| |
News & Reviews |
| |
| ~ CONGRATULATIONS
~ |
|
Three
of the five finalists for the Music Directorship
of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra were students
of Hot Springs Music Festival Director
Richard Rosenberg; as of April 1st,
Philip Mann (2006) has been appointed
to that position, Congratulations
Philip! Richard Naylor (2005)
has been appointed General Manager of the
Virginia Symphony Orchestra. Congratulations
to long-time Festival friend, Hot Springs'
Chuck Dodson on his Grammy
Award Nomination for the Pinetop Perkins album,
On the 88s: Live in Chicago. Mentor
Matthew McClung (percussion) has
been appointed to the faculty of Texas A&M,
Corpus Christi. Michael Wayne (2000)
is now second clarinettist with the Boston
Symphony Orchestra. Rei Hotoda (2005)
has just made her debut conducting the Baltimore
Symphony, and has been named assistant conductor
of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra; her first
commercial piano solo recording has been released
on ITunes; Rei has also just become engaged
to conductor/double bass player, Brian
Dollinger (2005). Festival Mentor
Jared Hauser (oboe) has been
appointed to the faculty of Vanderbilt University.Travis
Jürgens (2009)
been appointed music director of the Philharmonia
of Greater Kansas City. Hilary Scop
has been appointed to the clarinet II chair
of the Austin Symphony. Colin Williams
is now Principal Trombone of the Atlanta Symphony
Orchestra, and recently joined the faculty
at Kennesaw State University. 2010 apprentice,
Gemma New, from Wellington,
New Zealand, was named one of three winners
of the 2010 International Conducting Workshop
and Competition held in January in Macon,
Ga.. Violinist Jenny Grégoire
has been appointed concertmaster of the Mobile
Symphony; her husband, Demondrae Thurman,
whom she met at the Hot Springs Music Festival,
is now on the faculty at the University of
Alabama. HSMF Friend Dave Brubeck
has a new web site: davebrubeck.com--check
it out. Lawrence Loh has
been appointed resident conductor of the Pittsburgh
Symphony Orchestra; now entering his fifth
season as music director of the Northeastern
Pennsylvania Philharmonic, Loh has signed
a five-year extension of his contract, which
now runs through the 2012-13 season. Justin
Odell has been appointed to the clarinet
faculty at Michigan State University. Chester
Pidduck has accepted the position of regular
full time tenor in the San Francisco Opera
Chorus.Conductor Steven Jarvi
has been appointed assistant conductor of
the Kansas City Philharmonic. Juilliard's
Pre-College Division has just welcomed Julien
Benichou as a new faculty member,
he will also conduct the Pre-College Chamber
Orchestra. Mercedes Smith
has been appointed principal flute of both
the Houston Ballet and the Houston Grand Opera
Orchestras. Melita Glass has
accepted an appointment with the Arkansas
Symphony. Kelly Waddle has
been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in composition.
Anthony Taylor ('96, '97)
has been appointed professor of clarinet at
the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced
the appointment of Sean Newhouse
('03) as assistant conductor. Angela
Schnathorst ('97) was appointed principal
oboist of the Great Falls (MT) Symphony. Zita
Blatter ('96) was appointed first
violinist with the Naples Philharmonic. Avlana
Eisenberg ('99) received a Fulbright
Award. Beatrice Affron ('99
Associate) made her debut with the Boston
Opera. Richard Wagor ('97-99),
Claire Storkamp ('00) were
appointed to positions with the Waterloo/Cedar
Falls Symphony in 'blind-screen' auditions.
William Fulton (HSMF Mentor)
appears as a panelist on the Metropolitan
Opera's Opera Quiz, and appears regularly
on the stage of the Met--but only in non-singing
roles. Beverly Everett ('01)
received her Doctorate in Conducting from
University of Iowa, and is now the music director
of the Bismark and the Bemidji Symphonies.
Richard Hawkins (HSMF Mentor)
is now the Clarinet Professorship at Oberlin.
Joan Landry ('97) has been
appointed Assistant Conductor of the North
Carolina SymphonySymphony. Kelly
Corcoran (2000, '01) has been appointed
associate conductor of the Nashville Symphony
Orchestra and has recently appeared as guest
conductor with the Milwaukee Symphony. This
season, Festival Artistic Director Richard
Rosenberg guest conducted the Symphonischen
Akademie Patentorchester München, the
Orquesta Sinfónica Municipal de Caracas
and the Festival Música nas Montanhas
in Brazil--he was also awarded a Yale
University School of Music Alumni Ventures
Grant to support his research into the
works of 19th-century American composer and
pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk in Cuba, including
recovery and editing of two unpublished, never-performed
operas and numerous other works for military
band and orchestra, with the final aim of
publishing, performing and recording them.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Recent
reviews of the Hot Springs Music Festival's recent Naxos
recording: |
| |
| -
Read reviews of the recent HS Music Festival's Naxos
CD, Gottschalk, The Orchestral Works |
|
|
"Some
American Classics CDs are landmark recordings. Nowhere
else, for instance, can you find Louis Moreau Gottschalk's
irresistible Night in the Tropics (1859)
in something like its original version, with Cuban
percussion and supplemental brass in a restoration
by Richard Rosenberg, who leads his Hot Springs Music
Festival Orchestra. (There also exists another reconstruction,
by Gunther Schuller.) This is mandatory American repertoire
whose historical significance is, if anything, exceeded
by its roof-rattling impact."
-
Joseph Horowitz, Symphony Magazine, September/October
2002, Page 45 |
|
 |
|
Excerpt
from: The New York Times -
Arts & Liesure SUNDAY,
JULY 15, 2001 Old Sounds
From the New World By JOSEPH HOROWITZ
".
. .we can newly appreciate the best American composer
of the period and a third New World original: Louis
Moreau Gottschalk. Here, Naxos [CDs] has furnished
the premiere recording of Gottschalk's explosive
orchestral show-stopper, "Night in the Tropics"
(1859), in something like its original version,
with pulsating Cuban percussion and brigades of
gyrating brass (8.559036). Richard Rosenberg
leads the Hot Springs Music Festival Orchestra in
a performance whose "Festa Criolla" rattles
the roof. Few enterprising orchestras have undertaken
comparable megaperformances of "Night in the
Tropics". . .. This is mandatory American repertory."
And,
from the American Symphony Orchestra League's
In The News, July 16, 2001:
In
Sunday's (7/15) New York Times Joseph Horowitz writes
about Naxos American Classics, "a project already
totaling 57 CD's and anticipated to include at least
150 more." A century after Dvorak and conductor
Anton Seidl "confidently anticipated the creation
of an American canon," American classical music,
observes Horowitz, "remains reliant on Old
World cultural parents for its menu of masterpieces.
It remains bedeviled by an ambiguous and uneasy
relationship with jazz, Broadway and other native
popular genres. That Europeans have often taken
the lead in exploring this ill-defined legacy is
a predictable irony." Noting that "the
mastermind of American Classics is Klaus Heymann,
a German based in Hong Kong," Horowitz goes
on to sample a number of releases and notes that
Heymann "hopes to incorporate more American
orchestras. (He has so far signed the Buffalo Philharmonic,
the Florida Philharmonic, the Nashville Symphony
and the Seattle Symphony. What bigger-name
American orchestra will have the courage and vision
to contribute an important recording to this important
series?)"
|
|
| Bravo,
Bravo, Bravo! This note was sent to
Richard Rosenberg on 4 November from John Corigliano,
Oscar-winning composer of The Red Violin soundtrack:
Dear
Richard,
Norman
Ryan sent me a CD of your performances of my Clarinet
Concerto with Richard Hawkins at the Hot Springs Music
Festival and Corpus Christi Symphony.
Bravo,
Bravo, Bravo to you both!! The performances are so
fine - and they truly need both a virtuoso clarinet
and virtuoso maestro.
I
remember meeting you at a concert, but I had no idea
then that you had done such a splendid job with my
music. Please accept my thanks, and, if you could,
convey my congratulations and respect to Mr. Hawkins.
With
admiration,
John
Corigliano |
|
WE
WON!!!!! 
The
National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has
given the
Regional
Emmy Award for BEST PROGRAM FEATURE - CULTURAL
to
The Sound of Dreams
Carole Adornetto, Executive
Producer
Dale Carpenter, Producer/Writer/Videographer/Editor
Arkansas Educational Telecommunications Network
|
|
|
FEED
THE FESTIVAL!
A
project of the Hot Springs Music Festival League
Please
consider hosting a gathering of your friends to benefit
the Hot Springs Music Festival.
Your
gathering may be a dinner, brunch, luncheon, breakfast,
barbecue, basketball party, winter hike and picnic,
car party, Caribbean cruise or any other type of party
your heart desires. You may host any number of friends
you choose... 2, 20 or 200.
How
to do it:
1) select a date and
let the Festival Office know how many invitations
you will need. If you prefer, you may use your own
invitations, providing they indicate that the event
is a fundraiser for the Hot Springs Music Festival.
2) upon receiving
the invitations, fill them out and mail them, being
sure to indicate your name and type of gathering (brunch,
dinner, etc.) in the upper right corner.
3) as you talk with
your guests it is important to let them know that
any amount of donation is appropriate and
welcome. The amount is strictly up to them. (Remember:
donation checks are often best made out on a full
stomach!). All donations of at least $25 for individuals
and $40 for families will entitle donors to membership
in the LEAGUE.
4) you will receive
an addressed return envelope in which to mail the
donations to the Hot Springs Music Festival.
5) in appreciation
for your hosting a Feed the Festival gathering, a
complementary LEAGUE membership will be created in
your name if you're not already a LEAGUE member.
That's all there
is to it!
The LEAGUE greatly
appreciates you for your interest in and support of
the Festival.
Thank
you!
|
|
|
GET
YOUR FESTIVAL CDs NOW!!!
The
eagerly-awaited Hot Springs Music Festival recordings
of Moross, Gottschalk, Lambert and Dédé
are now in record stores worldwide and on all major
CD websites, including Amazon.com. Locally,
they may be purchased at the FYE store at Hot Springs
Mall and at Barnes & Noble in Little Rock. They
also are available for sale at all Hot Springs Music
Festival concerts and the Festival Office.
These recordings have been getting quite a media buzz:
the Gottschalk CD got three five-star ratings (out
of a possible five) from "amazon.com", and
was declared a "must-have" disc by "Classical
CD Now" |
|
NOTES
FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
The
2010 Hot Springs Music Festival season is here, with
its annual smorgasbord of concerts, open rehearsals,
improvisatory play-offs, chamber music promenades,
meet-the-musicians events and pre-concert talks, we
are proud to announce that all of our Festival
venues are air-conditioned and handicapped-accessible!
If you have family or friends who should be receiving
information about the Festival experience, please
call our office at 501.623.4763 and we will be glad
to send them a brochure. Or, encourage them to log
on to this website for the latest in continuously
updated Festival information. |
|
|
|
CALL
FOR VOLUNTEERS!
The time has come once again to get out your calendars
and plan for the Music Festival. The success of the
Festival is due in large part to the volunteers and
the incredible job everyone does to keep all aspects
running smoothly. The concerts and rehearsal schedules
are the main topic I will be addressing during the
month of May. I will begin calling to schedule all
of you interested in participating. If you already
know where you would prefer to help, feel free to
leave a message for me at 623-4763 Thank you for your
past help and in advance for this year. I look forward
to seeing all of you in June. - Anna Antonini |
|
Mr.
Brubeck and Richard Rosenberg at the recording session.
Richard
Rosenberg (Artistic Director) produced tenor
John De Haan's latest compact disc
in January 2004 for Naxos Records. De
Haan (the 2000 Festival's "Willie the
Weeper") recorded fourteen songs by jazz legend
Dave Brubeck. Brubeck participated
in the recording as accompanist on seven of the songs;
Festival mentor Paul Griffith
was recording engineer; and Festival Graphic Designer
Gary Simmons has created the cover artwork. Richard
has also produced an additional Naxos CD of music
by Brubeck and Bach with Aldo Parisot and The Yale
Cellos, as well as two CDs of Mozart Concerti with
Yale School of Music Dean, pianist Robert Blocker.
Pictured
here is Mr. Brubeck with HSMF Executive Director Laura
Rosenberg
and Richard Rosenberg. |
|
|
Things
to do this Spring:
- Renew
LEAGUE membership
- Sign
up as a volunteer
- Feed
the Festival
- Buy
your 2010 Season Pass
- Give
a pass to a friend
- Use
your LEAGUE discount to stock up on HSMF gift
items.
-
Your LEAGUE Newsletter editor
Please
feel free to contact me with questions or suggestions
at:
501.623.4763
e-mail: festival@hotmusic.org |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
