February 25, 2007
Lorin Maazel
( Phoenix, AZ )
•Maazel returns to met after 45 years
•Grammy-winning composer Golijov featured in Mozart Fest
•Glass finally heard in Baltimore, his home town
It's KBAQ's "This week in classical music" -- an update on what's happening in the classical music world... I'm Randy Kinkel.
After a 45-year absence, Lorin Maazel will return to the Metropolitan Opera to conduct. Maazel, the music director of the New York Philharmonic, will lead five performances of Wagner's "Die Walkure" next year. Peter Gelb, the Met's General manager, said, "It's been my intention to populate the Met with the world's greatest Conductors. To have Lorin Maazel... is a great coup." Maazel last conducted at the Met during the 1962-63 season, when he led performances of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" and Strauss's Der Rosencavalier"
The mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln center is celebrating a modern composer along with the 18th century Austrian who is the festivals namesake. Festival sources have announced that Osvaldo Golijov will be it's composer in residence, will have a hand in 4 of the season's 35 events, and will be in attendance the first and last weeks of the festival, which runs from July 31-Aug 25. Golijov will present a new arrangement of his piece "Azul" which will be performed on opening night. Golijov recently won two grammies for his opera "Ainadamar".
Philip Glass is finally being heard in his home town of Baltimore. Surprising as it may seem, the composer's music has never before been performed by the Baltimore Symphony in it's home base, Meyerhoff hall-until this weekend, when Conductor Marin Alsop has programmed the 70-year-old award-winning composer's Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and orchestra.
For more information on these and other items and events, go to the KBAQ website at KBAQ.org... be listening every week at this time for another update, and join me at noon every weekday for the Mozart Buffet, an hour of music by Mozart and his contemporaries. I'm Randy Kinkel, for KBAQ's "This week in Classical Music" on 89.5 KBAQ Phoenix, a service of Rio Salado College and Arizona State University.
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