Chamber Music Society of Central VirginiaOct. 14, First Unitarian Universalist Church The artistically venturesome and behaviorally libertine culture of Weimar Germany lasted barely 10 years before it was suppressed by the Nazis, but has had a long afterlife. Its music spread well beyond its home turf of Berlin cabarets and theaters in the 1920s and…

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17.10.2024

A robot conductor and a dead critic – Letter V

Over the weekend, Germany’s Dresden Sinfoniker presented a concert in which the orchestra’s musicians were conducted by a robot. The highlight of this “Robotersinfonie” program was Andreas Gundlach’s “aptly named ‘Semiconductor’s Masterpiece’ for 16 brass musicians and four percussionists playing wildly diverging time signatures,” The Guardian’s Deborah Cole reports. The orchestra’s artistic director, Markus Rindt,…

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19.10.2024

‘A radically original American musical voice’ – Letter V

Pianist Jeremy Denk, writing in The New York Times, marks the 150th birthday of Charles Ives, the American maverick composer who (in)famously told musicians and their audiences to “stand up and take your dissonance like a man.” “He dreamed that music would evolve into ‘a language, so transcendent, that its heights and depths will be…

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20.10.2024

Letter V Classical Radio Oct. 20 – Letter V

On the 150th birthday of Charles Ives, we’ll contrast his vision of American music’s future and the future anticipated by Antonín Dvořák, and works by two living American composers, Jessie Montgomery and Carlos Simon, who sound to have taken both elders’ advice. 7-9 p.m. EDT2300-0100 UTC/GMTWDCE, University of Richmond90.1 FMhttp://wdce.org Ives: “Variations on ‘America’ ”Gerard…

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