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Wednesday Healdlines: Notre-Dame Basilica at the heart of Montreal 375 festivities in new luminous project

By Olivier Gentil on 1 March 2017 Arts Industry, Canadian Music, Classical, Contemporary, Orchestral, Quebec Music, Strings, This Day in Music, Violin

Here are your daily headlines in classical music and the arts! After the illumination of Jacques-Cartier Bridge, the Montreal-based firm Moment Factory had received has been called to illuminate the Notre-Dame Basilica. Both events are part of the 375th anniversary festivities in Montreal. [Radio-Canada] [Canoë] [TVA] [CNW-Newswire] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh5a3Hd7lrY CANADA Interview with violinist from Trois-Rivières Antoine Bareil, for the Quartango band. [La Presse] Death of Quebecois artist Claire Guérette. She was well-known for his textile works. [La Presse] INTERNATIONAL Estonia is working on the project named “An instrument for each kid,” who, as the title said, try to democratise music for all. The project takes place in…

This Day in Music – 1916: Rayén Quitral was Born

By Camilo Lanfranco on 11 November 2016 This Day in Music, World Music

A hundred years ago this week, on November 7, 1916, soprano Rayén Quitral was born in the small village of Iloca, near the world’s end in southern Chile. At the height of her career, she would tour Europe, Canada and the United States, and she would become a regular in Latin-American cities as Santiago, Mexico and Buenos Aires. Rayén Quitral, whose name means flower of fire in the language of the Mapuche people, would perform honouring her first nations’ heritage and dressed in traditional costumes and jewelry. She would become known for her of role as Queen of the Night…

This Day in Music – 1856: Death of Robert Schumann

By Weiyu Dang on 29 July 2016 Piano, Romantic, This Day in Music

Romantic composer Robert Schuman died of pneumonia on this day in music in 1856. The young Schumann wasn’t the most technically gifted pianist, but had immense promise as a composer. In what was perhaps an immediately tragic accident, Schumann injured his hand and his chances at being a successful show pianist. Yet, in the long run, this injury diverted his attention to composition. In this earlier period, Schumann would produce classics as the piano cycles, Papillons and Carnaval, influential works still regularly pored over in conservatories. Around the same time, Schumann would also co-found one of the most influential music…

Ernő Dohnányi

This Day in Music – 1877: Ernő Dohnányi Born

By Weiyu Dang on 27 July 2016 Piano, Romantic, This Day in Music

Probably the most famous Hungarian pianist not named Franz, Pozsony’s Ernő Dohnányi would carve out a prolific career full of virtuosic renown and panache. The young Dohnanyi entered the Budapest conservatory at seventeen to study piano and composition with a student of Liszt and a disciple of Brahms before making his debut a year later. His transcendent keyboard skills would quickly garner him renown in the music world with an elderly Brahms organizing the Vienna Premiere of Dohnányi’s Piano Quintet Opus No. 1. After the conservatory Dohnányi would be greeted with rapturous crowds, almost on par with Liszt’s famously riotous…

Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt

This Day in Music – 1958: Angela Hewitt is Born

By Weiyu Dang on 26 July 2016 Canadian Music, Piano, This Day in Music

This day in music, we celebrate Angela Hewitt’s birthday. Of a musical family, Angela Hewitt turns fifty-eight today as one of Canada’s and the world’s finest musicians. Hewitt began piano lessons at three before a meteoric rise led to her first full-length recital at nine with the Royal Conservatory of Toronto. Hewitt’s pivotal success was her capture of Toronto’s 1985 International Bach Piano Competition, held in honour of Glenn Gould. The win garnered not only accolades, but more importantly, led to a relationship with recording company, Deutsche Grammophon. With DG, Hewitt’s recording of English Suite No. 6 launched a legacy…

Bösendorfer Imperial 290 Klavier

This Day in Music – 1828: Ignaz Bösendorfer Granted Piano-making License

By Weiyu Dang on 25 July 2016 Piano, This Day in Music

This day in music in 1828, Ignaz Bösendorfer was granted a piano-making license. Son of a carpenter, Ignaz Bösendorfer was an Austrian piano maker in the nineteenth century who founded the iconic Bösendorfer Company. Founded in the historically rich center of Vienna, Bösendorfer has an incomparable place in classical music and piano lore. The ornate and sophisticated aesthetic build combined with its innovative mechanical action make a piano that is still a status symbol. Of Bösendorfer’s advocates and ambassadors, Franz Liszt and his rapturous displays of virtuosity stands at the fore. Before finding Bösendorfer, a young Liszt broke all of the pianos…

Alan Menken

This Day in Music – 1949: Alan Menken is Born

By Weiyu Dang on 22 July 2016 Musical Theatre, This Day in Music

Behind various iconic Disney movies, Alan Menken was born in New York City to a pianist father and an actress-dancer mother, foreshadowing the musical theatre path of Menken’s own career. With precocious composing abilities to immersion in American pop masters as Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Rodgers and Hammerstein and the arrival of rock in his teens, Menken grew up in line with major trends of twentieth century music. After graduating from New York University—Steinhardt with a musicology degree, Menken would first find fame with acclaimed playwright Howard Ashman by adapting Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater…

Isaac Stern

This Day in Music – 1920: Isaac Stern was born

By Weiyu Dang on 21 July 2016 This Day in Music, Violin

Born in what is now Ukraine, violinist Isaac Stern would immigrate to America at the age of one and go on to become one of the greatest instrumentalists of the twentieth century. His dedication to the arts showed through his dedication of Carnegie Hall as its president and his wide repertoire of recordings. Known for his powerful tone and directness of emotion, Stern proved that virtuosity is not the only way to musicality. As a pedagogue and advocate, Stern fought ardently for arts funding and notably discovered Yo-Yo Ma. Isaac Stern – Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E Minor Op. 64

Carlos Santana

This Day in Music – 1947: Carlos Santana is born

By Weiyu Dang on 20 July 2016 Folk, Popular Music, This Day in Music

Legendary Mexican guitarist Carlos Santana, who brought Latin fire to American rock with his group Santana, was born this day in music. Mixing American influences of B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix with Latin ones of Tito Puente and Mongo Santamaria, Santana continued to develop the genre of electric blues. With such classics as “Smooth,” “Black Magic Woman,” and “Oye Como Va,” Santana endures as a pioneer and legend of contemporary music. Santana – “Oye Como Va”

Siege of Leningrad

This Day in Music – 1942: Shostakovich’s 7th Symphony Debuts in America

By Weiyu Dang on 19 July 2016 Contemporary, Orchestral, This Day in Music

Perhaps one of the most idiosyncratic composers, Dmitry Shostakovich became a symbol of anti-totalitarianism and a bulwark against Axis powers. Symphony No. 7, considered by many to be his greatest work, was originally dedicated to the achievements of Vladimir Lenin, but later to the completion of Leningrad and the power of its people. With latent poignancy and impassioned melodies, the Symphony would become a powerful propaganda tool used both by the Americans and the Soviets to promote an allied resistance to the German encroachment. Though receiving mixed reviews in America for its bombast, the Symphony was a success after its debut…

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