For Reunions weekend, a confluence of art and leisure: Princeton University Ph.D. candidate Andy Akiho’s Concerto for Ping Pong, Violin, Percussion & Orchestra, “Ricochet.”
Category: Daily Dispatch
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Medieval Movie Music on “Picture Perfect”
Ladies, lords, and gentlepersons all…
Hearken ye to “Picture Perfect” this week for sweet airs from movies set in the Age of Chivalry.
Peradventure ye will encounter sounds and delights from “The Warlord” (Jerome Moross), “El Cid” (Miklós Rózsa), “Lionheart” (Jerry Goldsmith), and “The Adventures of Robin Hood” (Erich Wolfgang Korngold).
Verily, chivalry is not dead, this Friday evening at 6 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
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Sir Jeffrey Tate Dies at 74: Conductor’s Legacy
One day after the report of the death of conductor Jiří Bělohlávek, Sir Jeffrey Tate has passed. Tate, who was knighted only last month, collapsed of a heart attack at an art gallery in Bergamo. Despite having been born with spina bifida, which caused paralysis in his left leg, Tate lived a remarkably productive life. He merely conducted while seated on a tall stool.
At the time of his death, Tate was chief conductor of the Hamburg Symphony. He had also been principal conductor of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the Rotterdam Philharmonic.
He was a sensitive Mozart interpreter, as evidenced by a series of acclaimed recordings of the concertos with Mitsuko Uchida; he had a talent for opera, with which, apparently, he had a love/hate relationship; and I have in my possession a very lovely disc he conducted of English pastoral music.
He claimed that he took up conducting purely by accident.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40140053
Tate was 74 years-old. Here he is rehearsing with the English Chamber Orchestra.
PHOTO: Tate and Uchida with the ECO in 1984
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Princeton Reunions 2017 Music on WPRB
Lock up your daughters! 25,000 visitors are expected to converge on Princeton this weekend for Reunions 2017. This Thursday morning on WPRB, we acknowledge the impending influx of humanity and commensurate Tiger Pride with music composed and performed by Princeton University faculty and alumni.
Composers may include Princeton professors Milton Babbitt, Earl Kim, Paul Lansky, Steven Mackey, Bohuslav Martinu, and Roger Sessions, and students and alumni Peter Maxwell Davies, Caroline Shaw, and Julia Wolfe.
Performers may include Princeton University Chapel organist Eric Plutz, current ensemble-in-residence So Percussion, former ensemble-in-residence the Brentano Quartet, performance faculty members Geoffrey Burleson and Laura Oltman, conductor alumnus Gilbert Levine, and William H. Scheide’s Bach Aria Group.
As always, it depends on how much we are able to shoehorn in.
Reunions will commence even as I grace the airwaves, this Thursday morning from 6 to 11 EDT, on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. Orange you glad you can stay home and enjoy the music? We’ll put a tiger in your tank, on Classic Ross Amico.
More about Reunions 2017 at the Alumni Association of Princeton University’s website:
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Jiří Bělohlávek: Remembering a Master Conductor
I regret to announce that the conductor Jiři Bělohlávek has died at the age of 71. Bělohlávek was music director of the Czech Philharmonic from 1990 to 1992, and then again from 2010 to the time of his death. His contract had been extended this year through 2021-2022.
Bělohlávek was a high-profile champion of music from his native land. I was fortunate enough to see him conduct on several occasions, most memorably leading performances of Dvořák’s “Rusalka” and the “New World Symphony.” I met him, briefly, following the latter, but I got the impression that his English was not very good. On the same occasion, I met Dvořák’s grandson, who spoke no English at all, as far as I could tell. Ironically, the grandson (also named Antonin) died earlier this week, at the age of 88.
Join me this evening at 6:00 EDT, following a broadcast concert from The Princeton Festival with Concordia Chamber Players at 4 (for which Glenn Smith will be your host), when I’ll remember Bělohlávek with an hour of his recordings, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
His obituary in The Guardian:
PHOTO: Antonin Dvořák III (left) with Jiři Bělohlávek
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