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Rainer Maria Rilke

Date of Death: December 29, 1926 (51)

Birth Place: Prague, Bohemia, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY

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Boston Symphony Orchestra Unveils 2025 Tanglewood Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 30, 2025

Tanglewood has revealed details of its 2025 season, opening in late June. The 2025 Tanglewood season features more than 100 performances. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.
Ivo Müller's RILKE, ONE MILLION WORDS Extends at Torn Page
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 24, 2025

Internationally acclaimed Brazilian actor Ivo Müller will extend the US Premiere of his hit solo show RILKE, ONE MILLION WORDS. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.
'Singin' in the Rain,' 'Ain't Misbehavin',' and More Enter Public Domain
by Blair Ingenthron - Jan 4, 2025

January 1, 2025 was Public Domain Day, when copyrighted works from 1929 and sound recordings from 1924 entered the US public domain. Learn more about this year's additions here!
RILKE, ONE MILLION WORDS to Make US Premiere at Torn Page
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 21, 2024

Brazilian actor Ivo Müller will present the US Premiere of his hit solo show RILKE, ONE MILLION WORDS at Torn Page.. RILKE, ONE MILLION WORDS connects an actor in the present with a poet from the past. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.
Video: Luis Alfaro & Jon Fosse Deliver International World Theatre Day Message 2024
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 27, 2024

The Global Theater Initiative is inviting all theatres, individual artists, institutions, and audiences to celebrate the 62nd annual World Theatre Day on March 27, 2024.
National Arts Centre Orchestra Will Give Canadian Premiere of Major Work By Gity Razaz Next Month
by Stephi Wild - Jan 11, 2024

Composer Gity Razaz's major new orchestral work, Methuselah (In Chains of Time) will have its Canadian premiere in performances by the National Arts Centre Orchestra conducted by Alexander Shelley on February 7 and 8, 2024 at 8pm at National Arts Centre's Southam Hall (1 Elgin Street, Ottawa).
Composer Jeff Lederer Puts Out His Two Most Out-of-the-Box Recordings to Date
by Michael Major - Oct 9, 2023

The recording first is 'SCHOENBERG ON THE BEACH,' a song cycle based on Schoenberg and Webern's early songs, featuring Mary LaRose, Hank Roberts, Patricia Brennan, Michael Formanek, Matt Wilson, and special guest Marty Ehrlich. The second recording is 'LANTERN,' a collection of original compositions performed by Lederer's quartet.
Tenor Eric Ferring Releases 'We Have Tomorrow' With Quatuor Agate On Delos
by Michael Major - Oct 6, 2023

Tenor Eric Ferring releases new album 'We have tomorrow' featuring works by Barber, Price, Brahms, Beach, Shepherd, and Fauré with pianist Madeline Slettedahl and Quatuor Agate. Out now on Delos.
Tenor Eric Ferring to Release New Single 'N'est-ce Pas?' From WE HAVE TOMORROW Album
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 26, 2023

Emmy-winning, Billboard Chart-topping American tenor Eric Ferring will release a new album, We have tomorrow, on Friday, October 6, 2023 on Delos.
POETIC JUSTICE Comes to The Marsh Berkeley in October
by Stephi Wild - Sep 15, 2023

The Marsh Berkeley audiences will take a deep dive into the true lives of three distinguished writers with Lynne Kaufman’s Poetic Justice this fall. Learn more about the production and how to get tickets here!
Review: MORLOT, SEATTLE SYMPHONY CAPTIVATE IN ALL-FRENCH PROGRAM at Benaroya Hall
by Erica Miner - Jun 5, 2023

This was a hugely demanding program, and Morlot and his musicians together produced an awe-inspiring accomplishment.
Wagner Ensemble Presents DIVERSE VOICES IN VERSE: MUSIC INSPIRED BY POETRY
by A.A. Cristi - May 5, 2023

The Wagner Ensemble, under the direction of Jeannine Wagner, presents Diverse Voices in Verse: Music Inspired by Poetry.
Michael Tilson Thomas Returns to the New York Philharmonic To Conduct MEDITATIONS ON RILKE and Schubert's Symphony No. 9
by Stephi Wild - Jan 31, 2023

Michael Tilson Thomas returns to conduct the New York Philharmonic March 9–12 in four concerts, highlighted by the New York premiere of his Meditations on Rilke. Mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, who premiered and recorded the cycle with Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony in 2019, and bass-baritone Dashon Burton are featured soloists. Also on the program is Schubert's Symphony No. 9, Great. 
The Marsh San Francisco to Present POETIC JUSTICE, Double Bill of One-Act Plays by Lynne Kaufman
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 13, 2022

The Marsh San Francisco will kick off the New Year with Poetic Justice, taking a deep dive into the true lives of three distinguished writers. Starring Julia McNeal and Charles Shaw Robinson, this double bill features You Must Change Your Life and Divine Madness – one-act plays written by Lynne Kaufman.
Two New York Premieres By Composer Anna Clyne to Be Presented In March 2022
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 24, 2022

On Thursday, March 24, 2022 at 7:30pm, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents the Calidore String Quartet in the New York premiere of GRAMMY Award-nominated composer Anna Clyne's Breathing Statues, a CMS co-commission, at the Rose Studio. The concert, part of the new-music series New Milestones, also includes Sofia Gubaidulina's Quartet No. 4 for Strings with Tape, Joan Tower's White Water, and Jörg Widmann's Jagdquartett.
Two New York City Premieres by Composer Anna Clyne to be Presented in March 2022
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 23, 2022

On Thursday, March 24, 2022 at 7:30pm, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center will present the Calidore String Quartet in the New York City premiere of GRAMMY Award-nominated composer Anna Clyne's Breathing Statues, a CMS co-commission, at the Rose Studio.
Opera Forward Festival 2022 Set For March
by Stephi Wild - Feb 9, 2022

The Opera Forward Festival surprises with everything opera can be. With work by established names and a new generation of makers, musical performances, video art and talks, OFF explores the art form that is opera. From the theme that is central to this sixth edition, 'New Beginnings', OFF invites the audience to discover that opera is also something for them. 
The 50th Dance on Camera Festival Announces Line-up for 2022 Festival
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 10, 2022

Dance Films Association and Film at Lincoln Center announced today the complete lineup for the 50th edition of the Dance on Camera Festival, running February 11-14, 2022. The 50th Dance on Camera Festival will be presented in person at the Walter Reade Theater at Film at Lincoln Center, marking the festival’s return to fully in-person programming.
Upcoming this January at the Los Angeles Philharmonic
by - Jan 7, 2022

Special Offer - Upcoming this January at the Los Angeles Philharmonic
SOPHIE KOCH & BERTRAND CHAMAYOU Come to Theatre du Capitole Toulousse This Month
by Stephi Wild - Oct 5, 2021

Deux grands artistes au sommet de leur art. La magnifique Sophie Koch, inoubliable Ariane et Kundry sur notre scène, s’allie au piano magicien, sensuel et lumineux de Bertrand Chamayou. Tous deux explorent le Lied et la mélodie du premier XXe siècle, entre impressionnisme et expressionnisme, entre postromantisme et avant-garde.

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