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2020-08-01 05:06:00
Classical Music News of the Week, August 1, 2020
[…] Jacobsen and vocalist Aoife O’Donovan; Vincent Calianno composing for trombonist Mike Seltzer; Wynton Guess composing for pianist Aaron Diehl; Amina Figarova composing a flute duo for ACO orchestra musicians Susan Palma Nidel and Laura Conwesser; Dawn Norfleet composing for vocalist Clarice Assad, voice; Guy Mintus composing for violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins; and Brian Nabors composing for a sextet of ACO Musicians (violinist Debbie Wong; violist Sandy Robbins; cellist Gene Moye; bassoonist Harry Searing; flutist Diva Goodfriend Koven; and harpist Susan Jolles). August 2, 2020 – October 4, 2020 Online world premieres streaming live on Sundays at 5pm ET $5 tickets available here: https://americancomposers.networkforgood.com/events/22348-connecting-aco-community-volume-iii-festival-pass More information here: bit.ly/ACOConnectVol3 Watch Connecting ACO Community Volumes 1 and 2 on ACO’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqToHsgaez-t3iuWx42eG8pcmQTdazOuf --Maggie Stapleton, Jensen Artists Arranging Songs That Sound […]
2017-04-03 13:00:20
At last my heart’s an open door
Today actress and singer Doris Day, 93, celebrates her 95th birthday. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8P_p7dB2dw Born on this day in 1639 composer Alessandro Stradella. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3JTOgsZWgY Born on this day in 1859 composer Reginald De Koven. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSRr1TnS_z4 Born on this day in 1891 soprano Felice Huni-Mihaczek. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITJJyYabM50 Born on this day in 1895 composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h7bHdkLdEc Born on this day in 1911 soprano Maud Cunitz. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqGPYbkoePA Born on this day in 1918 conductor Sixten Ehrling. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXkLYL2ruMo Born on this day in 1924 tenor Murray Dickie. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzrJ7PEn1YM Happy 89th birthday mezzo-soprano Kerstin Meyer. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN_22yXb4Y4 Happy 76th birthday baritone Jorma Hynninen. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMmDcblvvz8 Happy 63rd birthday librettist and director Stephen Wadsworth. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=W86D2P-rwO4 Happy birthday to parterre box critic Patrick James. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yUeqIXOh54
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2017-03-01 02:35:54
[…] conclude otherwise than that Rangell loves this music and conveys it with all his soul and all forty fingers. The reception was vociferously in favor. And after all that, an encore! Rangell said he needed to come down from the Ives high, and what better way than with Bach (“It always comes down to Bach,” he said from the stage). In this case it was the Sarabande from the French Suite No. 1. Vance R. Koven studied music at Queens College and New England Conservatory, and law at Harvard. A composer and practicing attorney, he was for many years the chairman of Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble. The post A Whistling, Lecturing, Liquid Pianist appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer .
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2017-02-06 05:31:12
[…] most of each phrase while keeping the momentum up. Yau was touchingly rhapsodic in the first movement’s second subject, and again in the chorale-like melody in the finale (though a little rubato there might have been welcome). Both players offered a creamy, lush, long-limbed reading of the slow movement. The scherzo was perhaps the weakest link, seeming a bit hesitant, but the finale opened with a big bang and kept a charging pace. Vance R. Koven studied music at Queens College and New England Conservatory, and law at Harvard. A composer and practicing attorney, he was for many years the chairman of Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble. The post Three-Brahms-Sonata-Outing Becoming Meme appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer .
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