José Pedro Magalhães posted an article on Hauptwerk - Music and sound - Mar 28, 2010, 10:35 am
A few days ago I visited the museum De Pont in Tilburg, the Netherlands. I was expecting a small private museum with a correspondingly small collection, but I was surprised. Not only was De Pont not small at all, it housed a very broad and interesting collection, together with an exhibition on Sophi...
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José Pedro Magalhães posted an article on Hauptwerk - Music and sound - Mar 17, 2010, 5:01 pm
I wrote the following post as guest writer for thatsound: It is common to draw a thick line between the classical music and the rest. For starters, let us clarify what the rest is. In its broadest definition, I'll call the rest pop music, as short for popular music. This refers to music for the mass...
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José Pedro Magalhães posted an article on Hauptwerk - Music and sound - Mar 11, 2010, 3:40 pm
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José Pedro Magalhães posted an article on Hauptwerk - Music and sound - Mar 8, 2010, 8:06 am
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José Pedro Magalhães posted an article on Hauptwerk - Music and sound - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Et les jantes des quatre roues étaient remplies d'yeux tout autour. Car l'Espirit de l'être vivant était dans les roues. Olivier Messiaen's work, particularly for the organ, is mostly of Catholic inspiration. The sentence above is from the book of Ezekiel, and inspired the work I'll talk about. I...
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José Pedro Magalhães posted an article on Hauptwerk - Music and sound - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
On this day, 100 years ago, Olivier Messiaen was born. Make sure to read today's Wikipedia featured article about the composer. You can also listen to a great Messiaen organ piece in Alex Ross's post about the same matter. I also intend to post later this month something about his La Nativité du Se...
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José Pedro Magalhães posted an article on Hauptwerk - Music and sound - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
As promised before, I’m bringing you a work by Messiaen appropriate to this time of the year. La Nativité du Seigneur, written in the year of 1935, is the first of Messiaen’s cycle-works for the organ, and one of the most well-known. Albeit an early work, it already possesses Messiaen’s disti...
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José Pedro Magalhães posted an article on Hauptwerk - Music and sound - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Yesterday I attended an evening concert at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. The program, performed by Ensemble Ulysses, was as follows: Stravinsky - L'histoire du soldat, petite suite Adès - Court Studies from The Tempest Schönberg - Kammersymphonie nr. 1, op. 9 Adès - Catch, op. 4 Crumb - Vox bal...
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José Pedro Magalhães posted an article on Hauptwerk - Music and sound - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Last Saturday I attended a concert by the Ensemble Intercontemporain at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam: Pierre Boulez - Incises Elliott Carter - Clarinet Concerto Pierre Boulez - Sur Incises Hideki Nagano, piano Jérôme Comte, clarinet Ensemble Intercontemporain Pierre Boulez, dirigent Pierre Boule...
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José Pedro Magalhães posted an article on Hauptwerk - Music and sound - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Last Saturday I attended Thomas Adès's The Tempest at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. The performance was in charge of: Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Large Radio Choir Markus Stenz, conductor Patricia Risley, soprano Simon Keenlyside, baritone Cyndia Sieden, soprano William Ferguson, tenor Greg Warr...
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José Pedro Magalhães posted an article on Hauptwerk - Music and sound - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Writing about Yves Klein's Monotone Symphony is, of course, just an excuse to mention his amazing artwork. Yves Klein, born in 28 April 1928 in France, was a revolutionary, short-lived artist more known for his monochromes. He developed and patented his own color, International Klein Blue (IKB, and ...
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José Pedro Magalhães posted an article on Hauptwerk - Music and sound - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
This Hauptwerk needs a change in direction. Not that I'm unhappy with its content—I'm just unhappy with how often I manage to update it. At the same time, however, I often find myself wanting to write about other things and having no platform where to express such musings. Often I've wanted to wri...
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José Pedro Magalhães posted an article on Hauptwerk - Music and sound - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Last February I visited De Heer Kocken, a restaurant in Vught, close to Den Bosch, in the Netherlands. This was my first visit to a Michelin-starred restaurant (one star), and hopefully the first of many :-) The location is not ideal as there is no parking space adjacent to the restaurant, but it wa...
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José Pedro Magalhães posted an article on Hauptwerk - Music and sound - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
I was delighted to hear that Richard Rijnvos was awarded the Buma Toonzetters Award for his superb NY Concerto. Quoting from the prize website: Toonzetters is a new event organized by Buma Cultuur, Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ and Music Center the Netherlands. During the day, works by composers who have...
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