A music blog written by Rich Brown
Nessun Dorma, No one sleeps. I can’t argue with the people that tell me I don’t get enough sleep. It’s true. I do tend to burn the candle at both ends from time to time. I’m not really an insomniac, I just have a lot of things to get done. If every day had 36... Continue Reading →
The Bayreuther Festspiele is underway again in Bayreuth, Germany. It is the annual festival of music dramas by Richard Wagner, in the opera house he designed specifically for his works. Wagner contributed a world of innovations to the opera realm, with his concept of a “total work of art” (Gesamtkunstwerk). He sought a single vision... Continue Reading →
Dmitri Shostakovich is a Russian composer whose musical career is entangled with the history of Soviet Russia. He lived from 1906 to 1975, and in his lifetime saw the Bolshevik revolution overthrow tsarist rule, the Russian civil war, and the totalitarian Soviet State. He saw the regimes of Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev.... Continue Reading →
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