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Jun 2024
Boosey & Hawkes, a Concord company, is delighted to welcome a prominent new figure to its roster of composers: while Matthias Pintscher has already been associated with the company in the past as a conductor of numerous works from its contemporary catalogues, the future collaboration will now focus on his own compositions. The artist is currently working on a major new music theatre project.
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Jun 2024
Decca Records has announced the premiere recording of Karl Jenkins’s concerto Stravaganza, featuring star saxophonist Jess Gillam, coupled with a new symphonic version of one of his most enduring works, Palladio Reimagined. As a highlight of the composer’s 80th birthday year, Stravaganza can also be heard at the BBC Proms, with Jess Gillam joining the BBC National Orchestra of Wales on 12 August.
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Jun 2024
Eighth Blackbird presents the world premiere of Steve Reich’s Two Pianos at New York’s Town Hall. The new score will also be available on www.boosey.com as a digital download.
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Jun 2024
The Carlisle Floyd Centennial—partnering with Houston Grand Opera, Boosey & Hawkes, University of Houston, Florida State University, and South Caroliniana Library—brings together musicians, scholars, and presenters to explore Floyd’s oeuvre leading up to the composer’s 100th anniversary in 2026.
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Jun 2024
Following its first recording last year on Resonus Classics, Ethyl Smyth’s one-act opera Der Wald has also returned to the stage in recent months, in an intriguing double bill at the Wuppertal Opera House coupled with Schoenberg’s Erwartung.
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Jun 2024
Steven Mackey and Tania León are co-curators of Tanglewood’s TMC Festival of Contemporary Music, offering a fascinating slate of new music programming from July 25-29.
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Jun 2024
Musicologist Matthew Mugmon writes a series of essays exploring American themes in classical music. Read about the development of the uniquely American voice in music history, spearheaded by key figures such as Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, and others who brought distinct American sounds and innovative techniques to the genre.
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Jun 2024
Composer Christopher Tin and librettist Susan Soon He Stanton’s new ending for Puccini’s unfinished opera Turandot is praised for its powerful score and satisfying storyline.
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Jun 2024
The new Boosey & Hawkes edition of music by rediscovered Russian composer Leokadiya Kashperova is completed with the publication of her Piano Concerto, dating from 1900, together with a group of vocal scores.
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May 2024
Soirées de Barcelone, Roberto Gerhard’s ballet tribute to his beloved Catalonia returns in its complete form on a Spanish premiere tour by the Joven Orquesta Nacional de Cataluña, including a Barcelona concert at the Palau De Música on 15 July.
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May 2024
Based on the novel by Garth Greenwell, Little’s new opera for tenor and chamber orchestra premieres in September, performed by Karim Sulayman, Alarm Will Sound, and Alan Pierson, in a production directed by Mark Morris.
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May 2024
Emily Dickinson’s poetic fragments provide inspiration for Anna Clyne in her new work The Gorgeous Nothings, premiered at the BBC Proms on 30 July. The performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London features the Swingle Singers and the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Nicholas Collon.
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May 2024
Nonesuch Records releases the premiere recording of John Adams’s opera Girls of the Golden West, featuring the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by the composer.
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May 2024
This summer brings world premieres of two new stageworks by Ondřej Adámek. INES opens at Cologne Opera on 16 June, retelling the Orpheus myth in a post-apocalyptic future, while his new music theatre piece Connection Impossible (Unmögliche Verbindung) is staged for the first time at the Bregenz Festival on 27 July.
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May 2024
The 2024 Edinburgh International Festival opens its concert series in spectacular fashion with La Pasión según San Marcos by Osvaldo Golijov. This powerful and vibrant score offers a unique blend of Latin American, African, European and Hebrew traditions, brought together at the Usher Hall on 3 August.
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May 2024
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) has long been established as one of the most important and performed composers of the 20th century. The 50th anniversary year in 2025 offers the opportunity to explore the wide range of his operas, ballet and incidental music for the stage, both complete in the theatre and as suites in the concert hall.
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May 2024
A compiled list of 2024 summer festival highlights around the United States.
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May 2024
The world premiere of Detlev Glanert’s Vexierbild opens the 2024 Grand Teton Music Festival, led by Sir Donald Runnicles, this June.
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May 2024
As part of his final season at the helm of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits brings Voices from the East to the Royal Festival Hall in London on 19 May. This extraordinary three-concert voyage of discovery introduces symphonic music by composers published by Boosey & Hawkes and Sikorski including Ali-Zadeh, Garayev, Kancheli, Terterian and Lyatoshinsky.
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May 2024
The Royal Opera in London has announced the premiere next season of a new opera by Mark-Anthony Turnage. Festen is based upon the acclaimed film by Thomas Vinterberg and the new stagework sees Turnage working with librettist Lee Child of Billy Elliott fame.
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