the genocidal terrorism that the State of Israel has
been exercising against the Palestinian People.
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Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751) was an Italian Baroque composer, who was born and died in Venice . Known in his time for his operas, nowadays his popularity comes from his instrumental music, especially from his famous Adagio , which it seems was not written by him but was composed in 1945 by the Italian musicologist Remo Giazotto based on fragments of a sonata for strings and organ by Albinoni . In contrast to the composers of his time, he never sought a position in the Church or at Court , since he supported himself with his own resources and was in love with his own independence. The son of a wealthy family, he studied singing and violin and composed about 50 operas and abundant instrumental music; mainly sonatas for solo and trio and concertos for oboe and violin.
The oboe (French: hautbois, meaning "high or sharp wood") is a woodwind instrument with a conical bore and sound produced by the vibration of a double reed that acts as a conduit for the air breathed into the air. Its timbre is characterized by a penetrating, biting, and somewhat nasal sound, sweet and very expressive. Known since ancient times, the instrument has evolved over time and space; it is currently constructed in three parts: the head, or upper body , where the left hand is placed and the double reed is inserted; the middle part, or lower body , where the right hand is placed; and the bell, or pavilion , which is the widened extension of the lower part.
Today we offer the third movement of Albinoni 's Oboe Concerto, Op. 9, No. 2, with soloist Amy Roberts.
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) was born in Nelahozeves , then Bohemia , now the Czech Republic , and is considered one of the great masters of the second half of the 19th century and a leading exponent of Czech nationalism. Between 1892 and 1895, Dvořák was director of the National Conservatory in New York ; from his arrival in the USA he showed a great interest in Native American music. In April 1895 he left the United States and returned permanently to his homeland, where he resumed his work as a professor at the Conservatory. Throughout his life he wrote music for piano, violin and piano, trios, quartets, quintets, a sextet, two series of Slavic dances, serenades, suites, overtures, three rhapsodies, five symphonic poems, nine symphonies, several concertos, 100 songs and vocal duets, and several operas. His New World Symphony is a well-known work and its themes have been widely used in popular music.
Catalogue of Dvořák 's works . His works are classified by their Opus number (from the Latin opus 'work'; op. abbreviation), which is a term used in music to catalogue the works of most composers since the 17th century .
The Slavonic Dances are a set of 16 dances written for orchestra, although originally for piano four hands, and published in two groups. He wrote them at the request of his publisher and was inspired by Brahms 's Hungarian Dances , although with notable differences; while Brahms uses Hungarian folk melodies, Dvorak uses only the rhythms of Slavic folk music.
Last week we were able to watch Slavic Dance No. 1 , while today we offer No. 2 in a performance by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Uruguayan maestro José Serebrier .
Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) was a French cellist and composer of German origin who converted to Catholicism in order to marry the Catholic Herminia de Alcain . He began his musical studies with his father, a music teacher; at the age of 14 his family moved to Paris where he continued his studies with Cherubini . In 1855 he founded the Bouffes Parisiens theatre, where he staged his own works, which reflect the joie de vivre of his time. He also presented entertaining adaptations of other musical geniuses such as G. Rossini . His German ancestry earned him enemies after the Franco-Prussian War; enemies that he ironically reflected in his operettas. A leading exponent of French operetta (he wrote hundreds of them), his remains rest in the Montmartre Cemetery.
The Tales of Hoffmann is an opera with music by Jacques Offenbach and a French libretto by Jules Barbier , based on three stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann . It premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 10 February 1881 . It is an opera that responds to the composer's desire to enter the world of Grand Opera . A highly inspired work, it effectively combines fantastic, sentimental, supernatural, satirical and grotesque aspects and remains a standard in the world operatic repertoire even in the 21st century , but the aria that managed to transcend the traditional setting is by far the Barcarolle for soprano and mezzo, performed in Act III and offered today by two eminent artists such as the Russian soprano Ana Netrebko and the Latvian mezzo Elīna Garanča .
Carl Zöllner (1800-1860) was a German composer and choir director. After studying at the Thomasschule zu Leipzig , he began teaching singing and writing choral songs and organ pieces. Today we feature his most popular work, The Menu , a humorous song about an excellent restaurant menu.
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Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) was an Italian Baroque violinist and composer. Born in Fusignano (province of Ravenna), he studied violin in his hometown from childhood. In 1666, he traveled to Bologna , where he studied with Giovanni Benvenuti and Leonardo Brugnoli . Five years later, he settled in Rome , where he achieved extraordinary fame as a violinist, while also perfecting his compositional technique. By 1700, he was already first violinist and director of concerts at the Chancellery Palace , and in 1706 he entered the Arcadia Academy . Today he is considered one of the greatest precursors of the preclassical sonata and the quintessential representative of the concerto grosso . His music exerted a great influence on German composers, especially Bach and Handel .
Catalogue of Corelli's works . His works are classified by their Opus number (from the Latin opus 'work'; op. abbreviation), which is a term used in music to catalogue the works of most composers since the 17th century . (11-8-24) (18-5-25)
The concerto grosso (plural: concerti grossi ) was a Baroque instrumental form of Italian origin based on the contrast between a small group of soloists ( concertino ) and a full orchestra ( ripieno or tutti ). The concerto grosso dates from around 1670 and can be attributed to Alessandro Stradella , who appears to have written the first musical work in which a "concertino" and a "ripieno" characteristically play off each other, although he did not use the term concerto grosso . Giovanni Lorenzo Gregori was the first composer to use the term concerto grosso , and Arcangelo Corelli its main exponent.
From the latter, precisely, today we offer his Concerto Grosso Opus 6 No. 10 for two violins and cello with Carmen Mª Vázquez, Julio Imbert and Alberto García as soloists.
Marianne von Martinez (1744, Vienna –1812, Vienna), baptized as Anna Catharina , also called Nanette Martinez , was an Austrian composer, singer and keyboard player, whose Spanish surname is due to her paternal grandfather. She was a disciple of Joseph Haydn , who called her "the little Spanish woman" and probably the most cited composer of her time; it was she who took on a large scale the musical forms of her time and stretched them beyond what was once thought to be the abilities of a woman.
Marianne 's parents settled in Vienna between 1729 and 1732 and from a young age she began taking keyboard lessons with Joseph Haydn , singing with Nicola Porpora and composition lessons with Johann Adolph Hasse and the imperial court composer Giuseppe Bonno . Given her precocious talent Marianne Martínez performed for the imperial court from childhood and as an adult she was requested to perform on many occasions by Empress Maria Theresa . Martínez wrote some secular cantatas and two oratorios with Italian texts written by her friend Metastasio . Among the compositions that have survived to this day are four masses, six motets, two oratorios, a collection of cantatas, three sonatas, a keyboard concerto and a symphony.
Today we offer Psalm 109, Dixit Dominus , set to music for soloists, choir and orchestra by Marianna von Martinez and performed by Athene Mok (soprano), Kyrsten Chambers-Jones (mezzo-soprano), Eastman Repertory Singers with their chamber orchestra, all conducted by American maestro Joseph Taff .
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) was a Russian composer who graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory and wrote works in a variety of musical genres, although his greatest success was achieved with his ballets. Unfortunately, his personal life was plagued by continuous personal crises from the age of 14, when his mother died, and also as a result of his repressed homosexuality, which forced him into a marriage that only lasted a few months. He wrote more than 150 compositions, including piano works, quartets, suites, symphonies, concertos, chorales, cantatas, operas, and ballets. He died at the age of 53 and is considered one of the greatest composers in history.
The Slavic March is an orchestral composition written in honor of the Serbian soldiers, considered brothers to the Russian people, killed by the invading Turkish army. It begins (0:09) as a funeral march, describing the oppression suffered through the use of Serbian songs; the second section (3:38), which begins with a rural melody and continues with the Russian national anthem, describes Russia's aid to its brother people; the third section (7:28) mentions the dispatch of Russian volunteer soldiers who will fight to defeat the tyrant.
Today it is offered to us by the Municipal Music Band of A Coruña, conducted by its principal director, Maestro Andrés Valero-Castells .
Leo Brouwer (Havana, March 1, 1939), is a Cuban composer, guitarist and conductor. He is the grandson of Ernestina Lecuona de Brouwer , great-nephew of Ernesto Lecuona and cousin of Margarita Lecuona . He began playing guitar at the age of 13, attracted by the flamenco sound and motivated by his father Juan Brouwer , who was a doctor and amateur guitarist. He gave his first recital at the age of 17, although by this time his compositions had already begun to attract attention. He has held more than three hundred international artistic and academic distinctions, including: the "Manuel de Falla" Award (1998); the Title Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of the Arts (ISA) in Havana and from the University of Santiago de Chile ; two Latin Grammys , etc., etc.
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, unlike the piano, which is struck by a percussion string , or the violin, which is bowed . After centuries of evolution, the current guitar is made up of a sound box with a large hole or soundhole at the top, a neck with six strings running from the bridge to the headstock , whose tuning pegs are used to tune the strings; the neck is covered by a piece of wood, the fingerboard , divided into frets that divide the strings into half tones. The origin of the guitar dates back to 1000 BC, when the Assyrians already had plucked string instruments with a sound box. The six-string guitar was introduced in the 18th century by Jacob Otto , with its current tuning.
Today we present Leo Brouwer 's Toronto Concerto No. 4 for guitar and orchestra , performed by Colombian guitarist Juan Samacá , accompanied by The Side by Side Orchestra, made up of members of the SFCM (San Francisco Conservatory of Music) and SF Ballet Orchestras, conducted by British maestro Martin West .
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Lalo Schifrin (1932) is an Argentine pianist, composer, arranger and conductor. He is known for having composed multiple soundtracks for films and television series, especially the main theme for Mission: Impossible . Throughout his career, he has received six Grammy Awards , a Cable ACE Award , six Academy Award nominations and four Emmy Award nominations; he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame . The Argentine composer was honored with an honorary Oscar in November 2018, in recognition of his successful career.
Miku Hatsune known mostly as Hatsune Miku or simply Miku , is a virtual singer for the tuner developed by Yamaha , VOCALOID2, VOCALOID3 and VOCALOID4, as well as for the program developed by Crypton Future Media , Piapro Studio . Her image, of a 16-year-old moe anthropomorphism girl, comes to be considered and personified as one of the most famous Japanese virtual idols worldwide, developed by Crypton Future Media with the voice of seiyuu Saki Fujita for the second version of the VOCALOID voice synthesizer program. For Hatsune Miku 's sixth anniversary, she gained the ability to sing in English (later to be updated with improved English) thanks to her Hatsune Miku V3 English voice bank and an update, Hatsune Miku V3, was revealed and released on September 27, 2011, which includes her original voice banks and improved Append libraries.
Andy y Lucas is a Spanish duo made up of singers Andrés Morales (1982) and Lucas González (1982), two Cádiz natives who have been friends since childhood. In 2003 they released their first album with music from genres as diverse as pop, disco and flamenco . In 2018 they launched their own music label A&L . In November 2023, after more than 20 years together, the duo announced that they were separating due to Lucas 's health problems. The singer suffers from cardiovascular problems and, on doctor's advice, will have to slow down his work rate; the separation will take place between April and May 2025.
Marta Gómez (1978) is a Colombian composer and singer. She sang in the Belalcázar High School choir at the age of 4. She then moved to Bogotá and in 1999 enrolled at the Berklee College of Music in Boston , where she received the Alex Ulanowsky composition award and graduated with honors. In 2005, the Colombian magazine Fucsia ranked Marta Gómez among the five most representative Colombian artists of the year; she was also nominated for best artist in the Latin jazz category at the Billboard Latin Music Awards . She has lived in Barcelona since 2009.
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Riverdance is a famous theatrical show of traditional Irish music and dance created by musician and composer Bill Whelan that has toured the world on several occasions. The original idea was to cover the interval of the Eurovision Song Contest 1994 held in Dublin . The show lasted 8 minutes and was initially called Riverdance for Rwanda , with the aim of raising funds for the victims of the Rwandan Genocide . The ovation received at the festival was immense. Shortly afterwards, the production couple, John McColgan and Moya Doherty , brought the show to the stage on 9 February 1995 in Dublin . Since then, the show has been presented in 450 venues around the world and has been seen by over 25 million people, becoming one of the most successful dance productions worldwide.
The Viennese waltz (German: Wiener Walzer ) is a dance style within ballroom dancing ; it is a rotational dance where the dancers constantly turn to the right of the leader (natural) or to the left (reverse), interspersed with non-rotating change steps to reverse the direction of rotation. A true Viennese waltz consists only of turns and change steps. Furthermore, in a properly danced Viennese waltz , partners do not pass, but instead continually turn from left to right while traveling counterclockwise around the floor, following one another.
Wiener Blut (Viennese Blood) is an operetta in three acts with music by Johann Strauss Jr. It is named after Johann 's waltz of the same name, as the original waltz, " Viennese Blood ", was so popular that his work was chosen as the title of the operetta set around the time of the Congress of Vienna in 1814–15.
Godalet Dantza, along with the Bralea jumping dance , is the most important performance of the masquerades (carnivals) of Zuberoa (Soule, in French); it is said that it was the people of Barkoxe who created this dance. In ancient times, the Zuberoa masquerades were held in the morning; after the performance, the masquerade actors would gather in the town square to enjoy the food they had been given throughout the morning. Our elders assure us that it was during these gatherings that the Godalet Dantza was created. As a game, one of the young people would begin to dance around a glass or godalet and perform the steps of the dance they knew. The other dantzaris followed, and in this way, the game became a dance and ended up spreading throughout Zuberoa . (Extracted from Auñamendi Eusko Entziklopedia)
Elai Alai Dantza Taldea is a Basque dance group founded in Portugalete , Bizkaia, in 1962. Since then, the group's personality and prestige have been consolidated both within the Basque Country and beyond, thanks to a quiet but constant effort to recover, preserve, and expand the rich Basque folklore. Today, they offer this carefully crafted choreography by Godalet Dantza .
Mexican regional dance aspires to be linked to tradition, the struggle for the revaluation, preservation, and enrichment of national culture, and the belief that dance not only teaches technique and steps, but also teaches a way of life, a worldview, and the development of a sense of aesthetics and beauty, as well as a connection with other arts, with the aim of enhancing the capacities, abilities, and skills of future dancers. It also serves to express feelings, emotions, and experiences throughout life and revive ancient traditions and rituals. It also serves to celebrate important occasions in the country's towns, neighborhoods, families, and cities.
The Igor Moiseyev Ballet is a company born from the heart of Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre and is currently one of the world's great ballet companies; a company that successfully combines the spontaneity of popular dance with the academicism of classical ballet. The Zapateo Suite presented today is a good example of this.
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