Posts Tagged ‘Keith Horner’
On the Trail of . . . Ralph Vaughan Williams (part one)
September 4, 2018
“19 villagers. 3 smallholders. 12 slaves. 1 priest.” Those were the residents of the lovely Cotswold village of Down Ampney, as recorded in the Domesday Book of 1066. That priest’s successor (with a switch from priest to vicar after Henry VIII’s say in such matters) was the father of Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958). […]
2018 | Uncategorized | Tags: All Saints Church, Come down, Down Ampney, Keith Horner, Linden Lea, O love divine, Rev'd Arthur Charles Vaughan Williams, The Lark Ascending, Vaughan Williams, Vaughan Williams 60th anniversary, Vaughan Williams birthplace
On the trail of . . . Beethoven in Heiligenstadt (with audio)
September 11, 2016
Does any composer have more plaques, statues, museums or memorial sites than Ludwig van Beethoven? Top of the list are the 12 museums and memorial sites spread over five countries. Vienna has a quarter of them. The city is also decorated with many of the more shadowy ‘Beethoven lived here’ and ‘site of the dwelling of . […]
2016 | Quartets Series | Tags: Beethoven, Beethovenhaus, deafness, despair, Heiligenstadt Testament, Keith Horner, last will, No. 6 Probusgasse, suicide
On the trail of . . . Edvard Grieg in Bergen
September 7, 2014
When Janina Fialkowska performs a selection of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces for MusicTORONTO October 28, she continues to champion the cause of a composer who remains his country’s most widely known cultural export, more than a century after his death. For Norway today, as it continues to preserve and discover a cultural identity outside mainstream Europe […]
2014 | Piano Series | Tags: Edvard Grieg, Fialkowska, Keith Horner, Lyric Pieces, Nina Grieg, radio documentary
Mendelssohn’s Octet – an athlete sets the bar high
October 13, 2013
When the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemble brings the Mendelssohn Octet to MusicTORONTO at the end of the month, we’ll be treated to a work that has been at the heart of the ensemble’s repertoire since they were founded almost a half-century ago. It’s music they have played more frequently than any other work […]
2013 | Quartets Series | Tags: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemble, ben more, dunollie castle, Gartenhaus, Keith Horner, Leipzigerstrasse 3, mendelssohn, music toronto, octet for strings, Op. 20
Only 88 hammers on the piano, you say? Pity!
January 12, 2013
When Marc-André Hamelin brings his latest delicious, over-the-top, home-baked treat to MusicTORONTO, the confection will be iced with enough piano-insider jokes to give a pianist’s fingers cavities. Hamelin will venture where few living pianists dare to venture and none can quite bring off with the Montreal-born pianist’s deadpan nonchalance – and chops! Hamelin’s 10-minute take […]