Ruders

But then I read that David Carlson (whose Anna Karenina was premiered in St. Louis last season) was working on an adaptation of On the Waterfront (scroll down to the bottom) and I started to think about Wuorninen's efforts as part of a mini-trend of film-based operas: William Bolcom already saw the premiere of A Wedding, based on the Robert Altman film; Poul Ruders is composing a version of Lars von Trier's Dancer In the Dark; Howard Shore is mutating David Cronenberg's The Fly.

Archive 2007-10-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

But then I read that David Carlson (whose Anna Karenina was premiered in St. Louis last season) was working on an adaptation of On the Waterfront (scroll down to the bottom) and I started to think about Wuorninen's efforts as part of a mini-trend of film-based operas: William Bolcom already saw the premiere of A Wedding, based on the Robert Altman film; Poul Ruders is composing a version of Lars von Trier's Dancer In the Dark; Howard Shore is mutating David Cronenberg's The Fly.

Remakes Matthew Guerrieri 2007

The latest of them is the Dane Poul Ruders, whose Symphony No 4, An Organ Symphony, received its first performance in Dallas in January and arrives in Britain courtesy of Andris Nelsons and the City of Birmingham Symphony, which shared with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in the commission, featuring the organist Thomas Trotter.

This week's new live music 2011

Ruders trained as an organist before turning to composition, so the new symphony will definitely be a work composed from the inside; he likens the role of the organ in the symphony to that of a "parallel orchestra" rather than a concerto soloist.

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August highlights include the Beethoven string quartet cycle, the Modern Masters series on August 3 featuring pianist Alan Feinberg in a solo piano recital of works by Javanshir Kuliev, Mauricio Kagel, Judith Weir, Conlon Nancarrow, and Poul Ruders.

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And with "A Handmaid's Tale," which premiered in 2000, composer Ruders stipulated that any given performance should be set as though the revolution, which in Margaret Atwood's narrative established a world governed by right-wing religious fanatics, is to happen in two years 'time.

High Notes 2007

Bridge releases include a mix of music by modern composers, including George Crumb, Paul Lansky and Poul Ruders, and concert recordings drawn from the Library of Congress.

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Among Bridge's other high-profile-composer series are discs devoted to Mr. Lansky (10), Elliott Carter (8), Mr. Ruders (6) and Tod Machover (4).

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Adaptation is something Mr. Ruders has done brilliantly in the past.

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Poul Ruders and Paul Lansky but a likely highlight is Mr. Starobin's performance of movements from Mr. Crumb's "Mundus Canis" "A Dog's World", with the composer playing percussion.

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