, Colorado, when the Aspen Music Festival was founded in Goethe's honor in 1949 – on the 200th anniversary of his birth. The Aspen Music Festival has grown over the years and today draws some 30,000 visitors annually. One of the original founders of the Festival was French composer Darius Milhaud, who taught at the Aspen Music School for many years. This music is from Milhaud's "Aspen Serenade," written in 1957. More recently, during conductor David Zinman years as the Festival's Music Director, many contemporary American composers, including John Corigliano, Richard Danielpour, Christopher Rouse, and Augusta Read Thomas, have had their works performed – and occasionally premiered – in Aspen. Music Played in Today's Program Franz Liszt (1811-1886) –Tasso (Orchestre de Paris; Sir Georg Solti, cond.) London 417 513 Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) –Aspen Serenade, Op 361 (Stuttgart Radio Symphony; Gilbert Varga, cond.) CPO 999114
Erik treats himself to a new mouthpiece and listens to John Corigliano's new saxophone concerto. Get in touch at lttcapshow@gmail.com or eriksteighner.com
Synopsis Merriam-Webster's defines a “gazebo” as “a freestanding roofed structure usually open on the sides. To most Americans, however, “gazebo” conjures up warm, summer days spent out-of-doors: If you imagine yourself inside a gazebo, you're probably enjoying a cool beverage while gazing out at the greenery – or, if you fancy yourself outside one, you're probably seated in a lawn chair, gazing at a group of gazebo-sheltered band musicians playing a pops concert for your entertainment. In the early 1970's, the American composer John Corigliano wrote a series of whimsical four-hand piano dances he dedicated to certain of his pianist friends, and then later arranged these pieces for concert band, entitling the resulting suite “Gazebo Dances. “ “The title,” explained Corigliano, “was suggested by the pavilions often seen on village greens in towns throughout the countryside, where public band concerts are given in the summer. The delights of that sort of entertainment are portrayed in this set of dances, which begins with a Rossini-like Overture, followed by a rather peg-legged Waltz, a long-lined Adagio, and a bouncy Tarantella.” The concert band version of Corigliano's “Gazebo Dances” was first performed in Indiana on today's date in 1973, by the University of Evansville Wind Ensemble, with Robert Bailey conducting. Music Played in Today's Program John Corigliano (b. 1938) – Gazebo Dances (University of Texas Wind Ensemble; Jerry Junkin, cond.) Naxos 8.559601
Synopsis Today's date marks the birthday in 1938 of the American composer John Corigliano, and also, in 2005, of the premiere of his Symphony No. 3, scored for large wind ensemble. The premiere was given in Austin by the University of Texas Wind Ensemble led by Jerry F. Junkin. Corigliano titled his new symphony “Circus Maximus,” explaining : “The Circus Maximus of ancient Rome was … [the] largest arena in the world, it entertained over 300,000 spectators daily for nearly a thousand years. Chariot races, hunts, and battles satisfied the Roman public's need for grander and wilder amusements as the Empire declined. Many of us [today] have become as bemused by the violence and humiliation that flood the 500-plus channels of our television screens as those mobs of imperial Rome who considered the devouring of human beings by starving lions just another Sunday show.” In performance, Corigliano asks that a huge array of brass, wind, and percussion surround the audience on all sides. As brass instruments roar and cheer all around them, the audience is meant to feel more like the watched than the watchers, and Corigliano ends the work with a bang – literally – as a shotgun blast provides the symphony's final exclamation point! Music Played in Today's Program John Corigliano (b. 1938) — Circus Maximus (University of Texas Wind Ensemble; Jerry Junkin, cond.) Naxos 8.559601
The fates foretold that Jon and Andy would discuss John Corigliano's score for the 1998 history-spanning musical saga The Red Violin. How does Corigliano draw a musical line to connect the film's disparate episodes, and how darkly does he draw it? What sensibilities did he bring from the world of classical concert composing? And, is … Continue reading "#51 – The Red Violin"
Kevin Sedatole is the Director of Bands and Chair of the conducting area at Michigan State University. He has had a celebrated career in music as a conductor, clinician, teacher, and advocate for new music. Biography Kevin Sedatole serves as Director of Bands, Professor of Music, and Chair of the conducting area at the Michigan State University College of Music. At MSU, Professor Sedatole serves as administrator of the entire band program totaling over 700 students that includes the Wind Symphony, Symphony Band, Concert Band, Chamber Winds, Campus Bands, Spartan Marching Band and Spartan Brass. He also guides the graduate wind-conducting program in addition to conducting the MSU Wind Symphony. Prior to joining MSU, he was director of bands and associate professor of conducting at Baylor University. Previous to his appointment at Baylor he served as associate director of bands at the University of Texas and director of the Longhorn Band, and as associate director of bands at the University of Michigan and Stephen F. Austin State University. Sedatole has conducted performances for the College Band Directors National Association, American Bandmasters Association, Texas Music Educators Association, Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association, and the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, as well as performances in Carnegie Hall. He has conducted across the United States and Europe. Most recently the MSU Wind Symphony, under the direction of Professor Sedatole, has given featured performances at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic held in Chicago, Ill. and at the national conventions of the College Band Directors' National Association held in Austin, Texas and Kansas City, Missouri. Performances conducted by Professor Sedatole have won accolades from prominent composers including Robert Beaser, John Corigliano, Michael Colgrass, Donald Grantham, David Maslanka, Ricardo Lorenz, Michael Daugherty, John Mackey, Jonathan Newman, Carter Pann, Joel Puckett, Dan Welcher as well as many others. Professor Sedatole also serves on the summer faculty of the Interlochen Music Camp, Board of Directors for the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic and as the president of the CBDNA North Central division. His international engagements include residencies at the Senzoku Gakuen College of Music, Tokyo, Japan and the Mid Europe Festival, Schladming, Austria. ________________ Please join us at the second annual Ultimate Music Business Summit, which will be held January 6-8, 2022! This is a virtual summit where musicians (from across the globe) can gather and learn about entrepreneurial ideas. The goal of this summit is to ignite curiosity and offer valuable information from an array of experts. The entrepreneurial-minded musician who attends the summit will leave with new, creative ideas that will not only inspire them but will give them the necessary tools to utilize in our ever-changing musical world. The desire to connect, educate, learn, and grow together is UMBS's hope and mission. Please visit our website at musicsummit.biz for more information! Thanks! Prices of Tickets: Basic Ticket: $17 Basic Ticket Early Bird (purchased before Nov. 30): $14 VIP (access to all video recordings): $137 Early Bird (purchased before Nov. 30): $97 Dates: January 6-8, 2022
Synopsis If you've ever attended a live symphony concert, you're familiar with the routine: before anyone starts playing, before the conductor even steps on stage, the principal oboist sounds an “A” – and the other musicians tune their instruments to that pitch. On today's date in 1975, a few people in the audience at Carnegie Hall might have been surprised to hear this familiar ritual segue directly into the opening of John Corigliano's new Oboe Concerto, which was receiving its premiere performance by oboist Burt Lucarelli and the American Symphony orchestra. The first movement of Corigliano's Concerto is entitled “Tuning Game,” followed by a “Song-Scherzo,” “Aria” and a final “Dance.” This form, says Corigliano, arose “from the different aspects of the oboe … The coloratura qualities of the oboe are emphasized in the ‘Aria' movement, for example, but the whole Concerto is highly theatrical, virtuoso music for both soloist and orchestra.” Theatrical is right! The final dance movement was inspired by the sound of the “rhaita” or Morrocan oboe. According to Corigliano: “I was fascinated by the rhaita's sound, heady and forceful... but having an infectiously exciting quality Music Played in Today's Program John Corigliano (b. 1938) — Oboe Concerto (Humbert Lucarelli, oboe; American Symphony; Kazuyoshi Akiyama, cond.) RCA/BMG 60395
TPP had the privilege of interviewing Dr. Alexandria Le, concert pianist, Yamaha Artist, educator, and arts advocate. A winner of over twenty first-prize music awards, her performance career has seen her play everywhere from Carnegie Hall and the Salle Cortot to the jails of Riker's Island. After establishing her career for over 15 years in New York, she returned to her hometown, Las Vegas, to form the nonprofit organization Notes with a Purpose. Since its inception several years ago it has already engaged thousands of children and adults in the Las Vegas area through outreach concerts and special events. [Dr. Alexandria Le] Alexandria Le, pianist and Las Vegas native, has appeared as a soloist on the world's most illustrious stages, such as Carnegie Hall in New York City and Salle Cortot in Paris, and in the most intimate of venues, such as the French Embassy in New York City and the Parrish Museum in the Hamptons. Her performances have been broadcast over radio stations in cities including Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Seattle. A winner of over twenty first-prize music awards, she is a laureate of the Pro Musicis International Award and the Ackerman Chamber Music Competition. She was the pianist for two years with Ensemble Connect, the resident ensemble of Carnegie Hall, and appeared regularly on Carnegie Hall's concert series. She has also performed with principal members of the world's leading orchestras, including the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, American Brass, and Canadian Brass. She has worked with Pulitzer Prize-winning composers Steve Reich and John Corigliano, and has commissioned and premiered new works, including a solo piano piece (Competing Demands) dedicated to her by Ryan Carter. Alexandria is a graduate of the Las Vegas Academy, where she was an inaugural inductee in their Hall of Fame. She holds piano performance degrees from the Eastman School of Music and SUNY Stony Brook, where she received her Doctorate of Musical Arts. She was named a Yamaha Artist in 2015, of which there are fewer than 100 worldwide on their classical piano roster. After establishing a career in New York, she returned to her roots in Las Vegas to make a difference in people's lives. In 2016, she founded Notes with a Purpose, an award-winning music nonprofit that has enriched the lives of over 15,000 elementary schoolchildren and disenfranchised adults. Through performances, community outreach, and private piano teaching, she is committed to adding beauty and cultural growth to her hometown every day.
The Ghosts of Versailles is an opera in two acts, with music by John Corigliano to an English libretto by William M. Hoffman. The Metropolitan Opera had commissioned the work from Corigliano in 1980 in celebration of its 100th anniversary, with the premiere scheduled for 1983. Corigliano and Hoffman took as the starting point for the opera the 1792 play La Mère coupable (The Guilty Mother) by Pierre Beaumarchais. They took seven years to complete the opera, past the initial deadline. The opera received its premiere on December 19, 1991, at the Metropolitan Opera, with the production directed by Colin Graham. The premiere run of seven performances was sold out.Purchase the music (without talk) at:http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1402/Corigliano%3A_The_Ghosts_of_Versailles.htmlYour purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com
In this sixth episode, Maestro Steven Mercurio talks about his emergence as a composer and conductor, and his intersections with mid-20th century American composers including David Del Tredici, Lukas Foss, John Corigliano, and Gian Carlo Menotti leading to his tenure at the Spoleto Festival. Steven addresses the climate of music today, offering hope around politics and the pandemic.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/capricorn/donations
Composer Jack Frerer joins conductor Devin Patrick Hughes on One Symphony today. They speak about the secret sauce to writing great music, conducting and composing teachers, comedy in music, how rock guitar and music theory make a great classical composer, and much more! The music of Australian composer Jack Frerer has been performed around the world, including the Arapahoe Philharmonic, Nashville Symphony, and Albany Symphony. Although still a young composer at the age of 26, Jack has received numerous awards, including a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Morton Gould Composers Award from ASCAP, the Suzanne and Lee Ettelson Composers Award, the Brian Israel Prize from the Society for New Music, and was winner of both the Juilliard Orchestra and Gena Raps Chamber Music competitions. He was a Tanglewood fellow for 2019, a composer for New York City Ballet's, and is currently Composer-in-Residence with the Arapahoe Philharmonic. Jack studied with John Corigliano and Robert Beaser at Juilliard, and is currently a graduate student at the Yale. Thank you for joining us on One Symphony and thanks to Jack Frerer for sharing his music and insights. Thank you to all the incredible performers that made this episode possible. Downloads was played by KJ Mcdonald, Philip Sheegog, Ning Zhang, Viola Chan and Joey Chang. On-Again, Off-Again was performed by The Juilliard Orchestra. Spiral Sequences by the Azure Quartet: Kj McDonald, Brenden Zak, Hannah Geisinger and Yifei Li. Stutter Step was played by Kevin Zhu, Philip Sheegog and Tengku Irfan. The Present Hour was performed by The Albany Symphony's ‘Dogs of Desire' ensemble, featuring vocalists Lucy Dhegrae and Lucy Fitzgibbon, and texts by Ayla Sullivan, Dominic Huey, Emily Brontë and Amy Ludwig VanDerwater. Brahms's Symphony no. 1 was performed by Paavo Berglund and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe on the Ondine label. You can check out Jack's music online at jackfrerer.com. You can always find more info at OneSymphony.org including a virtual tip jar if you'd like to support the show. Please feel free to rate, review, or share the show! Until next time, thank you for being part of the music!
Celebrated countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo will channel Dracula and Dionysus when he makes his Santa Fe Opera debut this season in the world premiere of The Lord of Cries. Host (and uber fan-girl) Jane Trembley chats with Anthony about what it's like having a lead role crafted especially for him by composer John Corigliano, with libretto by Mark Adamo. The pair also discuss why this heart-stopping production is the perfect opera with which to entice audiences back to the Crosby Theatre. For those scratching their heads at the term countertenor, you know it when you hear it - and you've heard it. Think Prince, the BeeGees, and even Justin Timberlake “just done in a more full-throated way,” Anthony explains. He traces the style's origins back to the castrati popular in 16th-century opera. Those performers were widely revered as the rockstars of their time. The vocal range of countertenors is our modern equivalent, minus the castration, of course. Their high-voltage sound lends itself well to characters who occupy a more mysterious realm. “Contained within the countertenor's voice are all of these questions of, really, identity as it relates to gender, as it relates to sexuality,” says Anthony, adding, “now we live in a time when everyone is thinking in a more open-minded way.” The Lord of Cries takes full advantage of Anthony's dynamic talents. John Corigliano, whom Anthony has known for 20 years, wrote his first opera, The Ghost of Versailles, in 1991. He hadn't written a second opera, until now. The piece poses complex questions about the human condition against an unsettling, ethereal backdrop. It's a thrilling and terrifying space to play in as there's no precedent, no previous productions from which Anthony might draw insight. “It's like having a suit that is tailor-made for your own body.” As for making his debut on the legendary desert stage in the lead role of a new work, Anthony says, “Santa Fe has been at the forefront of bringing American opera to fruition, you know, new operas, new composers, and making it happen, and that's been so thrilling.” *** Destination Santa Fe Opera is a Santa Fe Opera podcast, produced and edited by Andrea Klunder at The Creative Impostor Studios. Mixed by: Edwin R. Ruiz Hosted by: Jane Trembley Featuring: Anthony Roth Costanzo, American Countertenor *** Learn more about the Santa Fe Opera and plan your visit at http://www.santafeopera.org. We'd love for you to join us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok @santafeopera.
Hollywood composer Joseph Bishara, who has scored all the Insidious and Conjuring films, joins Matthew Sweet to delve into the world of contemporary horror and discuss the presence of evil, the power of silence, and scoring scenes that feature himself – as supernatural villains Bathsheba Sherman and the Lipstick-Face Demon. Featuring Joseph's music alongside influential scores he admires by John Carpenter, Jerry Goldsmith, Wendy Carlos, and John Corigliano. ‘The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It' is in UK cinemas this weekend.
We welcome Dr. Angela Schroeder to the Band Room! Dr. Schroeder is the Director of Bands and Associate Professor of Music at the University of Alberta. Dylan and Cait chat with Angela about studying with Mallory Thompson and Eugene Corporon, supporting living composers, being a mom and a conductor, getting out into nature, and much more!Help support the Band Room Podcast by becoming a patron through Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/bandroompod Help support the Band Room Podcast by getting your merch at the BRP Storehttp://www.bandroompod.com/store Music used in this episodeBRP Theme Music: Skyline by EKR HammellPerforming Ensemble: University of Toronto Wind EnsembleDr. Gillian MacKay – ConductorEpisode LinksUniversity of Alberta - Dr. Angela Schroederhttps://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/angela4St. Albert Community Bandhttps://sacb.ca/John Corigliano's Circus Maximus with UofA SWE and the Edmonton Windshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVzlS71T47o&ab_channel=Dr.AngelaSchroederDr.AngelaSchroederDylan & Cait's BooksThe Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How by Daniel Coylehttps://www.amazon.ca/Talent-Code-Greatness-Born-Grown/dp/055380684XFrom the Ashes: My Story of Being Metis, Homeless, and Finding My Way by Jesse Thistlehttps://www.amazon.ca/Ashes-Story-Being-Homeless-Finding/dp/1982101210/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=from+the+ashes&qid=1621983855&s=books&sr=1-1Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants, Updated and Expanded by Douglas W. Tallamyhttps://www.amazon.ca/Bringing-Nature-Home-Wildlife-Expanded/dp/0881929921/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=bringing+nature+home&qid=1621983962&s=books&sr=1-1Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/bandroompod)
Synopsis The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition is held every four years in Fort Worth, Texas, and for each competition, a new test piece for solo piano is commissioned that each contestant is required to interpret. The 1985 test piece, “Fantasia on an Ostinato” by American composer John Corigliano, was first performed on today’s date. It was inspired by a famous repetitive passage in the slow, second movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, as Corigliano explained: “Beethoven’s near-minimalistic use of his material and my own desire to write a piece in which the performer is responsible for decisions concerning the durations of repeated patterns, led to my first experiment in so-called minimalist techniques. “I approached this task with mixed feelings … for while I admire [minimalism’s] emphasis on attractive textures and its occasional ability to achieve a hypnotic quality (not unlike some late Beethoven), I do not care for its excessive repetition, its lack of architecture and its overall emotional sterility. “In my ‘Fantasia on an Ostinato’ I attempted to combine the attractive aspects of minimalism with convincing structure and emotional expression … [climaxing] in a return of the obsessive Beethoven rhythm and, finally, the appearance of the Beethoven theme itself.” Music Played in Today's Program John Corigliano (b. 1938) — Fantasia on an Ostinato (Nina Tichman, p.) Naxos 8.559306
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Welcome to Lubbock, Texas! We have the honor to talk with composer and cat lover, Jennifer Jolley. We discuss being Korean but cooking poorly, musical security blankets, learning from Frank Ticheli, composing for band, finding your voice, and celebrating all your fails! You'll love the message that she shares and feel the encouragement that we could all use.Guest:Jennifer JolleyJennifer Jolley's website: www.jenniferjolley.com Music Included in this Episode:The Eyes of the World are Upon You by Jennifer Jolley. Performed by the University of Texas Wind Ensemble, conducted by Jerry Junkin. © Jennifer Jolley 2017Symphony No. 3 (Circus Maximus) by John Corigliano. Performed by University of North Texas Wind Symphony, conducted by Eugene Migliaro Corporon. © John Corigliano 2005Ash by Jennifer Jolley. Performed by St. Olaf Wind Ensemble, conducted by Timothy Mahr. © Jennifer Jolley 2018Blog posts with Jennifer Jolley:“5 Questions to Jennifer Jolley” by Brianne Matzke on I Care if You Listen: https://www.icareifyoulisten.com/2020/09/5-questions-to-jennifer-jolley-composer/“How it Happened (Said John Cage): A Moment of Silence by Jennifer Jolley. https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/how-it-happened-said-john-cage-a-moment-of-silence/New Music USA on Trimpin: https://www.newmusicusa.org/profile/gtrimpin/Trimpin article: https://www.mightytieton.com/trimpinHosts:William F. Montgomery - www.williammontgomerycomposer.comHillary Lester - www.thehealthymusiciansite.comBecome a Patreon:Patreon Link - https://www.patreon.com/soundsoftheworldpodcastLinks for social media:Website – www.soundsoftheworldpodcast.comHost site link - https://redcircle.com/shows/sounds-of-the-worldInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/soundsoftheworldpodcastFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/soundsoftheworldpodcastApple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sounds-of-the-world/id1532113091YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsaZzOWvr_VaPQ_6_sB3Oow© Sounds of the World Podcast 2020Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/sounds-of-the-world/donations
Described by distinguished American composer John Corigliano as an "artist beyond his time," concert saxophonist, Don-Paul Kahl has performed throughout Europe, the United States, Australia, and South-East Asia. He has appeared as soloist with the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, the University of Florida Symphony Orchestra, the University of Florida Wind Symphony, and the Susquehanna University Orchestra. An ardent supporter and advocate of contemporary and modern music, Don-Paul has been involved in the creation and performance of over 100 new works for saxophone by some of the most talented and award winning young composers of the time. Recently commissioned composers include Ramon Lazkano, Max Grafe, David Biedenbender, Nicolas Tzortzis, María Eugenia Luc, Gregory Wanamaker, Simone Movio, Chris Dench, Julien Malaussena, among many others.As an avid and in-demand chamber musician, Don-Paul is active with the international interdisciplinary saxophone quartet, Ensemble du Bout du Monde (EBM), his duo with clarinetist, Jackie Glazier, Duo Entre-Nous (D2), and with a newly formed Belgian based reed quintet, WoodWork. Don-Paul was a prizewinner at the prestigious 4th Jean-Marie Londeix International Saxophone Competition in Bangkok, Thailand. In 2019, EBM won the third and special prizes at the International Chamber Music Competition in Illzach, France. In 2017, they garnered first and special prizes at the Concours d'Interprétation de la Ville de Boulogne-Billancourt. Don-Paul was also awarded the Harriett Hale Woolley Scholarship for academic study in Paris, France for the 2013-2014 year. Other awards include prizewinner in the 2013 Marco Fiorindo Chamber Music Competition, University of Florida Concerto Competition, and the Susquehanna University Concerto Competition, along with several others.Don-Paul is an avid clinician and gives masterclasses throughout Europe and the United States. Currently, he serves on the faculty at the Susquehanna University High School Wind Ensemble Institute in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. He also holds the position of the saxophone chair in the Ocala Symphony Orchestra in Ocala, Florida. Previously, he has served on the adjunct faculty at the College of Central Florida in Ocala, Florida where he taught applied study in both saxophone and clarinet. Currently, Don-Paul is living and working as a freelance saxophonist based both in Belgium and the United States. He is also a doctoral candidate for the Ph.D in Artistic Research in collaboration with Leiden University (NL) and the Orpheus Institute (BE). In 2017, he completed a post-graduate performatory research program at the Lemmensinstituut in Leuven, Belgium. Previously, he earned a Master of Music degree from the University of Florida and a Bachelor of Music degree from Susquehanna University (Summa Cum Laude). His primary teachers and mentors are Jean-Michel Goury, Marcus Weiss, Jonathan Helton, Geoffrey Deibel, and Gail B. Levinsky, with additional study with Frederick L. Hemke.Don-Paul Kahl is a Henri Selmer Paris and Conn-Selmer performing artist, and performs on Selmer Paris saxophones exclusively. www.donpaulkahl.com
For more information on Dinuk Wijeratne visit his websiteFor info on Dinuk's Creativity Consulting work and to download his brochure "Define Your Artistic Voice" visit here.During the episode Dinuk mentioned his teacher John Corigliano. You can learn more about him hereDinuk also mentioned Edward De Bono and his work in creative thinking. Learn more hereWe spoke about a couple of pieces: Walton's 1st Symphony and Kodaly's solo cello Sonata. Listen this recording of the Walton and there are a bunch of recordings of the Kodaly here. Check out the Starker recording for historic significance and the Santiago Canon Valencia for youthful virtuosity!
I'm pleased to welcome to the show Rebecca Smithorn, cover conductor and lecturer with the National Philharmonic. Rebecca is host of the NatPhil's YouTube series "Composers in Crisis" which takes a look at composers whose lives and art were transformed by times of global crisis. In our interview we talk about several composers in crisis: Beethoven, Ravel, Ruth Crawford-Seeger, John Corigliano, Undine Smith Moore, and a good ol' good one, Louis Armstrong, who Duke Ellington said was "Born poor, died rich, and never hurt anyone in between." "Composers in Crisis" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3agUbwO72pA&list=PLtZH2-QfYm4ypSuSDPAyl13znMQZPv24S https://rebeccasmithorn.com --------------- Try nkoda for free! All the digital sheet music you could ever need right on one app. I use it for my own practice, in lessons, and when I just want something fun to play on the piano or guitar! https://www.nkoda.com ----------------- Subscribe on iTunes and give us a 5-star review! download our app! Visit and like our Facebook page! https://www.facebook.com/thegreatcomposerspodcast/?ref=bookmarks Works heard in this episode: Ravel - "Le Tombeau de Couperin" mvt. 1, Prelude, played by Janet Seitzer https://musopen.org/music/4728-le-tombeau-de-couperin/ mvt. 6, Toccata
A violin with a past is fated to keep dooming the present.
On this day in 2005, “Circus Maximus,” the third symphony of American composer John Corigliano and one of the most influential of recent symphonic works, had its world premiere. On today's "A Classical Day in the Life," we learn that Corigliano's work draws parallels between the high decadence of ancient Rome and our present culture. Oh, and there's also a shotgun blast at the end!