“The aching music may remain one of Mexico’s top cultural exports, by which the country is known worldwide, but its fortunes have fallen in its homeland.” A new school in Mexico City may change that.
Tag: 10.27.12
Star On The Football Field Bursts Into Song, And Success At The Met
Keith Miller was training “for a workout with the Denver Broncos, when he saw a flier announcing an open opera audition for the Pine Mountain Music Festival in Michigan. On a whim, he showed up.”
Hey Guest Conductors: Don’t Harsh-Tweet Your Guest City
Detroit didn’t particularly appreciate this: “Fine orchestra. Managed to walk to a restaurant without a hint of being murdered.”
Using Digital Graffiti To Make Virtual Human City Guides
“Anybody can overlay digital text, video and graphics onto the physical world for others to see later. Most major cities are teeming with these digital annotations.”
Composer Hans Werner Henze, 86
“[He] was a major figure in the music of the past half-century and the leading German composer of the post-1945 era; but he was often at odds with his native country politically and aesthetically. … At one time a strict adherent to the serial technique of composition, he later abandoned it. Declaring his belief in melody, he was regarded by the avant-garde as a traitor to the cause.”