It was a Sunday morning in the south of France, and the beautifully sorrowful notes of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater" rang out from a young man's trombone. Antoine Plante was only 15 ...

Music and sadness is an endless and much too studied subject. Does sad music make us feel better by first making us feel worse, like, say, having a tooth pulled? Or do we feel better simply because we ...

The words of the Stabat Mater come from an ancient Latin text describing Mary weeping at the cross over her son, Jesus. While the Catholic poem has been set to music by many — from Vivaldi to Arvo ...

At the court of the aristocratic Hungarian Esterházy family, the Kapellmeister was expected to provide Grabmusik (”grave music”) for Good Friday. In 1767, Franz Joseph Haydn held the Kapellmeister ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Antonin Dvorak is well-known for the symphony "From the New World," an acclaimed cello concerto, and sheafs of chamber music. But the Oahu Choral Arts Society and the Hawaii ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. This Easter, on Saturday 8 April 2023, Cape Town Opera brings Rossini's Stabat ...

Both were matched - though it would be hard to surpass them - in the world premiere of a masterpiece combining the two forces, MacMillan's Stabat Mater. Throughout the many wrenching contrasts there's ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Instead of being ushered to their seats, the audience is beckoned from the foyer ...

Contemporary composer Sir James MacMillan has said it was an “honor and delight” to have his setting of the Stabat Mater performed in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday evening. In front of an audience of ...

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