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Classical music: A Vadym Kholodenko piano recital shadowed by tragedy

Edit The Dallas Morning News 06 Jun 2016
FORT WORTH–Rare’s the musical performance so shadowed by tragedy as Vadym Kholodenko’s recital Sunday night ... The wife has been indicted for their murders ... 19 ... Observing this year’s PianoTexas focus on the music of Schumann and Brahms, the recital’s first half comprised the former’s rarely performed Night Pieces and the only slightly better known Humoresque ... “The Bells of Geneva ... Editor Picks. ....

College Town. City Life. (University of Missouri - Kansas City)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Apr 2016
(Source. University of Missouri - Kansas City). Photo by Craig and Shelley Niesen. Each week, the University of Missouri-Kansas City offers an array of on-campus activities. It's nothing new. UMKC has a long legacy of hosting countless culturally enriching events. These activities are part of what give UMKC a vibrant campus life, and make UMKC an arts and culture powerhouse ... Featured Event.. What. Jazz Night ... Curnow ... Cohn ... Foster ... Humoresque, Op....

EU debate: Boris Johnson adopting a 'busking and humoresque' approach

Edit The Guardian 23 Mar 2016
Committee of senior MPs challenge London mayor over his recent interventions on the EU referendum. Boris Johnson has been accused by a senior Conservative of adopting a “busking and humoresque approach” to the European Union after a series of his claims about the EU were challenged by MPs on a Commons select committee ... Tyrie said to Johnson ... a very partial, busking – really – humoresque approach to a very serious question for the UK ... ....

Lawmakers accuse London Mayor Johnson of exaggerating arguments for Brexit

Edit Yahoo Daily News 23 Mar 2016
By Kylie MacLellan. LONDON (Reuters) - London Mayor Boris Johnson was rebuked by lawmakers on Wednesday for putting forward what they described as exaggerated and misleading arguments for why Britain should leave the European Union ... "You are illustrating ... a very partial, busking really, humoresque approach to a very serious question for the UK," said Tyrie, who has not announced which way he plans to vote....

'All very interesting, Boris. Except none of it is really true, is it?'

Edit The Guardian 23 Mar 2016
John Crace. The bantering Brexiteer had his balloon burst in a run-in with the Treasury select committee. Contact author. @JohnJCrace. “This is going on longer than a European fisheries meeting,” grumbled Boris Johnson as the Treasury select committee drifted well into its third hour ... This only provoked yet another crowd-pleasing interruption. Boris just couldn’t help himself ... Boris Johnson adopting a 'busking and humoresque' approach ... ....

Support for EU in City is 'shallow', says Boris Johnson

Edit Belfast Telegraph 23 Mar 2016
Support in the City for UK membership of the European Union is "shallow" and leading bankers say privately that they do not expect Brexit would do any damage to London's position as the world's leading financial centre, Boris Johnson has claimed ... Share Go To ... And he told the Treasury Committee ... The committee chairman accused Mr Johnson of offering "a very partial, busking, humoresque approach to a very serious question for the UK" ... ....

Horowitz on RCA: the April 1978 programs and their predecessors

Edit The Examiner 05 Mar 2016
As has already been noted, his previous focus had been the last (Opus 14 in F minor) of the three sonatas that Schumann had composed, enough of a finger-busting behemoth that Schumann himself called it a “Concerto Without Orchestra.” In 1979 Horowitz returned to Schumann’s comfort zone of cycles of shorter pieces, playing his Opus 20 collection of eleven humoresques organized around the key of B-flat major....

Observer/Anthony Burgess prize-winning essay 2015: Alternative Sibelius

Edit The Guardian 28 Feb 2016
The £2,000 prize for the best arts journalism essay in 2015 has been awarded to Leah Broad for her reappraisal of the great Finnish composer, in a review of a concert marking his 150th anniversary. Jean Sibelius occupies a conflicted position in music history ... So the standard narrative goes ... Twitter ... The same partly applied to the solo piano pieces Humoresque and Pensée mélodique, which were also transposed for guitar ... ....

The Oscars Before the Oscars

Edit Slate 26 Feb 2016
Popular as the Oscars may be, they are forever derided for being out of touch with the movies that fans actually watch ... “Choose your picture because of merits of theme, direction, action, continuity, setting, and photography, for these are the qualities which, in combined excellence, make great photoplays.” The very first award, for the year 1920, was awarded to William Randolph Hearst, the producer of Humoresque ... ....

Czech orchestra brings to India Dvorak’s hailed 9th

Edit The Times of India 23 Feb 2016
MUMBAI. Music history in its own little way will be made in the city today evening ... Why this is in any way exciting isn't quite obvious immediately ... They have Smetana, who wrote the unbeatable Vltava, Janacek, who wrote two mind-bending string quartets, and Dvorak, who is in the pantheon of the greats (perhaps everyone has heard his Slavonic Dances and Humoresques as background music, without realizing the source) ... ....

Classic film review: "Humor Risk" (1921)

Edit The Examiner 07 Jan 2016
One of the most mysterious lost films of the silent era was the first movie featuring the Marx Brothers ... "Humor Risk" was meant to be followed by films bearing such unlikely titles as "Hot Dog" and "Hick Hick Hooray," but there is no evidence that the other two films were ever made ... This type of release could have also resulted in changing the film’s title (a none-too-funny pun on the popular Fannie Hurst novel "Humoresque")....

The 10 best: pieces inspired by trains

Edit The Guardian 01 Jan 2016
Bruckner and Dvořák loved them, Wagner hated them and Mendelssohn found a trip on a free-wheeling locomotive “agony for the nerves” ... Johann Strauss I ... Glinka ... Alkan ... Berlioz ... Humoresque No 7, 1894 ... Although he never expressed this passion in music, in the 1930s the tune of his popular Humoresque No 7 became the setting of a mildly scatological verse about one of the more potentially uncomfortable restrictions of train travel ... Ives ... ....

A Delightfully Cynical Christmas

Edit CounterPunch 25 Dec 2015
You’ve no idea what you’re missing in Humoresque ... That the would-be prodigy version of Garfield’s character is played by twelve-year-old Robert Blake—later the tough guy t.v detective Baretta, who more than fifty years after his appearance in Humoresque would be acquitted for murder of his second wife but found liable for the crime in the ensuing civil case—adds seamy historical resonance to the on-screen action....
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