After Yo-Yo Ma’s performance of the Schumann Cello Concerto at Tanglewood the cellist, who considers conductor David Zinman one of his great mentors and friends, took a microphone to make a public plea to the 13,924 concert-goers to help find Mr. Zinman’s four-month-old Cuban Havanese puppy Carlito, who was lost earlier that morning. Yo-Yo gave out the numbers of the Stockbridge and Lenox police to get everyone on the case! You can hear him make the appeal here.
Around 7 p.m, Grace Ellrodt, a 19-year-old Lenox resident was driving down Cliffwood Avenue with her boyfriend, 21-year-old Lachlan Tobiason, when the two saw a puppy in the middle of the road. They had heard about the missing dog from their families and friends who were at Tanglewood for the matinee concert. So they lured the puppy over with dog treats and took him back to the maestro.
photos (c) Hilary Scott
In Shanghai a music director on a bicycle chased down a woman on a scooter who had knocked down a cyclist and was fleeing the scene.
The public-spirited citizen has been named as Liu Jian. A former conductor with the Shanghai orchestra, he now teaches at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, CUNY, is chairman of Eastwest Institute New York and professor at China’s Central Conservatory of Music.
David Maslanka died during the night of August 6th, 2017 at home. He had been diagnosed with a severe form of colon cancer in June. His wife, Alison, died on July 3rd of this year. He declined rapidly following her passing. He is survived by his children, Stephen, Matthew, and Kathryn.
David Maslanka, born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, wrote more than 150 works including eight symphonies, seventeen concertos, a Mass, and much music for wind ensemble.
Readers are swelling Leonard’s ten with lost masterpieces of their own.
I would add any symphony by Benjamin Lees, the cello concerto of Victor Herbert, William Grant Still’s first symphony, Eric Zeisl’s piano concerto and pretty much anything by Conlon Nancarrow.
Your list?
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There’s a huge buzz about the Edinburgh Festival’s production of Mark Anthony Turnage’s opera, Greek, with critics lavishing five stars on the show and one of them saying it has raised Edinburgh to long-lost glories.
What they fail to mention is that the team behind the production are John Berry and Loretta Tomasi, whom the same critics kicked to death when they were running English National Opera.
Funny old world.
Ana-Maria Avram, whose death on August 1 has been posted online by her close collaborators, came out of the Romanian avant-garde to become a leading figure in the spectral music movement.
She composed both for traditional ensembles and electronic media.
A regular conductor of Ensemble Hyperion International, she was married to the composer Iancu Dumitrescu.
The musicians in Buenos Aires have not been paid for over seven months.
Britten’s Rape of Lucretia will play this weekend in Tianjin, China, in what the organisers believe will be the work’s Asian premiere.
Nigel Robson plays Male Chorus, Sarah Castle is Lucretia and Madeleine Pierard is Female Chorus. The rest of the cast are Chinese. The Tianjin Symphony orchestra is conducted by Muhai Tang. The director is Niv Hoffman.
More laid back Down Under than he can afford to be back home, Jonas Kaufmann began talking at a press conference about the roles he is learning for future performance.
Among them are Wagner’s Tannhäuser, Pelléas in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, Samson in the Saint-Saens opera and Paul in Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Die tote Stadt.
This is revealing for all sorts of reasons, not least that Kaufmann is concerned to leave an individual footprint on the opera repertoire. Pelléas and Paul are two roles that do not appear among Placido Domingo’s record 147 career roles.
