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Sep 8, 2020 · ‘As Slow As Possible’, a work written by avant-garde composer John Cage in the mid-80s, has now been playing on a specially built organ at St. Burchardi Church in Halberstadt, Germany since 2001, when it began with a pause lasting for a year and a half.. Now, every time it’s time for a new note in the piece, music lovers congregate in the church to witness the adding of new pipes, and ...

Aug 20, 2024 · Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Continuing the tradition of names with three words and four well-formed syllables in the middle one, is the child prodigy and all-round genius, Mozart. Composing in, and defining, the Classical era, Mozart wrote 41 symphonies, numerous concertos, revolutionary Italian operas including The Marriage of Figaro and Cosí fan tutte, and chamber works that are ...

Nov 8, 2024 · Exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist Lang Lang has made the world premiere recording, which you can listen to here.. According to the New York Times, Robinson McClellan was sorting through a collection of cultural memorabilia in the vault of the Morgan Library and Museum in Manhattan when he found a pockmarked manuscript the size of an index card with a distinctive name written on the top ...

Jul 19, 2023 · Elgar – ‘Nimrod’ from the Enigma Variations. Each of Elgar’s 14 Enigma Variations is inspired by one of his friends or family – which perhaps doesn’t sound like a sad topic… But the beautiful, moving melody of the ninth variation in the set, ‘Nimrod’, is a soaring tune that has a deep feeling of sadness at its core, as well as an aching grandeur.

Feb 8, 2024 · Ethel Smyth – The Wreckers. Composer and activist Ethel Smyth wrote the official anthem of the suffragette movement. But even more epic is her opera The Wreckers, set in a remote 18th-century Cornish village, with a bold, rich score to evoke a tragic story.Smyth was so outraged at the cuts that were made to her opera in its first run of performances, she stormed into the orchestra pit and ...