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the
first violin concerto
by
Philip Glass
was composed in honor of his father Ben, who died some sixteen years before the work's conception?
operatic
tenor
Chad Shelton
has sung in numerous world premieres, including leading roles in
Mark Adamo
's
Little Women
and
Philip Glass
's
Appomattox
?
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five
, a
science fiction
novel by
Doris Lessing
, was adapted for the
opera
in 1997 by
Philip Glass
?
Philip Glass
composed a
soundtrack
in 1998, recorded by the
Kronos Quartet
, for the 1931
Dracula
film starring
Béla Lugosi
?
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"
James Brown is Dead
" is an
electronic dance music
reference to
James Brown
and the widespread
sampling
of his
music
?
visually impaired
musicians
can begin learning
Music Braille
once they are competent in grade-two level literary
Braille
?
Ottaviano Petrucci
's
Harmonice Musices Odhecaton
was the first
music
to be
printed
using
movable type
?
soul
singer
Bettye Lavette
's album
Souvenirs
was recorded in
1972
, but was shelved by
Atlantic Records
until a
French
music
collector discovered it and released it in
2000
, sparking a continuing surge of interest in the singer?
Oriental metal
is a kind of
death metal
music
that originated in
Israel
which has traditional
Jewish
and "
Oriental
" influences?
Sigismondo d'India
, a
17th century
Italian
composer, produced
music
in nearly all the forms of the day, including
monody
,
madrigal
and
motet
?
parlour music
is a term used to describe the unified style common to popular and semi-popular European lite-
classical
and
popular
, and
folk
-like
music
from
1790
until
1900
?
a
suikinkutsu
is a type of
Japanese
garden
ornament
and
a
music
device?
distinguished recipients of the
Grawemeyer Award
for
music
composition
have included
Witold Lutosławski
,
György Ligeti
,
Pierre Boulez
and
John Adams
?
the
composer
Zbigniew Preisner
wrote the title
music
for the monumental
BBC
documentary
People's Century
, which spans 26 parts?
Pierre Boulez
baritone
Günter Reich
recorded the part of
Moses
in
Schoenberg
's opera
Moses und Aron
with both
Michael Gielen
and
Pierre Boulez
?
distinguished recipients of the
Grawemeyer Award
for
music
composition
have included
Witold Lutosławski
,
György Ligeti
,
Pierre Boulez
and
John Adams
?
Opera
18th-century
operatic
star
Anna Maria Strada
was known as "the Pig" on account of her ugliness?
Aleksandr Pushkin
's 1827 poem
The Gypsies
inspired some eighteen
operas
and six
ballets
, including
Rachmaninoff
's
Aleko
?
Vivaldi
's
opera
Griselda
is based on the folklore character
Griselda
as told by
Giovanni Boccaccio
in the
The Decameron
?
baritone
William Dooley
performed the title role in the world premiere of
Marcel Mihalovici
's one character
opera
Krapp, ou, La dernière bande
in 1961?
Camille Saint-Saëns
's 1911
opera
Déjanire
was originally a 1898
play
accompanied by
symphonic music
,
choruses
and a
ballet
?
Camille Saint-Saëns
's
opera
Hélène
was recorded in 2008 after not being heard since 1919?
Carnegie Medal
-winning children’s author
Berlie Doherty
has written the
libretti
for three
operas
?
Dave Burrell
's
operatic
live
jazz album
Windward Passages
was his response to
land development
in
Hawaii
during the late
1970
's?
English
opera
singer and
actress
Florence Perry
(
pictured
) was best known for her performances with the
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
in the late
19th century
?
English
theatre director
Steven Pimlott
directed a wide variety of performances from popular
musicals
, through
avant garde
theatre and
Shakespeare
, to
opera
?
Chamber music
an
Australian
violist
Richard Goldner
founded
Musica Viva Australia
in 1945, the world's largest
entrepreneurial
chamber music
organization?
in addition to composing
orchestral
and
chamber music
,
Joseph R. Wood
arranged the
Chiquita Banana
song for
Xavier Cugat
?
since 1969 more than 600 works of
contemporary
chamber music
have been premiered at the festival
Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik
in the
Ruhrgebiet
, the
European Capital of Culture
for 2010?
Dmitri Shostakovich
composer
Veniamin Fleishman
was killed early in
WWII
before he could complete his opera
Rothschild's Violin
, but that his teacher
Dmitri Shostakovich
rescued his sketches from besieged
Leningrad
, and completed the opera?
during the midst of the
Cold War
,
Alan Shulman
and
Dmitri Shostakovich
were invited to join a
Soviet
–
American
composers
' symposium organised by
Nicolas Slonimsky
for
NBC
?
Minimalist music
Proverb
, a piece by
Steve Reich
, was influenced both by
minimalist
techniques and medieval
polyphony
?
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