Chorus pro Musica concert Sunday features Old South Church organ Nov 6, 2009
s Requiem, Zoltn Kodly s Laudes Organi, and Johannes Brahms s motet Geistliches Lied, opus 30. Organist Ross Wood, who has performed with the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops, will get the pipes going (all 6,950 of them. (Boston Globe)
Donate food, enjoy band, symphony Oct 31, 2009
The Casper College Concert Band will be in concert in Durham Hall in the Aley Fine Arts Center at 3 p.m. The concert will feature music from Leonard Bernstein, Johannes Brahms, Gustav Holst, Nicoli Rimsky-Korsakoff and Claude T. Smith. Doug Bull is the conductor. (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)
Belmont Media Center Notes Oct 24, 2009
The Paratores: Variations on a Theme & Sonata Anthony and Joseph Paratore perform two pieces by Johannes Brahms: Variations on a Theme and Sonata. Tune in on Channels 9/29 at 7 p.m. on Saturday, 9 p.m. Sunday and 4 p.m. Monday. (Belmont Citizen Herald, MA)
Casper briefs Oct 23, 2009
The concert will feature music from Leonard Bernstein, Johannes Brahms, Gustav Holst, Nicoli Rimsky-Korsakoff and Claude T. Smith. The concert is free and open to the public. (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)
Violinist Joshua Bell gives charity concert for Jewish History Museum in Poland Oct 22, 2009
Bell helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars with a concert of Johannes Brahms' music in which he played the violin concerto in D major, applauded by the full house in a standing ovation. He agreed to play in this "Music for a Beautiful World" concert on a request from a New York philanthropist Sigmund A. Rolat, who was born in Czestochowa, Poland, and is now spearheading fundraising for the museum in the U.S. Bell was accompanied by the Opera House orchestra, directed by Israeli conductor... (FOX61, CT)
A sly salute to Haydn via Schubert, Brahms Oct 20, 2009
26 Piano Quartet of Johannes Brahms, featuring all four players, was, at least on the surface, more hospitable chamber-music comforts, but, like Haydn, its geniality is hardly naive. The group s sound - a dark, Rembrandt-like varnish - suited the rhetoric, in which even the most seemingly clear-cut statements tend to blur into shadow and storm. (Boston Globe)
Brahms' 'Lullaby' Well-Known In Alegent Hospitals Oct 15, 2009
-- An area hospital organization has a tradition of playing Johannes Brahms' Lullaby throughout its hospitals every time a baby is born. A company director for Alegent said the music has a morale-boosting effect on patients and staff alike. (7 KETV Omaha)
EIU Choral Ensembles to perform Oct 2, 2009
92 by Johannes Brahms, Ziegeunerleben by Schumann, and Zion s Walls by Copland. Rossi, now in his 10th season as EIU s director of choral activities, wrote two of the program s pieces: Ave Verum Corpus and Stabat Mater. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Youth brings excitement, drama to Symphony Sep 30, 2009
In the second half, the orchestra offered up Johannes Brahms' Hungarian Dances, Richard Strauss' Dance of the Seven Veils and Johann Strauss Jr.'s Emperor Waltzes. While the first and the last were fine, the Dance of the Seven Veils had parts that seemed a bit ragged. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Hospice Friends reaches service milestone Sep 13, 2009
advertisement The trio will focus on the music of Camille Saint-Saens, Pablo Sarasate and Johannes Brahms. Hospice Friends, actually into its 26th year, also plans to offer a free ice cream and cake dessert reception immediately after the Monday concert. (Ellensburg Daily Record, WA)
Red Rocks Music Festival Aug 25, 2009
The festival features the music of Bedrich Smetana, Johannes Brahms and Claude Debussy. And, in a nod to the bicentennial of Mendelssohn's birth, there will be two performances of his magnificent Octet in E-flat Major, written when he was 16. (AZCentral -- Travel)
Country profile: Germany Aug 3, 2009
As the birthplace of Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms, among others, Germany's gift to European classical music is colossal while Goethe, Nietzsche, Kant and Brecht are giants in the world of letters and philosophy. Facts. (BBC News -- Europe)
* Cinema was the other church to me Jul 15, 2009
In town for the Taipei Film Festival, German director Helma Sanders-Brahms talks about her fondness for Taiwan, her frustrating experiences with filmmaking in Germany and how she finally came around to liking Johannes Brahms music ... The 69-year-old German director jokingly called her visit to Taipei the last stop, after Shanghai and Tokyo, of her Asian tour to promote her new film Beloved Clare, about the love triangle between Clara Schumann, her husband Robert Schumann and the much younger... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Chamber music series to begin in September Jul 11, 2009
Nov. 8: Three s Company, violin-piano romances and duets by Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann, with violinist Nancy Oliveros and pianist Mary Ellen Haupert. Feb. 20: Glorious Thunderstorm, with Artaria String Quartet and Haupert. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Lake band to perform on weekend Jul 9, 2009
Hungarian Dance, No.5, Johannes Brahms. Sleigh Ride, Leroy Anderson. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
In Haydn commemorative year it's - mostly Mozart Jun 1, 2009
And his skull was studied after his death in attempts to ascertain the origins of musical genius, with German composer Johannes Brahms placing it on his desk for inspiration while composing. Little of that fame is now palpable on a casual tour of the Graben shopping district. (AZCentral -- News)
* OTHER RELEASES May 8, 2009
The strange relationship between composers Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms is the focus of this German-language film. Like the Beethoven yarn Immortal Beloved, this biopic prefers to treat its gifted subjects with the utmost respect, which is why it cant be as entertaining as Amadeus or any of Ken Russells composer movies. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Claws on ivory May 2, 2009
The "German Requiem" of Johannes Brahms wraps up the Anchorage Symphony's season at 8 p.m. Saturday night. The orchestra will be joined on the Atwood Concert Hall stage by the Anchorage Concert Chorus, the Alaska Chamber Singers and visiting solo vocalists for what many choristers tell me is their very favorite piece of music. (Anchorage Daily News)
Outgoing director has led Winona Symphony Orchestra and its audience through tremendous growth Apr 30, 2009
Serenade No. 2 by Johannes Brahms. Dovetail Overture by Robert Muczynski; this is the very first piece Vance conducted for the Winona Symphony Orchestra and will also be his last. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Ein Deutches Requiem Apr 4, 2009
According to ninth-year Juneau Symphony orchestra conductor Kyle Wiley Pickett, Johannes Brahms' German Requiem technically isn't a requiem at all ... According to ninth-year Juneau Symphony orchestra conductor Kyle Wiley Pickett, Johannes Brahms' German Requiem technically isn't a requiem at all. (Juneau Empire)
U2 performs before 1,000 Mar 13, 2009
SHOWCASE :: Erie's Entertainment Web Site. Comedian Sinbad to perform at Jr.'s Last Laugh from May 28-30. (Erie Times-News, PA)
WVC Orchestra gives ‘Noteworthy’ performances Mar 13, 2009
Featured on the program will be Ludwig van Beethoven s Coriolan Overture, Felix Mendelssohn s 1st Piano Concerto, Franz Schubert s Unfinished Symphony, and Johannes Brahms Tragic Overture. The WVCO, conducted by Music Director Sean Paul Mills, is a volunteer, community-based orchestra. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Things to do, Feb. 20-26 Feb 20, 2009
Concert focuses on Brahms 7:30 p.m. Saturday / McDonald Hall Atrium at Fresno Pacific University, 1717 S. Chestnut Ave. / $10; $7 seniors and students / (559) 453-2267 Fresno Pacific University's premier concert series features a quartet performance of Johannes Brahms' "Liebeslieder Walzer, Opus 52." (The term "Liebeslieder Walzer" in English translates to "lovesong waltzes."). The vocalists are Melinda Ramos (soprano), Krista Moore (mezzo soprano), Aaron Bryan (tenor) and Tony Funk (baritone). (Fresno Bee)
Kish Symphony Orchestra announces Montzka winner Feb 19, 2009
81; by Johannes Brahms, ;Concerto No. 5 in A Minor, Op. 37; by Henri Vieuxtemps with Kevin Hu and ;Symphony No. 3; (;Eroica;) by Ludwig van Beethoven. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Orchestras to perform at Luther Feb 8, 2009
Under the direction of Spencer Martin, Luther associate professor of music, the Dorian Festival Philharmonia Orchestra performance will include Capriol Suite by Peter Warlock, Hungarian Dance No. 4 by Johannes Brahms, arrangement by Merle Isaac, Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 by Bach, arrangement by Isaac, and It Don t Mean a Thing (If it Ain t Got That Swing) by Duke Ellington, arrangement by Robert Longfield. Under the direction of guest conductor Scott Hosfeld of Malibu, Calif. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
