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Articles by Geoffrey Dean

 

Interpreting Bach's Cello Suites with Andreas von Wangenheim
The German guitarist offers interpretative insights of relevance to any instrumentalist studying these seminal solo works... read

The Music of Petros Ovsepyan
This Berlin-based Armenian-American composer has Europe listening carefully to music that explores the boundaries between illusion and reality, between sound and silence... read

The Cello in Eighteenth-Century America  
The founding fathers' favorite instrument?  A lesson in early American cello history... read

Crooked Rhythms
A personal journey in Bulgarian music started with a walk down Sofia's yellow brick road... read

Strings Magazine Articles
Karttunen and Saariaho, Casals and Rontgen, Jongen's violin and cello duo... read

Reports by Geoffrey Dean

 

Spring 2005 Premieres with the Sofia Philharmonic
First performances: USF Trio in Chuchkov Triple Concerto and Stefan Popov's new transcription of the Glazunov violin concerto... read

MaerzMusik Festival Report  
Can, Cage, Cobra: Ziporyn and Zorn crank the decibels at the 2004 Maerzmusik festival in Berlin... read

Arditti Bartok Cycle in Sofia  
Trick or Treat?  Sofia's first Bartok quartet cycle in years brings the Ardittis to town... read

Ars Musica Festival Report
Jonathan Harvey and the Arditti Quartet at Ars Musica. The fifteenth edition of the Brussels new music festival presented over 50 events throughout the city...read

Cello Expedition with Luis and Clark
Standard rep, unusual instrument. The Luis and Clark carbon fiber cello in concert ... read

Acanthes IRCAM 2000
"A Finnish Mini-IRCAM": the 2000 Acanthes/IRCAM Summer Academy in Helsinki and a historical overview of electroacoustic music in France and Finland... read

 

Bulgarian Music History Documents

 

Early Bulgarian String Quartets  
"I gave it a Bulgarian injection": Lyubomir Pipkov (1904-1974) and Marin Goleminov (1908-2000) talk about their quartets... read

Spassov meets Cage
New York, 1982: composer Ivan Spassov (1934-1997) visits the "the much-hyped" John Cage... read

The War on "Formalism"
Sofia, 1952: Bulgarian composers have imported "decadent Western influences" into their music... read

Composer under Attack
Third-generation Bulgarian composer Konstantin Iliev (1924-1988) on the Formalism war... read

 

Bulgarian Cello Documents

 

Zdravko Yordanov
A remembrance of the cellist who made the instrument "a priority in Bulgarian music"... read

The Art of Cello Fingering
With the help of over 270 musical examples, Nikola Chakalov demonstrates how fingerings canbe both applied to and derived from cello literature...  read

Ivan Tsibulka
This Czech-born cellist is recognized as the founder of the Bulgarian school of cello playing... read

Bulgarian Cello Concertos
An annotated bibliography by Marta Simidtchieva (DMA, Florida State University, Spring 2005)... read

 

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