Tag: Karlheinz Stockhausen
'Darmstadt International Summer Course Celebrated as Avant-Garde Stronghold
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'The U.S. Premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s 21-Hour 'Klang' Cycle
The U.S. premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s ambitious, multi-hour song cycle, 'Klang: Die 24 Stunden des Tages' took place at The Metropolitan Museum of Art last week, using three of The Met’s locations for the performance. -
'EXCLUSIVE: Kurt Gottschalk's Orchestral Dispatches from Ostrava Days 2015
While the biannual Ostrava Days in the Czech Republic features, primarily, a wide array of post-1950 solo and small ensemble pieces, it is, at its heart, a symphonic endeavor--founded and curated by Czech composer/conductor Petr Kotik. Over the course of nine expansive nights in August, running this year from the 21st to the 29th, the festival hosted three different orchestras, and all three together on the first night. The Ostrava-based Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra and resident ensemble Ostravská Banda did plenty of heavy lifting over the course of the fest, with the Miners Band from Stonava (a brass group from that nearby town in coal-mining Moravia) joining them on opening night.
