Page 5 - Erwin Schulhoff News Today

The cultural highlights for our region this weekend include chamber music, orchestral music, smooth jazz, improvisation … plus a whole lot more.

The 36th annual Colorado College Summer Music Festival will produce the citys first live orchestra concerts in more than a year. The three-week festival attracts pre-professional musicians from around the

Chamber Music on the Fox to explore the Lost Voices of the Holocaust On Thursday, April 15, Sara Sitzer, co-artistic director for Chamber Music on the Fox, will explore the "Music of Terezin," the Nazi concentration camp for artists during the World War II. Courtesy of Chamber Music on the Fox   Updated 4/12/2021 12:03 PM On Thursday, April 15, Chamber Music on the Fox co-artistic director Sara Sitzer will lead a program on the "Music of Terezin" at 7 p.m. Much of the most powerf...

Czech-born Erwin Schulhoff died of tuberculosis in a concentration camp in Bavaria in 1942; he was 48. His only opera, Flammen (Flames), had been composed between 1923 and 1929, and was first performed in Brno in 1932. Schulhoff’s music was condemned as degenerate by the Nazis, and it was not until the 1990s that Flammen was staged again (in Leipzig), and also recorded in Berlin under John Mauceri for Decca’s Entartete Musik series. The Capriccio set comes from a production in Vienna ...

Mazel tov! The whole shtetl buzzed with the news. Chanka, the butcher’s daughter, was engaged to Yankel, the carpenter’s son.  It was a local match, so the whole town got involved in the wedding preparations. A week before the wedding, Chanka could be found sewing the last few stitches on he…

Brenda Barnes joined the KING FM family as CEO in January 2018, and the rest is history! Barnes holds a bachelor’s degree in music from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and master’s degrees in clarinet performance and musicology from Michigan State University and the University of Notre Dame, respectively. In 2009, she earned a doctorate in planning and development studies from USC. Having spent her career everywhere from a public radio station in Iowa, to WMRA in Virginia, an...

Lisa Westkaemper The DaPonte String Quartet onstage at the Rockport Opera House. Courtesy photo The DaPonte String Quartet is performing a six-part series of online concerts. Part one and two: Beethoven String Quartet No 5 and Schulhoff String Quartet No 1 are now available at  onstage.daponte.org Filmed at the beautiful Rockport Opera House in January 2021, the March 13 concert release was a work by the 20th century Czech composer, Erwin Schulhoff. Schulhoff’s String Quartet No 1 is a powe...

Wed, 03/03/2021 - 1:15pm DaPonte Onstage. (Photo courtesy DaPonte String Quartet) DaPonte String Quartet is releasing videos in increments of a concert filmed earlier this year.  Part one: Beethoven String Quartet No.5 in A Major, is now available at onstage.daponte.org Filmed at Rockport Opera House in January 2021, the March 13 concert release is a work by the 20th century Czech composer, Erwin Schulhoff. Schulhoff’s String Quartet No 1 is a powerful piece with elements of jazz ...

Chamber Music on the Fox to host Artemisia Vocal Trio Feb. 22 The Chicago-based Artemisia Vocal Trio will perform "Sounds Like Us," a virtual concert exploring the power of the female voice on Monday, Feb. 22. Courtesy of Artemisia Vocal Trio   Updated 2/17/2021 10:47 PM The Chamber Music on the Fox season continues with "Sounds Like Us" featuring the Artemisia Vocal Trio on Monday, Feb. 22. The virtual concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. The Chicago-based trio features Diana Lawrenc...

  BARRY, CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? You and I have been friends for almost forty years now. We’ve donned hip waders and walked together in the whitewater of your beloved McKenzie River. We’ve walked the woods and hills of the Goldstream Valley. One snowy afternoon, in the crepuscular winter light, as we hiked up the mountain above Cynthia’s and my house, you told me at length about your idea for a sprawling book that would somehow encompass the whole earth with the same intensity and specificit...