Extractions: document.write(''+''); Current Issue: document.write(currentissuedayname + ', ' + currentissuemonthname + ' ' + currentissueday + ', ' + currentissueyear); search archive login register ... Entertainment By Eben Lillie, TNH Reporter Published: Friday, March 26, 2004 Media Credit: Courtesy Photo Piano man marc Andre Hanelin On the night of Friday, March 5, as the lights dimmed in the Johnson Theater, all eyes followed the figure of a somewhat dowdy looking middle-aged man who came onto the stage, stood in front of the Steinway piano and then sat down to play. He stood long enough for most of the audience to notice his purple Bugs Bunny tie, and then, without a word...BOOM! The piano erupted as his hands slammed, slid, floated and tiptoed across the keys. On Friday night, Hamelin took those works and breathed life into them. The sounds that he so carefully and exquisitely produced transported this reporter to a magical land far beyond the Johnson Theatre and the constructs of modern society. It was breathtaking. Many listeners, including Jeff DeLangie and Dan Beller McKenna, experienced similar sensations after the concert. Jeff, a piano performance major, commented that the music sent him "floating to the ceiling." McKenna, who teaches music history here at UNH shrugged his shoulders and quietly uttered, "What can I say? It was fabulous." Hamelin's performance was magic not only to the ears but the eyes as well, as his expressions and movements revealed a deep understanding and love of Albeniz's music. At some points, Hamelin would close his eyes and raise his head to the sky in a look of pure bliss and at others he would grunt and shake in fits of intense energy and emotion. And then there were the moments when a piece would seem to come to an end, and Hamelin would smirk lightly as he relished in the secret subtleties that Albeniz had shared with him. Indeed, it seemed as if the performer and the composer were communicating with each other and with the audience throughout the evening. The piano became a link between generations and across continents. Albeniz's masterpieces of virtuoso piano music met with Hamelin's technical ability and calm control, and the audience became an afterthought, merely onlookers of a union between two spiritually charged souls.
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Extractions: See You There!!! Saturday, July 6th: South Philadelphia's own Grammy-nominated Classical pianist, Marc Andre-Hamelin and his wife, the critically acclaimed sporano, Jody Karin Applebaum, will be performing a Cabaret style show at the Delancey Street Theatre for the benefit of the South Philadelphia Habitat. There will be a "Meet the Artists" reception following the show. Please do not hesitate to contact our office for tickets now as seating is limited and will go fast!
Extractions: By John Lane The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society presents pianist MarcAndre Hamelin on March 3 at 8 p.m. in a solo recital of works by Albeniz, preceded at 6:45 p.m. by a related free lecture by Robert Capanna. Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center. The Miami String Quartet moves into the Perelman on March 10 at 8 p.m. with local piano virtuosa Susan Starr as celebrity guest, in works by Haydn, Schumann and the world premiere of Stephen Jaffe's String Quartet, preceded at 6:45 p.m. by a free lecture by Mary Ann Feldman. Broad and Spruce. 215-569-8080. Dance Celebration and PENN Presents offer the local premiere of Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre's "Ravel Project" for four performances at the Zellerbach Theatre on March 4, 5 and 6, four dances set to Ravel's music including "Bolero," Rhapsodie Espagnole," "Pavane for a Dead Princess" and La Valse", among others. Also on PENN Presents' exciting March schedule is the Guthrie Theater's production of Shakespeare's "Othello" from the 17th through the 21st with such artists as Lester Purry in the title role, Bil McCallum as Lago, Cheyenne Casebier as Desdemona, Kris L. Nelson as Rodrigo, Nathaniel Fuller as Brabanito and Robert O. Berdahl as Cassio, directed by Joe Dowling. Free related lectures precede certain performances and post-show discussions are also scheduled. Zellerbach Theatre. 3680 Walnut Street. 215-898-3900. The Philadelphia Orchestra opens Week III of its Mahler Festival on March 4 with Christoph Eschenbach conducting that composer's Adagio from his Symphony #10, Berg's Three Pieces for Orchestra, and with guest pianist Lang Lang, Beethoven's Concerto #4. Repeated on March 5 and 6. Maestro Eschenbach concludes his Mahler Festival during Week IV, opening on March 11 and repeated on March 12 and 13. Baritone Matthias Goerne is guest artist in Mahler's "Ruckert Lieder." Also on the program, Mahler's singlemovement "Blumine" and Shostakovich's Symphony #10. Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center, Broad and Spruce. 215-893-1999.
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Extractions: 01 December 2003 at 15:39 Bournemouth SO/Wolff I attended a concert at the Lighthouse, Poole on November 18. The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra was conducted by Hugh Wolff in:- Berlioz: Rob Roy Overture Saint Säens: Piano Concerto No 5 - soloist Marc-Andre Hamelin Debussy: La Mer A generation of conductors has passed throughout Europe who have, by coincidence or plan, built up our provincial orchestras to a level where they can compete with the very best. Vanska with the BBC Scottish, Jarvi with RSNO, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Elder with Hallé, Kreizberg in Bournemouth and Rattle in Birmingham. In all cases their successors have reaped the rewards too and in most they have sustained the improvement. The Bournemouth orchestra on this occasion sound a wonderfully blended unit: a large body of strings 12:12:10:8:6 was rich and velvety in the bass and spirited and agile in the violins. The brass are especially fine (at least in this music) with that clever combination of distinct individual timbres but a fine blended tone in ensemble.
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Extractions: DDD MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN piano Contents: Edna Bentz Woods Valse Phantastique Franz Behr trans. Sergei Rachmaninov Polka de W.R. Josef Hofmann Nocturne (Complaint) [2'25] Josef Hofmann Kaleidoskop Op 40 No 4 [4'14] Marc-André Hamelin Etude No 3 (daprès Paganini-Liszt) Felix Blumenfeld Etude pour la main gauche seule Op 36 [4'51] Jacques Offenbach trans. Jakob Gimpel (ed Hamelin) Concert Paraphrase of The Song of the Soldiers of the Sea Marc-André Hamelin Etude No 6: Essercizio per pianoforte (Omaggio a Domenico Scarlatti) Jules Massenet Valse folle Moritz Moszkowski Etude in A flat minor Op 72 No 13 [3'35] Francis Poulenc Intermezzo in A flat Leopold Godowsky Alt Wien Aleksander Michaìowski Etude daprès lImpromptu en la bémol majeur de Fr. Chopin
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Extractions: * Canadian work World premiere performance ***PROGRAMME NOTES*** FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828) The music of Franz Schubert, virtually unknown during his brief and unhappy life, forms a bridge between the elegant classicism of Mozart and Haydn and the extravagant emotionalism of later Romantics like Schumann and Liszt. Unlike his more intimate, self-revelatory music for piano, The Wanderer Fantasy , composed in 1821, is one of the most brilliant and technically demanding works in the whole of the repertoire. Hungarian virtuoso and composer Franz Liszt so admired its passion and virtuosic possibilities that he later transformed it into a sprawling canvas for piano and orchestra. Ironically, Schubert himself lacked the keyboard skills to play the piece well. The story is told that one day, after stumbling through the treacherous final movement, he leaped off the piano bench, slammed down the lid and shouted
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Extractions: PROGRAMME NOTES ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810 -1856) Although widely misunderstood during his lifetime, Robert Schumann is now recognized as a key figure in nineteenth-century music. His compositions give vivid and subtle expression to the Romantics fascination with individualism, passion, and extravagant fantasy. His piano music, most of which dates from the 1830s, overflows with inventive melodies, luxuriant harmonies, novel pianistic effects, and rhythmic vitality. Schumann completed the C-major Fantasy Crown of Stars , slows to a dream-like state of serenity, seemingly beyond reach of all worldly care and pain. As the music nears its end, the pace gradually quickens and the tone becomes more assertive, until the finale at last erupts in an irrepressible hymn to the triumph of young love.
Extractions: document.writeln(AAMB1); document.writeln(AAMB2); Directory Search Advanced Search Entertainment Guide Home Page Entertainment Attractions Coffee Shops ... Visual Arts Events Calendar Today's Events This Week This Weekend This Month Quick Reviews Restaurants document.writeln(AAMB3); Quick Poll What makes a Add Mozart's "Jeunehomme" Concerto to the "things we know that aren't so" file. "It was recently discovered that that's a misnomer," said pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin, who will perform the concerto with the Utah Symphony this week. For years, the young French pianist for whom Mozart wrote the piece the ninth of his piano concertos, but the first one to make a major impact was one of music's mystery women, known only as "Mme. Jeunehomme." A few months ago, as reported in The New York Times, musicologist Michael Lorenz unearthed credible evidence that the soloist was Victoire Jenamy, daughter of one of Mozart's close friends. "The lady must have been quite an exceptional pianist indeed," Hamelin said in a phone interview from Thunder Bay, Ontario, where he was playing Shostakovich.
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Extractions: Home Instrumental Music from the Motion Picture Artist: Music from the Motion Picture Album: The Pianist Soundtrack Cat. #: Discs: Label: Sony Usually ships: 2 - 4 days Normally: NZD OpusCDs Price: NZD Qty: Beautiful and evocative music from and inspired by the wonderful Oscar winning Roman Polanski film The Pianist . Performed by pianists janusz Olejniczak and Wladislaw Szilman. Disc 1: Frederic Chopin: Nocturne in C-Sharp Minor (1830) (Janusz Olejniczak) Frederic Chopin: Nocturne in E Minor, Op. 72, No.1 (Janusz Olejniczak)
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Extractions: arts ... Subscribe cabaret Thanks to Joel Grey and Liza Minelli, most people think of a handful of lusty tunes at the mention of the word cabaret. But the world of cabaret is much more. The gritty cabaret music that was found in the pre-war, Berlin set a pattern that is transformed by whatever culture appropriates it, including debonair turn of the century Paris and sexually frank contemporary America. Many composers have been attracted to cabaret, compelled by the opportunity to express themselves in a down-to-earth, conversational manner, including Schoenberg, Britten, Weill, Satie, and Poulenc. In our own time, the distinguished American composer William Bolcolm has made a virtual cottage industry out of the art-form, writing songs for his wife, soprano Joan Morris. Bolcolm has had high praise for a Philly duo engaged in the art of the cabaret. Jody Karin Applebaum, soprano, and her husband, the internationally-renown pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin are traveling around the world, performing cabaret numbers and working on a recording project for the Music and Arts label. A rare local performance will take place this weekend. The songs on their recitals cover some very contemporary topics, according to Applebaum, including sexual desire, crime, suicide, poverty, and homelessness. The songs can also be laugh-out-loud funny (did you know that Benjamin Britten wrote a song about picking one's nose?). This material is, in a word, direct, and the team of Applebaum and Hamelin punch it out with spectacular panache.
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Extractions: In the liner notes to this astonishing album, pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin deadpans, "I don't like playing difficult music." Sure, sure. A quick listen to this dazzling new recording confirms Hamelin's status as today's top interpreter of the world's most challenging piano music. Hamelin has selected 17 short piano compositions by nine of this century's greatest virtuoso pianists, winnowing the soulful seed from the showy chaff. While the Rachmaninov and Scriabin selections are well known, this disc holds many delicious surprises, including Godowsky's ethereal Toccata in G flat major , Alkan's witty transcription of Haydn's "Twinkle, twinkle little star" movement from Symphony No. 94
