Classical
Russian Conductor Vasily Petrenko Says Orchestras “React Better” to Male Conductors
Swingin’ on the Gallows Pole: Harlots, Hugs and Haupstimme in Schoenberg's "Galgenlied" [TRANSLATION]
With a metrical duration of 13 measures (plus an anacrusis) and an overall existence of slightly less than 20 seconds, "Galgenlied"--the 12th of Arnold Schoenberg's 'Dreimal Sieben Gedichte' from the minor Belgian Symbolist Albert Giraud's '50 Rondels Bergamaques'--is the shortest, most concise movement of the former's 1912 melodrama 'Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21.' Ravinia Festival Presents the Midwest Première of John Adams' 'The Gospel According to the Other Mary'
Chicago's Ravinia Festival presents the midwest première of John Adams' oratorio 'The Gospel According to the Other Mary' on September 7.
