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Open Day in Nuremberg
The Nüremberger Symphoniker on Saturday present a host of events and concerts to celebrate the open day of their recently refurbished and refitted “Musiksaal” in the Coliseum Nuremberg. Following tours of the backstage area, including the offices and dressing rooms of the orchestra, and following a youth symphony concert and performances by several of the orchestra’s chamber music ensembles, the event culminates in an evening concert with Alexander Shelley conducting an all-American programme of Bernstein, Porter and Gershwin. Prior to this, Alexander Shelley will also spend an hour signing...
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Further building on his already extensive youth projects in Bremen (Zukunftslabor) and Dusseldorf (440Hz), Alexander Shelley tonight leads the Nuremberg Symphony orchestra and several hundred Nuremberg school-children in a concert as part of the new government initiative “klasse.im.puls”. The children will sing the World Premiere of the newly composed “Hymnus” by Heinrich J. Hartl as well as four songs from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess in front of a sold out Musiksaal in Nuremberg. "klasse.im.puls" is a project founded and developed in cooperation by the Friedrich Alexander...
> read more> Leave a comment“Cheering, whistling, clapping, stamping, bawling” at 440hz
The eleventh instalment of the 440hz series on Saturday June 4th receives glowing reviews (see “press” for reviews in German) or read the translation of the Rheinische Post article below). From the Rheinische Post 6.6.2011 Cheering, whistling, clapping, stamping, bawling. Simone Kermes, the star-soprano with the fire-red hair has literally just shot the last “Ha-ha-ha” of Bernstein’s “Glitter and be Gay” into the audience in the best tradition of the limelight-loving Diva. Outrageously cheeky and impulsive and at the same time with humour and humility towards the...
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Following last week’s hugely successful debut with the Mozarteum in Salzburg, with a subsequent re-invitation for several projects over the coming seasons, Alexander Shelley this week returns to Düsseldorf to continue the 440Hz Festival in the Schumann-Saal. Now in its fifth year, the series this week welcomes soprano Simone Kermes to celebrate a programme of great arias and great orchestral works from the last three hundred years. Incorporating works by Vivaldi, Handel, Rossini, Elgar, Gershwin, Bernstein and Harold Arlen, the concert will also see Shelley at the piano accompanying Kermes...
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Alexander Shelley, London 2009
