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Did you know ...
- ... that in 2020 when Persian-Canadian countertenor Cameron Shahbazi performed in Written on Skin in Cologne, his "Luciferian charm" and "iridescent voice" were noted?
- ... that Sung Min Song, who was an informatics engineer in Seoul until age 26, performed the extreme tenor role of Arnold in Rossini's Guillaume Tell as his debut at the Saarländisches Staatstheater?
- ... that Helmut Reimer, who was professor of microelectronics at the Technische Universität Ilmenau from 1971, began in 1992 to make TeleTrusT a competence centre for applied cryptography and biometrics?
- ... that Four Epigraphs after Escher is a 1993 piano trio by Graham Waterhouse for viola, heckelphone and piano based on four graphic artworks by M. C. Escher including Reptiles?
- ... that compositions by Graham Waterhouse range from the beginning of his String Sextet, Op. 1, in 1979 to the Fantasia Ucraina for two violins in 2022?
- ... that the walls of the Kronberg Academy's Casals Forum are curved and covered with wood in a manner reminiscent of a string instrument?
- ... that in "Who shall separate us?", composed by James MacMillan for the state funeral of Elizabeth II, verses from Romans 8 are followed by Alleluias described as "burning bright sonic trails"?
- ... that Stardust, the title of a composition by Taylor Scott Davis for eight voices a cappella commissioned by Voces8, became also the name of the vocal ensemble's 2022 tour?
- ... that Britten's Five Flower Songs, part songs composed for a couple's 25th wedding anniversary, premiered at their estate Dartington Hall?
- ... that Andreas Reize ranked Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen, a choral setting of the first verses of Psalm 84 by Johann Hermann Schein, as one of three pinnacles of motets before Bach?
- ... that the melody of Mozart's aria "Dove sono" from Le nozze di Figaro, asking "Where are those happy moments ...?", begins similarly to the Agnus Dei from his earlier Coronation Mass?
- ... that Ukrainian baritone Danylo Matviienko, who holds a master's degree in mathematics, appeared as Demetrius in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Oper Frankfurt?
- ... that Luigi Gaggero conducted the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra in Germany in April 2022, restoring Lyatoshynsky's Symphony No. 3 to its 1951 version, with the last movement themed "Peace will conquer war"?
- ... that the Deutsches Romantik-Museum in Frankfurt, the only museum dedicated to the entire era of German Romanticism, looks like three houses and features blue elements?
- ... that in her 2021 composition This too shall pass with string orchestra, Raminta Šerkšnytė used a vibraphone for the flow of time, a violin for the transience of humans, and a "heavenly" cello?
- ... that a photograph by Maks Levin, showing destroyed buildings in Kyiv, was featured on the cover of a March 2022 edition of the German magazine Der Spiegel?
- ... that the 1885 spiritual anthem Prayer for Ukraine
was performed by a choir from New York on Saturday Night Live? - ... that conductor Rudolf Pohl, a member of the Aachen Cathedral choir as a boy, brought the Charlemagne-era choir to international recognition in the 1960s?
- ... that In Freundschaft was composed in friendship by Karlheinz Stockhausen as a clarinet solo for Suzanne Stephens, and later adapted to the instruments of other friends?