The Jürgen Ponto Foundation has given its two-yearly music prize to the Berlin Vision String Quartet.
It’s worth 60,000 Euros, along with dates at the Beethovenfest Bonn, Heidelberg Spring, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Kissinger Sommer.
The quartet is made up of Jakob Encke and Daniel Stoll (violins), Sander Stuart (viola) and Leonard Disselhorst (cello).
The critic of Vanguard Seattle is displeased with Cosi fan tutte. Not just displeased. Outraged.
Post this on the billboards:
I know you might be thinking, “It can’t be that bad” or “I have to go see this trainwreck.”
Don’t. Just don’t. If you want to debase yourself, there are plenty of absolutely gut-wrenching depictions of rape that you can watch at home that aren’t for laughs. If you want to revel in misanthropy and questionable artistic choices involving rape, try Gaspar Noe’s Irreversible. If the homophobia of the characters in that film feels too unaddressed, go get your heart turned inside out by Boys Don’t Cry.
You really earn your misanthropy with those films. At Seattle Opera’s Cosi Fan Tutte, it is simply all too easy to hate everyone and everything.
And the critic at Seattle Weekly says, stay away and don’t ever come back:
What is dismaying about the whole affair is that we’re likely never again going to see a Così not done this way.
Tuomas Katajala, Ginger Costa-Jackson, Marina Costa-Jackson, Craig Verm, Laura Tatulescu. Photo: Philip Newton
Asked to explain why he struck a juror, the prosecutor in a Virginia case stated that it was bc the juror “is in the Va.opera,and people who go to the opera tend to have a liberal disposition and might support legalizing marijuana.” Covil v. Virginia.
Two of the shortlisted 2018 candidates for Best Film contain songs by the operatic soprano.
In ‘The Shape of Water’ she sings ‘You’ll Never Know’ in Alexandre Desplat’s score, accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra.
In ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ her Decca recording of Last Rose of Summer is heard twice.
Compare and contrast:
Echo Star Helstrom, Bob Dylan’s high school girlfriend who is thought to be his ‘Girl From the North Country’ has died in California in her early 70s, reports say.
Press release:
Before the rehearsal at the Philharmonie today, the Berliner Philharmoniker welcomed Mariss Jansons as an honorary member of the orchestra to express their gratitude for a long association.
Mariss Jansons conducted the Berliner Philharmoniker for the first time in 1971 during the second International Herbert von Karajan Conducting Competition. Since his official debut in 1976, he and the orchestra have presented 95 concerts with 40 programmes in Berlin and on several concert tours, including this week’s concerts with works by Robert Schumann and Anton Bruckner.
Jansons is only the fifth conductor to receive this honour. The others are Daniel Barenboim, Bernard Haitink, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Seiji Ozawa.
The South Bank Centre posted this notice shortly before concert time last night:
Customer Notice – Due to illness and with great regret, Paul Lewis has decided to cancel his concert at Southbank Centre tonight. Ticket holders will be informed of their options via email shortly. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.