Klaus Döring's Classical Music/Klaus Döring's Klassische Musik

Jan Milo Severo   - Philstar.com Pauline Arejola is the sole participant from the Philippines at the World Youth Choir 2024 Alumni Session. Pauline Arejola via Facebook KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A soprano from the University of the Philippines (UP) is set to represent the Philippines at the World Youth Choir 2024 Alumni Session. Pauline Arejola is the sole participant from the Philippines who qualified from over 57 applications from 24 countries.  Arejola is part of the chosen 32 singers by the international jury composed by a jury representative from each of the three World Youth Choir patron organizations: Victoria Liedbergius on behalf of the European Choral Association, Burak Onur Erdem on behalf of the International Federation for Choral Music and Sasho Tatarchevski on behalf of Jeunesses Musicales International.  Arejola shared her excitement about this opportunity.  "Finally, after what seemed almost impossible in this lifetim...

by Maureen Buja, Interlude The accordion works on a bellows system. As the instrument is pulled apart and pushed together, air is forced passed reeds held in a frame. Other instruments like this include the concertina, the harmonica, and the bandoneon. The keyboards on both sides of the instrument each have a different function. The right side, the diskant, is for melody, and the left side buttons provide the accompaniment function. The playing mechanism can be either like a piano keyboard (piano accordion) or with buttons (button accordion). For both piano and button accordions, the left side is the same. Piano Accordion (Startone 72 MKII) The button accordion. Chromatic Button Accordion (Hohner Mattia IV) The instrument is held by two straps around the shoulders and is played in front of the body. For most accordions, the same pitch is played when you open or close the bellows, but some instruments will play different notes depending on the direction of the bellows’ motion. The acco...

by Emily Hogstadt, Interlude Making and having friends is one of the great joys of the human experience. Not surprisingly, many classical composers have been deeply inspired by their friendships with other people, and especially with other creative people. Today, we’re looking at ten pieces of classical music that reflect on composers’ friendships in some way, whether it’s  Beethoven ’s dedication of a private string quartet to a friend or  Elgar ’s extravagant orchestral puzzle dedicated to his friends. Enjoy! Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 11 (1810-11) Beethoven’s eleventh quartet was a unique piece from the start: he wrote in a letter to a friend that “The Quartet is written for a small circle of connoisseurs and is never to be performed in public.” In it, Beethoven allowed himself to experiment and take risks. It was written the year after Napoleon invaded Vienna when the routines of people in the city had been shattered, so there weren’t many audience...