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2024-02-29 19:16:31
NEP Piques Our Interest
New England Philharmonic’s “New Music New England” [tickets HERE] celebrates our region and features Grammy-winning organ soloist Paul Jacobs Boston on Sunday March 3rd at 3:00 pm at the Boston University Tsai Performance Center. In a concert which also includes, Wang Lu’s Surge (2022), Ives’s Three Places in New England (1935), David Sanford’s Thy Book of Toil (2014), a pair of works by composers we know, Kati Agócs and John Harbison, particularly piqued our interest. John Harbison’s What Do We Make of Bach? for orchestra with organ obligatto premiered in October 2018 with the Minnesota Orchestra, conductor Osmo Vänskä, and organist Paul Jacobs, organist. Agócs summarizes her Perpetual Summer (2010) for BMInt readers below, and our interviews with Perpetual Summer with Harbison and Jacobs follow. [caption id="attachment_27163" align="alignleft" width="232"] Kati Agócs (Samantha West photo)[/caption] “Perpetual Summer is scored for large orchestra. Elegiac, even apocalyptic in tone, the work represents my reaction […]
2024-02-18 12:27:00
Wake up and listen to the music
Elsewhere much brouhaha about the launch of a BBC Radio 3 extension. This new online channel will offer "peaceful favourites.....ethereal choral music, soothing orchestral textures [and] mood-based repertoire [including] shows that lean into the mindfulness, wellbeing and sleep space... to create a consistent, calming listening experience". Personally this development does not worry me very much, as I have given up listening to Radio 3 completely since it became a deformed clone of Classic FM. But the hijacking of wisdom practices such as mindfulness to justify a desperate lunge for the Classic FM market does concern me. Mindfulness has been taken out of context and exploited by many other misguided corporations before the BBC saw it as silver bullet for the moribund Radio 3. Similarly yoga and other components of Eastern wisdom traditions have been ruthlessly exploited for commercial gain. In fact mindfulness is a key component of Vipassana meditation in the Buddhist Theravada ('Way […]
2023-12-12 15:09:44
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2023-12-06 16:39:14
THE SCOOP | Naomi Woo Named First Woman Music Director Of NYO Canada
The National Youth Orchestra of Canada has announced the precedent-setting appointment of Naomi Woo as Music Director for its 2024/2025 seasons.
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