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Richard Strauss was a ate-Romantic composer of richly scored tone poems and heady operas Composer Colin Matthews on Strauss It is all too easy to overlook Richard Strauss’s significance, but in the remarkable sequence of tone poems spanning 25 years, from Don Juan to the Alpine Symphony, he...
Many cantatas composed in Weimar are set like chamber music, mostly forsoloists, with a four-part setting only in the closing chorale, which may have been sung by the soloists. What is a cantata used for? cantata, (from Italian cantare, “to sing”), originally, a musical composition inte...
was for dinner, and what would go well with those new green beans. Even if I could join in, there was the surety that up and down the line, other people were tuned in. That’s what folks did before there was TV and Days of Our Lives. We had to generate our own soap operas. ...
Ambrogio Maestri was better as Tonio than Alfio though I am not sure his prologue was the best he has ever sung. Nevertheless, Maestri displayed all the vehemence of a despised figure downtrodden by life’s vicissitudes. Leoncavallo does not give Andrea Giovanni...
D.Puccini’s operas are strong in emotion and conflict. E. Turandot is performed regularly all over the world. F. The opera was first performed in 1926, two years after Puccini’s death. G. There are many different versions of Molihua or Jasmine Flower in different parts of China. ...
German-born Pilatus and Paris native Morvan hadn't sung a note on the worldwide 14 million-selling Girl You Know It's True album, which generated five Top5 singles and three No. 1 Pop hits including Blame It on the Rain, Baby Don't Forget My Number and Girl I'm Gonna Miss You. ...
Richard Strauss was a ate-Romantic composer of richly scored tone poems and heady operas Composer Colin Matthews on Strauss It is all too easy to overlook Richard Strauss’s significance, but in the remarkable sequence of tone poems spanning 25 years, from Don Juan to the Alpine Symphony, he...
Richard Strauss was a ate-Romantic composer of richly scored tone poems and heady operas Composer Colin Matthews on Strauss It is all too easy to overlook Richard Strauss’s significance, but in the remarkable sequence of tone poems spanning 25 years, from Don Juan to the Alpine Symphony, he...