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May, 2013 - PRINCETON MAGAZINE - Monthly
The Last Word - Interview with Marvin Rosen


MARVIN ROSEN: MAKING PEOPLE LIKE WHAT YOU PLAY
By Anne Levin

This story will be later archived on the Princeton Magazine Website but you can read it now by simply clicking on the image!

 

Through the years I have received many wonderful comments from listeners and you can see some of them on a special page. One of my favorite recent comments is:

Marvin, you do not play what people like, you make people like what you play.

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Child in the Garden - Contemporary Music for Piano 4 Hands - Piano Duo Venti Dita - CD

From 2010 Marvin Rosen has been a member of Piano Duo Venti Dita together with pianist and composer Jennifer Castellano. In April of 2013, they released their first recording titled "Child in the Garden" - Contemporary Music for Piano 4 Hands. The recording includes music by American composers as well as works from Estonia, Italy and Latvia.

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Child in the Garden - Contemporary music for Piano 4 Hands
CD Release Party

SUNDAY, JUNE 09, 2013  -  2:00PM

At: Art Gallery, Mount Pleasant Public Library, 350 Bedford Rd. Pleasantville, NY 10570

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MONDAY ON ADDITIONAL EDITION OF CLASSICAL DISCOVERIES 

This Monday, May 27, 2013 from 5:30 till 11:00am

Classical Discoveries presents:

AMERICAN MUSIC FOR MEMORIAL DAY

Classical Discoveries will celebrate Memorial Day with a program of music by American composers.

 

You will hear:
Spirit of America (1999/2006) by Vivian Adelberg Rudow (1936- )
Wind Tides (2008) by Adrienne Albert (1941- )
Mount Rushmore (2010) by Michael Daugherty (1954-)
The Encore Concerto (Piano Concerto No. 1) by Don Gillis (1912-1978)
Symphony No. 4 by Roger Goeb (1914-1997)
Pacific Rim by Stephen Hartke (1952- )
Piano Concerto No. 4 by John La Montaine (1920-2013)
The Eggman Variations (2005) by Dmitri Tymoczko  (1969- )
plus music by Robert McBride, Douglas Moore, Robert Muczynski, Quincy Porter, David Rakowski, Neil Rolnick, Harold Shapiro and others

 

WEDNESDAY ON CLASSICAL DISCOVERIES

This Wednesday, May 29, 2013  from 5:30 till 11:00am

Program will be announced

    Irises - by Azerbaijani Artist Khalida Safarova
   at: AZgallery.org

 

THIS SUMMER FOR 15 WEEKS EACH SATURDAY MORNING FROM 5:30 TILL 9:00
CLASSICAL DISCOVERIES
  - TREASURES OF EARLY MUSIC - STARTING JUNE 01 2013

Classical Discoveries presents

TREASURES OF EARLY MUSIC

a special series of 15 early music Summer Specials on Saturdays from 5:30am till 9:00am, starting June 01, 2013

Check this website a few days before each program for programming highlights.

 

If you never before listen to Classical Discoveries early music specials, please check some other programs:
02-01-2013 | 08-31-2012 | 08-20-2012 | 08-17-2012 | 08-07-2012 | 04-13-2012 | 04-08-2012
08-29-2011 | 08-22-2011 | 08-15-2011 | 08-08-2011 | 07-18-2011 | 06-20-2011 | 06-06-2011 | 04-24-2011 |
11-05-2010 | 09-04-2010 | 08-28-2010 | 08-21-2010 | 08-14-2010 | 08-07-2010 | 07-31-2010 | 07-24-2010 | 07-17-2010 | 07-10-2010 | 07-03-2010 | 06-26-2010 | 05-25-2010

A Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Christmas:
12-24-2012 | 12-24-2011 | 12-21-2011 | 12-22-2010 | 12-23-2009 | 12-23-2009 | 12-24-2008 | 12-21-2007 | 12-22-2006 | 12-24-2005 | 12-24-2004 | 12-24-2003 | 12-23-2002 | 12-24-2001

 

COMING UP THIS SUMMER ON CLASSICAL DISCOVERIES 

 

A partial live interview with composer Ludovico Enaudi conducted on May 14, 2013 in New York wil be aired at a future announced date during a special Viva Italia program that will focus on his music.

The complete interview is not suitable to be aired due to extreme background noise, but an interview transcription will be available on MarvinTheCat Blog.

Classical Discoveries will present:

VIVA ITALIA

Whole program will be devoted to music by Italian composers with a music as well few selections from live interview conducted on May 14, in New York with composer Ludovico Enaudi.

Other details about this special will be posted a few days before program airs.

COMING UP ON CLASSICAL DISCOVERIES  - FOCUS ON ITALIAN COMPOSER AND PIANIST
LUDOVICO ENAUDI WITH PARTS OF LIVE INTERVIEW

Date will be announced

Ludovico Einaudi is an Italian pianist and Alt-Classical musician. After training at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan and under composer Luciano Berio in the early 1980's, Einaudi started his career as a classical composer and soon began incorporating other styles and genres in his works, including pop, rock, world music, and folk music. Einaudi has composed the scores for a number of films and trailers, including Intouchables, I'm Still Here, Doctor Zhivago, and Acquario in 1996, for which he won the Grolla d'oro for best soundtrack. He has also released a number of solo albums of piano and orchestra, notably I Giorni in 2001, Nightbook in 2009, and In a Time Lapse in 2013.

For more information go to: http://www.einaudiwebsite.com/

or: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludovico_Einaudi

 Ludovico Einaudi on YouTube

Simplicity is difficult, not easy. Beauty is simple. All unnecessary elements are removed - only essence remains.
Alan Hovhaness

 

MOST RECENT PAST PROGRAMS

 

WEDNESDAY ON CLASSICAL DISCOVERIES

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 from 5:30 till 11:00am

You will hear:
Clocks, Op. 58 by Uruguayan/American composer, Miguel del Aguila (1957- )
Symphony No. 8 (2008) by French composer, Philippe Chamouard (1952- )
Falling Trio (2011) by American composer, Kenneth Fuchs (1956- )
Barcarola (2007) by Russian composer, Victor Kissine (1953- )
Symphony No. 3 by French composer, Yves Ramette (1921-2012)
Missa Maria Concertanta by Austrian composer, Christoph Strauss (1575?-1631)
Viderunt Omnes (2011) by Uzbek composer, Dmitri Vanov-Yanovsky (1963- )
plus music by Vagn Holmboe, Arthur Meulemans, David Patterson and many others

Playlist 05-22-2013.
You can listen to this program till 06-09-2013 on the MP3 Archives page

    

 

WEDNESDAY ON CLASSICAL DISCOVERIES


Wednesday, May 15, 2011 from 5:30 till 11:00am

You will hear:
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, "Concerto giocoso" by American composer, Avery Claflin (1898-1979)
Lamentations (2011) by English composer, John Duggan (1963- )
Symphony No. 3, ...Remembered Songs...(2002) by New Zealand composer, David Farquhar (1928- )
Nebula (Concerto for Guitar and Strings) (2008) by Finnish composer, Paavo Korpijaakko (1977- )
Depart (2002) by American composer, David Lang (1957- )
Requiem by Czech composer, Adam Vaclav Michna (1600-1676)
plus music by Nancy Galbraith, Michael Murray, Teresa Procaccini, Johann Rosenmuller and others

Playlist 05-15-2013.
You can listen to this program till 06-02-2013 on the MP3 Archives page

 

SUNDAY, MAY  12  2013 - CLASSICAL DISCOVERIES GOES TO OPERA
Composer Robert Aldridge and Librettist Herschel Garfein (by Jane Kung)

    Sunday, May 12, 2013 from 6:00 till 10:00am

   Marvin will be presenting on Sandy's Sunday Morning Opera

   ELMER GANTRY - An Opera in Two Acts (2007)

   by American composer Robert Aldridge

                  You will also hear the following works:

                  The Card Game by Antonio Caldara

                  The Death of the Hired Man by Nancy Van De Vate

Please note that the opera program will be not archived

Playlist 05-12-2013.

 

WEDNESDAY ON CLASSICAL DISCOVERIES

Wednesday, May 08, 2013  from 5:30 till 11:00am

 

You will hear:
Dreams of a Dying City by Lebanese composer, Rabih Abou Khalil(1957- )
Parterre by American composer, Mary Ellen Childs(1957- )
April 10, Saturday...(2010) by Lithuanian composer, Bronius Kutavičius (1932- )
Lacrime d'Ambra (2006) by English composer, Ivan Moody(1964- )
Schwanengesang an Apollo by Russian composer, Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky (1945- )
Canzoniere Messicano (2004-2009) by Italian composer, Stefano Scodanibbio (1956-2012)
plus music by Philippe De Monte, Gao Hong, Philip Spratley and many others

Playlist 05-08-2013.
You can listen to this program till 05-26-2013 on the MP3 Archives page

      Lilacs - by Azerbaijani Artist Telman Babayev at: AZgallery.org

 

WEDNESDAY ON CLASSICAL DISCOVERIES 

Portrait of Aiora Manos Dimitris - Courtesy: Polish Artist: Iwona Altmajer - search at:  http://www.myspace.com/iwona_altmajer

Wednesday, May 01, 2013 from 5:30 till 11:00

Classical Discoveries will present:

POLISH MUSIC BEYOND CHOPIN AND GÓRECKI - REPRISE

Whole program will be devoted to music by Polish composers with a special guest in the WPRB studio - Composer Miłosz Bembinow, who will present excerpts from his upcoming new CD "Astrolabium Sings Bembinow" plus much more.

Some program highlights will include:
Hombark-Concerto for Violin and Strings, Op. 32 by Sławomir Stanisław Czarnecki (1949- )
Concerto Retro for flute, violin, cello and harpsichord, Op. 39 by Krzysztof Meyer (1943- )
Sinfonietta, Op. 17 by Piotr Perkowski (1901-1990)
Symphony for the Great Symphonic Orchestra (2008) by Weronika Ratusińska (1977- )
Partita III for Harpsichord and Orchestra by Paweł Szymanski (1954- )
plus music by Franciszek Lilius, Paweł Łukaszewski, Marcin Mielczewski, Klaudia Pasternak, Edward Pallasz, Bartłomiej Pękiel  and others

Playlist 05-01-2013. You can listen to this program till 05-19-2013 on the MP3 Archives page

ON CLASSICAL DISCOVERIES  - GUEST, POLISH COMPOSER AND CONDUCTOR MIŁOSZ BEMBINOW

Wednesday, May 01, 2013 from 8:30 till 11:00

Miłosz Bembinow was born in 1978 in Warsaw. He studied Composition in the class of Prof. S. Moryto and Symphonic-Opera Conducting in the class of Prof. A. Wit in the F. Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, where he now works as an Assistant Professor (The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music). In 2012 Bembinow obtained his Ph.D. in composition. He has received many awards and scholarships including the Polish Minister of Culture’s Scholarship “Young Poland”. In the years 2007-2008 Miłosz Bembinow worked as a Guest Professor in composition at Keimyung University in Daegu in South Korea. Bembinow’s artistic output covers not only solo, chamber, choir, orchestral and oratorical pieces but also popular and film music. His works have been performed in the majority of European countries, South and North America as well as in Asia. It has also been presented by various radio and TV broadcasting stations as well as issued on 27 CD’s. Two of these CD’s received the “Fryderyk” award, granted by the Polish Phonographic Academy.
For more information you can go to the composer's website at: http://www.bembinow.com/

  Miłosz Bembinow on YouTube

 This interview segment you can hear on: Interviews Page

 

WEDNESDAY ON CLASSICAL DISCOVERIES - MUSIC FOR UNUSUAL INSTRUMENTS  
DudukDuduk

Powow tar   Pow-Wow Drum             Tar

Ney     Nay

          Didjeridu

Wednesday, April 24, 2013  from 5:30 till 9:00am

Classical Discoveries in observance of hosting accordion virtuoso Guy Klucevsek will present a whole morning of works for instruments that are not associated with concert music.

Here are some highlights:
The Heart of Night, for Shakuhachi and Orchestra (2005) by Australian composer, Ross Edwards (1943- )
Quintet for Glass and Strings by American composer, Gary Eister (1952- )
Seven Greek Folk Dances for Harmonica and Piano, Op. 150 by American composer, Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)
Concerto for Dulcimer and String Orchestra by Swiss composer, Paul Huber (1918-2001)
Concerto for Ondes Martenot and Orchestra by French composer, Andre Jolivet (1905-1974)
Concerto No. 4 for Bandura and Orchestra, "Trypillian" by Ukranian composer, Yuriy Oliynyk (1931- )
Capetown - Concerto for Banjo and Orchestra by Canadian composer, Sid Robinovitch(1948- )
plus music by Miklos Csemiczky, Harold Farberman, Lydia Kavina, Laura Liben and others

Playlist 04-24-2013. You can listen to this program till 05-05-2013 on the MP3 Archives page

COMING UP ON CLASSICAL DISCOVERIES
GUEST AMERICAN COMPOSER AND ACCORDIONIST  GUY  KLUCEVSEK

Wednesday, April 24, 2013  from 9:00 till 11:00am

Guy Klucevsek is one of the world’s most versatile and highly-respected accordionists. He has performed and/or recorded with Laurie Anderson, Bang On a Can, Brave Combo, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Coleman, Dave Douglas, Bill Frisell, Rahim al Haj, Robin Holcomb, Kepa Junkera, the Kronos Quartet, Natalie Merchant, Present Music, Relâche, Zeitgeist, and John Zorn. Klucevsek is one of relatively few accordion players active in jazz and free improvisation. He has released 21 albums as a leader or co-leader, and has recorded or performed with Dave Douglas, John Zorn. Bill Frisell, Laurie Anderson and others. He is also a founding member of the international group Accordion Tribe. In 2010 Klucevsek won a United States Artists Fellow award. For more information you can go to Guy’s website at: http://www.guyklucevsek.com/about-guy

  Guy Klucevsek on YouTube

  This interview segment you can hear on: Interviews Page

 

WEDNESDAY ON CLASSICAL DISCOVERIES
     Daffodils In A Vase - Courtesy: Artist Denise
    Saldutti at:   http://denisesaldutti.com/

This Wednesday, April 17, 2013  from 5:30 till 11:00am

Classical Discoveries will present:

SPOTLIGHT ON VICTORIA POLEVA

where during the whole program a number of the composer's works will be presented including:
Langsam for Symphony Orchestra (1992)
No Man is an Island, Chamber Cantata for Soprano, Piano and Strings (2006), White Interment, Chamber Symphony for Oboe and Strings (2002), Word, Cantata for Soprano, Mixed Choir and Symphony Orchestra (2002)
You will also hear:
Completorium by Polish composer, Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki (c. 1665-1734)
Sonata for Violin and Piano No 2 by Estonian composer, Mihkel Kerem (1981- )
Goodbye My Friend (2002) by Canadian composer, Marjan Mozetich (1948- )
Psalm for Orchestra and Soprano by Swiss composer, Daniel Schnyder (1961- )
Piano Concerto (2008) by Dutch composer,  Giel Vleggaar (1974- )
plus music by Robert Nesveld, Ann Southam, David Ward-Steinman and others

Playlist 04-17-2013. You can listen to this program till 05-05-2013 on the MP3 Archives page

Victoria POLEVA was born in 1962 in Kyiv, Ukraine. In 1989 she graduated from Kyiv State P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatoire (class of composition with Prof. Ivan Karabyts). Completed her post-graduate studies there in 1995 under Prof. Levko Kolodub. In 1990-1998 was a lecturer at the Department of composition, in 2000-2005 – at the Music Information Technologies Department of the P.I. Tchaikovsky Ukrainian National Music Academy. Since 2005 she is freelance composer. A genre range of her compositions includes symphonic, choral, chamber music. Early works of Victoria Poleva were related to the aesthetics of the avant-garde and polystylistics (ballet "Gagaku", "Transform" for symphony orchestra, "Anthem" for chamber orchestra, "Еpiphany" for chamber ensemble, cantatas "Horace’s ode", "Gentle light"). From the late 1990s her music became identified stylistically with "sacred minimalism" An important period in Victoria Poleva’s creative work is related to intensive studies and embodiment of texts from divine services in the music.
For more information you can go to: http://www.myspace.com/victoriapolevacomposer

Victoria Poleva on YouTube

 

WEDNESDAY ON CLASSICAL DISCOVERIES
      White Spring by Azerbaijani Artist Darvin Valibeyov at: AZgallery.org

Wednesday, April 10, 2013  from 5:30 till 11:00am

You will hear:
Missa Christus resurgens by Italian composer, Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652)
Rain in the Forest for Yangqin and Orchestra (2001) by Canadian composer, Mark Armanini (1952- )
Concertino for Harp and String Orchestra by Hungarian composer, Ferenc Farkas (1905-2000)
Sinfonia Tapkaara by Japanese composer, Akira Ifukube (1914-2006)
Chronographie II for String Orchestra by Belgo-Canadian composer, Michel Lysight (1958- )
Out of Shadows and Solitude for Orchestra by American composer, Marga Richter  (1926- )
Burning Meditation by Japanese composer, Somei Satoh (1947- )
Toward That Endless Plain: Concerto for Persian Ney and Orchestra (2003) by Iranian composer, Reza Vali (1952- )
plus music by Michael Daugherty, Michał Dobrzyński, Magnus Peter Henningsen, Peter Machajdik, Arvydas Malcys and others

Playlist 04-10-2013. You can listen to this program till 04-28-2013 on the MP3 Archives page

 

WEDNESDAY ON CLASSICAL DISCOVERIES
Wednesday, April 03, 2013  from 5:30 till 11:00am

You will hear:
Double Concerto for Violin, Guitar and String Orchestra by Italian composer, Giovanni Albini (1982- )
Sonata for Viola and Piano by American composer, Paul Chihara (1938- )
Concerto for Four Horns and Orchestra by German composer, Harald Genzmer (1909-2007)
Speed by Australian composer, Matthew Hindson (1938- )
Concerto for Orchestra No. 2 by Ukranian composer, Ivan Karabits (1945-2002)
Piano Concerto, Op. 111 (2009) by English composer, David Matthews (1943- )
Ioannes Rex for Baritone, Choir and Orchestra by Polish composer, Romuald Twardowski (1930- )
Canti Asolani for Strings by Italian composer, Sante Zanon (1899-1965)
plus music by Elizabeth Brown, T. Patrick Carrabre, Elena Kats-Chernin, Michele Mascitti, Francesco Provenzale and others

Playlist 04-03-2013. You can listen to this program till 04-21-2013 on the MP3 Archives page

Classical Discoveries snippet on YouTube

    View of Spring Garden on Amsterdam - Courtesy: Artist Denise Saldutti at:
   http://denisesaldutti.com/

 

WEDNESDAY ON CLASSICAL DISCOVERIES
    Wearable Art - "Autumn Poem" Wrap (Cob Web Felt 100%
   Merino Wool) Courtesy: Artist Nelly Kouzmina at:
   http://feltinelli.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, March 27, 2013  from 5:30 till 11:00am

Classical Discoveries will present the fourth and last program of the annual series In Praise of Woman - devoted to music written by women composers. 

You will hear:
Psalm L: Miserere mei Deus secundum by Italian composer, Antonia Bembo (c. 1640-c.1720)
Mass by English composer, Judith Bingham (1952- )
Piano Concerto by Estonian composer, Ester Magi (1922- )
Piano Trio by Swedish composer, Ylva Skog (1963- )
Mar de Leche
by Israeli composer, Tamar Muskal (1965- )
Echoing Purple by Greek composer, Calliope Tsoupaki (1963- )
plus music by Carol Barnett, Dorothee Eberhardt, Elizabeth Maconchy, Missy Mazzoli, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Lida Zhang and many others

Playlist 03-27-2013. You can listen to this program till 04-14-2013 on the MP3 Archives page

Classical Discoveries snippet on YouTube

 

WEDNESDAY ON CLASSICAL DISCOVERIES

Wednesday, March 20, 2013  from 5:30 till 11:00am

Classical Discoveries will present the third program of the annual series In Praise of Woman

In this edition you will hear:
Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra "Atlantico"       (2000) by Spanish composer,  Zulema de la Cruz  (1958- )
Con Misterioso (2001) by Ukranian/Estonian coomposer, Galina Grigorjeva (1962- )
Our Father from Eastern Meditations by Lebanese composer, Sister Marie Keyrouz (1963- )
Claremont Symphony by American composer, Margaret Meier (1936- )
Oltra Mar by Finnish composer, Kaija Saariaho (1952- )
Pura Besakih by American/Austrian composer, Nancy Van de Vate (1930- )
plus music by Sylvie Bodorova, Rosemary Duxbury, Victoria Poleva, Teresa Procaccini, Weronika Ratusinska and many others

Playlist 03-20-2013. You can listen to this program till 04-07-2013 on the MP3 Archives page

Classical Discoveries snippet on YouTube

    Buffalo - Lyn Lyndall at http://www.lionfirestudio.com/

 

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