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Forbidden Music Regained : Volume 2
Genre:
Onbekend
The Cursed One : Video opera for the Opera Forward Festival / Tilen Lebar
Genre:
Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre:
Opera
Westerling : een kameropera, 1994-1995 / libretto: Graa Boomsma, Jan Bus
Genre:
Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre:
Opera
Bezetting:
ten bar 2actors GK4 cl(cl-b) perc hp vla
Genre:
Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre:
Opera
Bezetting:
2sopr sopr-m alt 2bar recit fl cl fg sax-t trp trb-b perc pf pf(synth) vl vla vc
compositie
Amorys : Chamber opera in one act / music: Nico Richter; libretto: Hendrik Lindt
Overige auteurs:
Leo Smit Stichting
(Samensteller)
Lindt, Hendrik
(Tekstdichter/librettist)
Richter, Nico
(Componist)
Toelichting:
The series 'Forbidden Music Regained' proudly presents works by composers who were persecuted during the Second World War. Performances of these works were forbidden during the war. Many composers were imprisoned, several did not survive and others went into hiding.
After the war a new generation took over. The pre-war composers were soon forgotten and their compositions remained hidden in closets and archives or fell otherwise into oblivion. In recent decades numerous works have been rediscovered through the efforts of the Leo Smit Foundation. Some scores were found in attics, others in a garden shed and a pile of music was found by young children next to a garbage can. These compositions are of a high quality and deserve to be performed again. The diversity of styles represents the entire spectrum of the first half of the Twentieth century: romanticism, impressionism, modernism, neoclassicism, jazz, and so forth. This project aims to encourage musicians, young and old, from across the globe to perform these compositions, and for concert audiences to (once again) become acquainted with this ‘unheard’ music.