London, Cadogan Hall and King's Place: Second London Festival of Bulgarian Culture

Tempo ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 67 (265) ◽  
pp. 81-83
Author(s):  
Martin Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
Folk Songs ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Art Film ◽  
Girls School ◽  
The Town

One of the most enjoyable characteristics of London musical life is that it is peopled by a generous number of foreigners who, every so often, take it upon themselves to enlighten the rest of us as to the music we are missing from back home. These can, of course, be hit-and-miss occasions, but it's in the nature of exploring unknown music of any age that you will happily put up with a handful of duds if you come away with a real discovery ringing in your ears. The Second London Festival of Bulgarian Culture (I seem to have missed the First) ran in various venues over the course of November 2012 and also accommodated art, film, literature, theatre and other forms of music (folk, pop and jazz). It opened its classical batting with a concert of ‘Bulgarian and British Symphonic Folk Songs’ in Cadogan Hall on 3 November, with the Varna Symphony Orchestra, Paulina Voices (the choir of St Paul's Girls' School) and the Holst Choir (from James Allen's Girls' School) conducted by Martin Georgiev. Pancho Vladigerov (1899–1978) being the only Bulgarian composer generally known to the outside world, it made sense to begin with him. His Shumen Miniatures, six attractive piano pieces based on folk-tunes from the town, Shumen, where Vladigerov grew up, were written in 1934 and orchestrated at some later date vouchsafed neither by the concert-programme nor the worklist at www.vladigerov.org. They embrace a variety of lighter moods: the first and fourth pieces offer lazy and lyrical summer-evening hazes and the second and third vigorous dances; the proximity of the fifth to the style of Enescu brought a reminder of the long common border Bulgaria shares with Romania (Shumen is around 100 km away from it).

Vasyl Bezkorovayny’s vocal works in Ukrainian music of the first half of the XX century

2019 ◽  
pp. 500-515
Author(s):  
Nataliia Kosaniak
Keyword(s):  
Choral Music ◽  
Instrumental Music ◽  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
Vocal Music ◽  
The United States ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Western European ◽  
Vocal Works ◽  
Post War ◽  
Talented Artist

Vasyl Bezkorovayny (1880–1966) was a talented artist, an active figure in the musical life of Galicia and a representative of post-war Ukrainian emigrants in the United States of America. He wrote more than 350 works of various genres. Among them are compositions for symphony orchestra; vocal works — for chorus, ensembles or solo singing; chamber and instrumental music — for piano, violin, zither, cello; music for dramatic performances. The article deals with the archival and musicological analysis of expressive and stylistic features of V. Bezkorovayny’s vocal works, based on the materials of Stefanyk Lviv National Library of Ukraine. Attention is paid to the place of the composer’s vocal masterpieces in the context of Ukrainian vocal music of the first half of the XX century. The most important achievements of the composer related to the genres of choral and chamber vocal music. In style, the composer’s works combine the influences of M. Lysenko, composers of the «Peremyshl school» and Western European romantic and post-romantic models. The original secular choral music of V. Bezkorovayny covers genres of songs, plays, and large-form choirs. In his solo songs the influences of romantic western European music and Ukrainian folk songs affected the formation and approval of the composer’s style. Keywords: vocal music, chorus, solos, melodic-intonation means, harmony, rhythm.

Chávez (y Ramírez), Carlos (Antonio de Padua) (1899–1978)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Taylor Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Carlos Chavez

Composer and conductor Carlos Chávez was a dominant force in Mexican musical life during the middle of the twentieth century. His most influential post was as director of the Symphony Orchestra of Mexico [OrquestaSinfónica, OSM], which he led from 1928 to 1948. While leading the OSM, Chávez successfully broadened concepts of classical music to include symphonic, contemporary works by Mexican composers. At the same time, he began an international guest-conducting career that continued into the final years of his life. Although best known for a handful of nationalist works composed in the 1920s and 1930s, Chávez’s compositions demonstrate a diversity of esthetic interests, from avant-garde abstraction to popular genres; regardless of the approach used in a given work, Chávez’s intellectualism and care are evident.

The Viennese: ‘MOB art & tone ART’ Group

Tempo ◽  
1978 ◽  
pp. 10-12
Author(s):  
Josef Heinzelmann
Keyword(s):  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
Double Bass ◽  
Musical Life

The ‘MOB art & tone ART’ Ensemble made its debut in 1967 and played a lively role in Austrian musical life during the five years of its existence. All three of the composers who directed the Ensemble were also professional instrumentalists—Zykan as pianist, Gruber as double-bass in the Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Schwertsik as hornist in the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Zykan and Gruber both appeared regularly with the Ensemble, whose other performing members were Volkcr Altmann (horn), Leonhard Wallisch (cello), Roland Altmann and Kurt Prihoda (percussion). The violinist Ernst Kovacic and the cellist Heinrich Schiff appeared with the Ensemble from time to time as guests.

scholarly journals SOUTH KOREAN TV SERIES IN THE SERVICE OF MUSIC EDUCATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-156
Author(s):  
SERGEI A. AIZENSHTADT ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
The South ◽  
Musical Culture ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Serial Films

In this article we study forms and methods used to popularize western classical music in a South Korean TV series. The main subject of analysis is the TV series Beethoven Virus (2008) devoted to a symphony orchestra in a fictional South Korean city. The main purpose of this TV series is the promotion of classical music, and the author of the article comes to the conclusion that its popularity among Korean audience is explained by its engaging, convincing artistic methods with respect to national cultural specificities, which were used to show the working environment of professional musicians. The series reveals real problems of modern Korean musical culture: “crisis of overproduction” of academic musicians; discrimination of graduates of South Korean musical educational institutions; prejudice that classical music is only for the rich. The author emphasizes that immersion into the atmosphere of professional musical life allows the viewers to apprehend the educational value of the TV series more clearly. Beethoven Virus demonstrates traditional Korean attitude towards European classical music determined by the Confucian roots; and at the same time, it depicts changes in the modern culture conditioned by gradual departure from traditional values. The two main characters — the young and the old conductors — symbolize the old and the new in the Korean musical culture. They interact in a traditional eastern way: the new spirit does not openly conflict with the established convention, but sprouts from it. The author suggests that the music is explained in the film through emotional associations which let the viewers fully perceive the musical idea. The author believes that this method, compared to other ways widespread in the West, corresponds to the nature of the specific sensation of European classical music associated with Confucian cultural roots. An opinion is expressed that methods of music education used in Beethoven Virus were chosen in accordance to the South Korean serial genre traditions: leitmotivs in the soundtrack and gesture clichés are of particular significance here. The author suggests that the South Korean experience of promoting musical classics by means of serial films can be used abroad — given that the differences in mentality and realities of musical life are taken into account.

scholarly journals Ценные предметы в белорусских народных песнях с родины Адама Мицкевича

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 329-340
Author(s):  
Viola Kazanina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Folk Songs ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
Romantic Poet ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Town

The article provides a description and an analysis of the literary context of valuable items in the well-known lyrics of national folk songs of the Belarusian Ponemania. A romantic poet Adam Mitskevich (1798–1855) was born in the land of Ponemania, not far from the town of Novogrudok and Lake Svityaz. In his poems, he borrowed a lot from local folklore – fairy tales, legends, and songs. The article aims to characterize the valuable items described in Belarusian folk songs, recorded in the homeland of Adam Mitskevich, from the perspective of the history of art and antiques.

Jewish Music Organizations in Interwar Galicia

2020 ◽  
pp. 343-370
Author(s):  
Sylwia Jakubczyk-ŚlĘczka
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
Chamber Orchestra ◽  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Comprehensive Account ◽  
Jewish Music ◽  
Musical Interests

This chapter provides a comprehensive account of Jewish musical organizations in interwar Galicia. It investigates the various types of Jewish musical organizations and how they implemented their cultural policies. It also shows the wealth and variety of the musical life of the Jewish communities from the four south-eastern provinces of the Second Polish Republic: Lwów, Kraków, Stanisławów, and Tarnopol. The chapter looks into the goal of the Jewish Music Society in Lwów in order to unite the local Jewish musical community and represent the Jewish community in the city's musical life. It analyzes different musical interests and visions of society's cultural role that explain the different activities of symphony orchestra, choir, mandolin orchestra, and chamber orchestra.

A Free Hand: The Art Film versus the Art of Documentary

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Claire Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
International Exchange ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Institutional Practice ◽  
Plastic Arts ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Art Film ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Town

This chapter focuses on the short art film, a genre which emerged around 1950 to mediate the visual and plastic arts, often for international exchange. Danish films about national cultural heritage and the applied arts were the focus for state-sponsored film. These often circulated very widely: the production and distribution of Shaped by Danish Hands (Hagen Hasselbalch, 1948) and Thorvaldsen (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1949) are detailed as examples of Danish films seen by millions of international viewers. The chapter also highlights the artistry of the informational filmmakers themselves, as institutional practice: the principle that the director should have a ‘free hand’ to interpret the brief. An example of an alternative circuit for the screening of art films in Denmark is detailed: art film screening series at Thorvaldsen’s Museum. Debate about the extent to which state-sponsored filmmaking should pursue art and to what extent documentary itself was an art form marks the late 1950s, as changes in leadership and funding shift practice and priorities within Dansk Kulturfilm. The chapter ends with a discussion of one of the agency’s final productions, Herning 65, which captures a site-specific artwork in a factory in the town of Herning.

Beethoven’s Symphonies in the Musical Life of Nineteenth-Century Laibach

2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 7-31
Author(s):  
Katarina Bogunović Hočevar
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
Honorary Member ◽  
Chamber Works ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Program Notes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Military Chapel ◽  
The Military ◽  
Concert Life

Nineteenth-century concert life in Laibach (Ljubljana), capital of the Habsburg Carniola, was shaped and led by the local Philharmonic Society. Until the establishment of the Musical Society in 1872, it was the only musical institution in Carniola. Even after the establishment of the Musical Society, the Philharmonics remained the principal and representative leader of concert life. In the mid-nineteenth century, the main European centers had their own operatic and concert civil orchestras, however, Laibach did not have a concert symphony orchestra. In order to lead and perform regular symphonic concerts, the Philharmonic Society had to hire musicians from the military chapel, which also collaborated with the Opera and, at the end of the nineteenth century, participated in the concerts of the Music Society. The history of the Philharmonics exhibits not only a rich tradition but also illustrates the program endeavors of the artistic leaders, the musical trends of the time and social circumstances, which sometimes encouraged and at other times hindered its work. The first preserved program notes indicate that at that time (1816) challenging symphonic works were already played and in this regard Beethoven’s role was evident. In 1808 the Society already attempted to elect Beethoven as an honorary member of the society, but this happened only in 1819. A year before the local premiere of his Symphony No. 6, and for this opportunity, the composer sent a manuscript with his own corrections. Until then his Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 7 and probably 4 were already performed there. The program notes of the Society indicate that Beethoven’s works were played at least (but usually more than) once in a season. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the appeal and the interest in the composer’s creative output grew even stronger, alongside the appreciation of the memory of the composer. It is also significant to note that his chamber works became regularly performed in the chamber concerts of the Philharmonics. Even though from the very beginning the composer’s overtures had a stable and regular place within the repertoire, the first full performance of his Symphony No. 9 took place only in 1902 (the first three movements were already performed a decade earlier).

Border Traffic

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Slobin
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Cultural Life

This chapter focuses on Detroit’s Jewish community, first taking up its complex, many-layered internal musical life, from religious to politically radical, across a range of initiatives and institutions. Next comes an analysis of how the group used music as a mode of outreach to mainstream Detroit, impacting the city’s cultural life, especially through intense engagement with classical music. The role of the Jews in the survival of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra is outlined. Profiles of key activists’ careers—Julius Chajes, Mischa Mischakoff, Mischa Kottler, Emma Schaver--and the development of institutional life illustrate these practices of “border traffic.”

scholarly journals ХОРОВА ОБРОБКА НАРОДНОЇ ПІСНІ У ТВОРЧОСТІ ГЕОРГІЯ МІРЕЦЬКОГО: ШЛЯХАМИ ВІДНОВЛЕННЯ СПАДЩИНИ МИТЦЯ

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Admink Admink
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Folk Songs ◽  
Folk Song ◽  
General Situation ◽  
General Context ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
The 1950S

Здійснено спробу увести до сучасного музикознавства деякі аналітичні огляди творчості першого професійного композитора Волині, лучанина Георгія Мірецького (1929–1978 рр.), чия активна діяльність охопила 1950–1970-ті рр. Розглянуто спадщину митця, яка повертається до концертного життя за ініціативи сина Олександра. Опрацьовано вибрані хорові обробки волинських народних пісень, що стали однією з вершин творчості (на прикладі «Як билина та тополя» ор. 85 і «Такі оченьки» ор. 90 та вирізнено специфіку вказаних творів у контексті української хорової спадщини. Підкреслено, що композитор використовував оригінальні техніко-композиційні прийоми – імітацію інструментального звучання, вставки-цитування інших народних пісень; його обробкам притаманне використання елементів імітаційності в хорових партіях при домінуючій гармонічній основі тощо. Твори є внеском митця до скарбниці українського музичного фольклоризму.Ключові слова: волинська народна пісня, хорова обробка, музичне життя Луцька, творчість Георгія Мірецького. Attempting to bring some analytical reviews of the creativity by the first professional composer of modern Volyn Heorhii Miretskyi (1929–1978) from Lutsk, whose active engagement was carried out in the 1950s-1970s, was carried out in contemporary musicology. The general situation with the artist’s heritage is considered, which returns to the concert initiative and son Alexander’s main efforts. Selected choral transcriptions of Volyn folk songs which became one of the peaks by H. Miretskyi’s work on the example by “How to beil and poplars” op. 85 and “Such eyes” op. 90 worked out. The specificity of these works in the general context of Ukrainian choral heritage has been followed. It is emphasized that the composer uses original technical composition techniques – imitation of instrumental sound, insert-quote of other folk songs. The use of elements of imitation in choral parties with a dominant harmonious basis and others are characterize the transcriptions also. The works are artist’s contribution to the Ukrainian musical folklorism treasury. Key words: Volyn folk song, choral transcriptions, musical life of Lutsk, Heorhii Miretskyi’s creative.

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