Donald Macleod explores the life and work of one of his operatic favourites, Christoph Willibald Gluck. Macleod describes himself as "a huge fan" of the music of this week's Composer Of The Week, ...
In May of 1774, 15 years before the French Revolution, the 18-year-old Marie Antoinette ascended the throne as queen of France. Less than a month before that, German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck ...
When Mozart sat down in 1778 to write a symphony for the Paris orchestra, he had a lot of things working against him: The fame of Gluck, whose opera “Orfeo ed Euridice” was still wildly popular. The ...
HOHENFELS, Germany -- Hohenfels Military Community members James and Patricia Hannon joined in the 300th birthday celebration of German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck, recently, as part of an ...
Some of us yahoos have to take it for granted that 18th-century composer Christoph Willibald Gluck made important advances in the art of opera — it’s all Greek to us. It was also largely Greek to ...
The 2007 production, sung in the original French, has returned this month with the same starry cast of singers in principal roles -- mezzo-soprano Susan Graham (Iphig nie), tenor Placido Domingo ...
Julliard-trained Bob Gluck is an accomplished composer, religious leader, and academician. He is the author of two books published by the University of Chicago Press, You'll Know When You Get There: ...
Guitarist and composer Pat Metheny, among the most acclaimed, visionary musicians of our time, has for five decades toured with his many creative musical projects, most prominently the Pat Metheny ...
Donald Macleod traces the young Gluck's journeys across Europe before he settled in Vienna to write his landmark opera Orfeo ed Euridice. Though the Bohemian composer's first language was Czech, he ...
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