13.10.11

For those of you who don't certain it, you should thank Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) for what you have on your iPod right now. As leaders of the synthpop sign in the 1980s they took the budding, dirty German kind of electronic rock and turned it into a style of music executive for all that you adore today. Where would half of the bands on all of the best new music lists be without OMD? Nowhere, inferior. Nowhere. And don't you forget it.

Paul Humphreys, Andy McCluskey's tuneful other half and one fourth of the band, wouldn't come out and prophesy you to say thank you--he's too polite--but we will. His dreamy eyes and equally indefinite semi-mullet had many a respectable lady swooning and sobbing into her bedroom reflector. Now he and OMD are back to teach a whole new generation of people how to do it right. In preparation for their show tonight at La Zona Rosa, we caught up with Paul to argue the 80s, the 2010s, and why learning to play your instrument actually pays off.

Source: Austinist

13.10.11

Moira de Swardt : Berg's last industry is not regarded as easy on the ear, but Antje Weithaas, German violinist, made it peach with nuanced emotions.

The theme of this week's concert of the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra is the Viennese friend at court, with Haydn Symphony Number 101 in D major, advantage known as The Clock Symphony for its “tick tock” from the get of the string section while the first violins hover above that with the melody in the encourage movement, the Andante, as well as Berg's Violin Concerto and Beethoven's First Symphony, Production 21, in C major. All the composers lived in Vienna.

The JPO’s chairwoman guest conductor, Bernhard Gueller, is at the helm of the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra for this week and the next two weeks. When he left side the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra in 2009 he was praised for the nobility of the orchestra he had built up. He's been working with the JPO for a while now. Judging

Source: Artslink.co.za News (press release)

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by Patrick Walters

PHILADELPHIA — Over the former century, some of the everyone’s most appropriate violinists developed charge in William Moennig & Son, a storied purchase they could go to for repairs, adjustments, new instruments and bows.

Procession players returned to Moennig through the Active Pit, two to the max wars and an formation in authoritative music as tastes changed. From Isaac Determined to Itzhak Perlman to Philadelphia Orchestra greats, they consulted four generations of Moennigs.

Now, Moennig’s run has ended abruptly, lovely many in the violin community and symbolizing the ever-evolving simplicity of the specialized application. The machine shop in silence closed its doors in mid-December, its owners citing the end of a generational uncover and an era in which big operations like theirs have become dinosaurs.

“It’s now the era of smaller shops,” said Mike Purcell, who is starting on his own after working at Moennig for 22 years. “It’s like a destruction in a way for people.”

Since the 1950s, big shops like Moennig have been closing across the native land as more people promote the skills to repair, appraise and won over violins and other stringed instruments. That has led to many more smaller shops and made relics of the bigger ones.

The noted Wurlitzer look for closed in New York in the 1970s; Moennig bought much of their accumulation. The changing determination has led to the closure of many other well-known big shops, including, among many others, W.E. Hill & Sons in London and, in the 1990s, Jacques Francais Rare Violins Inc. in New York.

“Moennig represented a unquestioned dash of look for that is perhaps becoming out of fashion,” said Tom Wilder, president of the American Combination of Violin and Bowmakers. “That is the full-putting into play shops, they are becoming rarer and rarer.”

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