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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/136732| Title: | Between heaven and hell : Malta Philharmonic Orchestra : review |
| Authors: | Coleman, Jeremy |
| Keywords: | Malta Philharmonic Orchestra Malta International Arts Festival (2025 : Valletta, Malta) Performing arts festivals -- Malta Concerts -- Malta Music -- Performance -- Malta Teatru Manoel Orchestral music -- Malta Music -- Malta |
| Issue Date: | 2025 |
| Citation: | Coleman, J. (2025). Between heaven and hell : Malta Philharmonic Orchestra : review. Kritikarti. https://kritikarti.mt/read/2200 |
| Abstract: | The City Gate to Valletta is currently flanked by large posters advertising the diverse performances and events that the Malta International Arts Festival 2025 has to offer. Among these is a cartoon image of a winged, muscled devil in almost balletic pose, back turned to dark clouds and a fiery sunrise. Based on Vladimir Tytla’s animation of the penultimate sequence from Disney’s Fantasia (1940), the illustration is promoting the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) concert (Saturday 21st June, Teatru Manoel), titled ‘Between Heaven and Hell’, that forms part of the Festival. The programmatic title has an air of theological profundity, yet the promise of Musorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain in the posthumous version by Rimsky-Korsakov made famous by the Disney movie suggests more of a commercial orientation. In the end, the concert was an odd mixture of these two tendencies. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/136732 https://kritikarti.mt/read/2200 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - SchPAMS |
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