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2022-01-11 01:24:10
Isthmus.com: Power and grace: Composer Bill Banfield and the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra open the world’s ears to the works of Black composers
Bill Banfield with the WCO at one of last summer's Concerts on the Square. ISTHMUS by Michael Muckian January 9, 2022 It’s a sad story that has a happy ending. Composer Bill Banfield’s Symphony No. 8 — Here I Stand, based on the life of Black activist/actor/bass-baritone Paul Robeson — was commissioned in 2000 by the New England Conservatory of Music, where Banfield did his undergraduate work. Prior to its premiere, however, the conservatory’s president left and the planned concert was canceled. Banfield had a digital version of the score, but during a technology upgrade, the written symphony was lost in the electronic shuffle. Today, Banfield is pretty matter-of-fact about the loss — probably because the lost symphony has been found. After a […]
2021-07-27 23:48:00
African Diaspora Music Project is Helping Singers & Orchestras Diversify Their Repertoire With New Database of Works By African Diaspora Composers
[…] Her tireless advocacy is a beacon for this important work. She not only leads as an innovative entrepreneur, educator, scholar but as well as a leading proponent of contemporary performance practice and concertizing. In my 30 + years as a composer and author, there would simply not be the current information and celebrations of our works as Black concert artists without the dedicated work of Louise Toppin." said Dr. Bill Banfield, composer, author Artistic director/Conductor Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra President of the International Conductors Guild Boston Symphony Orchestra Composer-in-Residence Julius P. Williams said “Louise Toppin has been on the forefront championing African American composers for many years with her work with Videmus and the new database. I have collaborated on many of these projects and recorded with her two CDs that emphasizes the music of black composers i.e, “Heart on the […]
2021-03-31 08:52:34
Proud Songsters: a survey of English song by ten distinguished alumni of King's College, Cambridge on the college's own label
[…] of Quilter's Go, lovely rose and Gerald Finley on terrific form in RVW's Silent Noon. In between we get a series of gems, well organised to create a satisfying recital with voices and performing styles nicely contrasted. The result adds up to an intelligent survey of what it is to be English song, and having nine distinguished singers means that we have nine different but equally valid approaches. There is a fine article by Stephen Banfield which uses the line up of songs to try and come to grips with what English song actual means. There are also full texts (not that you need them, diction is uniformly superb) and biographies. And whilst I can well understand why there are no dates, part of me is intrigued enough by that aspect of the project to wish that we could have had graduation dates as well! 1. To Gratiana Dancing and […]
2021-02-22 20:12:00
Cedille Records: Michael Abels: "Global Warming"; David Baker: "Cello Concerto"; William Banfield: "Essay for Orchestra"; Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Generations"
African Heritage Symphonic Series - Volume III Chicago Sinfonietta Paul Freeman, Conductor with Katinka Kleijn, cello Cedille 90000 066 (2002) Cedille Records Album of the Week "The Chicago Sinfonietta’s amazingly assured performances of this wildly diverse assortment enjoy perfectly balanced, warmly focused recorded sound. This is a very satisfyingly executed project that makes its points in the only way that ultimately matters: by offering excellent interpretations of interesting, thoughtful, and enjoyable music." —Classics Today Michael Abels (b. 1962): Global Warming (1990) (8:18) David Baker (b. 1931): Cello Concerto (1975) (1956) Katinka Kleijn, Cello Soloist William Banfield (b. 1961): Essay for Orchestra (1994) (10:33) Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004): Generations: Sinfonietta No. 2 for Strings (1996) (19:31) […]
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