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Django's Caravan: The Journey Of The Gypsy King, Patrick Ray Monson May 2013

Django's Caravan: The Journey Of The Gypsy King, Patrick Ray Monson

Music

The life and musical contribution of Django Reinhardt including musical and visual examples.


Commonality And Diversity In Recordings Of Beethoven’S Middle-Period String Quartets, Nancy November Mar 2013

Commonality And Diversity In Recordings Of Beethoven’S Middle-Period String Quartets, Nancy November

Performance Practice Review

A widespread opinion in recent research about the performance of Beethoven’s works is that artists need to restore a connection to "tradition," and that recordings from the early twentieth century can help with this. However, these early recordings tell us most about the aesthetics and performance ideals of their day, and hence how Beethoven and his string quartets were received by early twentieth-century audiences. Case studies of early recordings of Beethoven middle-period quartets reveal ways in which these these performances differed, sometimes radically, from the kinds of performances Beethoven would have expected to hear, especially with regard to the use …


Unearthing Forgotten Treasures: Anonymous Arias With Obbligato Violoncello At The Estense Library, Modena, Alessandro Sanguineti Mar 2013

Unearthing Forgotten Treasures: Anonymous Arias With Obbligato Violoncello At The Estense Library, Modena, Alessandro Sanguineti

Performance Practice Review

Recent studies regarding the first steps of the violoncello in North Italy at the end of the seventeenth century have been concentrating on the vast musical output collected by Francesco II, Duke of Modena, now held at the Biblioteca Estense Universitaria. Nonetheless, there is still a conspicuous number of anonymous manuscripts copied in Modena at the end of the seventeenth century containing opera arias which include several examples with obbligato violoncello. A connection has been made with one of these collections and a particular performance of L’Ercole Trionfante in Piacenza in 1688 with music by the composer and organist Bernardo …


New York City, Argentine Duos For Violin And Piano. January 15, 2013, Oscar E. Macchioni Jan 2013

New York City, Argentine Duos For Violin And Piano. January 15, 2013, Oscar E. Macchioni

Oscar Macchioni

Sponsored by the Argentine Consulate in New York City, presented a collaborative recital with Dr. Mark Schuppener. Works performed: Floro Ugarte "Sonata" Carlos Guastavino "Rosita Iglesias" Astor Piazzolla "Ave Maria," "Milonga del Angel," "Libertango"