by Taylor Hollyer | Mar 28, 2018 | News
Born in Magdeburg, Germany in 1923, Pressler fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and emigrated to Israel. Pressler’s world renowned career was launched after he was awarded first prize at the Debussy International Piano Competition in San Francisco in 1946. This was followed by...
by Taylor Hollyer | Mar 28, 2018 | News
Shostakovich was only 26 when he completed Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District(1934). The opera featured a racy plot set to avant-garde music and premiered to critical and popular acclaim. Two years later, three different productions were running in Moscow. Then...
by Taylor Hollyer | Feb 26, 2018 | News
We’re packing the stage with three choirs, two soloists and more than 100 outstanding musicians for our biggest and boldest concert ever – Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2. “Our 20th anniversary is a huge cause for celebration,” Scott...
by Taylor Hollyer | Feb 26, 2018 | News
Within its span of an hour and a half, Mahler’s Second Symphony conveys pretty much everything that is essential to understanding his brave conception of the symphony as a genre. Here we have the immense scale Mahler was intent on harnessing, represented by not only...
by Taylor Hollyer | Jan 29, 2018 | News
2017 Grammy Award-Winning Zuill Bailey grew up in Northern Virginia, where he was influenced and inspired by Rostropovich, who was then Director of the National Symphony. His parents are musicians; his mother is a pianist and his father has a Doctorate in both music...
by Taylor Hollyer | Jan 29, 2018 | News
More than a decade after the Enigma Variations were composed, Elgar reflectively stated in 1911 that the variations started “in a spirit of humour, and continued in deep seriousness.” The story goes that after a long, grueling day of teaching, Elgar returned home and...
