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b. 1930 American conductor, pianist and composer Previn’s family fled Germany in 1938, settling finally in Los Angeles, where he began parallel careers as an orchestrator and conductor at MGM (he went on to win four Academy awards for film music) and a jazz pianist. His classical conducting debut in 1962 led to numerous international engagements before his ...

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(the premiere of Birtwistle’s The Minotaur) and symphonic repertory (as music director of the Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Rome, from 2005). Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | André Previn | Contemporary | Classical ...

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an influential system of musical education using singing and percussion instruments. Recommended Recording: Carmina Burana, soloists, Vienna Boys’ Choir, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Vienna PO (cond) André Previn (Deutsche Grammophon) Introduction | Modern Era | Classical Personalities | Hans Pfitzner | Modern Era | Classical ...

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Jesus (1917) and Ode to Death (1919). Recommended Recording: The Planets, The Perfect Fool (ballet music), Egdon Heath, New Philharmonia (cond) Sir Adrian Boult, LSO (cond) André Previn (EMI/Warner) Sounds Familiar ‘Mars’ from The Planets ‘Mars, the Bringer of War’ is the first of seven movements in Holst’s Planets suite. Completed before the outbreak of World War ...

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, where he later became the institution’s first guitar professor. His discography embraces the standard classical guitar repertory as well as works written for him (by Leo Brouwer, André Previn and others) and fusions with rock and, later, world music. Introduction | Contemporary | Classical ...

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b. 1959 American soprano She completed her formal study at the Juilliard School and in Europe on a Fulbright scholarship with Arleen Augér and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1991 as the Countess (Mozart’s Figaro), which, along with the Marschallin (Strauss’s Rosenkavalier) has become one of her best-known roles. She created the role of Blanche DuBois ...

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b. 1959, American Fleming has taken a position in the American public consciousness similar to that of Beverley Sills in the twentieth century – a household name even to many people who are unfamiliar with opera as an art form. Much-loved for her radiant tone and expansive on-stage presence, the full lyric soprano’s repertoire encompasses Richard Strauss, Mozart ...

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spirit of his orchestral writing into line with the power of the human voice. Recommended Recording: Four Last Songs, Ein Heldenleben, Arleen Augér, Vienna PO (cond) André Previn (Telarc) Richard Strauss: Works Operas: Guntram (1887–93); Feuersnot (1900–01); Salome (1904–05); Elektra (1906–08); Der Rosenkavalier (1909–10); Ariadne auf Naxos (1911–12); Die Frau ohne Schatten (1914–17); Intermezzo (1917–23); Die ägyptische Helena ...

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European culture lay in ruins after the end of World War II. There were many who, in company with the philosopher Theodor Adorno, felt that Nazi atrocities such as Auschwitz rendered art impossible, at least temporarily. Others, though, felt that humanity could only establish itself anew by rediscovering the potency of art, including opera. On ...