music

An interview from the series
“People who impart music

John Axelrod

Usually, music teachers teach their students until they have acquired certain skills. Be it for domestic use or participation in competitions or for a professional career. But there is a group of music teachers who regularly stand in front of already highly skilled instrumentalists or singers: The conductors. Mostly we see only a small part of their work, namely the concert performance. But the preliminary rehearsals take much more time. With it, a conductor teaches the musicians to play the way he imagines. About this work, the International Music School Berlin talked to one of the best conductors of our time: John Axelrod.

John Axelrod calls himself an “Ameropean”. He was born in America, more specifically Texas/USA. But for more than ten years weiter lesen »

Donna Leon

An interview from the series
“People who impart music”

In a few years the complete 42 operas of George Frideric Handel will be published on CD, including many which we have never heard before. However, the propelling strength of this project is not a record company and not an opera house, but a writer: American bestselling author Donna Leon. She is famous for her crime novels about the Italian Commissario Brunetti. None less but 16 cases she let him solve up to now, one per year. These books were also filmed successfully for television. Her 17th book (title: “The Girl of his Dreams“) has just been published.

However, when Donna Leon doesn’t deal with her Commissario, she follows her second passion: the music of George Frideric Handel. Especially  weiter lesen »