New Year's Eve with Fanny Hensel's piano cycle "Das jahr" and Erich Kästner's poem cycle "13 Monate". On the piano: Silvia Patru and Matt Rubenstein. Reading: Thomas Lackmann and Marlene Weller
Mel Bonis: Trois femmes de légende Alma Mahler: Songs Louise Farrenc: Symphony No. 1 in C minor op. 32 "Trois femmes de légende" or in English"Three legendary female figures" is the motto of this concert. This is not only the title of the first pieces by the late romantic French composer Mel Bonis. Rarely has a motto also suited Alma Mahler-Werfel and Louise Farrenc, the creators of the rest of the program, so well. Mel Bonis studied composition with Claude Debussy, but at the insistence of her family had to abandon her studies and marry. Conscious of duty, she fulfilled her role as the administrator of an upper middle-class household. She nevertheless managed to compose on the side, especially piano and chamber music, and the colorful piano pieces she orchestrated herself on "legendary" female characters show an artist whose work can absolutely compete with her better-known colleagues. Alma Mahler-Werfel is considered the last great salon lioness of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The names of her husbands, lovers, companions, friends and acquaintances almost read like a "Who's Who" of the intellectual greats of the time. She composed during a short phase of her life. Her first ...
Mel Bonis: Trois femmes de légende Alma Mahler: Songs Louise Farrenc: Symphony No. 1 in C minor op. 32 "Trois femmes de légende" or in English"Three legendary female figures" is the motto of this concert. This is not only the title of the first pieces by the late romantic French composer Mel Bonis. Rarely has a motto also suited Alma Mahler-Werfel and Louise Farrenc, the creators of the rest of the program, so well. Mel Bonis studied composition with Claude Debussy, but at the insistence of her family had to abandon her studies and marry. Conscious of duty, she fulfilled her role as the administrator of an upper middle-class household. She nevertheless managed to compose on the side, especially piano and chamber music, and the colorful piano pieces she orchestrated herself on "legendary" female characters show an artist whose work can absolutely compete with her better-known colleagues. Alma Mahler-Werfel is considered the last great salon lioness of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The names of her husbands, lovers, companions, friends and acquaintances almost read like a "Who's Who" of the intellectual greats of the time. She composed during a short phase of her life. Her first ...
Mel Bonis: Trois femmes de légende Alma Mahler: Songs Louise Farrenc: Symphony No. 1 in C minor op. 32 "Trois femmes de légende" or in English"Three legendary female figures" is the motto of this concert. This is not only the title of the first pieces by the late romantic French composer Mel Bonis. Rarely has a motto also suited Alma Mahler-Werfel and Louise Farrenc, the creators of the rest of the program, so well. Mel Bonis studied composition with Claude Debussy, but at the insistence of her family had to abandon her studies and marry. Conscious of duty, she fulfilled her role as the administrator of an upper middle-class household. She nevertheless managed to compose on the side, especially piano and chamber music, and the colorful piano pieces she orchestrated herself on "legendary" female characters show an artist whose work can absolutely compete with her better-known colleagues. Alma Mahler-Werfel is considered the last great salon lioness of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The names of her husbands, lovers, companions, friends and acquaintances almost read like a "Who's Who" of the intellectual greats of the time. She composed during a short phase of her life. Her first ...
Mel Bonis: Trois femmes de légende Alma Mahler: Songs Louise Farrenc: Symphony No. 1 in C minor op. 32 "Trois femmes de légende" or in English"Three legendary female figures" is the motto of this concert. This is not only the title of the first pieces by the late romantic French composer Mel Bonis. Rarely has a motto also suited Alma Mahler-Werfel and Louise Farrenc, the creators of the rest of the program, so well. Mel Bonis studied composition with Claude Debussy, but at the insistence of her family had to abandon her studies and marry. Conscious of duty, she fulfilled her role as the administrator of an upper middle-class household. She nevertheless managed to compose on the side, especially piano and chamber music, and the colorful piano pieces she orchestrated herself on "legendary" female characters show an artist whose work can absolutely compete with her better-known colleagues. Alma Mahler-Werfel is considered the last great salon lioness of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The names of her husbands, lovers, companions, friends and acquaintances almost read like a "Who's Who" of the intellectual greats of the time. She composed during a short phase of her life. Her first ...
Crouch End Festival Chorus London Mozart Players David Temple: conductor Julia Doyle: soprano Rebecca Afonwy-Jones: mezzo-soprano Ronald Samm: tenor Ashley Riches: baritone Felix Mendelssohn From Heaven on High Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Lure Felix Mendelssohn Psalm 42 Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Job Cantata Felix Mendelssohn The first Walpurgis Night The music of Felix Mendelssohn and his sister Fanny Hensel holds a wealth of unforgettable experiences - from the drama of raging battles in the mountains to exquisite choral settings. In this concert, the renowned Crouch End Festival Chorus presents a selection of works by both siblings, with Fanny given her due alongside her better-known brother. Felix's works include Die erste Walpurgisnacht, a dramatic cantata set on a dark mountain where Druids and Christians are in conflict. Stylistically, the music goes back to Haydn and forward to Wagner and Mahler. Vom Himmel hoch is a beautiful work that is entirely in the style of Felix's great model, J.S. Bach. Fanny's works include Lockung, an exquisite a cappella vocal song, and the more substantial Hiob Cantata for chorus, soloists, and orchestra. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
The Yakima Symphony Orchestra will perform Fanny Hensel's "Ouverture" among other works.
Program: Nadia Boulanger: Three pieces for violoncello and piano Lili Boulanger: Trio for violin, violoncello and piano Mél Bonis: Quartet No. 1 for piano and strings Florentine Mulsant: Quintet for piano and strings, world premiere From the event website: Through works for piano and strings, this concert pays tribute to four French women composers, past and present: Mel Bonis, Florentine Mulsant, and the Boulanger sisters. How many women, like Clara Schumann or Fanny Mendelssohn, had to see their careers as composers sacrificed to social conventions? Mel Bonis, whose real name was Melanie Bonis, knew this all too well, choosing a pseudonym so that her music could be judged as that of a man. A classmate of Debussy, she left behind a significant corpus of 300 works, including the expressive piano quartet n˚1. The two sisters Lili and Nadia Boulanger also showed an extraordinary disposition toward music from childhood. Although the younger Lili died young at 25, she had time to compose some 50 works, while the elder Nadia, in addition to composing her own works, taught nearly 1200 students, including Leonard Bernstein and Michel Legrand, to compose. Florentine Mulsant, from whom a world premiere will be heard, received ...
Program TCHAIKOVSKY | Romeo and Juliet PROKOFIEV | Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat, Op. 1 Soloist: Anastasia Solomatina MARIĆ | Passacaglia (US Premiere!) TCHAIKOVSKY | 1812 Overture, Op. 49 Time to be announced! Current information on the page of the organizer
Hohenheim University Orchestra Conductor Klaus Breuninger More information coming soon: Website of the Symphony Orchestra of the University of Hohenheim (Also the time can still change)
From the organizer's site: Join the Andover Choral Society for performances of Antonio Vivaldi's brilliant and beloved Gloria, a melodious and masterfully crafted cantata by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, and the world premiere of a new choral work commissioned by the Andover Choral Society, "becoming," by local composer Demetrius Spaneas.
Hohenheim University Orchestra Conductor Klaus Breuninger More information coming soon: Website of the Symphony Orchestra of the University of Hohenheim (Also the time can still change)