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schott aktuell - the journal September / Oktober 2013

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2013

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Hans Werner Henze 1926-2012 Toshi Ichiyanagi 80 Gavin Bryars 70 Henze: Der Prinz von Homburg	The 21st Century Lied Morton Subotnick 80 Joseph Schwantner 70 Charles Ives: Central Park in the Dark	Richard Wagner: New Performance Material György Ligeti 90 Hans Werner Henze: Richard Wagnersche Klavierlieder
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Wall planner for the 2013/14 season  Partch: Delusion of the Fury	Opera of Our Time  In Memoriam: Henri Dutilleux and Steve Martland Paul Hindemith: Sancta Susanna

 
2012

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WAGNER - Dead or Alive? New Composers: Pierre Jalbert, Hannah Lash and Lei Liang Fritz Kreisler: 50th Anniversary of Death Maazel/Wagner: The Ring without Words	HYMNOS New Composer: R. Murray Schafer Carl Orff: 30th Anniversary of Death Karl Amadeus Hartmann: Symphonische Hymnen	SOPRANOS Jean Françaix: 100th Birthday Volker David Kirchner: 70th Birthday Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
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Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Die Soldaten in Salzburg Peter Hanser-Strecker 70 Alexander Goehr 80 Wilhelm Killmayer 85	BIBLICAL JOURNEYS Valentin Silvestrov 75 Conlon Nancarrow 100 Arnold Schönberg: Moses und Aron	Orchestral Tales - Music for Family Concerts Rodion Shchedrin 80 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

2011

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CHORSINFONIK Alexander Goehr in Berlin Celebrating Grainger 2011 Michael Tippett: A Child of Our Time	The Importance of Making Opera Wilfried Hiller 70 Aribert Reimann 75 Carl Orff: Gisei	21st Century Cello Concertos GEMA Music Awards for Henze and Reimann In memoriam Lee Hoiby Nino Rota: Concerto No. 2 per violoncello e orchestra
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MUSIC IN BLOOM Karel Husa 90 Joaquín Rodrigo: Música para un jardín	Stage Animals Howard Shore 65 Nino Rota: Lo scoiattolo in gamba	CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Nino Rota 100 Igor Stravinsky: Concerto in E flat 'Dumbarton Oaks'

2010

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The Tragic Muse in Opera Henze at RUHR.2010 Astoria new with Schott Richard Strauss: Elektra	Cityscapes in Music Dieter Schnebel 80 Jean Guillou 80 George Gershwin: An American in Paris	Love Songs Enjott Schneider 60 György Ligeti: Lontano
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New Percussion Repertoire Mikis Theodorakis 85 Heinrich Sutermeister 100 Toru Takemitsu: From me flows what you call time	Ballets: New Compositions, Choreographer's Favourites, Dance Classics Igor Stravinsky: Scènes de Ballet	PURE ORCHESTRA Alvin Singleton 70 Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Stille und Umkehr

 

2009

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Ad Astra - Space Music Peter Eötvös 65 Frank Zappa new with Schott Paul Hindemith: Symphony "Harmony of the World"	Crime on Stage Bernard Rands 75 In Memoriam Hermann Regner Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird	Shakespeare in Music Heinz Holliger 70 Penderecki at Sounds New Festival Heinrich Sutermeister: Romeo und Julia
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Remember Schumann... 2010 Yoji Yuasa 80 John Casken 60 Robert Schumann: Violin Concerto	Strictly Strings - Repertoire for string orchestra Klaus Doldinger Film scores with Schott Peter Maxwell Davies 75 Michael Tippett: Concerto for double string orchestra	Let´s Celebrate - Music for festive events Henze Project at Ruhr.2010 Preivew 2010 Igor Stravinsky: Feu d'artifice

2008

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New Violin Concertos Gavin Bryars 65 Toshi Ichiyanagi 75 Michael Tippett: Triple Concerto	New Stage Works Obituary Harald Genzmer Obituary Friedrich Zehm Hans Pfitzner: Palestrina	New Brass Concertos Mikis Theodorakis new with Schott John Duffy 80 Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Trumpet Concerto
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Music for Summer Serenades Peter Eötvös in Glyndebourne Howard Shore in Paris Joaquín Rodrigo: Concierto andaluz	Composing America Stewart Wallace: The Bonesetter's Daughter in San Francisco Paul Hindemith: Pittsburgh Symphony	Krzysztof Penderecki 75 String Quartet plus Bohuslav Martinu: Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra

2007

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Japan - New Paths  Jon Lord new with Schott  Morton Subotnick new with Schott  Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Concerto in D major for violin and orchestra	New Orchestral Works  Frankfurt Music Prize 2007 for Peter Eötvös  New Penderecki works with Schott  Igor Strawinsky: Jeu des Cartes	Music and Visual Arts Igor Stravinsky 125 Zurich Festival Prize for Heinz Holliger Paul Hindemith: Mathis der Maler
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Summer Music Festivals Alexander Goehr 75 Wilhelm Killmayer 80 Mstislav Rostropovich Obituary	Film Music in Concert Howard Shore joins Schott Valentin Silvestrov 75 Nino Rota Il Gattopardo	New Music for Young Audiences  Rodion Shchedrin 75  Looking ahead to 2008  Carl Orff: Die Kluge

2006

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New Heights for the Piano  Neue Piano Concertos  Neue Piano Music  Nino Rota: Concerto in mi minore	New on Stage  Aribert Reimann 70  Peteris Vasks 60  Paul Hindemith: Cardillac	New Repertoire for Clarinet  Eulenburg AUDIO + SCORE  The Sound Library  Toru Takemitsu: Fantasma - Cantos
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Hans Werner Henze 80  Summer Festivals  Karel Husa 85  Erwin Schulhoff: Flammen	New Choral Music  Schott&Belaieff co-operation  In memoriam György Ligeti  Carl Orff: Carmina Burana	SEA MUSIC  Fazil Say with Schott  Penderecki Music Centre  Ottmar Gerster: Enoch Arden

2005

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Tippett 100 - The Centenary  Music of Rememberance - 60 Years since WW II  Tobias Picker: Old and Lost Rivers	Music Fair Frankfurt am Main 2005  New sheet music releases  Georges Bizet: Carmen	FRESH FROM THE UK  British Composers  Henri Dutilleux: Ernst-von-Siemens Music Prize  Michael Tippett: King Priam
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Summer Festivals - Hartmann in focus  Theodorakis 80  Karl Amadeus Hartmann: Symphonie Nr.1	Music and Science  Musica Viva DVD Edition  News Peter Maxwell Davies  Jacques Offenbach: Les Contes d’Hoffmann	A fresh Start in America  "An American Tragedy" world premiere at the Met  Kurt Weill: Symphony No. 1

2004

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Henze: Pollicino  Music for young people  Luigi Nono: Il canto sospeso	Wolkenstein & Co.  Historic figures on the opera stage  Werner Egk: Columbus	The flying Dutchman  Complete Editions  M.-A. Turnage: On Opened Ground
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La Dolce Vita  Nino Rota, Bertold Brecht  Kurt Weill: Der Kuhhandel	Remember Mozart  Mozart-Anniversary 2006  Peter Eötvös: Jet Stream	Hindemith’s missing piano concerto  Vocal Music  Toru Takemitsu: Family Tree

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Work of the Week 09/23/2013 Work of the Week - Paul Hindemith / Fazil Say: Sonate (1919) On September 29 two composers are brought together in one work: composer and pianist Fazil Say has reconstructed the piano part of Paul Hindemith’s Sonate for violoncello and piano of 1919. Fazil Say’s new version of ... more 09/13/2013 Andrew Norman's Unstuck with the Alabama Symphony Kicking off its new season this month, the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, under the music direction of Justin Brown, gives a performance of Andrew Norman’s brilliant orchestral showpiece  Unstuck  on September 12. Paired with works by Schubert and Mahler,  Unstuck  receives a repeat ... more 09/13/2013 Gavin Bryars's Marilyn Forever Premieres with Aventa Ensemble On September 13, the Aventa Ensemble presents the world premiere of Gavin Bryars’s latest work for the lyric stage,  Marilyn Forever . Commissioned by Aventa and with a libretto by Marilyn Bowering, the opera is based on aspects of the life of actress Marilyn Monroe. Eivør Pálsdóttir stars ... more 09/13/2013 Pierre Jalbert's Transcendental Windows at Oberlin Timothy Weiss leads the Oberlin Sinfonietta this month in a performance of Pierre Jalbert’s  Transcendental Windows . Composed in 2000 for David Alan Miller and the Albany Symphony, the piece is comprised of nine continuous sections, each of which is titled after a different aspect or technique ... more 09/13/2013 Bernard Rands's Chains Like the Sea and Henri Dutilleux's Le temps l'horloge at UC Berkeley The University of California at Berkeley Department of Music hosts Bernard Rands as visiting composer in September. On September 27, Rands presents a colloquium on his music, followed by a performance of his orchestral work  Chains Like the Sea , by the University of California at Berkeley ... more 09/13/2013 Tobias Picker's Dolores Claiborne Premieres at San Francisco Opera Dolores Claiborne , Tobias Picker’s highly anticipated new opera, receives its world premiere this month at the San Francisco Opera. Based on the novel by Stephen King,  Dolores Claiborne  was commissioned by San Francisco Opera by arrangement with Andrew Welch and features a libretto ... more 09/13/2013 Detroit Symphony Orchestra presents the World Premiere of Xiaogang Ye's Twilight of the Himalayas On September 22, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra presents a portrait concert featuring the music of Xiaogang Ye, including the world premiere of his new cantata,  Twilight of the Himalayas, op. 68 . The program, led by conductor Yongyan Hu, also includes the US premieres of both  The Last ... more 08/29/2013 schott aktuell - the journal 5/2013 online OPERA OF OUR TIME This autumn, four operas by our composers will see their World Premières: Gavin Bryars’ chamber opera Marilyn Forever on September 13 in Victoria, Canada; Tobias Picker’s Dolores Claiborne on September 18 in San Fransisco; and in Vienna, Peter Eötvös’ Paradise Reloaded ... more 08/28/2013 Gramophone Awards for Eötvös, Ligeti, Dutilleux discs Three Schott composers are among the winners of the 2013 Gramophone Awards. Recordings of music by Henri Dutilleux ( Correspondances, Deutsche Grammophon), György Ligeti and Peter Eötvös ( Bartók/Eötvös/Ligeti Violin Concertos, Naïve) were selected in the Contemporary and Concerto categories respectively. ... more 08/22/2013 Hosokawa's "Klage" in Salzburg with Anna Prohaska Renowned soprano Anna Prohaska will sing the solo part of Klage  ("Lament") by Toshio Hosokawa, his first composition for soprano and orchestra. The new piece will be premiered at the Salzburg Festival on 25. August with the NHK Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Charles ... more 08/02/2013 Goehr featured at Festival Messiaen in France This summer's Festival Messiaen au Pays de la Meije, set in Alpine France, explores contemporary British music alongside works by Messiaen, with Alexander Goehr as a featured composer. The festival was founded in 1998 in a region of France from which Messiaen drew inspiration for many of his works. ... more 07/24/2013 Tristan and Isolde: The Tristan Chord 'Tristan and Isolde' (WP 1865) is one of the greatest love stories ever told. Aside from the legendary ‘Quest for the Holy Grail’ and the ‘Knights of the Round Table’ of King Arthur’s era (of which stories Tristan’s is linked), the tragic union of the two lovers is one of the most frequently ... more 07/19/2013 Maxwell Davies Lecture on New Music As part of the New Music Insight Lectures at the Institute of Musical Research, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies - Schott composer and Master of the Queen's Music - discusses the changing face of 'new' music. Universally acknowledged as one of the foremost composers of our time, Maxwell Davies ... more 07/03/2013 Stanislaw Skrowaczewski at 90 On October 3, 2013, the international music community celebrates the 90th birthday of renowned composer-conductor Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. The creative output of this accomplished artist includes distinguished orchestral works and an impressive array of chamber compositions.  Skrowaczewski's ... more 07/03/2013 Lucerne Festival Features Composer-in-Residence Chaya Czernowin As composer-in-residence at the 2013 Lucerne Festival, Chaya Czernowin is honored by several orchestral and chamber performances throughout the summer, including two world premieres and a new production of her chamber opera, Pnima… Inwards . At the fringe of our gaze , for orchestra and concertino ... more 07/03/2013 Kenneth Hesketh Featured Artist at Bowdoin International Music Festival Bowdoin College’s International Music Festival welcomes Schott composer Kenneth Hesketh as Guest Artist this summer. Hesketh will engage with students of the Bowdoin Festival’s summer study program where the composer will also see performances of his Notte oscura for chamber orchestra and A Land ... more 07/03/2013 Marin Alsop Leads Andrew Norman’s Unstuck at Cabrillo Festival; BMOP Records Play Andrew Norman’s thrilling orchestral work Unstuck makes its way to the west coast this summer for a performance at the Cabrillo Festival led by Marin Alsop. Unstuck opens Cabrillo’s program on August 10, its kinetic energy and swirling soundscape a surefire way to engage audiences in an evening ... more 07/03/2013 Gerard Schwarz and the Eastern Music Festival Present Robert Beaser’s Ground “O” On July 6, the Eastern Music Festival (Greensboro, NC) and Music Director Gerard Schwarz present Robert Beaser’s Ground “O .” Premiered in 2011, Ground “O” was commissioned by the Seattle Symphony as part of its Gund/Simonyi Farewell Commissioning program for Gerard Schwarz’s final season with ... more 07/03/2013 Lincoln Center Festival Presents New York Premiere of Toshio Hosokawa’s Matsukaze Fresh off its US premiere performances at Spoleto Festival USA, Toshio Hosokawa’s opera Matsukaze opens at the Lincoln Center Festival on July 18. The Spoleto Festival’s production, directed by Chen Shi-Zheng, travels to Lincoln Center for the New York premiere led by conductor John Kennedy and ... more 06/27/2013 World Premiere of John Casken's Mag and Nunc On 30 June 2013, John Casken’s Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis will receive its world premiere at Durham Cathedral by organist Francesca Massey and the Durham Cathedral Choir, conducted by James Lancelot. Casken wrote his Mag and Nunc in celebration of the return of the Lindisfarne Gospels ... more 06/06/2013 MIF Announces Steve Martland Tribute Concert Manchester International Festival has announced a special tribute concert to the life and works of composer Steve Martland (1954-2013) on 14 July 2013. Martland, who had been commissioned for the 2015 Festival, had a longstanding relationship with MIF. To honor his achievements in the cutting-edge ... more 06/03/2013 Tributes to Steve Martland (1954-2013) "… I must have had all kinds of experiences with him about how to be critical in music, which is a very difficult and strange word, because we both were … outspoken… left-wing or even anarchist is probably better. And I think that this is philosophically speaking probably a very difficult ... more 05/28/2013 György Ligeti 90 Africa, ars subtilior, Nancarrow and fractals: these are far more than mere influences and are in fact affinities which have been inherent in my music since I began developing complex musical structures in the middle of the 1950s. This was György Ligeti’s reflection of his ... more 05/22/2013 Henri Dutilleux (1916–2013) Master of magical narrative power On the occasion of the death of the composer Henri Dutilleux The international music world has lost one of its major figures with the death of Henri Dutilleux. The French composer Henri Dutilleux, born in Angers in 1916, created a personal and distinctive ... more 05/15/2013 Gerald Barry Wins 2013 RPS Award We are delighted to announce that Gerald Barry's The Importance of Being Earnest has won the 2013 RPS Music Award for Large-Scale Composition. Barry's audacious operatic approach to Oscar Wilde's masterpiece triumphantly confounds all expectations. As Barry describes it: 'The play's bones ... more 05/15/2013 World Premiere of Pierre Jalbert's Ultraviolet On May 19, the Hoff-Barthelson School presents the premiere of Pierre Jalbert's new work for ensemble, Ultraviolet , in Scarsdale, NY. Performed by Jered McInerney, violin; Emma Berry, clarinet; Issei Herr, cello; Charlotte Hill, piano, the work is performed as part of the school's 24th annual ... more 05/15/2013 Gavin Bryars in Residence at Canberra International Music Festival Th­­e 19th annual Canberra International Music Festival features the music of Composer-in-Residence Gavin Bryars, May 10-19. Hosted by the Australian National University School of Music, the festival presents selections from Bryars’s  Second Book of Madrigals  as well as  The Porazzi ... more 05/15/2013 Bernard Rands's Concertino & Ceremonial in Performances in Oberlin, Rochester, and Toronto In anticipation of the composer's 80th birthday year in 2014, performances of Bernard Rands’s music continue to dot this season’s calendar around the country. This month Timothy Weiss leads the Oberlin Sinfonietta in a performance of Rands Concertino for oboe and ensemble, featuring Oberlin faculty ... more 05/15/2013 The Opera San Antonio Presents Inaugural Gala Concert Featuring the Music of Tobias Picker; Miller Theatre Presents the Tobias Picker Ensemble In honor of its impending grand opening in 2015, The Opera San Antonio hosts an inaugural gala concert on May 23 at the Majestic Theatre in San Antonio, featuring performances from Tobias Picker’s An American Tragedy . Tobias Picker, Artistic Director of The Opera San Antonio, has curated a ... more 05/15/2013 Boston Modern Orchestra Project Debuts Andrew Norman’s Play Fresh off his most recent premiere with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Andrew Norman switches coasts this month for the world premiere of his newest orchestral work for the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), conducted by Gil Rose. On May 17, BMOP premieres Play , a new work for chamber ... more 05/07/2013 Steve Martland (1959–2013) We are very sad to announce that Steve Martland, one of the outstanding voices in British music since the mid-eighties, died in his sleep on the night of 6 May 2013.  He was born on 10 October 1959 in Liverpool and studied composition in Holland with Louis Andriessen. His lifetime preoccupation ... more