In the wake of the terrible attacks in Paris, I found myself listening to a lot of French music and thinking about the Leonard Bernstein quote going around on Facebook: "This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before." This list came to seem like my natural response. A very small response, I know. This list is chronological and leaves off people I should probably include. The forty [note: now forty-one] composers listed below are merely a start.
Léonin Aka Leoninus (c.1135-c.1201)
The Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris in the 1100s was a major musical center, and Léonin (the first named composer from whom we have notated polyphonic music) was a crucial figure for defining the liturgical use of organum, the first polyphony. Earlier organum was fairly simple, involving parallel intervals and later contrary motion, but the mid-12th century brought...
Léonin Aka Leoninus (c.1135-c.1201)
The Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris in the 1100s was a major musical center, and Léonin (the first named composer from whom we have notated polyphonic music) was a crucial figure for defining the liturgical use of organum, the first polyphony. Earlier organum was fairly simple, involving parallel intervals and later contrary motion, but the mid-12th century brought...
- 11/15/2015
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
There’s a magic in the arrangements and sound that world-renowned master classical guitarist Angel Romero possesses. His artistry will be on full display as the master returns to La Philharmonic this May 21-24, 2015.Romero has appeared in the world’s major cultural centers, including those of London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Madrid, Munich, Zurich, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York, among numerous others. He has appeared as soloist with such leading orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic, the New World Symphony, the Israel Philharmonic, and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. As a conductor, he has led orchestras […]...
- 5/14/2015
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
The distributor has picked up Canadian rights to Mia Donovan’s Deprogrammed and Heddy Honigmann’s Around The World In 50 Concerts ahead of Toronto Hot Docs.
Deprogrammed (pictured) will receive its world premiere at the festival on Sunday (April 26) and chronicles Ted “Black Lighting” Patrick and his anti-cult crusade based on his ‘reverse brainwashing’ technique inaugurated in the early 1970s.
Around The World In 50 Concerts gets its Canadian Premiere and follows Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra members as they travelled the world to celebrate the institution’s 125th anniversary in 2013 by performing 50 concerts on six continents.
KinoSmith president Robin Smith and Blue Ice Group co-owners Steven Silver and Neil Tabatznik formed Blue Ice Docs in 2014.
Hot Docs kicks off in Toronto today (April 23) and runs through May 3.
Deprogrammed (pictured) will receive its world premiere at the festival on Sunday (April 26) and chronicles Ted “Black Lighting” Patrick and his anti-cult crusade based on his ‘reverse brainwashing’ technique inaugurated in the early 1970s.
Around The World In 50 Concerts gets its Canadian Premiere and follows Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra members as they travelled the world to celebrate the institution’s 125th anniversary in 2013 by performing 50 concerts on six continents.
KinoSmith president Robin Smith and Blue Ice Group co-owners Steven Silver and Neil Tabatznik formed Blue Ice Docs in 2014.
Hot Docs kicks off in Toronto today (April 23) and runs through May 3.
- 4/23/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Read More: Hot Docs 2014 Winners Announced: 'Out of Mind, Out of Sight' Wins Best Canadian Feature Documentary Get ready: It's almost time for this year's Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival. This year's Special Presentations will feature a collection of high-profile documentaries, made up of films enjoying their world and international premieres, recent award winners and works from renowned filmmakers. The 2015 Hot Docs Festival runs from April 23-May 3. Special Presentation titles appear below, ordered alphabetically: "Around the World in 50 Concerts" Take the title quite literally on this one: Award-winning director Heddy Honigmann's "Around the World in 50 Concerts" follows the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (based in the Netherlands) as they perform 50 concerts on six continents in honor of their 125th birthday. "Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime" Co-directed by Jacqui Morris and David...
- 3/10/2015
- by Rosie Narasaki
- Indiewire
Even in Heddy Honigmann’s “Around the World in 50 Concerts,” ostensibly a 125th anniversary portrait/celebration of Amsterdam’s fabled Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the age disparity between the players and the patrons is as dramatic as Mahler. But Honigmann, the Peruvian-born Dutch documentarian, does what she usually does about questions of passion and age – demolishes them. Whether you happen to be a young Uruguayan bassoonist or an elderly Muscovite survivor of Stalin and Hitler, a love of “serious” music is about soul, not years. Much the same can be said about Honigmann’s films. “Around the World in 50 Concerts,” which the Museum of Modern Art is giving a weeklong run beginning Feb. 28, follows the group along a world tour that includes stops in Argentina, Amsterdam, Johannesburg and Moscow. And the film includes themes that have dominated Honigmann’s considerable body of nonfiction work. Music, for instance, has been a fascination...
- 3/1/2015
- by John Anderson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Having given the history of the "New World" in Part I, it seems wise to preface Part II with some words about how the symphony is constructed. The movements are:
I. Adagio; Allegro molto II. Largo III. Scherzo: Molto vivace IV. Allegro con fuoco
Unusually, every movement starts with an introduction. The first movement's is the most famous: starts with a striking slow introduction that establishes the current of nostalgia for, or homesickness for, the composer's native Bohemia. Another reminder of this comes with the famotus flute solo -- or does it? Some have remarked on its similarity to "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," but this is not so much a quote as a paraphrase, so to speak; small bits of "Chariot" are elided into something new that mingles many flavors: African-America spiritual, yes, but also Native American music and Bohemian folk music, which share a pentatonic flavor.
Note that the...
I. Adagio; Allegro molto II. Largo III. Scherzo: Molto vivace IV. Allegro con fuoco
Unusually, every movement starts with an introduction. The first movement's is the most famous: starts with a striking slow introduction that establishes the current of nostalgia for, or homesickness for, the composer's native Bohemia. Another reminder of this comes with the famotus flute solo -- or does it? Some have remarked on its similarity to "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," but this is not so much a quote as a paraphrase, so to speak; small bits of "Chariot" are elided into something new that mingles many flavors: African-America spiritual, yes, but also Native American music and Bohemian folk music, which share a pentatonic flavor.
Note that the...
- 12/7/2014
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Dvořák (1841-1904), from Bohemia (at the time, part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, and later in Czechoslovakia) peppered his colorful, amiable music with folk rhythms. The Ninth, subtitled "From the New World" and inspired by and written during his time in the United States, is Dvořák’s most beloved symphony and contains both Bohemian and American influences. Prompted by the current exhibit of the work's original manuscript in New York City at the Bohemian National Hall, I have followed up my review of Jiří Bĕlohlávek's new Dvořák symphony cycle box set on Decca and his concert with the Czech Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall with a trawl through my collection of "New World" recordings, selectively augmented by streaming recordings available on Rdio.com.
There is much debate concerning the materials of the Ninth. The composer himself said that its middle movements were intended to depict scenes from Longfellow's narrative poem The Song of Hiawatha,...
There is much debate concerning the materials of the Ninth. The composer himself said that its middle movements were intended to depict scenes from Longfellow's narrative poem The Song of Hiawatha,...
- 11/21/2014
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Documentary festival to include a Q&A with CitizenFour director Laura Poitras and a strand dedicated to women in docs.
The 27th edition of International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (Idfa) (Nov 19-30) opened last night with the world premiere of Heddy Honigmann’s Around the World in 50 Concerts - made to celebrate the 125th anniversary of Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
With guests ranging from Naomi Klein and British director Nick Broomfield to Star Trek’s George Takei, Jay Jay French from Twisted Sister and documentary legend D.A. Pennebaker, this year’s edition is shaping up to be a typically lively affair.
Idfa is also a key industry event. Over 300 distributors, sales agents and festival programmers are registered for the annual “Docs For Sales” bazaar.
Meanwhile, the Forum, Idfa’s co-financing and coproduction market, will kickstart a number of new projects, among them Heddy Honigmann’s latest doc 100Up, a film about people from around the world who are...
The 27th edition of International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (Idfa) (Nov 19-30) opened last night with the world premiere of Heddy Honigmann’s Around the World in 50 Concerts - made to celebrate the 125th anniversary of Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
With guests ranging from Naomi Klein and British director Nick Broomfield to Star Trek’s George Takei, Jay Jay French from Twisted Sister and documentary legend D.A. Pennebaker, this year’s edition is shaping up to be a typically lively affair.
Idfa is also a key industry event. Over 300 distributors, sales agents and festival programmers are registered for the annual “Docs For Sales” bazaar.
Meanwhile, the Forum, Idfa’s co-financing and coproduction market, will kickstart a number of new projects, among them Heddy Honigmann’s latest doc 100Up, a film about people from around the world who are...
- 11/20/2014
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
More than 80 documentaries to receive world premieres.
The line-up for the 27th Idfa (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam) has been unveiled.
A total of 298 titles, selected from 3,200 submissions, will be screened from Nov 19-30 in Amsterdam - of which 81 will receive their world premiere.
This year, a special themed programme, titled The Female Gaze, is dedicated to the role of women in documentary.
Another strand, Of Media and Men, will focus on how opinions are shaped within a democracy through the media.
This year’s Top 10 is provided by Heddy Honigmann, and a retrospective of her work will also be screening. Her film, Around the World in 50 Concerts, opens this year’s Idfa and also plays in Competition.
Idfa and Eye, the Netherlands national museum for film, will be present a joint themed programme concentrating on hybrid film: Framing Reality.
The festival’s main locations will once again be Pathé Tuschinski, Pathé de Munt...
The line-up for the 27th Idfa (International Documentary Festival Amsterdam) has been unveiled.
A total of 298 titles, selected from 3,200 submissions, will be screened from Nov 19-30 in Amsterdam - of which 81 will receive their world premiere.
This year, a special themed programme, titled The Female Gaze, is dedicated to the role of women in documentary.
Another strand, Of Media and Men, will focus on how opinions are shaped within a democracy through the media.
This year’s Top 10 is provided by Heddy Honigmann, and a retrospective of her work will also be screening. Her film, Around the World in 50 Concerts, opens this year’s Idfa and also plays in Competition.
Idfa and Eye, the Netherlands national museum for film, will be present a joint themed programme concentrating on hybrid film: Framing Reality.
The festival’s main locations will once again be Pathé Tuschinski, Pathé de Munt...
- 10/10/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Around the World in 50 Concerts to open 27th edition of the documentary festival.
Heddy Honigmann’s Around the World in 50 Concerts will open this year’s Idfa on Nov 19.
Honigmann’s documentary follows her on tour with Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra as they played 50 concerts spread across six continents to mark the orchestra’s 125th anniversary.
The film was produced by Carmen Cobos & Kees Rijninks for Cobos Films Bv in co-production with the Avro broadcaster.
Honigmann received a Living Legend award at the opening of Idfa 2013 and was asked to compile this year’s Top 10. Alongside the Top 10, this year’s festival will show a retrospective of Honigmann’s work and she will hold a master class explaining her choices.
The Top 10 includes Abbas Kiarostami’s And Life Goes On (1992), Agnès Varda’s The Gleaners and I (2000) and Wang Bing’s nine-hour-long Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2002).
Fiction film Au Revoir is among the films...
Heddy Honigmann’s Around the World in 50 Concerts will open this year’s Idfa on Nov 19.
Honigmann’s documentary follows her on tour with Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra as they played 50 concerts spread across six continents to mark the orchestra’s 125th anniversary.
The film was produced by Carmen Cobos & Kees Rijninks for Cobos Films Bv in co-production with the Avro broadcaster.
Honigmann received a Living Legend award at the opening of Idfa 2013 and was asked to compile this year’s Top 10. Alongside the Top 10, this year’s festival will show a retrospective of Honigmann’s work and she will hold a master class explaining her choices.
The Top 10 includes Abbas Kiarostami’s And Life Goes On (1992), Agnès Varda’s The Gleaners and I (2000) and Wang Bing’s nine-hour-long Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2002).
Fiction film Au Revoir is among the films...
- 6/10/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Fink have launched the world's first ever concert app. The band teamed up with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for a performance in Amsterdam earlier this year and have released the footage as part of a new application for the iPad. The app is built around the full HD live recording of the Queen's Day Eve Concert held on April 29 and features interviews with the musicians. The application also allows the user to take a virtual seat amongst the musicians on stage, while it has been optimised for use with Apple TV, using the iPad as a second screen. "This (more)...
- 10/16/2012
- by By Lewis Corner
- Digital Spy
Princess Mabel has made her first public appearance since her husband's accident. The royal attended a performance by the Dutch Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra at the Barbican Theatre in London, her first official duty since her husband Prince Johan Friso was hospitalised following a skiing accident in February. Princess Mabel, 43, was accompanied by her sister-in-law, Princess Maxima, and donned an all-black outfit for the occasion. The 43-year-old Dutch prince has been in a coma since February 17. He was trapped under the snow for 15 minutes after an avalanche in the Alps, near the resort of Lech. Dr. Wolfgang Koller, head of trauma at the Innsbruck hospital where Friso was first treated, initially commented: 'It is clear that the oxygen...
- 5/24/2012
- Monsters and Critics
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