Meet The Composers http://www.meetthecomposers.org Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:42:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Verdi test http://www.meetthecomposers.org/2010/08/verdi-test/ http://www.meetthecomposers.org/2010/08/verdi-test/#comments Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:42:14 +0000 Ariela Haro von Mogel http://www.meetthecomposers.org/?p=35 http://www.meetthecomposers.org/2010/08/verdi-test/feed/ 0 mozart test http://www.meetthecomposers.org/2010/08/mozart-test/ http://www.meetthecomposers.org/2010/08/mozart-test/#comments Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:41:50 +0000 Ariela Haro von Mogel http://www.meetthecomposers.org/?p=33 http://www.meetthecomposers.org/2010/08/mozart-test/feed/ 0 Rowdy Crowd at the Annual Bayreuth Festival! http://www.meetthecomposers.org/2009/08/rowdy-crowd-at-the-annual-bayreuth-festival/ http://www.meetthecomposers.org/2009/08/rowdy-crowd-at-the-annual-bayreuth-festival/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:51:41 +0000 Ariela Haro von Mogel http://www.meetthecomposers.org/?p=15 Okay, this is too fun of a story to pass up. Apparently, Katharina Wagner, the great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner thought it would be a great idea to “spice up” the opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.

And, oh, did she make it interesting.

The opera was modernized by having an arts league, with theater designs . . . → Read More: Rowdy Crowd at the Annual Bayreuth Festival!]]> Okay, this is too fun of a story to pass up. Apparently, Katharina Wagner, the great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner thought it would be a great idea to “spice up” the opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.

And, oh, did she make it interesting.

The opera was modernized by having an arts league, with theater designs and film directors, as well as making Walter the knight a graffiti artist!

The audience members were not pleased with this and booed at her when she went up onstage to give her inaugural speech as the director of the Bayreuth Festival. Audience members in past years also booed Peter Schneider due to his conducting of Tristan und Isolde.

Yeah, I guess the kind of people that are actually going to go to the Bayreuth Festival don’t want to see that kind of thing. Old opera goers stuck in their ways. And younger people are probably not going to shell out the big bucks for a Wagner opera. So this might be where Ms. Wagner went wrong. Hell, I would go see it, but I’m not your typical opera goer. I like Katherina’s sass, but I imagine her great-grandaddy rolling in his grave.

]]> http://www.meetthecomposers.org/2009/08/rowdy-crowd-at-the-annual-bayreuth-festival/feed/ 0 Mozart manuscript found! http://www.meetthecomposers.org/2008/09/mozart-manuscript-found/ http://www.meetthecomposers.org/2008/09/mozart-manuscript-found/#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:44:10 +0000 Ariela Haro von Mogel http://www.meetthecomposers.org/?p=9 A single manuscript page of a Mozart Mass was found in Nantes, France. The score did not bear Mozart’s signature, but Ulrich Leisinger, head of research at the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, Austria, said Thursday that there is no doubt this was written by him, as he had a very characteristic writing style.

. . . → Read More: Mozart manuscript found!]]> A single manuscript page of a Mozart Mass was found in Nantes, France. The score did not bear Mozart’s signature, but Ulrich Leisinger, head of research at the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, Austria, said Thursday that there is no doubt this was written by him, as he had a very characteristic writing style.

I’m pretty psyched about this! Geez, at times like this, I wish I had $100,00 to throw around. Poverty sucks….

Anyways, the Nantes library speculates that this Mass is expected to have its first performance in January of 2009. Famous Mozart specialist Robert Levin from Harvard University will have a go at it and complete the orchestration.

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