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Britten100launched in San Francisco Included in This Issue: Celebrations for Britten’S Centenary in 2013 Include Performances in 140 Cities Around the World Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited October 2012 2012/3 Holloway Britten100launched in San Francisco Included in this issue: Celebrations for Britten’s centenary in 2013 include performances in 140 cities around the world. Robin Holloway travels to Turnage San Francisco on Interview about new works: Highlights in Aldeburgh, where Britten lived including three by the Berliner Philharmoniker 10 January for the world Cello Concerto and Speranza and worked most of his life, include and Simon Rattle. A series of events at premiere of his new performances of Peter Grimes on the beach Carnegie Hall in New York will be announced Debussy song and six new works specially commissioned in early 2013. orchestrations for by the Britten-Pears Foundation and Royal soprano Renée Fleming. New books for the centenary include Paul Philharmonic Society. A week-long festival in Michael Tilson Thomas Kildea’s Benjamin Britten - the first major Glasgow sees Scotland’s four leading Photo: Charlie Troman conducts the San biography for twenty years (Penguin’s Allen orchestras and ensembles come together Francisco Symphony in ten settings of Paul Lane), a collection of rare images from The in April 2013. Verlaine’s poetry, which Holloway has titled Red House archive entitled Britten in Pictures, C’est l’extase after one of the chosen songs. Britten’s global appeal is demonstrated with and the sixth and final volume of Letters from Orchestra and conductor have long territorial premieres of his operas staged in a Life (Boydell & Brewer). BBC Radio and championed Holloway’s music, Brazil, Chile, China, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Television honours Britten with a year-long commissioning a sequence of works Japan and New Zealand. A Britten festival in celebration including broadcasts of all his including Clarissa Sequence, the Fourth Moscow includes operas, four concerts with operas and new TV documentaries. New Concerto for Orchestra and the earlier the Russian National Orchestra and an films are planned by Tony Palmer, Tony Debussy arrangement En blanc et noir, and exhibition at the Pushkin Museum. Special Britten and Margaret Williams, and the British Stravinsky presenting the US premieres of the centenary series are mounted by Deutsche Film Institute presents a Britten season. Rite of Spring centenary Third Concerto for Orchestra and the Oper am Rhein and Opéra de Lyon, each celebrated worldwide For full details on the centenary visit Viola Concerto. presenting four Britten operas. War Requiem in 2013 www.britten100.org travels widely with over 50 performances, Holloway writes of the new work: Photo: Britten-Pears Foundation “From nearly 20 Verlaine settings made by Britten at Snape Maltings, 1969 Debussy early in his career I selected the Ariettes oubliées, six songs which by The Britten-Pears Foundation has launched common consent don’t function as a cycle, Britten 100, celebrating the centenary in 2013 together with another group of three and a of one of the 20th century’s greatest cultural Glanert Solaris premiere singleton. The ten songs are reordered into a figures. Over 1200 performances of Benjamin key scheme, with a trajectory of moods and Britten’s music in 30 countries have already tempi, and I’ve composed transitions of been announced for the centenary seasons, between 6 and 20 bars where necessary. amounting to the widest ever global The last song is prefaced by a longer celebration of a British composer. His introduction and an extended coda which significance in British cultural history is captures the surge of the sea in the poem to recognised by the Royal Mint’s provide a brilliant and sonorous conclusion. Adams announcement that a new 50 pence coin As with En blanc et noir, and my Mary Queen The Gospel according to depicting Britten will go into circulation ready of Scots Schumann songs orchestration the Other Mary premiere for 2013. Reliquary, my aim has been to capture not in Los Angeles In the UK all 14 of Britten’s major operas will the letter of Debussy’s music, but its spirit.” be performed, including a new staging of Holloway in China Gloriana, which returns to The Royal Opera Also in the New Year the National Centre for 60 years since it was first given to celebrate the Performing Arts in Beijing plays host to the Queen’s Coronation. This co-production the world premiere of Holloway’s 15-minute with Hamburg Opera will be screened in orchestral work In China. This is the musical cinemas worldwide. Four Britten operas will fruit of the composer’s trip to China in 2011, be staged by Opera North, and Birmingham as part of the Composing China project. Royal Ballet presents a new choreography of Along with four other composers Holloway The Prince of the Pagodas produced with Photo: Bregenzer Festspiele / Karl Forster travelled around the country, on plane, bus, National Ballet of Japan. World premiere staging of Detlev Glanert’s Solaris at the Bregenz Festival boat and train, visiting sprawling cities and remote rural villages. Detlev Glanert’s new opera Solaris, based on one of the most, perhaps the most, practical of the the novel by Stanislav Lem, opened at the current generation of opera composers.” Holloway’s resulting score is more a Chin Vivier new guide Bregenz Festival in July, and travels to the Münchner Merkur response to visual stimuli, ranging from the Alice in Wonderland A new Boosey & Hawkes guide to the music Komische Oper in Berlin next May. The The Glanert feature at the Bregenz Festival vastness of the physical landscape to the receives US premiere of Claude Vivier (1948-1983) looks set to production by Moshe Leiser and Patrice also included Nijinsky’s Diary, which fuses exploding urban chaos, than to the Chinese in St Louis further the rediscovery of one of the most Caurier, conducted by Markus Stenz and opera, theatre and dance, and the Austrian folk music he experienced. In China, which original voices of the latter half of the 20th with Dietrich Henschel in the lead role, premiere of Theatrum bestiarum. Other will be premiered by the NCPA Concert Hall century. Since the Canadian composer’s explores themes of human communication in summer highlights were the UK premiere of Orchestra, joins a series of Holloway works works joined the B&H catalogue in 2005 over Lem’s metaphysical book, set on a space Caligula at English National Opera in initiated by travel to countries or cities, 400 performances have taken place. station circling the planet Solaris. As the London and the world premiere under the including the Third Concerto for Orchestra’s scientists probe the planet’s ‘thinking ocean’ baton of Ivan Fischer of a new ten-minute impressions of South America and Scenes The comprehensive guide is the first to cover from Antwerp. Vivier’s complete output, featuring the Solaris retaliates by recreating figures from orchestral Nocturne commissioned by the composer’s original thoughts and writings their memories, prompting disturbing journeys Berlin Konzerthaus. Holloway’s 70th birthday is celebrated in 2013. about his music, together with repertoire of self-discovery. notes by Vivier expert Bob Gilmore in English, “[Glanert] has an exceptional knack for music French and German. Complementing this is a drama. His score reflects the cosmic solitude just roles as Chairman of the Society for the CD sampler providing audio excerpts from 18 as well as the psychological terror which the Promotion of New Music, trustee of the Royal works -– these Vivier audio clips are also scientists on Solaris repeatedly experience, College of Music, and board member of available online at www.boosey.com/av. exposed through the personification of their own feelings of guilt. At the same time, Glanert places English National Opera. She is currently a great emphasis on the comprehensibility of the update Trustee of the Britten-Pears Foundation and text, and finds a skilful balance between the has recently joined the board of the recitative-like arioso and the musico-dramatic International Artist Managers’ Association. elements, which are allowed to flow in and out of Boosey & Hawkes’s sister company each other perfectly.” Südkurier Janis Susskind has been promoted to Managing Rodgers & Hammerstein is expanding with “In his portrayal of Solaris with orchestra and a Director of Boosey & the creation of a new European large chorus, Glanert has created his own Hawkes Music Publishers, branch headquartered in the soundworld for the work: alongside sections of London offices of Imagem UK. overwhelming intensity, there is much translucent recognising her responsibility for all classical music R&H Theatricals Europe will chamber music. The music is stylistically flexible, manage and license a catalogue of over 100 dramatically precise… and it creates both publishing on the Board of musicals, including The Sound of Music, The atmosphere and tension.” Neue Zürcher Zeitung Imagem UK. Joining Boosey & Hawkes in 1980, Janis Susskind learnt the King and I, and White Christmas, throughout “Glanert’s art of allowing the orchestral colours to the UK and across Europe. shimmer is shown here anew. In masterly fashion publishing business from the ground up, he gives choral voice to the planet, from the first becoming a B&H director in 1997 and joining Vivien Goodwin has been appointed stuttering syllable to fully-formed language.” its board as Publishing Director in 2004. She Managing Director of the new R&H division to Badische Zeitung has fostered an international approach to be launched in January 2013. Formerly of the “[Glanert] delivers what is missing in most modern catalogue promotion and has expanded the prestigious licensing house and publishing operas. He is accomplished in the world of the list of contemporary composers with many of firm Samuel French Ltd, where she has been theatre. He has an instinct for the structure of a today’s leading figures.
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