(Fe-lep’ da Mon’-ta) 1521–1603 Flemish composer In his early years Monte travelled in Italy and, although his maturity was spent at the Habsburg court, he became one of the most prolific composers of Italian madrigals, publishing more than 1,100 of them. His career lasted for over 50 years, making him a good measure of changing tastes in ...
Composed: 1920–25 Premiered: 1925, Monte Carlo Libretto by Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette) The child has been naughty. His mother does not think he deserves more than tea without sugar and dry bread. He must think about how sad he has made her. He shouts after her, ‘I don’t love anybody! I’m naughty!’ He starts smashing and ill-treating everything ...
to other composers of the era. Auber became director of the Paris Conservatoire in 1842 and remained there until its closure in 1870. Recommended Recording: Fra Diavolo, soloists, Monte Carlo Philharmonic (cond) Marc Soustrot (EMI/Erato) Introduction | Early Romantic | Classical Personalities | Michael Balfe | Early Romantic | Classical ...
, notably five symphonies, have been rediscovered in recent years. They combine French refinement with a strength drawn from Eastern European folk music. Recommended Recording: Oedipe, soloists, Monte Carlo PO (cond) Lawrence Foster (EMI/Warner) Introduction | Modern Era | Classical Personalities | Manuel de Falla | Modern Era | Classical ...
series of psalm settings, including the great Dixit Dominus (1707). Some of them were probably composed for a solemn vesper service at the Carmelite church of S Maria del Monte Santo. There was no opera in Rome, because of a papal ban, but in 1707 Handel wrote Rodrigo for performance in Florence, where he was lavishly rewarded ...
but World War I broke out in 1914, with Italy and Austria on opposite sides. La rondine (‘The Swallow’), now a full opera, was first performed in neutral Monte Carlo in 1917, and was not given in Vienna until 1920. During the war Puccini wrote a triple bill of one-act operas: Il tabarro (‘The Cloak’, 1916), Suor Angelica ...
at the Metropolitan Opera, New York 1912 Death of Giulio Ricordi, Puccini’s publisher 1914 Starts work on an operetta, La rondine 1917 Premiere of La rondine, Monte Carlo 1918 Il trittico produced at the Metropolitan Opera, New York 1920 Begins work on Turandot 1924 Puccini dies of throat cancer before Turandot is completed 1926 Premiere of ...
the part of Rodrigo in Verdi’s Don Carlos and the title role in Thomas’s Hamlet. Other opera houses in which Faure sang were in Vienna, Brussels, Berlin and Monte Carlo. His last public appearances were in Marseilles and Vichy in 1886, the year he published La voix et le chant (‘The Voice and Singing’), his treatise on the ...
up and then back down a chromatic scale. Recommended Recording: Madrigals Book 1, Concerto Italiano (dir) Rinaldo Alessandrini (Opus 111) Introduction | Renaissance | Classical Personalities | Philippe de Monte | Renaissance | Classical ...
b. 1935 American composer Initially influenced by Stockhausen, Riley was profoundly affected by the sustained, minimalist style of La Monte Young, whom he met at the University of California at Berkeley. He had paid for his studies by playing ragtime in a bar. He soon became interested in improvised music and ‘happenings’ and made a serious study of ...
to immerse himself in New York City’s underground scene. It was shortly after he had played an 18-hour piano recital with experimental composer John Cage and collaborated with minimalist La Monte Young in The Dream Syndicate that Cale hooked up with Reed to pursue his growing love for rock’n’roll. Both were interested in trying to merge rock with the avant-garde, ...
1892–1967 Italian conductor After an early career as a composer, de Sabata became conductor of the Monte Carlo Opera. In 1930 he began his association with La Scala, Milan, which lasted beyond his retirement in 1957. He conducted fiery performances of Wagner and Verdi, and made an outstanding recording of Tosca. Introduction | Modern Era | Classical ...
despondent when he was away from his family. Having recently spent the summer with them in the south of France, when they returned to England Bonzo moved on to Monte Carlo with Richard Cole and friend Mick Hinton. It was probably no surprise that Bonzo would lose it before long and on one night out he went mad at Hinton ...
in several movies and a long-running 1950s television series). Tex Ritter signed up with the poverty-row outlet Monogram Pictures. Among the many others were Eddie Dean, Jimmy Wakely, Monte Hale and Ray Whitley, the writer of Autry’s theme song ‘Back In The Saddle Again’, while Rex Allen was the last of the breed. Throughout, there was always ...
of world music. The first two of these features implied a fundamental criticism of the new modernist tenets. Minimalism’s early protagonists, mostly based in New York, included La Monte Young, whose group, Theatre of Eternal Music, performed work strongly influenced by Cage and by Indian music in its use of mixed media, drones, repetition ...
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