This 2006 Mode release of music by Stefan Wolpe is a significant survey of compositions from the 1930s, when he was among the most important European musicians to settle and work in Jerusalem. Even though much of his time was occupied with teaching composition and theory at the Palestine Conservatoire and directing choral performances, Wolpe found ...
Stefan Wolpe was a composer who cut a Zelig-like path through the early twentieth century. Starting out in Ferruccio Busoni's master class, he ended up pounding piano in Weimar-era cabarets, fled to Palestine, and then to America, where he turned up at Black Mountain College in time to impact the work of John Cage and Morton Feldman. In the 1960s, ...
The centenary of composer Stefan Wolpe (1902 -- 1972) was celebrated in 2002 with observances and festivals around the world. To judge from contemporary offerings in terms of Wolpe recordings from the deflated classical music industry of the day, one would hardly know this was going on. Nonetheless, a remarkable Wolpe release has made it out of ...
The outpouring of Stefan Wolpe recordings fostered by the Stefan Wolpe Society continues apace with Bridge Records' Stefan Wolpe, Vol. 4. This disc is devoted to solo wind instrument works, with the oboe playing a very prominent role -- Wolpe's close friend and publisher was oboist Josef Marx, whose small, specialist publishing concern McGinnis ...
In the U.S., Stefan Wolpe (1902-1972) is primarily known as an exponent of the avant-garde and as the teacher of some of the most prominent American modernists of the late twentieth century, including Morton Feldman, Ralph Shapey, Herbert Brün, and Charles Wuorinen, and his most-performed works are his pieces for piano. Vocal music, however, made ...
New World's Works for Violin by Antheil, Beyer, Cowell, Crawford, Dodge, Mahler, Polansky, Wolpe is the lengthy but even-handed title of a collection of American violin works performed by Japanese-Australian violinist Miwako Abe and pianist Michael Kieran Harvey. Although these recordings were made in Australia, this is not a second-hand re ...
Covering the most fertile decades of the avant-garde movement in the United States, American String Quartets, 1950-1970 is a comprehensive survey of the most influential works in this concentrated genre. Broadly divided, these quartets represent either the full-flowering of post-Webern serialism or the more esoteric, philosophical conceptions of ...
Naxos' Jewish Music of the Dance looks like a compilation, but it isn't; Introducing the World of American Jewish Music is the only compilation issued in the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music series, and as the series is now past 40 discs, perhaps it's time for another one. The constant here is the orchestra used, the Rundfunk ...
Composer and pianist Steffen Schleiermacher has delivered a number of useful surveys on CD of twentieth century musical "schools" and sub-genres for various labels since the first one, The Bad Boys!, appeared on Hat Hut in 1994. The title for MDG's The Viennese School -- Teachers and Followers: Anton Webern is a little confusing. As a study of ...
Although we associate the culture of the Weimar Republic with political action and political art -- largely the result of the importance of artists such as Bertolt Brecht and John Heartfield in the context of this era -- there were many artists in the Weimar arena who remained, in essence, apolitical. Filmmaker Walther Ruttmann, who created the ...
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