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From Early Music to contemporary: the Royal Festival Hall organ is 70 and organist James McVinnie is celebrating with a Southbank Centre residency
[…] Ensemble in a programme entitled American Minimalism, with music by Gabriella Smith, Philip Glass, John Adams and inti figgis-vizueta. The ensemble features four keyboard players, James himself plus Eliza McCarthy, Siwan Rhys, and Hugh Rowlands. The ensemble has its origins in 2017 when Philip Glass was turning 80. James has always been a big fan of Glass's music, particularly that from the 1960s and 1970s. He is one of those who saw Einstein on the Beach in London in 2021 and it changed his life. Another work that he found powerful was Glass' Music in Twelve Parts, written between 1971 and 1974. Something of a cult piece, the work had never been published and so had never been performed by anyone other than the Philip Glass Ensemble. James wrote to Philip Glass to ask if he could put together a performance for Glass's 80th birthday. The result was a performance […]
South Florida Classical Review
2024-03-11 14:47:46
On a humid South Florida evening, a large audience turned out […]
2024-03-11 07:32:00
Something astonishing: Olivia Fuchs' new production of Britten's Death in Venice for Welsh National Opera involved a collaboration with circus arts, NoFit State
Britten: Death in Venice - Mark Le Brocq, Antony CésarWelsh National Opera (Photo Johann Persson)Britten: Death in Venice; Mark Le Brocq, Roderick Williams, Alexander Chance, Antony César, Diana Salles, director: Olivia Fuchs, conductor: Leo Hussain; Welsh National Opera in collaboration with NotFit State; Wales Millennium CentreReviewed 9 March 2024Bringing music drama and circus arts together in Britten's last opera to create something unforgettable anchored by Mark Le Brocq's assumption of the title roleBritten's Death in Venice involves the interaction between two worlds, those of Aschenbach and Tadzio, sung music drama and dance. A metaphor for Aschenbach's artistic and personal journey, the exact nature of these two worlds helps govern our perception of whether Aschenbach's relationship with Tazio is entirely in the older man's head or something rooted in reality.For Olivia Fuchs' new production of Britten's Death in Venice, presented by Welsh National Opera at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff (seen 9 March 2024), and then […]
South Florida Classical Review
2024-03-09 16:08:02
A West Palm Beach audience on Friday night experienced the towering […]
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