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→http://www.jivanduduk.com/ ⇒
•→ songlines.co.uk//a-beginners-guide/djivan-gasparyan ⇐
♦ Djivan Gasparyan ↓ ‘Eshkhemed’ ←
♦ ‘I Will Not Be Sad In This World’ ⇓
∞ Father & son ⇒
¤ Erkan Oğur & Djivan Gasparyan ↓ [‘Fuad’ – 2001]
∇ ‘Yemen’ ⇓
Havada bulut yok, bu […]
◊ → Yair Dalal – ‘Al Ol’ ↓ Live in the desert
♦ → Yair Dalal with Jaffa Road ↓ ‘Perfume Road Love Song’ [2010]
∇ ‘Imidiwan’ ⇓
∇ ‘Sastanàqqàm’ ⇓
•→ Live performance at 2004 Womad […]
◊ ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ ↓ Monsoon [1982] • Sheila Chandra: Vocals; • Steve Coe: Piano, Percussion & Backing Vocals • Martin Smith: Guitars, Indian Percussion & Backing Vocals; • Bill Nelson: Guitars & Bass; • David Balfe: Keyboards; • Merrick: Drums & Keyboards; • Dinesh: Tabla; • Preston Hayman: Gamalan
Turn off your […]
The flamenco guitar differs from the classical guitar in the instrument itself and in the technique used to play it. The role of the guitar in flamenco was originally a rhythmic accompaniment to give the song an organized structure and a driving force. Today however the solo flamenco guitarist uses […]
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Hailing from southern Spain’s outcast populations, flamenco dance and music drew early influences from Greek and Roman and later from Indian, Moorish, and Jewish cultures. With the arrival of the Moorish and Jewish populations to the Iberian peninsula centuries ago, Andalusia’s already thriving music and dance inadvertently […]
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¤ An anthem of Hungarian Beas Roma ⇓ ‘ Zöld az erdő’←
The wood is green, so is the hill. Luck comes and goes. The knife of worries cuts into our flesh, The world has gone hypocrite. The whole world is our enemy, We live as […]
¶ Music from The Balkans: Serbia – Bulgaria – Greece …
•→Divna Ljubojevic & Melody u Kijevu [Byzantine Orthodox music]⇐
«Divna» means «wonderful» in English… Her voice certainly lives up to her name!
•→Divna Ljubojević & Hor «Melodi» Pashalni koncert⇐
The Serbian diva with […]
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Peter Grimes is an opera by Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), with a libretto adapted by Montagu Slater from the Peter Grimes section of George Crabbe’s poem The Borough. The «borough» of the opera is a fictional village which shares some similarities with Crabbe’s, and later Britten’s, own home […]
Benjamin Britten‘s comic opera which is gently laced with moments of face, is a jocular parody on life in East Suffolk at the turn of the 20th century. It is a quaint, nostalgic journey to a bygone England and the journey has come full circle back to Glyndebourne where this […]
Death in Venice is an opera in two acts by Benjamin Britten, his last. The opera is based on the novella Death in Venice by Thomas Mann. Myfanwy Piper wrote the English libretto ↔
Death in Venice was composed during a time of great physical and psychological stress for Britten: aware that he was in urgent need of major heart surgery, […]
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Dido and Aeneas is an opera in a prologue and three acts, written by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell with a libretto by Nahum Tate. The first known performance was at Josias Priest’s girls’ school in London no later than the summer of 1688.
mayo 29th, 2014 | Tags: vid, England | Category: opera ♩ |
A semi-opera in five acts with music by Henry Purcell and a libretto by John Dryden. It was first performed at the Queen’s Theatre, Dorset Garden, London, in late May or early June 1691.
The plot is based on the battles between King Arthur’s Britons and the Saxons, […]
Semele (HWV 58) is a 1743 opera (initially presented as an oratorio) in three acts by George Frideric Handel. It is based on the classical myth of Semele, mother of Dionysus.
• SYNOPSIS OF SEMELE [GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL]
Traditional Setting: Roman Mythic Times
The marriage of Semele to Athamas is being celebrated in Thebes. Semele seeks to postpone […]
Vanessa is an opera in three (originally four) acts by Samuel Barber with an original English libretto by Gian-Carlo Menotti. It was composed in 1956–1957 and was first performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on January 15, 1958 under the baton of Dimitri Mitropoulos in a production designed by Cecil Beaton and directed by Menotti. Barber revised the opera in 1964, […]
The Tender Land is an opera with music by Aaron Copland (1900-1990) and libretto by Horace Everett, a pseudonym for Erik Johns. The opera tells of a farm family in the Midwest of the United States. Copland was inspired to write this opera after viewing the Depression-era photographs of Walker […]
¤ The Rake’s Progress [excerpt]
Premiered in Vienna in 1951, The Rake’s Progress is one of the few modern operas that has a permanent place in the repertories of most contemporary opera companies. The Rake’s Progress is a masterpiece by two towering figures of the 20th century: the Russian-born composer Igor Stravinsky and […]
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¤ Tannhäuser ⇓
Overture by Gilbert Levine ⇑
ACT I. Medieval Germany. In the Venusberg, magical mountain abode of Venus, the minstrel Tannhäuser halfheartedly praises the goddess of beauty, who for more than a year has bestowed her love upon him. Venus promises greater […]
¤ Gene Krupa has often been considered to be the first drum «soloist.» Drummers usually had been strictly time-keepers or noisemakers, but Krupa interacted with the other musicians and introduced the extended drum solo into jazz. His goal was to support the other musicians while creating his own role within […]
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