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JULIETTE at the BARBICAN, LONDON the PRAGUE SPRING FESTIVAL 2009 Martinůmay—Augustrevue 2009 VOL.IX NO THE BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ FOUNDATION THE BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ INSTITUTE THE INTERNATIONAL MARTINŮ CIRCLE JULIETTE AT THE BARBICAN, LONDON THE PRAGUE SPRING FESTIVAL 2009 martinůMAY—AUGUSTrevue 2009 VOL.IX NO. 2 CONFERENCES / EXHIBITIONS LIST OF MARTINŮ’S WORKS / PART VI NEWS / EVENTS ∑ exhibition THE BOHUSLAV contents MARTINŮ CENTER IN POLIČKA 3 Martinů Revisited Highlights —Visit the newly opened 4 Incircle News permanent exhibition GREGORY TERIAN dedicated to the composer’s life and work (authored by 5 International Martinů Circle Prof. Jaroslav Mihule) 6 martinů revisited —We offer visitors a tour of the reconstructed classroom —Exhibition – The Martinů Phenomenon attended by Martinů as a schoolboy and a musical hall —Journée Martinů in Paris where one can listen to recordings or attend film screenings and specialised lectures. 7 Hommage à Martinů in Budapest Ballet Productions in Brno www.cbmpolicka.cz [email protected] 8 Juliette at the Barbican Centre in London PATRICK LAMBERT 9 In a Forest of Giant Poppy-Heads BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ opera LENKA ŠALDOVÁ THE MARRIAGE H.341 11 special series —List of Martinů’s Works VI 1953, comic chamber opera from the play by Nikolai Gogol 12 news / conferences / original creation by Pamela Howard autographs Jakub Klecker (Conductor) 14 review NATIONAL THEATRE BRNO / REDUTA THEATRE —Martinů Revisits Prague Spring 4 October 2009 > premiere GRAHAM MELVILLE-MASON 5 & 7 October 2009 16 interview www.ndbrno.cz —Alan Buribayev – A Rising Conducting Star MARTINA FIALKOVÁ 18 events 19 news —New Publications, CD ∑ highlights IN 2009 THE CULTURAL WORLD commemorates the 50th anniversary of Bohuslav Martinů’s death (28 August 1959). In anticipation of this anniversary year, many organisers in the Czech Republic and abroad have prepared music productions at which the composer’s works will be performed. Considerable attention is also being devoted to the artistic and cultural-political context of Martinů’s oeuvre. When I left after the funeral for Vieux concert in polička Moulin with my niece and her husband, I was exhausted. What had been the THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF MARTINŮ’S DEATH reason, the joy, the splendour, and the meaning of my life, had passed away. SMETANA’S LITOMYŠL FESTIVAL I looked at all that we both had loved Friday 28 August 2009 Polička, St. James Church / 7.00 pm so much and I asked myself: In collaboration with the town of Polička “How shall I endure life without him?” The Opening of the Springs H.354 I thought about my dear departed Selanka from the cycle Bouquet of Flowers H.260 husband and suddenly I had the Field Mass H.279 impression that I heard a familiar The Nativity of Lord from The Miracles of Mary H.236 chord. It was as if he had touched me Ivan Kusnjer (Baritone) Kühn Mixed Choir, Marek Vorlíček (Choirmaster) softly. I said to myself: “I shall not Pardubice Chamber Orchestra, Marko Ivanović (Conductor) be completely alone because his music will remain with me.” www.smetanovalitomysl.cz CHARLOTTE MARTINŮ opera NATIONAL THEATRE PRAGUE THE MIRACLES OF MARY H.236 29 October 2009 > premiere / 2, 7, 29 November 2009 / 14 December 2009 Musical preparation: Jiří Bělohlávek . Conductor Jiří Bělohlávek / David Švec . Director Jiří Heřman Orchestra, Choir & Ballet of the National Theatre Opera . Prague Philharmonic Choir & Kühn’s Children Choir www.narodni-divadlo.cz martinůrevue22009 | 3 members of the Louisville Orchestra which under its conductor Robert Whitney commissioned and gave ≤rst performances of Martinů’s Intermezzo, H. 330 and Estampes, H. 369, the composer’s incirclenews last orchestral work. Of all the American orchestras Martinů’s closest association was with the Boston Symphony and its conductors Serge Koussevitzky and Charles Munch. The orchestra gave ≤rst performances AMERICAN of some of Martinů’s most important orchestral works ranging from La Bagarre, H. 155 in 1929 CONNECTIONS to the Parables, H. 367 (1959). The orchestra has always enjoyed close ties with the adjacent / GREGORY TERIAN brooke photo walter New England Conservatory of Music, the latest of the institutions to join the Martinů Circle. OF LATE WE HAVE BEEN welcoming a growing Mannes College staged the American premiere of the The Conservatory chorus performed and made Comedy on the Bridge, H. 247 in 1951 which led to number of American educational institutions recordings with the orchestra under Munch, as a revival of interest in the work. Here the composer to the Martinů Circle, subscribing through their is seen with the stage director Ralph Herbert and the did the famous Glee Club from nearby Harvard respective music libraries. conductor Carl Bamberger prior to the performances University which boasts a thriving musical life First to join was Mannes College Music School which took place on May 28 and 29. in its own right. in New York where Martinů held the position of The Yale University Glee Club took part in the Professor of Composition in the early 1950s. Einstein and dedicated the Five Madrigal Stanzas, American premiere of the Field Mass, H. 279 at During his tenure the school staged a production H. 297 to the great man who was a good amateur Tanglewood on 7 July 1956 under the conductor of the Comedy on the Bridge, H. 247 which led violinist and who performed the work with the Hugh Ross. to a revival of interest in the work. The parents pianist Robert Casadesus. The membership of Northwestern University association commissioned a work for the school The Cleveland Institute of Music has tradi- led to Robert Simon discovering that the music orchestra and the little Overture, H. 345 of 1953 tional ties with the Cleveland Orchestra with library held a copy of the score of the Cello Con- resulted which has recently been enjoying a suc- members of the orchestra serving on the teaching certo No. 1, H. 196 bearing annotations in the cession of performances in Europe. faculty. The Cleveland Orchestra gave world composer’s hand, a signi≤cant ≤nd. We are also Martinů took up a teaching post at Princeton premieres of three Martinů works including the delighted to have in the fold the Children’s University during 1948-51. He enthused over Symphony No. 2, H. 295 and the Rhapsody- Orchestra Society of New York and the Arthur their music library where he found the score of -Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, H. 337 written Friedheim Library at the Peabody Institute of Haydn’s Sinfonia Concertante for wind instruments for Jascha Veissi, a one-time concertmaster of John Hopkins University. We look forward to which was to inspire his own work of that title. the orchestra. In like manner, the teaching faculty a continuing association and interchange with At Princeton he became acquainted with Albert at the University of Louisville has drawn on all these institutions. ❚ BLANCHE HONEGGER WILL CELEBRATE HER After settling in the United States in 1949, 100th birthday on 23 September 2009. the Moyse Trio was involved in the creation of Her involvement with the music of Martinů dates the Marlboro Music Festival where works by back to the 1930s. In 1936 she partnered Marcel Martinů featured prominently. Forced by a bow- Moyse in the ≤rst performance of the Concerto -arm ailment to give up the violin, Blanche went for Flute, Violin and Orchestra, H. 252, awork on to forge a distinguished career as a conductor, which Martinů had written for them. specialising in the performance of the choral Recalling preparations for the performance music of Bach. She established the Brattleboro 70 years later, Blanche remarked to the composer Music Centre, near her home in Vermont, where that he had not given the violin enough to do, a gala concert in her honour is due to take place in response to which he promptly added a very on 4 October 2009. dif≤cult cadenza passage. Her autograph of the Blanche Honegger must surely be the last score, held by the Brattleboro Music Centre, was survivor of the performers known to Martinů generously donated to the Bohuslav Martinů in the 1930s and we congratulate her on her Institute in 2006. anniversary. She was awarded the Bohuslav A year later he composed the Sonata for Flute, Martinů Foundation medal in 2006 for her Violin and Piano, H. 254, for the Moyse Trio. services in promoting the cause of the composer. A studio session led to the sonata having the Blanche Honegger will celebrate her 100th birthday distinction of becoming the ≤rst Martinů work in September. She was awarded the Bohuslav Martinů Gregory Terian Foundation medal in 2006 to be recorded for the gramophone. 4 | martinůrevue22009 b ] d incirclenews MARTINŮ REVUE (former Bohuslav THE SOUND OF MARTINŮ was the title of the ≤nal tribute concert THE INTERNATIONAL Martinů Newsletter) is published given at the Royal College of Music in London on 12 May to mark the MARTINŮ CIRCLE by the International Martinů Circle GENERAL INFORMATION in collaboration with the Bohuslav 50th anniversary of the composer’s death. Members receive the illustrated Martinů Institute in Prague. Six varied works were performed ranging from the Quartet for Clarinet, Martinů Revue published three times With ≤nancial support of the Bohuslav a year plus a special limited edition CD Martinů Foundation Prague. French Horn, Cello and Side-drum of 1924 through to the Stowe Pastorals and Chamber Music No. 1, dating from the last year of the composer’s life, containing world premieres, historic Editors archive performances and recordings Zoja Seyčková & Lucie Berná works which have not been heard in London for many years, if at all. Also from the annual Martinů Festival not Bohuslav Martinů Institute obtainable commercially. Justin Krawitz (with special thanks) on the programme were the Sonata for Flute, Violin and Piano and the Sonatina for Trumpet and Piano.
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