David Dalle
Thursday June 21st, 2018 with David Dalle
Music of the World Cup: Nations from South, Central, and North America, with a focus on Pablo Ziegler; farewell to Gennady Rozhdestvensky.

Continuing with more music from nations in the 2018 World Cup, looking at the teams from Concacaf (North and Central America and the Carribeans) and Conmebol (South America). Music from Argentina, Peru, Uruguay, Brazil, Columbia, Panama, Costa Rica, and Mexico with a special look at Argentinian pianist and composer Pablo Ziegler. Pablo Ziegler was the pianist in Astor Piazzolla's group for over a decade from 1978 until Piazzolla's retirement in 1989. He has continued in his mentor's path but with greater inclusion of Jazz in his Piazzolla-inspired nuevo-tango. He is a master musician performing both his own compositions and Piazzolla's. I have seen him live before and he is extraordinary. We have the incredible fortune of two upcoming appearances in Ottawa at Music & Beyond! He will be performing with Thirteen Strings on July 5th and solo on July 6th. Absolutely not to be missed! https://musicandbeyond.ca/event/pablo-ziegler-piano/ https://musicandbeyond.ca/event/pablo-ziegler-tango-nuevo-july-6/ We also say farewell to the great Soviet/Russian conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky, he was most famous for championing a generation of great Soviet composers who were troublesome for Soviet officialdom, both within and without the Soviet Union including Alfred Schnittke, Sofia Gubaidulina, Giya Kancheli, Edison Denisov, Rodion Schedrin. He was also a friend and great interpretor of Schostakovich, and gave the premieres of his 4th and 12th symphonies outside the Soviet Union, and revived his opera The Nose. In Rozhdestvensky, these composers did not only have a fervent champion, they had a tremendous conductor as well. He died aged 87 on June 16th.