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Video of the Week
Tatar Music
“With my Russian, or rather Tatar background, I feel like I’m strongly attracted to darkness,” the violinist Alina Ibragimova told us in this week’s issue. That made us curious. This video of Tatar music portrays a kind of energetic depth. Also, for the classical concertgoer, there’s something fascinating about the combination of high-level virtuosity and the performers’ indifferent facial expressions.
Audio of the Week
Georgian Prisoners’ Songs
Listening to Tatar music at the office got us talking about Georgian polyphony. From there, we were only a short Soundcloud search away from these gorgeous Georgian Prisoners’ Songs, recorded from 1916–1918.
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Dear concert presenters, are you nervous that your audiences don't want to hear Béla Bartók? Alina Ibragimova doesn't care. ... See MoreSee Less
A Trance
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Alina Ibragimova wants it darker.
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“Anything I might say about the controversy would pour gasoline on the embers,” Alice Goodman told The New York Times recently about her libretto for "The Death of Klinghoffer." She talked to VAN about it anyway. ... See MoreSee Less
Silent Valley
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Alice Goodman defends her libretto to “The Death of Klinghoffer.”
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7 days ago
The composer Amy Williams on Richter, Feldman, structure, and motherhood: ... See MoreSee Less
Shape and Silence
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Amy Williams’s overlapping textures.
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2 weeks ago
The Lucerne Festival wanted to help us understand our fraught political moment. Did it work? ... See MoreSee Less
Nestled
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Addressing the political with the classical at the Lucerne Festival.
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25.09.2017 • 03:00
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