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The Rise of the Tenor Voice in the Late Eighteenth Century: Mozart’S Opera and Concert Arias Joshua M
University of Connecticut OpenCommons@UConn Doctoral Dissertations University of Connecticut Graduate School 10-3-2014 The Rise of the Tenor Voice in the Late Eighteenth Century: Mozart’s Opera and Concert Arias Joshua M. May University of Connecticut - Storrs, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://opencommons.uconn.edu/dissertations Recommended Citation May, Joshua M., "The Rise of the Tenor Voice in the Late Eighteenth Century: Mozart’s Opera and Concert Arias" (2014). Doctoral Dissertations. 580. https://opencommons.uconn.edu/dissertations/580 ABSTRACT The Rise of the Tenor Voice in the Late Eighteenth Century: Mozart’s Opera and Concert Arias Joshua Michael May University of Connecticut, 2014 W. A. Mozart’s opera and concert arias for tenor are among the first music written specifically for this voice type as it is understood today, and they form an essential pillar of the pedagogy and repertoire for the modern tenor voice. Yet while the opera arias have received a great deal of attention from scholars of the vocal literature, the concert arias have been comparatively overlooked; they are neglected also in relation to their counterparts for soprano, about which a great deal has been written. There has been some pedagogical discussion of the tenor concert arias in relation to the correction of vocal faults, but otherwise they have received little scrutiny. This is surprising, not least because in most cases Mozart’s concert arias were composed for singers with whom he also worked in the opera house, and Mozart always paid close attention to the particular capabilities of the musicians for whom he wrote: these arias offer us unusually intimate insights into how a first-rank composer explored and shaped the potential of the newly-emerging voice type of the modern tenor voice. -
Boston Symphony Orchestra Concert Programs, Season 94, 1974-1975
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Founded in 1881 by HENRY LEE HIGGINSON SEIJI OZAWA Music Director COLIN DAVIS Principal Guest Conductor NINETY- FOURTH SEASON 1974-1975 THE TRUSTEES OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC. TALCOTT M. BANKS President PHILIP K.ALLEN SIDNEY STONEMAN JOHN L. THORNDIKE Vice-President Vice-President Treasurer VERNON R. ALDEN ARCHIE C. EPPS III JOHN T. NOONAN ALLEN G. BARRY MRS HARRIS FAHNESTOCK MRS JAMES H. PERKINS MRS JOHN M. BRADLEY HAROLD D. HODGKINSON IRVING W. RABB RICHARD P. CHAPMAN E.MORTON JENNINGS JR PAULC. REARDON ABRAM T. COLLIER EDWARD M. KENNEDY MRS GEORGE LEE SARGENT NELSON J. DARLING JR EDWARD G. MURRAY JOHN HOYT STOOKEY TRUSTEES EMERITUS FRANCIS W. HATCH PALFREY PERKINS HENRY A. LAUGHLIN ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA THOMAS D. PERRY JR THOMAS W. MORRIS Executive Director Manager PAUL BRONSTEIN JOHN H. CURTIS MARY H. SMITH Business Manager Public Relations Director Assistant to the Manager FORRESTER C. SMITH DANIEL R. GUSTIN RICHARD C. WHITE Development Director Administrator of Assistant to Educational Affairs the Manager DONALD W. MACKENZIE JAMES F. KILEY Operations Manager, Operations Manager, Symphony Hall Tanglewood ELEANOR R. JONES Program Editor Copyright © 1974 by Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. December SYMPHONY HALL BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS J 6 e 2 2 Meet Him In a Cloud of Chiffon Li Surely, he'll appreciate this graceful flow of gray / chiffon. Sc'oop necked and softly tiered skirted. • Ready to rise to an occasion. From our outstanding /Collection of long and short evening looks, ay or navy polyester chiffon. Misses sizes. $100 isses Dresses, in Boston and in Chestnut Hill Boston, Chestnut Hill, South \Shore, Northshore, Burlington, Wellesley BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEIJI OZAWA Music Director COLIN DAVIS Principal Guest Conductor NINETY-FOURTH SEASON 1974-1975 THE BOARD OF OVERSEERS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC. -
Leopold Stokowski
Leopold Stokowski Enescu Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 Arnold Comedy Overture ‘Beckus the Dandipratt’ Glière Concerto for Coloratura Soprano Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 in E minor CC 9107 LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI Leopold Stokowski (1882-1977) George Enescu (1881-1955) 10.46 1 Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A Op. 11 (1901) Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006) 7.38 2 Comedy Overture ‘Beckus the Dandipratt’ Op. 5 (1943) Reinhold Glière (1875-1956) 15.04 Concerto for Coloratura Soprano and Orchestra in F minor Op. 82 (1943) 3 I Andante 9.33 4 II Allegro 5.31 Ilse Hollweg, soprano BBC Symphony Orchestra A BBC studio concert, broadcast 5 May 1954. Recording from the Itter Broadcast Collection Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Leopold Stokowski talking to members of the International Youth Festival Orchestra during a Symphony No. 5 in E minor Op. 64 (1888) first rehearsal of the Tchaikovsky 5th Symphony at Morley College, London. The young 5 I Andante – Allegro con anima 13.50 musicians, who came from all over the world, played the work at the Royal Albert Hall the 6 II Andante cantabile con alcuna licenza 12.04 following evening, 19 August 1973. (Photo: courtesy Edward Johnson) 7 III Valse. Allegro moderato 5.48 8 IV Finale. Andante maestoso – Allegro vivace 11.38 International Festival Youth Orchestra (1973) Recorded in rehearsal, and in performance at the Royal Albert Hall, 19 August 1973 Recorded by David Kent-Watson for Cameo Classics Cover image : Katherine's Palace hall in Tsarskoe Selo, Russia © 2018 Lyrita Recorded Edition CAMEO CLASSICS is a wholly owned label of LYRITA RECORDED EDITION TRUST Total playing time 75.09 Produced under an exclusive licence from Lyrita by Wyastone Estate Limited, Monmouth, NP25 3SR, UK www.lyrita.co.uk 2 7 CC 9107 LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI performed the last three numbered symphonies, though Nos. -
Concierto Barroco: Estudios Sobre Música, Dramaturgia E Historia Cultural
CONCIERTO BARROCO Estudios sobre música, dramaturgia e historia cultural CONCIERTO BARROCO Estudios sobre música, dramaturgia e historia cultural Juan José Carreras Miguel Ángel Marín (editores) UNIVERSIDAD DE LA RIOJA 2004 Concierto barroco: estudios sobre música, dramaturgia e historia cultural de Juan José Carreras y Miguel Ángel Marín (publicado por la Universidad de La Rioja) se encuentra bajo una Licencia Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-SinObraDerivada 3.0 Unported. Permisos que vayan más allá de lo cubierto por esta licencia pueden solicitarse a los titulares del copyright. © El autor © Universidad de La Rioja, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2012 publicaciones.unirioja.es E-mail: [email protected] ISBN: 978-84-695-4053-4 Afinaban cuerdas y trompas los músicos de la orquesta, cuando el indiano y su servidor se instalaron en la penumbra de un palco. Y, de pronto, cesaron los martillazos y afinaciones, se hizo un gran silencio y, en el puesto de director, vestido de negro, violín en mano, apareció el Preste Antonio, más flaco y narigudo que nunca […] Metido en lo suyo, sin volverse para mirar a las pocas personas que, aquí, allá, se habían colocado en el teatro, abrió lentamente un manuscrito, alzó el arco —como aquella noche— y, en doble papel de director y de ejecutante impar, dio comienzo a la sinfonía, más agitada y ritmada —acaso— que otras sinfonías suyas de sosegado tempo, y se abrió el telón sobre un estruendo de color… Alejo Carpentier, Concierto barroco ÍNDICE PRÓLOGO . 11 INTRODUCCIÓN . 13 PARTE I 1. Juan José Carreras Ópera y dramaturgia . 23 Nota bibliográfica 2. Martin Adams La “dramatic opera” inglesa: ¿un imposible género teatral? . -
Quaderni Di Teoria Sociale 2009
Quaderni di Teoria Sociale | Quaderni di Teoria PARTE MONOGRAFICA numero Su Max Weber Quaderni Massimo Pendenza, Massimo Rosati, Presentazione | Dimitri D’Andrea, Tra adattamento e rifiuto. Verso una teoria delle immagini del mondo | Gregor Fitzi, Protestantesimo e coscienza della modernità | Enrico 2009 Donaggio, Spiriti del capitalismo. Variazioni sul tema | Elettra Stimilli, Ascetismo ed economia | Massimo di Teoria Sociale Del Forno, Invenzione a due voci. Simmel, Weber e il paradigma della musica | Mariella Nocenzi, Il pa- radosso weberiano: il potere non legittimo e la città | Marta Losito, La Weberforschung e la sociologia in Italia. SAGGI 9 Olimpia Affuso, Memoria-magazine. Memorie individuali e sfere pubbliche mediate | Sergio Belardinelli, L’identità culturale europea tra universalismo e pluralità | Massimo Cerulo, Un sentire controverso. L’ homo sentiens fluttuante tra le ambivalenze tardomoderne | Spinella Dell’Avanzato, Trasformazioni della democrazia e comune cultura politica | Alberto Izzo, Irene Strazzeri, Rifiuti. Tragedia mondiale e occultamento ideologico | Roberto Segatori, Il ruolo della sociologia politica nell’Italia contemporanea. L’ INTERVI S TA Critica e spirito del capitalismo. Intervista a Luc Boltanski. LIBRI IN DI S CU ss IONE Il testo in discussione: Hermann Lübbe, La politica dopo l’Illuminismo. Leonardo Allodi, Tecnica e morale in Hermann Lübbe | Maria Aparecida Ferrari, La possibilità di un altro Illuminismo | Ivo Germano, Ci salveranno i media? Il senso di sfida comunicazionale di Hermann Lübbe | Gianfranco Morra, Quale politica dopo l’Illuminismo? Altri testi Lorenzo Bruni, Il riscatto del sogno e la traccia nella trama del presente. M. Gauchet, R. Redeker, Utopia e modernità | Massimo Cerulo, Esperienze che s’incontrano: il ruolo dell’empatia nella vita quotidia- na. -
Il Teatro Significa Vivere Sul Serio Quello Che Gli Altri Nella Vita Recitano Male.”1
1 Introduction “Il teatro significa vivere sul serio quello che gli altri nella vita recitano male.”1 Many years ago a young boy sat with his friend, the son of a lawyer, in the Corte Minorile of Naples, watching as petty criminals about his age were being judged for their offenses. One ragged pick-pocket who had been found guilty demanded to be led away after being sentenced; instead he was left there and his loud pleas were completely disregarded. Unwilling to tolerate this final offense of being treated as though he were invisible, the juvenile delinquent, in an extreme act of rebellion, began smashing the chains around his hands against his own head until his face was a mask of blood. Horrified, the judge finally ordered everybody out of the court. That young boy sitting in court watching the gruesome scene was Eduardo De Filippo and the sense of helplessness and social injustice witnessed left an indelible mark on the impressionable mind of the future playwright. Almost sixty years later, at the Accademia dei Lincei, as he accepted the Premio Internazionale Feltrinelli, one of Italy’s highest literary accolades, De Filippo recalled how it was that this early image of the individual pitted against society was always at the basis of his work: Alla base del mio teatro c’è sempre il conflitto fra individuo e società […] tutto ha inizio, sempre, da uno stimolo emotivo: reazione a un’ingiustizia, sdegno per l’ipocrisia mia e altrui, solidarietà e simpatia umana per una persona o un gruppo di persone, ribellione contro leggi superate e anacronistiche con il mondo di oggi, sgomento di fronte a fatti che, come le guerre, sconvolgono la vita dei popoli.2 The purpose of this thesis is twofold: to provide for the first time a translation of Eduardo’s last play, Gli esami non finiscono mai (Exams Never End), and to trace the development of his dramatic style and philosophy in order to appreciate their culmination 1 Enzo Biagi, “Eduardo, tragico anche se ride,” Corriere della Sera , 6 March 1977. -
Biblioteca Di Studi Di Filologia Moderna – 27 –
BIBLIOTECA DI STUDI DI FILOLOGIA MODERNA – 27 – BIBLIOTECA DI STUDI DI FILOLOGIA MODERNA Collana Open Access del Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Studi Interculturali Università degli Studi di Firenze Direttore Beatrice Töttössy Coordinamento editoriale Fabrizia Baldissera, John Denton, Fiorenzo Fantaccini, Donatella Pallotti, Ernestina Pellegrini, Beatrice Töttössy Comitato scientifico internazionale Fabrizia Baldissera (Università degli Studi di Firenze), Enza Biagini (Professore Emerito, Università degli Studi di Firenze), Nicholas Brownlees (Università degli Studi di Firenze), Arnaldo Bruni (studioso), Martha Canfield (studiosa), Richard Allen Cave (Emeritus Professor, Royal Holloway, University of London), Piero Ceccucci (studioso), Massimo Ciaravolo (Università degli Studi di Firenze), John Denton (Università degli Studi di Firenze), Anna Dolfi (Università degli Studi di Firenze), Mario Domenichelli (studioso), Maria Teresa Fancelli (Professore Emerito, Università degli Studi di Firenze), Massimo Fanfani (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Accademia della Crusca), Fiorenzo Fantaccini (Università degli Studi di Firenze), Michela Landi (Università degli Studi di Firenze), Paul Geyer (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn), Ingrid Hennemann (studiosa), Donald Kartiganer (Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies Emeritus, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss.), Sergej Akimovich Kibal’nik (Institute of Russian Literature [the Pushkin House], Russian Academy of Sciences; Saint-Petersburg State University), Ferenc Kiefer (Research -
NEWSLETTER of the American Handel Society
NEWSLETTER of The American Handel Society Volume XVIII, Number 3 December 2003 HOUSTON GRAND OPERA’S GIULIO CESARE Giulio Cesare is one of Handel’s most justly celebrated operas. First performed in 1724, it was revived several times during the composer’s lifetime. Donald Burrows, in his Master Musicians biography of Handel selects the opera for detailed analysis, citing among its strengths, "a fast-moving plot, full of incident, and some of Handel’s best arias, as well as scenes that are spectacular from both musical and dramatic standpoints."1 During the twentieth century the opera was revived fairly regularly, though it often fell victim to the well-intentioned surgery of producers, directors and conductors. Music History teachers of a certain vintage can remember the Norton Anthology of Western Music recorded excerpt which featured the title role sung by Wagnerian bass Hans Hotter. It was also not so long ago when the choice of recorded versions was limited to a severely cut, Belliniesque ornamented American recording and an uncut every-da-capo-taken-but-unornamented German performance. Just two years ago, while preparing a performance of excerpts for an Opera Scenes class, I was frustrated in my attempts to find a score with the part of Caesar in treble clef, the choices being bass or alto clef. The recordings of Giulio Cesare have improved recently, but the work still awaits a critical edition and Handel’s beautiful yet lengthy score remains a challenging one for opera houses Keiichiro Watanabe March 2, 1932 - December 12, 2001 to realize on the stage. -
Orchestra Repertoire by Composer
Concord Orchestra (1969-2019 seasons) –– Richard Pittman, 50th season as conductor by Composer Compiled by Grant Anderson, June 2019 1 Concord Orchestra Repertoire by Composer (1969-2019 seasons) — Richard Pittman, conductor Composer Composition Composed Soloists Groups Concert Adams John (1947 – ) Nixon in China: The Chairman Dances 1985 May 2000 Adams John (1947 – ) ShortA Short Ride in a Fast Machine (Fanfare for 1986 December 1990 Great Woods) Adams John (1947 – ) AShort Short Ride in a Fast Machine (Fanfare for 1986 December 2000 Great Woods) Adler Samuel (1928 – ) TheFlames Flames of Freedom: Ma’oz Tzur (Rock 1982 Lexington High School December 2015 of Ages), Mi y’mallel (Who Can Retell?) Women’s Chorus (Jason Iannuzzi) Albéniz Isaac (1860 – 1909) Suite española, Op. 47: Granada & Sevilla 1886 May 2016 Albert Stephen (1941 – 1992) River-Run: Rain Music, River's End 1984 October 1986 Alford, born Kenneth, born (1881 – 1945) Colonel Bogey March 1914 May 1994 Ricketts Frederick Anderson Leroy (1908 – 1975) Belle of the Ball 1951 May 1998 Anderson Leroy (1908 – 1975) Belle of the Ball 1951 July 1998 Anderson Leroy (1908 – 1975) Belle of the Ball 1951 May 2003 Anderson Leroy (1908 – 1975) Blue Tango 1951 May 1998 Anderson Leroy (1908 – 1975) Blue Tango 1951 May 2007 Anderson Leroy (1908 – 1975) Blue Tango 1951 May 2011 Anderson Leroy (1908 – 1975) BuglerA Bugler's Holiday 1954 Norman Plummer, April 1971 Thomas Taylor, Stanley Schultz trumpet Anderson Leroy (1908 – 1975) BuglerA Bugler's Holiday 1954f John Ossi, James May 1979 Dolham, -
Aruilffi * &Til
ffiH"A GIUSEPPEVERDI AIDA Librettobv AntonioGhislanzoni Thisproduction of Ardais dedicatedto DiamondProducers' Circle Sponsors lris and Matthew Strauss, TitleCo-Sponsors Gillian and Tony Thornley, and Producers' Circle Sponsors Jennifer and RichardGreenfield, Lyndaand RichardKerr, Barbara Kjos, John Rebeloand SarahB. Marsh-Rebeloand Friendsof Pam Slater-Price. SanDiego Opera is pleasedto recognizeNorthern Trust as our CorporateProducing Partner for Aida. Sincerethanks also go to AmericanAirlines. OfficialAirline of SanDiego Opera, SycuanCasino, Phone Etiquette Sponsor, and PointLoma Nazarene University, Supertitles Sponsor. ilA$T: $ilTTit*t: (in orderof vocalappearance) Setting:The periodof the Pharaoh'spower. Memphisand Thebes Ramfis ReinhardHagen Radames Walter Fraccaro. ACT I Amneris Jill Grove. Scene1 : A Hallin the Palacein Memphis Aida LatoniaMoore" Scene2. lnsidethe Templeof Vulcan Kingof Egypt Ashraf Sewailam ACT II Messenger Greg Fedderly Scene'l : Amneris'apartments in Thebes Priestess PritiGandhi Scene2; The Gatesof Thebes Amonasro Mark S. Doss - 2O Minute lntermission - Conductor DanieleCallegari- ACT Director Andrew Sinclair III TheTemple of lsison the Banksof the Nile Choreographer Kennethvon Heidecke ScenicDesigner ZandraRhodes ACT IV Cncfr rma Dacinnar ZandraRhodes TheJudgment Hall and SubterraneanTomb LrghtingDesigner ChristopherMaravich Wig and MakeupDesigner Steven Bryant . ChorusMaster CharlesF. Prestinari Therunning time is approximately 3 hours, tncluding one intermission. Supertitles ChristopherBergen . Byarrangement -
Between Venice, Lubowla in Spiš and Kraków: Prince Teodor Lubomirski – an Enthusiast of Italian Opera (A Preliminary Study)
Musicologica Brunensia 53 / 2018 / Supplementum https://doi.org/10.5817/MB2018-S-13 Between Venice, Lubowla in Spiš and Kraków: Prince Teodor Lubomirski – An Enthusiast of Italian Opera (A Preliminary Study) Anna Ryszka-Komarnicka / [email protected] Institute of Musicology, Warsaw University, PL Abstract Prince Teodor Lubomirski staged 4 operas in his Polish estates: Venceslao, La fede ne’tradimenti, Mariane, Griselda (1725–1727). The Kraków prints of the libretti for the first 3 operas follow the Venetians prints (1722, 1721, 1724), while the Cracovian Griselda is a pasticcio probably pre- pared on the base of the variant of the opera staged in Venice in 1720 (mus. G. M. Orlandini). Acting as a patron of opera in Poland was a part of a Teodor’s well-thought-out policy aimed at standing out against the other Polish aristocrats, at bringing entertainments to himself and his morganatic wife and at an attempt to break the society’s aversion by means of offering the attractions that were hardly accessible in Poland at the time. The repertoire of his theatre was in perfect accord with such aims, especially taking into consideration Zeno’s Griselda, allegori- cally enhancing the status of Teodor’s own wife and children. Teodor’s ephemeral musical hob- by was by no means uncommon in 18th-century Poland. Like many other Polish aristocrats he saw opera as a good way to improve his own social status, but contrary to the West-European royal and princely courts, he did not perceive the genre as the medium of political propaganda that would be worth money. -
La Vie Musicale
MIHAI DE BRANCOVAN LA VIE MUSICALE Wozzeck, d'Alban Berg, au Palais Garnier Superbe représentation que le nouveau Wozzeck que vient de nous offrir l'Opéra de Paris. La cinéaste Liliana Cavani n'ayant pu, « pour des raisons indépendantes de sa volonté », venir présenter, comme il était initialement prévu, sa produc• tion du Maggio musicale fiorentino, c'est à une autre femme que fut confiée la mise en scène : Ruth Berghaus, la veuve du compo• siteur allemand Paul Dessau. Entourée de ses collaborateurs habi• tuels — Hans Dieter Schaal pour les décors et Marie Luise Strandt pour les costumes —, elle a réalisé un spectacle d'une force extraordinaire, qui ne laisse pas un seul instant de répit au public, aucun entracte ne venant couper cette marche inéluc• table vers la catastrophe finale. Une heure et demie durant, on est soumis à une tension sans cesse croissante, à des images de plus en plus angoissantes, de sorte que l'on quitte l'Opéra boule• versé, épuisé. La nature est bannie de cette production qui semble situer l'action dans ce qui reste d'une ville le lendemain du bombar• dement. Pas de campagne, pas d'étang, pas de roseaux, mais du béton, rien que du béton. Au lever du rideau, nous sommes devant un immense mur à mi-hauteur duquel s'ouvre, minuscule, la chambre où Wozzeck est en train de raser le capitaine. Tandis que, pendant la scène avec le docteur, qui l'observe à travers des jumelles, Wozzeck monte et descend l'escalier occupant le milieu du mur, celui-ci se fend en deux parties qui s'écartent peu à peu, laissant progressivement apparaître des blocs de béton jetés les uns par-dessus les autres, cassés, pointant vers l'extérieur des tiges de fer tordues.