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2021-05-02 20:27:06
A graduate of the New York High School of Music and Art and the Juilliard School, Mr. Violette was a long-term music director at St. Augustine in Park Slope, Brooklyn. He was a recipient of three MacDowell Fellowships from 1983-1985. His compositions were known for their long, sweeping melodic lines and lush but transparent harmonies. […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2021-02-27 20:53:00
WaynesboroSymphonyOrchestra.org: Livestream Sunday, Feb. 28, 3 PM ET: Florence Price, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, George Walker & William Grant Still
[…] of racial incidents in Little Rock, particularly a lynching that took place in 1927, the family moved to Chicago where Price began a new and fulfilling period in her compositional career. She studied composition, orchestration, and organ with the leading teachers in the city including Arthur Olaf Anderson, Carl Busch, Wesley La Violette and Leo Sowerby and published four pieces for piano in 1928. While in Chicago, Price was at various times enrolled at the Chicago Musical College, Chicago Teacher’s College, Chicago University and American Conservatory of Music, studying languages and liberal arts subjects as well as music. Price’s friendship with the young composer Margaret Bonds […]
2019-03-29 07:46:28
Period charm & fizzing performance: Messager's Les p'tites Michu from Palazzetto Bru Zane
Messager Les p'tites Michu; Violette Polchi, Anne-Aurore Cochet, Philippe Estephe, Artavazd Sargsyan, Boris Grappe, Pierre Dumoussaud; Palazzetto Bru Zane Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 28 March 2019 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Messager's first big hit in a recording full of charmAndre Messager is perhaps as well known today as the conductor of the premiere of Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande as a composer, though his ballet Les deux Pigeons remains in the repertoire thanks to Sir Frederick Ashton. Of Messager's operas people might name check Veronique and Grange Park Opera revived Fortunio in 2013 [see my review].Now, Palazzetto Bru Zane has sponsored a recording of Andre Messager's first major hit Les p'tite Michu after a long run of failures. Les p'tite Michu dates from 1897, a year before Veronique. The original run of the piece, at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens was over 150 performances, and the English premiere in 1905 […]
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