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Mendelssohn On Mull Festival
The Mendelssohn on Mull Festival is an annual festival of chamber music. It is held at various venues on the Scottish islands of Mull and Iona and the surrounding area. The festival was founded in 1988 by Leonard Friedman. Since Friedman's death it has been directed by Levon Chilingirian (2003–2016) and the Doric String Quartet (from 2018). Since 2019, the festival has been held in September. Name The festival takes its name from a visit by the composer Felix Mendelssohn to Scotland in 1829. Although only twenty years old, Mendelssohn was already an established composer and conductor. The natural beauty of Scotland and its rich history of fact and fable delighted the young composer and inspired his Hebrides overture and Symphony No. 3, ''Scottish''. Mendelssohn stayed in Tobermory on Mull en route to Staffa where he visited Fingal's Cave. The concert overture known both as ''The Hebrides'' and as ''Fingal's Cave'' was composed shortly after his visit, and was originall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tobermory - Geograph
Tobermory may refer to: Places * Tobermory, Mull, the chief town of the Isle of Mull in Scotland ** Tobermory (whisky distillery) *** Tobermory Single Malt Scotch whisky ** Tobermory High School * Tobermory, Ontario, a town on the Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada ** Tobermory Airport Other * Tobermory, the name of one of the Wombles * "Tobermory", a 1911 short story by Saki about a cat of the same name, part of ''The Chronicles of Clovis'' See also * * Tobermorite, a calcium silicate hydrate mineral found on Mull, Scotland {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Mendelssohn
Fanny Mendelssohn (14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847) was a German composer and pianist of the early Romantic era who was also known as Fanny (Cäcilie) Mendelssohn Bartholdy and, after her marriage, Fanny Hensel (as well as Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel). Her compositions include a piano trio, a piano quartet, an orchestral overture, four cantatas, more than 125 pieces for the piano, and over 250 lieder, most of which went unpublished in her lifetime. Although praised for her piano technique, she rarely gave public performances outside her family circle. She grew up in Berlin and received a thorough musical education from teachers including her mother, as well as the composers Ludwig Berger and Carl Friedrich Zelter. Her younger brother Felix Mendelssohn, also a composer and pianist, shared the same education and the two developed a close relationship. Due to her family's reservations, and to social conventions of the time about the roles of women, six of her songs were published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Festivals Established In 1988
Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect of all human societies, a cultural universal. While scholars agree that music is defined by a few specific elements, there is no consensus on their precise definitions. The creation of music is commonly divided into musical composition, musical improvisation, and musical performance, though the topic itself extends into academic disciplines, criticism, philosophy, and psychology. Music may be performed or improvised using a vast range of instruments, including the human voice. In some musical contexts, a performance or composition may be to some extent improvised. For instance, in Hindustani classical music, the performer plays spontaneously while following a partially defined structure and using characteristic motifs. In modal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chamber Music Festivals
Chamber or the chamber may refer to: In government and organizations *Chamber of commerce, an organization of business owners to promote commercial interests *Legislative chamber, in politics *Debate chamber, the space or room that houses deliberative assemblies such as legislatures, parliaments, or councils. In media and entertainment *Chamber (comics), a Marvel Comics superhero associated with the X-Men *Chamber music, a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber *The Chamber (game show), ''The Chamber'' (game show), a short-lived game show on FOX *The Chamber (novel), ''The Chamber'' (novel), a suspense novel by John Grisham **The Chamber (1996 film), ''The Chamber'' (1996 film), based on the novel *The Chamber (2016 film), ''The Chamber'' (2016 film), a survival film directed by Ben Parker * , a musical ensemble from Frankfurt, Germany-based around vocalist/guitarist Marcus Testory Other *Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classical Music Festivals In Scotland
Classical may refer to: European antiquity *Classical antiquity, a period of history from roughly the 7th or 8th century B.C.E. to the 5th century C.E. centered on the Mediterranean Sea *Classical architecture, architecture derived from Greek and Roman architecture of classical antiquity *Classical mythology, the body of myths from the ancient Greeks and Romans *Classical tradition, the reception of classical Greco-Roman antiquity by later cultures *Classics, study of the language and culture of classical antiquity, particularly its literature *Classicism, a high regard for classical antiquity in the arts Music and arts *Classical ballet, the most formal of the ballet styles *Classical music, a variety of Western musical styles from the 9th century to the present *Classical guitar, a common type of acoustic guitar *Classical Hollywood cinema, a visual and sound style in the American film industry between 1927 and 1963 * Classical Indian dance, various codified art forms whose theo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chandos Records
Chandos Records is a British independent classical music recording company based in Colchester. It was founded in 1979 by Brian Couzens. Background Chandos Records arose from a band music publisher Chandos Music, founded in 1963, and Chandos Productions, a record production company which produced LPs for Classics for Pleasure, and, especially, RCA Records, RCA's work in the UK. Its first record was Bloch's Sacred Service (ABR1001). Important early recordings were made with Mariss Jansons, Nigel Kennedy and the King's Singers – before they moved to bigger contracts with EMI.Anderson C. "Thirty years of Chandos. Ralph and Brian Couzens talk about th ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
String Quartets (Mendelssohn)
This is a list of compositions by Felix Mendelssohn. Listed by opus number (Note: the list includes works which were published posthumously and given opus numbers after the composer's death. Only the opus numbers 1 to 72 were assigned by Mendelssohn, the later ones by publishers. The opus number sequence does not therefore always accord with the order of composition). The list also includes the Mendelssohn-Werkverzeichnis classification code (MWV). Works with opus number assigned by Mendelssohn Op. 1–20 * Op. 1, Piano Quartet No. 1 (Mendelssohn), Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor (1822) (MWV Q 11) * Op. 2, Piano Quartet No. 2 (Mendelssohn), Piano Quartet No. 2 in F minor (1823) (MWV Q 13) * Op. 3, Piano Quartet No. 3 (Mendelssohn), Piano Quartet No. 3 in B minor (1824/25) (MWV Q 17) * Op. 4, Violin Sonata, Op. 4 (Mendelssohn), Violin Sonata (No. 2) in F minor (1823) (MWV Q 12) * Op. 5, Capriccio in F-sharp minor for piano (1825) (MWV U 50) * Op. 6, Piano Sonata No. 1 (Mendelssohn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Strad
''The Strad'' is a UK-based monthly classical music magazine about string instrumentsprincipally the violin, viola, cello and double bassfor amateur and professional musicians. Founded in 1889, the magazine provides information, photographs and reviews of instruments, related feature articles and news, and information about concerts. The magazine offers practical advice on technique, profiles of leading performers, and information on master classes and the craft of instrument makers such as luthiers. It also includes articles about orchestras and music schools. The magazine's name references the common abbreviation for the famous 17th18th-century Stradivarius family of luthiers and their coveted and valuable instruments. ''The Strad's'' first issue was released in June 1890. It is now edited by Emma Baker and owned by Newsquest Specialist Media Limited, a Gannett Gannett Co., Inc. () is an American mass media holding company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, in the Washingto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Herald (Glasgow)
''The Herald'' is a Scottish broadsheet newspaper founded in 1783. ''The Herald'' is the longest running national newspaper in the world and is the eighth oldest daily paper in the world. The title was simplified from ''The Glasgow Herald'' in 1992. Following the closure of the ''Sunday Herald'', the ''Herald on Sunday'' was launched as a Sunday edition on 9 September 2018. History Founding The newspaper was founded by an Edinburgh-born printer called John Mennons in January 1783 as a weekly publication called the ''Glasgow Advertiser''. Mennons' first edition had a global scoop: news of the treaties of Versailles reached Mennons via the Lord Provost of Glasgow just as he was putting the paper together. War had ended with the American colonies, he revealed. ''The Herald'', therefore, is as old as the United States of America, give or take an hour or two. The story was, however, only carried on the back page. Mennons, using the larger of two fonts available to him, put it in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalie Wheen
Natalie Wheen (born 1947) is an English writer and radio broadcasting, radio presenter, broadcasting on the BBC and on Classic FM (UK), Classic FM. Wheen, born in Shanghai, was a presenter of BBC Radio 4's arts programme ''Kaleidoscope (UK radio series), Kaleidoscope'' and BBC Radio 3, Radio 3's evening sequence ''Mainly for Pleasure'' (subsequently ''In Tune''). Quentin Letts described her as "the combative Natalie Wheen, one of the BBC's best-known (and deeper) voices." She broadcast on Classic FM (UK), Classic FM between 1999 and 2012. On her debut there, ''The Guardian'' described her as "someone with a compendious knowledge of classical music, allied to a camp irreverence. ... Wheen's tongue is famously withering ... With her rattling pace and deep, warm voice, this is a clever appointment." One ''Sunday Times'' journalist described her as "breathy and bubbly"; another described her as "posher than a dowager duchess", and considered her axing "inexplicable". In 1994, Wheen wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, the paper's main news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scotsman
''The Scotsman'' is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh. First established as a radical political paper in 1817, it began daily publication in 1855 and remained a broadsheet until August 2004. Its parent company, JPIMedia, also publishes the ''Edinburgh Evening News''. It had an audited print circulation of 16,349 for July to December 2018. Its website, Scotsman.com, had an average of 138,000 unique visitors a day as of 2017. The title celebrated its bicentenary on 25 January 2017. History ''The Scotsman'' was launched in 1817 as a liberal weekly newspaper by lawyer William Ritchie and customs official Charles Maclaren in response to the "unblushing subservience" of competing newspapers to the Edinburgh establishment. The paper was pledged to "impartiality, firmness and independence". After the abolition of newspaper stamp tax in Scotland in 1855, ''The Scotsman'' was relaunched as a daily newspaper priced at 1d and a circul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
