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Goldberg Variations
Posted by: The IMA on Friday, July 01, 2005 - 07:42 PM
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We just discovered a great site about Bach's Goldberg Variations. It includes commentary and analysis about the piece from many well-known interpreters of Bach's music and interesting information about the piece, its history, and its performance styles. This work is one of the greatest keyboard pieces, consisting of a slow, highly ornamented theme (called the Aria) and followed by thirty variations. Every third variation is a canon, and each canon's voices are offset at increasing intervals (for example the first canon is at a unison, the second cannon is at the interval of a second, and so forth). The variations all are highly unique in character, and many of them are incredibly virtuosic. If you want to find out more about this marvelous work, click here: http://www.thegoldbergvariations.com.
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100 Members!
Posted by: The IMA on Saturday, December 11, 2004 - 09:55 PM
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Sorry that we haven't been updating recently; we hope to be able to update several times in both December and January. However, we would like to point out that the IMA Web now has reached 100 online members! Thanks so much for all of your support. Remember to contribute any information, articles, or insights that you might want to share.
Also, check out the new poll by scrolling down and looking to the right-hand side of the main page.
As always, contact us at imaweb@imusicassociation.com if you have any questions or comments.
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Linking to the IMA Web
Posted by: The IMA on Saturday, August 07, 2004 - 12:18 AM
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The IMA Web has been working on our online visibility. After researching how an Internet user might find the IMA Web, we realized that it is a somewhat difficult task. This is because most Internet visitors use search engines to find information, and getting high rankings from search engines is not particularly easy. A site ranks higher on a search engine when many different web pages link to that site. This is because the more links you have to your site, the more popular your site is deemed to be. It also is good for the classical music online community in general to have a strong connection between sites that are all trying to support the same music. Therefore, we have been in communication with several other classical music websites in an attempt to exchange links. We completed such an exchange with Mfiles, a British classical music information and sheet music website. In addition, we exchanged links with VirtualSheetMusic (selling sheet music to download) and Naxos (yes, the large classical CD production corporation). We also received great news: the IMA Web has finally been added to the Open Directory. The Open Directory is a categorized listing of sites that is edited by actual people (not computers) from around the world. We have waited an entire year to be listed on this site, and we have been added to the Arts/Music/Organizations category.
If you have a classical music site and want to exchange links with the IMA Web, email us at imaweb@imusicassociation.com. We are always looking for increased publicity (and more members!), and you can help us by swapping links.
In other news, Clive Gillinson, the Managing Director of the London Symphony Orchestra, has been appointed Executive and Artistic Director of Carnegie Hall. The appointment comes after his predecessor Robert Harth died of a heart attack in January 2004. Read the full story by clicking here. Also, the Philadelphia Orchestra received a $2 Million grant from the William Penn Foundation. The funds will be distributed over the next three years. Finally, conductor Carlos Kleiber died on July 13 at the age of 74. Kleiber was known for both his excellence and perfection in his performances, but also for his mystique and eccentricities. He conducted rarely in the last few years of his life (his last concert was in 1999) and he canceled many of his engagements. Kleiber was born in 1930 in Berlin, where his father directed the Berlin State Opera. The Kleiber family moved to Buenos Aires in 1935 to escape the Nazis, and Carlos began studying conducting by age 20. He was held in very high esteem by many musicians and music lovers. Click here to read the full story.
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Updates and Submissions
Posted by: The IMA on Wednesday, July 28, 2004 - 12:12 PM
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The IMA Web recently received several articles and review submissions from IMA Member Posthorn. He wrote a very in-depth article on Dvorak's Stabat Mater that you can find by clicking here. Check out his reviews, such as his review of Thomas Hampson's Mahler DVD by going to the Reviews Section of the IMA Web. The IMA Web greatly appreciates articles submissions such as these; one of the missions of this site is to give classical music fans a platform on which they can share their thoughts and ideas. Feel free to submit any articles that you would like us to post by using the IMA Web portal software or by emailing them to us at imaweb@imusicassociation.com.
In other news, we just added a forum, called "User-to-User Notices." In this forum you can post a notification about an event that you will participate in, or a classical music event that you find particularly interesting. We started this forum because we received several notifications of this type, but we had no place to store them. Click here to visit the new forum.
We also added several links to the Music Links section. If you haven't been to that section, you might find helpful classical music resources that you weren't aware of. Also, you can rate and post comments about sites that we link to, or you can submit links of your own.
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Myasstro's Take on Schumann
Posted by: myasstro on Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 10:43 PM
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So today is Robert Schumann's birthday. One of my favorite composers. But which side of Schumann do I like better, Florestan or Eusebius? I love the Sturm und Drang of the Fourth Symphony, the ecstatic finales of all of his symphonies, the three trumpets in Eb minor in the Manfred Overture. But it's the Eusebius side I couldn't live without: the second movement of the Piano Concerto, for instance, or the third movement of the Third Symphony, or his most tender songs piano works, and chamber music. In fact, I think I'll listen to Dichterliebe right now. Also, Schumann fans should perpare themselves for a rare performance of Das Paradeis und die Peri next year with the San Francisco Symphony. Check the schedule.
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60 Members!
Posted by: The IMA on Thursday, June 03, 2004 - 02:38 PM
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The IMA Web has now reached the 60 Member mark! Thank you to all of our members for your support of Classical Music and for joining the IMA. Remember to submit any articles, links, reviews, or news items to the IMA that you want to share with the Classical Music community. You can either use the IMA Web's submission system or you can email whatever you like to imaweb@imusicassociation.com.
In other news, Bay Area composer John Adams was recently awarded $100,000 by Northwestern University for winning the Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Musical Composition. Adams is one of the most popular contemporary composers, with a diverse output of compositions that have been performed by many of the largest and most powerful organizations. His work On the Transmigration of Souls, composed for the New York Philharmonic, earned him a Pulitzer Prize in 2003. Adams received international attention from his two operas, Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer, and he is also well known for his long-term association with the San Francisco Symphony, a relationship resulting in works such as Harmonielehre and Harmonium. As part of his new award, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will perform a work by Adams and he will spend four weeks working with students on the Northwestern University campus. Click here to read the full article.
Finally, we have added two large-scale articles to the IMA Web. One is about Haydn's Symphony No. 102, which you can read by clicking here. The other is a full analysis of Mozart's "Prague" Symphony. Click here to read it.
We have one question for our visitors: Do you have any comments, questions, suggestions, or feedback about the IMA Web? If you do, send them to us by email at imaweb@imusicassociation.com. Thanks so much!
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Happy Birthday to J.S. Bach!
Posted by: The IMA on Sunday, March 21, 2004 - 12:57 AM
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Happy Birthday to Johann Sebastian Bach, one of Classical Music's greatest composers ever. Bach's genius has greatly influenced the history of Western music, and his brilliant and beautiful compositions are loved by people around the world. Many of the building blocks of Classical Music come directly from Bach, such as the Well-Tempered Clavier (as one of the greatest books of studies for keyboard players), the unaccompanied Violin and Cello works (as marvelous examples of solo instrumental writing), and the Chorales (as the staple of the study of Harmony). Bach's extraordinary intelligence is found throughout his works, and especially in pieces such as the Musical Offering and the Art of Fugue, where he shows his mastery of counterpoint and musical imitation. At the same time, Bach's music is always very beautiful and full of both life and emotion.
To celebrate Bach's Birthday, we have several special links to information about Bach:
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~tas3/wtc.html - Contains scores to the complete Well-Tempered Clavier as well as movies about many of the fugues!
http://www.jsbach.org/ - Contains information about every piece written by Bach, along with recommended recordings for each work.
http://www.kunstderfuge.com/bach.htm - Contains a large biography of Bach along with hundreds of Bach MIDI files
Enjoy, and be sure to email us at imaweb@imusicassociation.com if you have any Bach questions, comments, or articles to submit!
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Grammy Winners
Posted by: The IMA on Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 01:09 AM
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The 2004 Grammy winners have been announced! Congratulations to Michael Tilson Thomas with the San Francisco Symphony, Pierre Boulez with the Vienna Philharmonic, Mstislav Rostropovich, Maxim Vengerov, Emanuel Ax, Dawn Upshaw with the Kronos Quartet, and all of the Classical Music winners of the 46th Annual Grammys. Here is the link for the complete list of winners:
http://www.grammys.org/awards/grammy/46winners.aspx
Just scroll down to Field 29 - Classical.
In other news, we have added several new articles in our Classical Music section. Also, our IMA Forums are doing very well. We have recently started working on an online catalogue of the IMA Music Archives, a repository for our massive collection of music-related items. As this project progresses, we will continue to post more information.
We have noticed that concert attendance is sometimes quite shaky throughout the Classical Music scene. Because of difficult economic times, poor Classical Music publicity, and our current global society, we are always fighting to keep our musical tradition alive. The International Music Association would like to ask its members to try and see at least one concert this February 2004. While you're at it, invite a few friends along. If you are wondering which concert you should attend, post in the IMA Forums or email us at ima@imusicassociation.com. Remember, if we (as people interested in Classical Music) don't stir up interest in concerts, who will? Just make sure to review any concerts you see on the IMA Web in our Reviews section!
Thanks for your help, support, and contributions to the IMA!
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Nearing 1st Year!
Posted by: The IMA on Thursday, January 15, 2004 - 08:54 AM
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We are very close to the IMA Web's 1st year anniversary! We actually opened our website on January 20, 2003. Soon, as promised, we will announce our Anniversary Article Contest, which will include several awards for excellence in contributions to the IMA Web.
We have been continually updating the site in many of its sections and categories. We have had several submissions to our Music Links section and a good deal of activity on the IMA Forums. Recently, we added an article about Franz Liszt. Click here to read it. We also added an article about the composing styles of Classical Music composers. You can click here to read this article. In addition, we have begun working on a whole series of articles that will discuss Music Theory from the very basics up to modern harmony. Click here to read the first publication in this series entitled "From the Beginning."
Finally, congratulations to our new members. We hope you enjoy the IMA Web, and we look forward to our second year of operations.
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