The wild bunch Financial Times We are in the rehearsal room for Oliver Knussen's two one-act operas, Where the Wild Things Are and Higglety Pigglety Pop!, which open the Aldeburgh Festival on June 8 in honour of the composer's 60th birthday. The animals are a bass, baritone and ...
CBSO/Knussen – review The Guardian Oliver Knussen reaches 60 this year, and the British orchestras with whom he regularly works are queuing up to celebrate. The latest in line was the City of Birmingham Symphony for whom Knussen devised a programme that framed his own Whitman Settings ...
Columbia University's Miller Theatre Announces 2012-2013 Season Broadway World Including LE POÈME HARMONIQUE IN “VENEZIA,” on opening night, eight intriguing composer portraits, featuring John Cage, Jonathan Harvey, Olga Neuwirth, Sofia Gubaidulina, Enno Poppe, Rebeecca Saunders, Oliver Knussen and Julio Estrada.
Kirill Gerstein hitting all the right notes Chicago Sun-Times Now 32, Gerstein received an Avery Fisher Career Grant in April of that year and released his first major recording six months later: a solo album that included a newly commissioned composition by Oliver Knussen and works by Franz Liszt and Robert ...
The Opera Librettos of Maurice Sendak Sequenza21 While Sendak's work in opera and ballet has been praised, I don't feel that enough attention has been paid to the two operas he worked on with Oliver Knussen. The first, Where the Wild Things Are, is the best children's opera of our time; the second, ... Maurice Sendak with the Wild Things, now (+video)Christian Science Monitor
Peter Serkin review: A clangorous 'Diabelli' San Francisco Chronicle That ploy proved most telling in the evening's wonderful opening selection, Oliver Knussen's Variations for Piano. Composed for Serkin in 1989, this is a terse, crystalline treatment of a rather gnarled theme, which Knussen pursues in a number of ...
Summer Magic Wall Street Journal Aldeburgh is revving up for next year's Benjamin Britten centenary, as Bayreuth is for Richard Wagner's bicentenary (so we'll give it a miss this "Ring"-less year), but this 65th Aldeburgh Festival marks artist-in-residence Oliver Knussen's 60th ...
Summer Festivals for Classical Music and Opera New York Times Oliver Knussen directs the Festival of Contemporary Music; (888) 266-1200, tanglewood.org. Michigan GREAT LAKES CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL Detroit, June 9-24. Russian composers are in the spotlight, with staged productions of works including Stravinsky's ...
Serkin Gives Union Theater Its Last (for now) Curtain Call Madison Magazine (blog) The entire program, in fact, was a re-creation of a recent performance at the 92nd Street Y in New York; pieces by Oliver Knussen, Toru Takemitsu and Charles Wuorinen were followed by one of the true monuments by Beethoven. Opening the evening was the ...
