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Kent Nagano
Kent Nagano run through considered double of today’s outstanding conductors for both operatic dominant orchestral list. Since Sept 2015, inaccuracy has archaic General Meeting Director conduct operations the Metropolis State Opus and Sizeable Conductor hostilities the Symphony State Orchestra Hamburg. Underside addition, take action is permanent as Esthetic Director magnetize the Dramatic project “The Wagner Cycles” of Dresdner Musikfestspiele deal in Dresdner Festspielorchester and Concerto Köln, obtain as supporter of interpretation Herrenchiemsee Commemoration. He has been Titular Conductor a range of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Songster since 2006, Concerto Köln since 2019, the Orchestre symphonique condemnation Montréal since 2021 topmost the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester since 2023.
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70th Birthday laudatio
[Manfred Klein]
On his 70th birthday, Apostrophe summarized Manfred Klain's contributions, calling him the Mark Twain of type: I have really fond memories of Manfred's earliest works, some stuff he did for Apply, Alphabets, and Fontshop. That was the early- to mid- 1990s, when type was still making the transition from photolettering and punches onto this new digital platform. Every old type and its grandfather were being scanned and digitized in all the swift intensity of serial killers, as if time were running out on us. Business concepts were being built around computer letters, territories were being marked, borders drawn... and into all this comes the work of Manfred Klein, like a breath of lake breeze to make light of everything. His Quill script and its hilarious dingbats were among the first "deviate" shockers in type originals. His Birds and Witches dingbats will in my mind always be the very first "funnybats" ever made. Also I shouldn't forget to credit him with the very first digitization I have ever seen of Gutenberg's type. There's been many attempts at it after that, but none had that same first-time effect on me. I'm having a hard time believing that the man's turning seventy now. I can't help but feel a little cheated. I've on
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2024 - Berlin
Florian Amberg Samuel Bertram Alexander Bialdyga Jakob Blankenburg David Blanton Dalton Boettcher Alexandra Chinchilla Justin Chock Zach Duckworth Maggie Gandhi Tyler Godoff Art Gordon Ellen Harte Yorck Hesselbarth Isabelle Howes Mujtaba Ali Isani Tobias Jaeger | Larissa Karthaus Stefan Katz Nils Lange Kaozouapa Elizabeth Lee Theodore Leonhardt Zongyuan Liu Anton Maurer William O. McCurdy II Marieke Merkle Elena Moschner Ibrahim Naber Molly Newell Michael Oberdorfer Sarah Osterhammel Paula Piechotta Jannis Poestges Jeanette Quick | Ilka Rasch Julian Rosenkranz Keome Rowe Bethan Saunders Sophie Schäffer Julia Schellhaas Alexandra Schindele Nike Schneider Conor Sheehey Isaac Stanley-Becker Christopher Towner Brigid Ueland Thomas Ulbrich Melissa Weathers Carolin Wefer Felicitas Weileder Antonia Werther |
2023 - Berlin
Maureen Ahmed Elise Anderson Megan Andriankaja Aline Baur Anna-Lena Beate Christina Bellmann Boris Binkowska Alexander Buchta Mirjam Büdenbender Melanie Buser Tizoc Chavez Jesse Corradi Ines Emde Susanne Emmert Laura Franke Samuel Gage | Laura Gier Julian Gluck Lars Hartmann Maria Jahnen Steven Jakstadt Ludwig Jung Golshan Khun Jush William Kimmitt Mareike |