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The Magic of the Musicals
Life, Harry Rolnick, Published on 01/09/2016
» To be honest, "The Magic Of The Musicals" didn't start with The Sound Of Music or The Phantom Of The Opera or even My Fair Lady.
Inside Beethoven's universe
Life, Harry Rolnick, Published on 02/08/2016
» If the "Beethoven Gala" on Aug 11 proves nothing else, it will show that there was never "one" Beethoven. The scowling, misanthropic personality, the irresponsible debtor running from countless irate Viennese landlords was also the man who created his own universe of emotional and arousing music.
Violin prodigy and the great Czech spirit
Life, Harry Rolnick, Published on 12/07/2016
» The entire concert of the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra on July 24 will be devoted to an interval of seven years and a single Central European country. But what emotional years they were! And what inspiration came out of what we now know as the Czech Republic.
Internationally recognised Thai ballerina returns
Life, Harry Rolnick, Published on 06/08/2015
» Before she reaches her third decade, Bangkok-born Natnaree "Ommi" Pipit-Suksun is beginning to stretch the boundaries in American ballet. As a dancer with the London Royal Ballet School, a Soloist Dancer in the San Francisco Ballet and now a Principal Dancer with the San Jose Ballet Company, she is one of only two "non-Caucasian women" in America to reach this height. (The other, African-American Missy Copeland, gave credit to Ommi on the nationally-broadcast Charlie Rose Show last month.) She has already danced on three continents in lead performances. The Huffington Post listed her as one of American's "39 most exciting dancers".
Playing up the pomp and circumstance
Life, Harry Rolnick, Published on 14/07/2015
» Anybody in Thailand got a good cello concerto for sale? If so, get it ready by next Tuesday. One of the world's greatest cellists is coming to Bangkok, and his reputation for playing original cello concertos is as celebrated as his performances.
Dark, yet more romantic
Life, Harry Rolnick, Published on 17/02/2015
» It's encore time for Clara-Jumi Kang. When the formidable Korean violinist appeared here last year, playing Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, critic James Keller praised her "truly authoritative and highly sensitive musical command". This coming Saturday, Kang has changed her violin, modified her feelings and changed her music from the very proper early 19th century Mendelssohn to a rare highly romantic surprise written 50 years later.
Finally, Zimerman in Bangkok
Life, Harry Rolnick, Published on 08/01/2015
» Krystian Zimerman's been called a "rabble-rouser", an "intruder", a "cold aristocrat", a "thin-skinner". Both he and the Steinway piano he carries around to his concerts have been called "utterly eccentric."
The Mighty Trio: Chopin, Hough and Debussy
Life, Harry Rolnick, Published on 02/09/2014
» It has taken 15 months, but Stephen Hough is finally giving Bangkok an encore. Rather, the great British pianist is giving a dozen-odd encores after his triumphant performance of the Rachmaninoff and Lutuslawski Paganini variations last year.