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...Take Dvořák’s American quartet, which draws on US folk music, he says: “All the rhythmic structures that Dvořák uses in that piece, there’s a very different way to play them if you’re coming at it looking...
...It was here I was first exposed to Dvorak, Stockhausen and Verdi and the Australian version of Last Night of the Proms....
...Musics Lost and Found: Song Collectors and the Life and Death of Folk Traditionby Michael Church, Boydell & Brewer £25.00 There is a cinematic sweep to Michael Church’s history of the world’s song collectors...
...john.gapper@ft.com Letter in response to this column: What songwriters owe those who went before / From Michael Sukin, Sukin Law Group, New York, NY, US...
...Dvorák Stabat Mater Czech Philharmonic (Decca) It was singing in a children’s’ choir in Prague that gave Jirí Belohlávek a life-long love of Dvorák’s dark and lyrical Stabat Mater....
...Results fared better after the intermission, with Ma’s clear conception of Dvořák’s Cello Concerto rubbing off on the orchestral playing, and Stern successfully harnessing the group’s natural roughness to...
...Michael Longhurst directs The Winter’s Tale; outgoing artistic director Dominic Dromgoole stages The Tempest, with Tim McMullan as Prospero. shakespearesglobe.com , ‘The Winter’s Tale’ from January 28,...
...Without Michael Flatley to watch, the music’s attractions are fairly limited....
...In his day Michael Chance was an effective Orpheus – remember him in ENO’s “nude” production with Leslie Garrett?...
...But the conductor, Michael Francis, led a brisk, no-nonsense performance of the symphony and Mutter, as always, found marvels of expression in the concerto....
...Dagmar Dvorak, director of fixed income and currency at Baring Asset Management said: “We think sterling has room to weaken further.”...
...Commissioned and first tried out in 2009, it is travelling to selected venues on the Glyndebourne Tour alongside Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro and Dvorak’s Rusalka....
...It’s getting better, according to Professor Michael Porter of Harvard Business School....
...What distinguishes this project is its sheer scope and the number of collaborative artists it involves, including the poet Michael Symmons Roberts, dramaturg Ben Power and director Melly Still....
...Michael Berkeley’s Piano Quintet made vivid use of an idée fixe – a high D drone that motivated, anchored and magnetised the entire 15-minute argument....
...The smaller roles were less well taken and the conductor, Michael Schonwandt, had trouble keeping everybody together, but otherwise the musical performance was good enough to make one fall in love with Dvorák...
...Lidner, in Michael Williams’ fictionalised libretto, encounters Nongqawuse, the Xhosa prophetess who persuaded her people to slaughter their cattle and destroy their crops in a bid to drive away the hated...
...Michael Schade’s Rinaldo and Richard Croft’s Ubaldo fared better, and Vito Priante was a formidable Idreno....
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