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VonDerErde - Stravinsky and Craft
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Blog : conductor Andrew Crust. Igor Stravinsky grew up in St-Petersburg, Russia,. A city which was a melting pot of Western and Eastern culture––both connected to the European cultural centers and the vast Russian East. He studied composition with Rimsky-Korsakov who taught him a great deal about orchestration and harmony. In 2015, a lost work of Stravinsky’s was discovered in the library of the St. Petersburg Conservatory entitled Funeral Music. Octet for Wind Instruments. And Jeu des cartes. Stravinsky...
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VonDerErde - More ambiguity in “Don Giovanni” - Leporello’s “Catalog Aria”
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Blog : conductor Andrew Crust. More ambiguity in “Don Giovanni” - Leporello’s “Catalog Aria”. The famous aria is in fact no such thing: it is a duet masquerading as an aria. The rhythm of her text is halting, asymmetrical––illustrating her uncertainty towards Don Giovanni. In this aria. The orchestra capers and laughs and dances while Leporello dutifully, and not without pleasure, reads from the list of his master’s conquests. In fact, Donna Elvira and Leporello are consistently paired off ...From the be...
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VonDerErde - The Art of Secco Recitative
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Blog : conductor Andrew Crust. The Art of Secco Recitative. When studying the art of recitative as a singer or harpsichordist, one fact becomes abundantly clear early on: there is not a great deal of scholarship on the subject. Recitative playing and singing is an art which is best learned by doing and observing, not by reading. However, there are certain overarching principles which can be discussed in detail to compliment the real learning which takes place in rehearsals and performances. Is more chara...
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VonDerErde - Sexual ambiguity in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”
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Blog : conductor Andrew Crust. Sexual ambiguity in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”. March She is a tragic and honorable woman and thus her music is often out of place in a truly buffa. Mozart begins to develop the characters of Donna Anna and Don Ottavio right away in this scene, as well as offering a brilliant musical depiction of Anna’s account. In the first two bars, there is a kind of horrified, sotto voce,. Many scholars and musicians (E. T. A. Hofmann and others) have argued that the text and m...In which ...
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VonDerErde - A new score is like an unfamiliar forest
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Blog : conductor Andrew Crust. A new score is like an unfamiliar forest. A new score is like an unfamiliar forest. When you first enter, you simply gaze all around, experiencing the rawness of the beauty and splendor. You do. At first go analyzing each leaf and naming species of fungus. You just - inhale it all. One day, after you’ve been visiting the same forest for. When you first open a new score, see the forest, not the trees. And certainly do. Reblogged this from andrewcrust.
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VonDerErde - Laurence Olivier’s Thoughts on Conducting*
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Blog : conductor Andrew Crust. Laurence Olivier’s Thoughts on Conducting*. Acting-related words changed over to musical ones. (. Ldquo;Breathing in the thick, warm air, feeling the expectancy of the house as it waits for your next moment. Timing a pause for perfection. Feeling the lungs. Bellow in and bellow out as the. Hits the heights of its power. Never giving too much, always making them want more. Making a gesture and holding it, knowing that all. Have moved with you. Tumblr theme by Theme Anorak.
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Blog : conductor Andrew Crust. The Power of Metaphor in Rehearsal. Once during a rehearsal break at the Colorado Symphony I overheard one of the musicians say about conductor Rossen Milanov. Ldquo;I like him, he has good metaphors.”. We conductors must remember that music. Metaphor, and thus musicians are extremely sensitive to metaphorical instruction. How else would Ravel be able to represent a sunrise. With organized sound alone? Or Beethoven the atmosphere of a raging storm. Or Berlioz a beheading.
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VonDerErde - Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein
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Blog : conductor Andrew Crust. Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein. Unlike many reclusive, academic composers of his time, Copland was an extremely public and politically involved figure, founding institutions such as the Copland House. As well as piano music, concertos, film music, tone poems and symphonies. Like so many of his peers, he eventually made an artistic move towards serialism late in his career. At Harvard, he delivered Norton lectures following those of Stravinsky and Hindemith....Will cert...
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VonDerErde - Conductors and Photographic Memory - Fact or Fiction?
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Blog : conductor Andrew Crust. Conductors and Photographic Memory - Fact or Fiction? According to the Encyclopedia Brittanica,. Is an ability to recall images, sounds, or objects in memory with high precision for a few minutes without using mnemonics. What is eidetic memory? How does it work in the brain? Does it exist at all? Is it something that can be developed? How can you memorize scores without it? These are some of the questions which this blog will attempt to address. According to Alan Searleman.
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