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São Paulo Municipal Symphony Orchestra
The São Paulo Municipal Symphony Orchestra ( Portuguese: ''Orquestra Sinfônica Municipal de São Paulo''), also known as OSM, is one of the artistic bodies of the Municipal Theater of São Paulo. Currently under the direction of Roberto Minczuk, it performs in operas and concerts, often with guest soloists and other artistic ensembles such as the São Paulo Municipal Lyric Choir and the São Paulo City Ballet. History Until the beginning of the 20th century, the operas performed at the Municipal Theater of São Paulo were entirely foreign productions, since the venue didn't have enough instrumentalists and choirs to produce its own shows. The orchestras that were active in São Paulo during this period, although frequent, were not permanent, being organized by event and dispersing at the end of them. Based on reports by conductor Armando Belardi, the origin of the orchestra is attributed to the '' Sociedade de Concertos Clássicos de São Paulo''. The first permanent ense ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
São Paulo
São Paulo (; ; Portuguese for 'Paul the Apostle, Saint Paul') is the capital of the São Paulo (state), state of São Paulo, as well as the List of cities in Brazil by population, most populous city in Brazil, the List of largest cities in the Americas, Americas, and both the Western Hemisphere, Western and Southern Hemispheres. Listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) as an global city, alpha global city, it exerts substantial international influence in commerce, finance, arts, and entertainment. It is the List of largest cities#List, largest urban area by population outside Asia and the most populous Geographical distribution of Portuguese speakers, Portuguese-speaking city in the world. The city's name honors Paul the Apostle and people from the city are known as ''paulistanos''. The city's Latin motto is ''Non ducor, duco'', which translates as "I am not led, I lead." Founded in 1554 by Jesuit priests, the city was the center of the ''bandeirant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Antônio Rezende De Almeida Prado
José Antônio Rezende de Almeida Prado or Almeida Prado (February 8, 1943 – November 21, 2010) was an important Brazilian composer of classical music and a pianist. On Almeida Prado's death, his personal friend, conductor João Carlos Martins stated that Prado had possibly been the most important Brazilian composer ever. Prado wrote over 400 compositions and won various prizes for his work. He was born in Santos, São Paulo in 1943. He died in São Paulo in 2010, having lived there for the latter part of his life. Training In Brazil, Almeida Prado studied with Dinorá de Carvalho (piano), Osvaldo Lacerda (harmony) and Camargo Guarnieri (composition). Upon winning first prize for his cantata , based on a text by Hilda Hilst, at the ''I Festival de Música da Guanabara'' in 1969, he continued his studies in Europe. He studied with Olivier Messiaen and Nadia Boulanger in Paris from 1970 to 1973, besides brief studies with György Ligeti and Lukas Foss in Darmstadt. Profe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra
The São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra () is a Brazilian orchestra based in São Paulo. The principal concert venue of OSESP is the Sala São Paulo. History The orchestra, initially called the ''Orquestra Sinfônica Estadual'' (State Symphony Orchestra), gave its first concert on 18 July 1953 at the Municipal Theatre of São Paulo, conducted by João de Sousa Lima. The government of the State of São Paulo officially codified the establishment of the orchestra in a decree (Law No. 2733) dated 13 September 1954, signed by Governor Lucas Nogueira Garcez. Sousa Lima served as the orchestra's first principal conductor and artistic director. OSESP alternated between periods of success and great difficulty, including a hiatus in its activities. In 1964, the Italian conductor Bruno Roccela became principal conductor. In 1972, Eleazar de Carvalho succeeded Roccela, and served as principal conductor until his death in 1996. In 1978, the orchestra formally took on its current name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Carlos Martins
João Carlos Gandra da Silva Martins (); born June 25, 1940) is a Brazilian classical pianist and conducting, conductor, who has performed with leading orchestras in the United States, Europe and Brazil. He is celebrated as a great interpreter of Johann Sebastian Bach, Bach and has recorded his complete keyboard works. For decades Martins has been engaged as the leading pianist at the Boston Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and other ensembles. The New York Times wrote, "Maestro Martins has lived a life of renown, challenge, tenacity and triumph sufficient to fill a lively memoir". After his career as a concert pianist was derailed by injuries and accidents, he successfully reinvented himself as a conductor, leading hundreds of performances worldwide including acclaimed concerts at Carnegie Hall. He is a conductor at the English Chamber Orchestra and the Bachiana Filarmonica Orchestra. He has also founded social programs for underprivileged youth in Latin America. Early li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Neschling
John Neschling (born May 13 1947, Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian orchestral and operatic conductor. He was the musical director and the chief conductor of the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo (São Paulo State Symphony) from 1997 to 2008. A member of the Brazilian Academy of Music since 2003, he was appointed artistic director of the Municipal Theatre of São Paulo from January 2013 until September 2016, when he was dismissed under accusations of fiscal mismanagement. Early career He studied conducting under Hans Swarowsky and Reinhold Schmid in Vienna and under Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa in Tanglewood. Later, he won several international conducting competitions. European positions Neschling has been music director of Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, Sankt Gallen Theater in Switzerland, Teatro Massimo in Palermo and the Bordeaux Opera, and assistant conductor at the Vienna Opera. He has also been invited conductor at the London Symphony, Accadem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abel Rocha
Abel ( ''Hébel'', in pausa ''Hā́ḇel''; ''Hábel''; , ''Hābēl'') is a biblical figure in the Book of Genesis within the Abrahamic religions. Born as the second son of Adam and Eve, the first two humans created by God, he was a shepherd who offered his firstborn flock to God as a religious offering. God accepted Abel's offering but not the offering of his older brother Cain, leading Cain to stone Abel to death out of jealousy. This act marked the first death in biblical history, making Abel the first murder victim. Life and death Interpretations Jewish and Christian interpretations According to the narrative in Genesis, Abel is Eve's second son. His name in Hebrew is composed of the same three consonants as a root meaning "the air that remains after you exhale" also synonymous in Hebrew to "nothing", as stated in Ecclesiastes. Julius Wellhausen has proposed that the name is independent of the root. Eberhard Schrader had previously put forward the Akkadian (Old Assyrian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Machado (conductor)
David Machado (1938–1995) was a Brazilian maestro and a conductor. Biography He was born in 1938 in Cape Verde, he later immigrated to Brazil. He conducted in important orchestras in Brazil and abroad. He graduated at the Freiburg Music Academy in Germany and was recognized for his wide repertory and at symphonies, along with an operator. He was artistic director and the principal conductor of the Porto Alegre Symphony Orchestra twice, his first was from 1979 to 1980 after taking the post which was held by Pablo Komlós, a year later, his post was taken by Eleazar de Carvalho. Also, he conducted at the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Theatre's Symphonic Orchestra, the one at the Teatro Municipal de São Paulo, Minas Gerais Symphony Orchestra and titular conductor at OSSODRE (Orquesta Sinfónica do Servicio Oficial de Difusión, Radiotelevisión y Espectáculos ''Symphony Orchestra of the Official Service of Broadcasting and Spectacles'') in Uruguay. In Italy where he remained for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zaccaria Autuori
The Zaccaria family was a noble Genoese family that had great importance in the development and consolidation of the Republic of Genoa in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and whose only surviving branch ( Zaccaria de Damalà) produced the last ruling dynasty of the Principality of Achaea in Frankish Greece. History The Zaccaria family, also named Zaccaria di Castro, through their descent from a branch of the older De Castro family from Gavi, which was further a branch of the viscounts of Carmandino, dating back to 952, was a very prominent family in the Republic of Genoa, which following the Treaty of Nymphaeum of 1261, were granted by Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos important trading rights in the Empire of Nicaea, as a reward for the help received in the recovery of the Byzantine Empire, and, more generally, in an anti-Venetian function. In this context, the Zaccaria assumed the lordship of Phocaea in 1275, first with Manuele then with his son Tedisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guiomar Novaes
Guiomar Novaes (February 28, 1895 – March 7, 1979) was a Brazilian pianist known for individuality of tone and phrasing, singing line, and a subtle and nuanced approach to her interpretations. Biography Born in São João da Boa Vista (in the area of São Paulo state in Brazil) as one of the youngest children in a very large family, she studied with Antonietta Rudge Miller and Luigi Chiafarelli before she was accepted as a pupil of Isidor Philipp at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1909.Methuen-Campbell, ''New Grove'', 18.208. That year there were two vacancies for foreign students at the Conservatoire—and 387 applicants. Novaes played for a jury that included Debussy, Fauré, Moszkowski and Widor. Her pieces were the Paganini– Liszt Etude in E, Chopin's A-flat Ballade and Schumann's '' Carnaval''. She won first place. Debussy wrote a letter in which he reports his amazement about the little Brazilian girl who came to the platform and, forgetting about public and jury ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magda Tagliaferro
Magdalena Maria Yvonne Tagliaferro (19 January 18939 September 1986) was a Brazilian pianist of French parentage. Magdalena Tagliaferro was born in Petrópolis, Brazil. Her father, who had studied piano with Raoul Pugno in Paris, was a voice and piano professor in São Paulo. He was her first teacher. The cellist Pablo Casals heard Tagliaferro play in São Paulo when she was eleven, and he encouraged her to study at the Conservatoire de Paris. She went to Paris with her parents. Her father arranged for her to play for Pugno, who was impressed and recommended her to Antonin Marmontel at the Conservatoire. She entered the Conservatoire in 1906 in Marmontel's class and was awarded the Premier Prix (the highest examination award for performance) in 1907. Subsequently, she studied with Alfred Cortot and the two remained friends for the rest of his life. She developed a reputation for striving towards the realization of the musical ideals exemplified by Cortot: a perfect union of cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamil Maluf
Jamil () is an Arabic given name. It means "handsome" or "beautiful" in Arabic. The Latin spelling variants include Gamil (used mainly in Egypt), Cemil (in Turkish), Djemil or Djamel (mainly in North African countries influenced by French spelling), Djamil, Jameel (mainly among African Americans influenced by English spelling) and Yamil (Spanish spelling). The feminine equivalent is Jamila or Jamilah ( Djamila). Notable people with the given name Jamil * Tariq Jamil (born 1953) , Islamic Scholar * Jamil Abdullah al-Amin (né Hubert Gerold Brown, born 1943), American civil rights activist and convicted murderer * Jamil Adam (born 1991), English football player * Jamil al-Assad (1932–2004), Syrian politician * Jamil Azzaoui (born 1961), Canadian comedian, radio personality, and musician * Jamil Bachir (1920–1977), Iraqi musician and sibling of Munir Bashir * Jamil al-Banna (born 1952), Palestinian-Jordanian refugee formerly held at Guantanamo Bay detention camp * Jamil Cana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Karabtchevsky
Isaac Karabtchevsky (born December 27, 1934, in São Paulo) is a Brazilian conductor of Russian-Jewish ancestry. He studied music and conducting in Germany, where his teachers included Wolfgang Fortner, Pierre Boulez and Carl Ueter. Karabtchevsky conducted the ''Brazilian Symphony Orchestra'', (Rio de Janeiro) from 1969 to 1996. From 1988 to 1994, he was principal conductor of the ''Tonkünstler Orchestra'', (Vienna). From 1995 to 2001, he was music director of the ''Teatro La Fenice'' (Venice). Since 2003, Karabtchevsky has been the artistic director of the '' Porto Alegre Symphony Orchestra'' (Porto Alegre). He was music director of the '' Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire'' (Nantes et Angers Angers (, , ;) is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris. It is the Prefectures of France, prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department and was the capital of the province of Duchy of Anjou, Anjou until the French Revolution. The i ...) from 2004 to 2009. Today, Kara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
