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Happy Birthday, Fanciulla: Rhythm and Dance
La Fanciulla del West, Puccini's best, least-known opera, recently turned 100. The rollicking spaghetti Western — which takes place during the California Gold Rush — premiered December 10, 1910, at New York City’s Metropolitan [...]Opera. But despite its initial success, it didn't prove to be as popular as La Bohème, Tosca, or Madama Butterfly.
In celebration of the opera’s centennial, Boston University’s College of Fine Arts, in conjunction with the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, hosted “Fanciulla 100: Celebrating Puccini,†a symposium that featured numerous musical experts and historians, including Deborah Burton, a CFA assistant professor of music and former president of the New England Conference for Music Theory.
In the video above, Burton demonstrates the rhythms behind Puccini’s Fancuilla. “We hear the waltz, the polka, and the bolero,†she says. “These dances could have been inspired by the incidental music Puccini heard when he went to New York in 1907 and saw the Belasco plays Girl of the Golden West and Rose of the Rancho. Audiences of those plays would have heard two waltzes, a polka, two boleros, a habanera, and a cachucha.â€
Hosted by the College of Fine Arts and the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center on December 6, 2010.
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Breath, Rhythm and Music for Your Wellbeing
Join Igor Iwanek, a lecturer in music theory at Boston University College of Fine Arts, and live musicians in learning the ancient techniques of Naad Yog (yoga of sound) for holistic wellbeing.
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