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2015/02/27

schott aktuell – the journal 2/2015: LUX

The United Nations have designated 2015 the International Year of Light. The intention is to bring focus to the significance of light to human beings as well as to culture, science and technology

It’s not surprising that my colleagues and I came upon an extraordinary number of works inspired by or related to the myriad qualities of light as we prepared the current edition of schott aktuell. Artists in all media have been inspired by light from the earliest days and for good reason. Light is color, light is movement; it can alter the way we perceive objects and effect a change in our emotions. Light has its own distinctive rhythmic pulse: it can shimmer and dance on water or cast languid shadows through a forest. The parallels to music are quite clear.

This issue’s Repertoire Recommendations section reveals a rich collection of orchestral and ensemble works by a broad range of our composers who have found special inspiration from light: Gavin Bryars, Chaya Czernowin, Bruce MacCombie, Stephen Paulus, Krzysztof Penderecki,
Joseph Schwantner, Toru Takemitsu, Peteris Vasks and Jörg Widmann to name just a few. In Christian Jost’s new opera Rote Laterne [The Red Lantern] the light of the red lantern becomes a critical musical signifier while two new works from our New York catalogue premiering in the next weeks probe the rich connections between music and light at their very core.

– from the editorial by Norman D. Ryan, Schott Music London

Inhalt:

World Premières: Christian Jost: Rote Laterne · Julian Anderson: Violin Concerto · Gavin Bryars: Sixth Book of Madrigals · Pierre Jalbert: From Dusk to Starry Night · Thomas Larcher: Song Cycle for Matthias Görne · Lei Liang: Luminous · Joseph Schwantner: Luminosity · Fazil Say: Chamber Symphony · Jörg Widmann: Versuch über die Fuge (version for soprano and string orchestra) etc.

Borthdays: Dieter Schnebel 85 · Jean Guillou 85

First Nights: Marc Blitzstein: Triple Sec in Berlin · Peter Eötvös: Paradise reloaded (Lilith) in Chemnitz · Paul Hindemith: Neues vom Tage in Lüneburg · Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Die tote Stadt in Nantes, Hamburg and Görlitz · Arnold Schönberg: Moses und Aron in Berlin · Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier in Baden-Baden · Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Ich wandte mich und sah an alles Unrecht, das geschah unter der Sonne in Köln

LUX – Contemporary compositions about light

New publications: Sheet music solo, duo, chamber music, vocal music, piano/vocal scores, study scores · catalogues

New CDs

News: Lincoln Center Stoeger Prize for Thomas Larcher · Fazıl Say: Composer and Artist in Residence in Tongyeong · In memoriam Judith Webb · George Perle at Schott

Repertoire: Alexander Skrjabin: Le Poème de l’Extase

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Gavin Bryars in Residence at the Adelaide Festival 2015

Tonight marks the start of Gavin Bryars’ residency at the Adelaide Festival of Arts which will include the Australian premiere of his opera Marilyn Forever. As one of the most celebrated and profilic composers, both in the UK and internationally, Bryars will be in attendance as both conductor and performer in a diverse programme of events.

Marilyn Forever opens the festival tonight with two more performances over the weekend featuring Bryars playing double bass in an on-stage jazz band alongside members of Aventa Ensemble. Other highlights include a performance of Bryars’ most well-known work Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer and two performances by the Gavin Bryars Ensemble.

The Adelaide Festival runs from Friday 27 February to Sunday 5 March.

Gavin Bryars – profile

Gavin Bryars website

Adelaide Festival 2015

Ten essential shows to see at Adelaide Festival

(02/27/2015)

2015/01/17

Casken and Goehr at Wigmore Hall

Tonight at Wigmore Hall, the Nash Ensemble perform John Casken’s Infanta Marina and Alexander Goehr’s …around Stravinsky in a pre-concert concert and discussion. The concert is part of a series for the ensemble’s 50th anniversary season showcasing some of the many works they commissioned over the years. So far the series has included works by Schott composers Mark-Anthony Turnage (Slide Stride) and Goehr (manere). Upcoming performances include new commissions by Huw Watkins, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Julian Anderson, current Composer in Residence with Wigmore Hall.

(01/17/2015)

2015/01/14

Theodorakis’ “Zorbas” Ballet Touring Italy

“I took an old melody, a Cretan dance, and reworked it into an improvisation, always aware that I was going to write a specific composition later. But the final result, the dance to this old melody, was so captivating we decided not to change it.” It was a fortunate twist of fate, since Zorbas’ Dance from the movie “Zorba the Greek” (1964) – composed as a playback placefolder for shooting – turned into the most famous melody of Greece and the most frequently played piece of the Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis who is going to celebrate his 90th birthday this year on 29 July.

The Hungarian Györ Ballet Company under the direction of Ivan Markò is already celebrating this anniversary: With performances of the ballet Zorbas on a tour across Italy, on 16 January in Foligno, on 17 in Città di Castello, on 21 in Tempio Pausania, on 22 and 23 in Cagliari, on 24 in Sassari and on 25 in Nuoro.

Mikis Theodorakis – composer profile

(01/14/2015)

2015/01/06

Larcher Wins Stoeger Prize

Schott composer Thomas Larcher is the winner of the Elise L. Stoeger Prize for 2014/15. The Stoeger Prize is given every two years in recognition of significant contributions to the field of chamber music composition.

A composer of great achievement on canvasses both large and small, Larcher merits specific recognition for his work in the highly concentrated art form of chamber music, for which his bountiful sonic imagination is tremendously well suited. His music is deeply communicative yet uncompromising, essential qualities for the ongoing vitality of the chamber music tradition.

(01/06/2015)

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Category: Composers News

schott aktuell – the journal 2/2015: LUX

Gavin Bryars in Residence at the Adelaide Festival 2015

Casken and Goehr at Wigmore Hall

Theodorakis’ “Zorbas” Ballet Touring Italy

Larcher Wins Stoeger Prize

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