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2024-04-22 09:09:00
The Celestial Stranger: new song cycle inspired by Thomas Traherne's recently discovered manuscript
Joana Carneiro & Gavan RingThomas Traherne was a Herefordshire clergyman who died in 1674 aged 38. Known now as a poet to equal his great contemporary religious writers John Donne, George Herbert and Henry Vaughan, his works had been substantially lost and are only recently being rediscovered. His Centuries of Meditation was only rediscovered in 1898, other volumes turned up but the biggest cache of his work was found only as recently as 1997 at Lambeth Palace Library where they were catalogued as anonymous. Amongst these works is a 42-chapter treatise entitled The Kingdom of God which includes The Celestial Stranger, where Traherne imagines a visitor from a distant universe visiting earth and being Held in wonder by its riches and beauty.Musically, Traherne is perhaps best known as the poet for Gerald Finzi's Dies Natalis which draws on three Traherne poems plus text from Centuries of Meditation.Traherne's The Celestial Stranger is now the inspiration for a song-cycle […]
2024-04-21 16:45:08
Musician had Held top roles at Glyndebourne opera and in Chicago, Melbourne and Toronto orchestrasSir Andrew Davis, a conductor who performed with many of the world’s finest orchestras, has died at the age of 80.Throughout his long career Davis Held many roles, including for more than a decade those of chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBCSO) and musical director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-04-09 16:12:00
Christian Tetzlaff and Kirill Gerstein debuted their duo for Bostonians at a Jordan Hall Celebrity Series Concert on Sunday. They Held his listener enthralled. [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
All the conducting master class
2024-04-02 14:32:47
26 Jun – 01 Jul, 2024 The 3rd International Masterclass with Jorma Panula will be Held from 26th of June till 1st of July 2024 The Kecskemét Symphony Orchestra presents an international master course for conductors from 26th of June to 1st of July 2024, led by the world-famous Finnish conductor and educator, Jorma Panula.Conductors […]
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