Archive for January, 2011
Interview With Violinist Markus Placci
Posted by admin in Maestro Amadeus on January 16, 2011
In 2007, Music Director and Conductor Lawrence Isaacson recognized a need to bring quality orchestral music to the Massachusetts Neponset Valley area and a year later, the Neponset Valley Philharmonic Orchestra (NVPO)made its debut. With 50 musicians on stage, the NVPO performed its inaugural concert for a sold-out group of classical music patrons at Patriot Placein Foxboro, Massachusetts on Sunday, October 5th.
The 400 guests attending the NVPO premier were treated to familiar pieces and from where I sat, it was obvious that the audience was thrilled to be a part of this great debut.
Was Mozart Murdered?
Posted by admin in Maestro Amadeus on January 16, 2011
Inspired by the film AMADEUS, many people have heard the rumor that the great Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart may have been murdered in 1791.
Here are some curious facts about Mozart’s final days that are not well known, and which completely contradict the theory that Mozart was poisoned by rival composer Antonio Salieri.
It is rumored that Mozart was having an affair with Magdalena Hofdemel, a beautiful young piano student into whose home Mozart had been invited many times to play chamber music. They were family friends
Gustavo Dudamel – El Maestro
Posted by admin in Maestro Amadeus on January 16, 2011
Gustavo Dudamel is the new musical director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and it seems to be a marriage made in musical heaven. In one of the most populous Latino cities in the United States, it only makes sense that one of its top classical stars would be a young man from a lower middle class beginning from Barquisimeto, Venezuela.
Dudamel wasn’t quite known as a child prodigy, but he comes from a musical background. His father was a violinist and his mother a voice teacher, so he had music in his household early in life. He didn’t start playing an instrument until he was 10 years old, which is considered aged when talking about most prodigies, but he turned out to be very good, enough so that only a couple of years later he was enrolled into the Jacinto Lara Conservatory, where he studied violin with Jose Luis Jiminez. After that he went to study with Jose Francisco del Castillo at the Latin American Violin Academy.