jueves, 28 de agosto de 2014

Is classical music dead .... for the n-th time?

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I dunno how many times I wrote here, for my younger pianists colleagues, that as a performer/artist we gotta be more daring, adventurous and...
martes, 19 de agosto de 2014

Robin Williams did NOT die of suicide, and art is sh*t

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This entry is one that I wish I wouldn't have needed to write, but I feel that I have the obligation to write it, for many reasons. It...
domingo, 17 de agosto de 2014

In memoriam Peter Sculthorpe, the greatest Australian composer, a friend, an idol

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Before anything else, I'd like to say one thing about Peter Sculthorpe : composer, friend, idol, who died last week (August 8). Since he...
miércoles, 13 de agosto de 2014

A new volume of Rapsodia Nusantara, but ....

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I haven't had even a 15-minute break since I arrived in Indonesia! Immediately after I landed, we rehearsed my Chamber Symphony no.1 ...
sábado, 2 de agosto de 2014

Let's keep the drama ONstage, not OFFstage

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Not really much time to rest after finishing my Chamber Symphony. I gotta go back to my opera CLARA that was abandoned due to the writing o...
lunes, 28 de julio de 2014

My impressions and suggestions, from the last Ananda Sukarlan Award

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Now that the Ananda Sukarlan Award Competition is over, and also the elections in our country is too (this is the first time I voted! Not re...
domingo, 13 de julio de 2014

Official Program Note for Chamber Symphony "In memoriam Ainun Habibie"

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This program note is taken from my previous entries in this blog, but with lots of additional informations, and also edited in a more "...
domingo, 6 de julio de 2014

Chamber Symphony, continued in Spain

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(continued from the previous entry). ... Another request from Mr. Habibie for my chamber symphony was that it would have a Javanese element....