Monday, March 20, 2023

Horror-Sturz bei der Probe: Sängerin erlitt Rippenbruch


Am Sonntag verletzte sich Helene Fischer bei den Tourproben (Archivbild)


Von: MARK PITTELKAU

21.03.2023 - 06:56 Uhr


Diese Nachricht wird nicht nur ihre Fans schocken!


Schlagerkönigin Helene Fischer (38) muss den Start ihrer mit Spannung erwarteten Arena-Tour in Bremen am Dienstag verschieben. Nach Angaben des Tourneeveranstalters Live Nation kam es am Sonntag zu einem Unfall-Drama.


Demnach erlitt die Musikerin („Atemlos durch die Nacht“) bei den akrobatischen Proben eine Rippenfraktur, was eine Verlegung der geplanten Shows in Bremen und Köln erforderlich macht. Auf dringendes ärztliches Anraten muss Helene zwingend eine Pause einlegen, bevor sie erneut auftreten darf.


In einer persönlichen Stellungnahme wandte sich Helene an ihre Fans und bat um Verständnis für die Verlegung der Bremer und Kölner Konzerte. „Ich habe wirklich alles versucht, um die Verletzung zu verdrängen, aber die akuten Schmerzen und der dringende ärztliche Rat, meinen Körper zu schonen, zwingen mich zu dieser für mich schweren Entscheidung.“


Am Sonntag verletzte sich Helene bei den Proben zu ihrer neuen Tour.


Auch in den sozialen Medien meldete sich Helene zu Wort und schrieb: „Ich hoffe, ihr wisst, wie leid mir das tut, denn ich weiß, wie groß die Freude ist, dass es endlich losgeht und wie viele Unannehmlichkeiten eine Verlegung für euch mit sich bringt.“


Die Premiere der Show soll nun am 11. April in Hamburg stattfinden. Die Nachholtermine in Bremen sind vom 10. bis 12. Mai. In Köln finden die Nachholtermine zwischen dem 25. August und 2. September statt. Details hierzu in Kürze. Sämtliche Eintrittskarten für die Konzerte behalten laut Konzertveranstalter ihre Gültigkeit.

Thursday, March 16, 2023

Why ‘All By Myself’ sounds uncannily like Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.2


By Siena Linton

How did Sergei Rachmaninov snag a songwriting credit for a pop ballad written decades after his death? The answer lies in his enduringly popular Piano Concerto No.2...

Eric Carmen’s 1975 smash hit, ‘All By Myself’, features an unlikely collaborator on its list of songwriters. The great Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov, better known for his devilish piano works and rapturous symphonic writing, seemingly also turned his hand to power ballads, according to the record’s liner notes.

The catch? Rachmaninov had been dead for more than 30 years by the time the song was released.

A classically trained pianist, Carmen had been working on a new solo, writing four bars at a time. After roughly two months, he had a complete piano interlude – he just needed a song to put it in.

During his writing process, Carmen had been listening to Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.2, and as he heard the evocative Romanticism of the second movement, inspiration struck.


Eric Carmen’s 1975 pop power ballad ‘All By Myself’ was inspired by Rachmaninov’s second piano concerto.
Eric Carmen’s 1975 pop power ballad ‘All By Myself’ was inspired by Rachmaninov’s second piano concerto. Picture: Getty

Rachmaninov’s melody is passed between the piano, flute, and clarinet in his piano concerto, and Carmen used it as the basis for the tune of his verse for ‘All By Myself’.

Using Rachmaninov’s harmonically meandering theme also meant Carmen had to incorporate similar chord patterns beneath his pop melody. It’s an unusual musical feature to hear in a pop song, and one that requires a skilled songwriter, such as Eric Carmen or Sergei Rachmaninov, to pull off. 


The trouble was that although Rachmaninov’s music was in the public domain (meaning that copyright laws no longer applied to it) in the United States, that wasn’t necessarily the case in other parts of the world.

After the album’s release, Carmen was contacted by the Rachmaninov estate and together they agreed that, alongside a songwriter credit for Rachmaninov himself, the estate would also receive a 12 percent share of the royalties made from the song.

And so it was that the great Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov came to add ‘chart-topping power ballad’ songwriter to his CV – and had one of his works performed by the one and only Celine Dion.

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

TOP 5 Touching Songs - The Maestro & The European Pop Orchestra


Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) -His Music and His Life

 

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Monday, March 13, 2023

Rachel Portman (The Music of) Suite ~


Music/Artist: Rachel PORTMAN (11 December 1960) Rachel Portman was born in West Sussex, England. She began composing at the age of 14 and read music at Oxford University. Whilst there, she became interested in writing music for student films and theatre productions. She gained experience writing music for drama in BBC and Channel 4 films such as Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Mike Leigh's Four Days In July and Jim Henson's Storyteller series, however the majority of her work has been in film. Rachel won an Academy award for her score for Emma and Academy nominations for Chocolat and The Cider House Rules. She has been fortunate to work with directors Roman Polanski (Oliver Twist), Norman Jewison (Only You), Jonathan Demme (Beloved, Truth About Charlie, Manchurian Candidate), Robert Redford (Legend of Bagger Vance), Mike Leigh (Life is Sweet), as well as countless others. Her list of film scores includes Never Let Me Go, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Grey Gardens (HBO), The Duchess, Infamous, Lake House, Hart's War, Human Stain, Marvin's Room, Benny and Joon, Joy Luck Club, Smoke, Nicholas Nickleby and Where Angels Fear to Tread. She has written a musical of Little House on the Prairie as well as an opera of Saint Exupery's The Little Prince for Houston Grand Opera and The Water Diviner, a dramatic choral symphony commissioned for the BBC Proms concerts. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours.

Sunday, March 12, 2023

Fascination


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Dorina Santers - Goodbye My Love Goodbye (Full Video HD)


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Concierto de Aranjuez - Joaquín Rodrigo | SSO | Bokyung Byun, guitar


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