Re: The Off-Topic Chat Thread (July-December 2013)

[Derek McGovern]

Armando's just alerted me to the news that Plácido Domingo was hospitalized this week in Madrid after a pulmonary embolism arising from a deep vein thrombosis:  

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/09/showbiz/placido-domingo-hospitalized/index.html

Eerily enough, this is essentially the same condition that may have killed Lanza. Fortunately, in Domingo's case, he's expected to make a full recovery. I have no doubt that he will! The fact that the man is still singing everywhere---and apparently quite well---at the age of 72 is testament to his amazing physical constitution (not to mention remarkably resilient vocal cords).  

[Derek McGovern]

Good to see that Domingo's now been released from hospital;

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-placido-domingo-released-from-the-hospital-20130714,0,5731564.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fmostviewed+%28L.A.+Times+-+Most+Viewed+Stories%29

(Thanks for the link, Armando.) 

[Derek McGovern]

Speaking of Domingo, I've always thought that this was one of his most exciting (and Lanza-esque) performances:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMGo3WEwnFA 

I've always wished that Lanza had recorded this, along with the glorious "No Puede Ser" (another Domingo favourite). 

[Armando]

Absolutely! Two of Domingo’s best and they would have been perfect for Lanza.

[Barnabas Nemeth]

Agree. These two songs were Domingo's best and special song performances. At the same time, he was not too good in Neapolitan songs at all.

Barnabas

[Derek McGovern]

I just wanted to alert people to the fact that we now have the ability to edit our own posts. This should be a most useful function---especially for me, as I'm forever deleting my own posts whenever I spot a badly written sentence or egregious grammatical error :)

To find the "edit" function, simply click on the downward arrow located on the right-hand side of every post. 

Cheers

Derek 

[George Laszlo]

And now, a little diversion for you:

http://geekologie.com/2013/08/teenage-girl-calmy-destroying-complicate.php

[Derek McGovern]

Here's something that Lee Ann alerted me to: a recent debate hosted by Stephen Fry at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in which the well-known critic Norman Lebrecht and novelist/critic Philip Hensher argue over which composer was greater---Verdi or Wagner. It's lot of fun, and the debate is enhanced by live performances of extracts from both men's operas:  

http://www.intelligencesquared.com/events/verdi-vs-wagner-200th-anniversary-stephen-fry/  

[Derek McGovern]

Joe just sent me this beautiful performance of Jerome Kern's "All the Things You Are," conducted by the late, great John McGlinn---and apparently Kern's original version of this unforgettable song. (Don't be put off by the stiffness of the first male singer at the beginning; it gets much better!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf80ntbCLCc 

Incidentally, arranger-conductor McGlinn was renowned for his work on another Kern masterpiece, Show Boat, on which he again went back to the original score (for a wonderful recording with Jerry Hadley and others in 1987), revealing a much more impressive dramatic work than the watered-down version with which most people were familiar.

[Armando]

Magnificent! Not surprisingly this was Kern’s favourite composition.

[George Laszlo]

Derek, since you are in South Korea, you may enjoy the video I created today. My wife, Eileen, and I went to the 33rd Annual Korean Festival which takes place in what is now known as Koreatown in Manhattan. This is on 32nd Street which is just around the corner from the Empire State Building. There were musical performances throughout the day, including the number being sung in this video. The singer, Deun Li, is a PhD candidate at the Mannes School of Music. Unfortunately, I did not catch the name of the song which is supposedly about a mountain range in Korea. Perhaps you will know what it is. For all the others on this forum, I hope you enjoy the performance.

http://youtu.be/3F1Hzq6b7sI

George

[Derek McGovern]

Hi George: That was a very spirited performance! The song ("Mt. Kumkang") is one of the famous of its type in Korea, and foreign performers often delight the locals by singing it here. In fact, Domingo does a fine job of it here (and there's an English translation of the lyrics in the comments section):  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuqWiUno578

Cheers

Derek

[leeann]

For Joseph Calleja fans,  Opera News has provided a link to the music of his forthcoming release, Amore.  It's billed as a selection of "beautiful Italian and Mediterranean songs with a contemporary twist."  There's no mention of Mario Lanza's influence on Calleja this time around, at least, on advance press materials, but instead, to Gigli, Schipa and Caruso whose recordings helped to create the legacy of many of these songs. But there's no reference to Domingo and Villazon, whose versions of "No Puede Ser" that Calleja sings here, are among the iconic, I think.  Happily, Morricone gets a mention. Sigh, Bocelli gets a plug.

As you'll see, however, Lanza, too, recorded about half the selections on this new album. This soundcloud link (https://soundcloud.com/dlgpress/sets/joseph-calleja-amore/s-ccEvr) lets us listen to the entire album:  19 tracks--one hour, ten minutes of music.   Lee Ann

[Vincent Di Placido]

Thanks for that link, Lee Ann. I enjoyed listening to that album. As for there being no mention of Mario's influence, there should have been because the "O Sole Mio" is the same arrangement as Mario's 1949 recording, that made me smile & we are always saying how "Hollywood" it is...

I liked "No Puede Ser" good performance, I love this song! I prefer the original Andrea Bocelli arrangement of Con Te Partiro but Joseph sang it well.

 

 

[Steff]

Hi Lee Ann,

 

For both, "Bésame Mucho" and "O sole mio," the CD booklet  for "Amore" mentions "transcribed from an original arrangement for Mario Lanza ..." the transcription for "Bésame" is by Steven Mercurio who conducted the BBC Concert Orchestra on Calleja's "Be My Love" tribute album. Mercurio also did some arrangements on "Amore," for example for "Ideale," "Non ti scordar di me" and "Vaghissima sembianza"

 

Incidentally, Calleja's rendition  of "None But the Lonely Heart" (sung in Russian) is absolutely stunning!

 

Steff

[Derek McGovern]

Many thanks for sharing that soundcloud link to Calleja's new album, Lee Ann. 

I've just listened to six tracks, and there's no doubt in my mind that Calleja continues to improve. His timbre has darkened most attractively, and the quality of his voice is especially appealing on something like "No Puede Ser." 

Yes, that's a beautiful rendition of "None But the Lonely Heart," Steff. I can't vouch for Calleja's Russian pronunciation, but I loved his moving and completely non-hammy approach. (If only Lanza had sung it like this, and with this arrangement!) Incidentally, how startlingly baritonal Calleja sounds here. In fact, I don't think I would have identified him correctly if someone had played me only the opening phrases.

It's very interesting comparing Calleja's renditions of "Ideale" and "Vaghissima Sembianza" with Lanza's. Mario's much more restrained on these two songs, and his renditions are decidedly smoother---which is not something we say every day! His high As on "Vaghissima" are also more impressive than Calleja's (the latter uses a "hoist" both times). But what I love about Calleja is his unfashionable refusal to sacrifice feeling for mere notes. He's certainly much closer to the passionate singing of, say, Carreras, than he is to the often-bland delivery of Pavarotti on these types of songs. While I wasn't especially keen on his rendition of "Vaghissima Sembianza," I thought the second half of "Ideale" was beautifully done. A gorgeous ending too! (It's interesting, though, that Lanza still remains one of the very few singers who actually sings the closing lines as Tosti wrote them :))

Cheers

Derek  

[Steff]

   Viva Maestro Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)!

   The attached article "Verdi at Eighty - Wonderful Career of the Young Old Man" is from the "Daily Inter Ocean," 5 November
   1893:

   Steff

[Derek McGovern]

Thanks for that quirky historical article, Steff, and a belated happy 200th birthday to Verdi!

Cheers

Derek  

[Derek McGovern]

Thinking of our member Lou in the Philippines, where one of the worst storms in memory has been raging. Hope you and all your family are safe, Lou!

Derek

[Derek McGovern]

I just came across this 2013 interview with Ann Blyth:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/tcm-classic-film-fest-ann-450345

What a lovely person! She still looks great at 84, and her mind remains as sharp as a tack. 

A brief clip of her singing "Loveliest Night of the Year" in The Great Caruso is included in this extended interview, but she doesn't make any specific comments about Lanza. 

[norma]

Dear Derek,I am not clear how to send an email to a persons private email.It used to be clear on the previous forum.Can anyone give me Sam Samuelian's email?

[Lou]

Many thanks for your concern, Derek. Fortunately, the area (Metro Manila) where I live with my family was not in the path of Super Typhoon Haiyan, so we hardly felt its effect. In the areas directly hit, however, the devastation is unbelievable. I ask the believers among our members and readers to pray for the victims of the monster typhoon.

Lou 

[Derek McGovern]

Hi Lou: I'm very relieved to hear from you, as the first thing I read this morning was a shocking account of the devastation caused by this storm, which is far worse than anyone could have anticipated. My heart goes out to the people of your country.

All my best,

Derek

[Derek McGovern]

Norma wrote:

Dear Derek, I am not clear how to send an email to a persons private email. It used to be clear on the previous forum. Can anyone give me Sam Samuelian's email?

Hi Norma: Members of this forum (only) can reply privately to other members if they do so from the forum itself. To send an email to a member, simply click on the downward arrow to the immediate right of the arrow that you would normally click to reply to a post. This downward arrow gives, as the first option, "Reply to author." That's how you send an email directly to a member (rather than to the forum itself).  

The downward arrow also provides other options, such as the ability to edit one's own post or even to print a particular post.

All the best,

Derek 

P.S. To email Sam Samuelian privately, simply click on this link to one of his old posts: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mariolanza/9MvZcTCUi1M/eBbqL9_O5LMJ and you'll be able to write to him using the method I outlined above.

[Muriel]

Hi Lou,

 

I'm also relieved to hear that you were not involved in the worst of the killer storm. From the pictures I've seen here, the destruction is beyond belief! I have a friend whose husband came from Cebu, one of the areas greatly affected. My prayers go with all who are suffering. Take care and I love reading your interesting posts.  Muriel

 

[Lou]

Hi Muriel,

How lovely to see you posting again!  And many thanks for remembering my suffering countrymen in your prayers. Pictures and videos do not do justice to the full magnitude of the human tragedy wrought by the super typhoon. A bright spot in the otherwise unimaginably bleak situation is the massive outpouring of support and sympathy from governments and private organizations around the world. Their generosity and compassion moved me to tears.

Lou

[Michael McAdam]

Hi Lou, and a heartfelt "whew!" that your part of those lovely islands was spared the devastation, which the ongoing news reports show ever more graphically as each day progresses. Both the death toll and the visible destruction are beyond belief. Providence surely smiled upon you.

 

Lousiana's blow from Katrina was so different as that monster moved slowly and prolonged the misery and destruction before it passed and the skies cleared. The wind speeds, according to US news sources, are still only estimates??

 

Tks for the welcome back but......I didn't realize I was gone ;-). I had understood the Forum was "mothballed" by Derek until further notice. Unfortunately, I never heard it awaken from its "nap" .

 

Cheers,

Mike

[Armando]

Hi Lou: The images of the devastation and loss of lives in your country are heartbreaking.  I am not a believer, but if I were I would simply question how such major calamities can possibly come about without any intervention from above.

My very best wishes to you,

Armando

 

[Lou]

Hi Mike and Armando: Thank you very much for your sympathetic interest in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan in my country.

Mike, unlike Katrina in Louisiana, Haiyan was out of the Philippines a little over 24 hours after its first landfall. Weather experts say that the speed at which it swept across the country may have spared the Philippines further damage, including massive flooding in Manila, where I live. With reported winds of 195 mph, Haiyan could be "the strongest landfalling typhoon ever recorded on Earth." Unlike in the United States, however, where hurricane hunter aircraft is used to measure wind speeds from inside the storm, in our part of the world, meteorologists estimate the winds using satellite data, which are less precise.

Armando, the question of the apparent non-intervention by God in natural disasters is a thorny theological issue that many believers of various faiths struggle with whenever a major calamity occurs. The Catholic Church, to which I belong, teaches that God would not permit an evil if he did not cause a good to come from that very evil, by ways that we shall fully know only in eternal life. That's good enough for me. (By the way, Royal Australian Air Force planes carrying a medical team and their equipment were among the first aircraft to arrive in the disaster area.)

Best,
Lou

[Steff]

Just the other day, I was looking up something about Richard Tauber, and then I remembered that, about a year ago, I had researched a few concert announcements and reviews in our then local newspaper, the "Freiburger Zeitung" about Richard Tauber's very first public appearances, which took place on May 17 and 23 1912 in my hometown Freiburg im Breisgau.
Just recently I spotted a picture which shows the concert venue of May 17, the "Städtische Kunst-und Festhalle Freiburg (Municipal Arts and Festival Hall). So here it is (see below), the place where Tauber's incredible career started. The buidling was located right in the heart of the city, not far away from the Freiburg Cathedral. It was in a beautiful park but was destroyed in 1944 because of the heavy bombardment of the city in WW II, which leveled almost all of the historical centre of the city to the ground (the Cathedral -the Freiburger Münster- was miraculously spared). The park still exists, but the hall never has been rebuilt, at least not at this place and not in this beauty.
On his very first concert which was with the "Concordia" (male choir) Tauber was accompanied by his voice teacher, Karl Beines, who was responsible for Tauber spending one year (between 1911 and 1912) in our city for private singing lessons (he was not at the Freiburg academy of music like Fritz Wunderlich).
The photo of Tauber was taken one year later, in 1913, when he moved to Dresden.
The photo of the "Städische Kunst-und Festhalle" is from an article which appeared last year in the "Badische Zeitung," which is the successor of the "Freiburger Zeitung."

Steff

[Derek McGovern]

Hi Steff: How interesting that Tauber sang for the first time in public in your (very beautiful) hometown! And I see that he turned 21 just the day before---though, curiously, he looks quite a bit older than that in the photo above. (Still, it's the most youthful-looking I've ever seen him.)  

Cheers

Derek

[Derek McGovern]

There's an interesting (and entertaining) interview with conductor Richard Bonynge in the October 2013 edition of Opera News:

http://www.operanews.com/Bonynge/

83-year-old Bonynge, who's never been afraid to mince his words, is in fine form here, and he has some provocative things to say about stage directors, master classes and undisciplined singers. He also makes the point that,

The standard of instrumental playing has gone up, the standard of dancing has gone up immensely, but the standard of singing has not gone up.     

[George Laszlo]

My wife's cousin, soprano Rachel Schutz, will be doing a radio concert together with her pianist husband, Jonathan Korth, this Wednesday (Dec. 4, 2013) at 12:15 p.m. Chicago (Central) time. The program is quite interesting and can be viewed here:

http://www.imfchicago.org/hess/schedules#/hess/schedules/259

The radio station web site is below. If you go there, just click on "Listen Live" and test out the connection. It may or may not work from everywhere around the world.

http://www.wfmt.com

[Steff]

Hi Derek,

As for Freiburg, I made a quite interesting “discovery“  the other day during some researches for private, non-Lanza matters. As some of you might know, Richard Hageman, who played a conductor in two Lanza films, namely “The Toast of New Orleans” and “The Great Caruso,” was –apart from his cameo roles in a few films- mainly a conductor/musical director and also a composer. One of his compositions was an opera called “Caponsacchi” from 1931. The world premiere of this opera, “Tragödie in Arezzo” is the German title, took place in Freiburg at the municipal theatre; this was in 1932.

I was able to locate the review of this world premiere in our then local newspaper “Freiburger Zeitung.” I was delighted to read that Richard Hageman himself was present at the theatre for the world premiere performance on 18 February 1932. The review says:

“After the second act the applause had already increased so very much, that the composer, Richard Hageman, appeared on stage, and at the end the audience was not satisfied until the performers, the stage director, the stage designer and the impresario appeared on the stage again and again. The world premiere of this American Opera was a complete success for the local theatre.”

Incidentally, it had been on the initiative of the Freiburg musical director, Hugo Balzer, that the opera had its world premiere in Freiburg.

Steff

[Derek McGovern]

Hi Steff: I wasn't aware that Richard Hageman had written an opera, although I did know that he'd composed a large number of art songs---"Do Not Go, My Love" being probably his best known. He also wrote quite a few film scores. A very talented person all round!

I've always wondered what Hageman and Lanza thought of each other, and whether the latter ever considered singing (or knew) any of the former's songs. Some of Hageman's songs would have fitted in very well on Lanza's concert programme alongside such melancholy pieces as "Tell Me, Oh Blue Blue Sky." (In fact, I prefer "Do Not Go, My Love" to that song!)

Cheers

Derek 

[George Laszlo]

In case some of you have not yet heard, Martha Eggerth died a few days ago at her home in Rye, NY. Here is the NY Times obituary that appeared yesterday:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/31/arts/music/marta-eggerth-the-callas-of-operetta-dies-at-101.html?

[leeann]

George, what an amazing woman--and yet another artist whose career and life--along with that of her husband--was dramatically changed with the events of World War II.

It was interesting that another Lanza sighting came in one announcement of her death.

The Jewish Daily identified her late husband, tenor Jan Kiepura, as the Polish prefiguration of Mario Lanza!

I don't know much about Kiepura, or Eggerth either, and wondered at that analogy. A recent Opera News article, "Singular Sensation" (July 2013) helps to explain. The article talks about his life, his music, and about Kiepura and Eggerth's work together as a couple. Kiepura's voice, training, vocal mastery, and diverse career--including opera, operetta, concert, and film--invite comparisons with Lanza.  So, perhaps, does an attitude about the importance of interpretation. He told Eggerth, "Study what the lyrics mean to you. Not every word is important. What it means to you is what's important."

It's interesting that Kiepura was warned at one point that if he appeared in the operetta "The Merry Widow," his career at the Metropolitan Opera was over--and he chose the operetta!

In any event, Eggerth and Kiepura intertwined two fascinating careers!  Best, Lee Ann

(Noted, too, yet another facet of six degrees of separation--Eggerth was among the many who worked with Victor de Sabata who had invited Lanza to open the La Scala 1950-51 season as Andrea Chenier! (See A Mario Lanza Musical Who's Who.)

[Derek McGovern]

Interesting stuff!

Coincidentally, Jan Kiepura was a fellow guest at the Kempinski Hotel in Berlin in November 1958 while Lanza was staying there. (This information comes from Gerhard "Gary" Roeder, whose reminiscences are featured here.) I wonder if the two met?

Cheers, and Happy New Year!

Derek

[Derek McGovern]

The always-entertaining writer/director Albert Innaurato now has an interesting blog on all things operatic:

http://mrsjohnclaggartssadlife.blogspot.co.nz/

I've only dipped into it so far, but the cheerfully controversial Mr. Innaurato has plenty to say on such subjects as Domingo the tenor vs. Domingo the baritone, lowered larynx techniques, and the personality of Giuseppe Verdi.   

Cheers

Derek

[Derek McGovern]

Please use this thread for any discussion not related to Lanza. This is the ideal thread for posting greetings, exchanging general chit-chat, or for making comments on non-Lanza-related topics that are unlikely to extend to more than a few posts.

(Members are welcome, of course, to create separate discussion threads for non-Lanza-related topics that they feel are likely to spark more than a few posts.)

For miscellaneous Lanza-related comments and/or questions, please post on this thread:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mariolanza/oUTS9we8TeA/ty3_srZz-xIJ

[George Laszlo]

Your comments, Leeann and Derek, led me to think that I should share a bit more about Marta and Jan. They were both friends of my mom, Marica Gervay, who was a singer and actress. As Leeann points out, WWII took many a career off track, including that of my mom. But, the musical community in Budapest before the war was very tight and most of the artists knew each other and worked together as well. This included Marta, Zsazsa and my mother. This leads to the connection that Derek has suggested; that Mario and Jan may have been introduced to each other in Berlin. This is more than likely since Zsazsa knew both of them. Of course, the actual introduction is still conjecture. Last but not least, after our family arrived in the USA and I was just in my teens, we made a few visits to Marta and Jan's house in Rye. Being so young, I did not appreciate the significance of this until much later. Which also reminds me that Marta was a pupil of my grandmother, Elizabeth Gervay, when she was still living in Budapest. Elizabeth was a voice coach who, by the way, also taught the Gabor sisters with, I believe, mixed results.

[Steff]

“MAKING THE TAILCOATS FIT” – FIRST EVER BIOGRAPHY about RICHARD HAGEMAN

Hello to all,

Many Lanza fans will remember Richard Hageman (1881-1966) playing the role of Maestro Trellini in “The Toast of New Orleans” and of Maestro Carlo Santi in “The Great Caruso” respectively. Not many will be aware however, that Hageman did much more then appearing in a few Hollywood movies. Born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, he was a highly multi-talented musician. For many years he was musical director of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, working with the greatest singers of that “golden era” such as Enrico Caruso. He was a concert pianist, songwriter and composer and wrote the scores for several movies.

South-African born pianist Nico de Villiers and Dutch journalist Asing Walthaus have just recently published the first ever biography about Richard Hageman – “Making the Tailcoats Fit.” The book is a lovely tribute to this multi-talented artist and gives an interesting overview about Hageman’s life and career. The paperback book includes many photos, and Lanza fans will be delighted to see that the authors included the well-known publicity shot of Mario Lanza doing the scales with Hageman sitting an the piano “The Toast of New Orleans” – Of course you all remember the scene with Maestro Trellini” remarking: “This voice, it’s crude, it’s untrained, it’s unpolished, it’s magnificent!”)

Nico is a true Hageman expert and aficionado and if you visit his facebook site (search for “Richard Hageman Society”) you will notice how busy Nico and his colleagues have been to pay many tributes to this great artist and to keep his memory alive, especially in his hometown Leeuwarden.

Nico and I got in contact with each other quite a while back when I posted here on this forum on this thread about Hageman and his association with my hometown Freiburg. Hageman’s only opera “Caponsacchi” world premiered in Freiburg in the early 1930s with Hageman himself coming to our city to conduct the opera at the Stadttheater (municipal theatre) for 10 performances – a very well-received event at that time.

The other day Nico kindly sent me the press release for his book which I will post hereinafter.

Nico, may I congratulate you and your co-author to this wonderful book. I wish you much success for all your future Hageman activities. I know this is an ongoing project and I am glad that I could be of some help for you in regard of Hageman’s association with my hometown. Hageman for sure was a fascinating personality with a long lasting, various career.

Steff

 

Here’s the press release:

Making the Tailcoats Fit: First biography ever on Richard Hageman

As a six-year old, Dutch-born Richard Hageman (1881 - 1966) gave performances as a pianist. He would grow up to be a conductor of the Metropolitan Opera, a composer of songs, orchestral works and an opera that was forbidden by the nazis, and of music for films of celebrated director John Ford. Hageman shared an Oscar for the music of Stagecoach (1939), starring John Wayne. Hageman performed with French singer Yvette Guilbert and stars like Enrico Caruso and Sergei Rachmaninoff. His private life was varied too: his first wife threatened him with a gun, the second left him for an Italian duke, the third stayed with him till his death in Los Angeles.

 

Making the Tailcoats Fit is the first ever biography on the life and remarkable career of Richard Hageman. The writing duo of South African-born pianist Nico de Villiers and Dutch journalist Asing Walthaus unearthed a wealth of new facts about Hageman from archives and newspapers.

 

The book was presented on 12 November 2015 at the Noordelijk Film Festival in Leeuwarden, the Dutch town where Hageman was born in 1881. ‘I wish I had this book at my disposal ten years earlier when I struggled to put together a

portrait. (…) I trust that you will enjoy reading about this urbane, talented, accomplished, dedicated, and complex man as much as I did.” — Dr. Kathryn Kalinak, Professor of English and Film Studies at Rhode Island College and author of How the West Was Sung: Music in the Westerns of John Ford.

 

‘Richard Hageman was an American composer of the highest caliber, and an important contributor to the arts in America. His songs in particular deserve a special place on recitals for many years to come.’ — Lyric baritone Thomas Hampson

 

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Making the Tailcoats Fit - The life and works of Richard Hageman

Nico de Villiers, Asing Walthaus

76 pages, £15

Published in collaboration with Uitgeverij Wijdemeer, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands.

ISBN 978 949 205 216 2

Available: www.amazon.com; www.bol.com

 

For more information about the book or Richard Hageman, please contact the authors.

Nico de Villiers: hnbdev...@gmail.com. Asing Walthaus: asingw...@hotmail.com

For the Noordelijk Film Festival, please contact Jacqueline Schrijver.

in...@filminfriesland.nl

 

[Steff Walzinger]

Hello to All,

 

Please enjoy the musical Advent Calender 2016 presented by the Norwegian Institute of Recorded Sound.

 

“The musical choice we offer this year is only about dreams, desires and reflections. Close your eyes, relax and let yourself be carried away by a musical dream in this magical Christmas month.”

 

http://www.recordedsound.no/english/exhibitions/christmas16/

 

Time to open the first window today, 1^st December 2016!

 

Steff