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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-25 20:45:39
Atmospheric But Not Dreary
[…] how your ego works. It’s not about you and the spotlight. It’s about your recorded legacy; we’re all the better for that. Thank you. That’s a very nice thing to hear. Dominick Argento: The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe (1975-76) April 5th at the Huntington Theater Tickets HERE Composer: Dominick Argento (1927-2019)Librettist: Charles Nolte (1923-2010)Edgar Allan Poe: Peter Tantsits (tenor)Griswold.: Tom Meglioranza (baritone)Virginia Poe: Maggie Finnegan (soprano)Doctor: Neal Ferreira (tenor)Mrs. Poe: Kirsten Arnold (soprano)Mrs. Clemm: Felicia Gavilanes (mezzo-soprano)Mrs. Allan: Christina English (mezzo-soprano)Director: Anne HarleyTheatre Director: David Salsbery FryConductor: Gil RoseMusicians: Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Odyssey Opera chorus The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
2024-03-24 04:00:00
David Zinman’s Mahler cycle really hits its stride with this remarkable performance of the Third Symphony. It only has two small drawbacks worth mentioning. First, alto Birgit Remmert sounds pretty good in her big fourth-movement solo, but she’s far less impressive during her brief contributions to the choral fifth movement. Perhaps this take came from […]
2024-03-22 12:00:00
Organ Reborn! Norwich Cathedral Organ Festival: A new music festival for Norwich
[…] to experience organ music in all its versatile brilliance.’ The festival will open in style on Saturday, 6 July, 7pm, with Norwich Cathedral Choir joining forces with the choirs of Ely and Peterborough for a concert featuring choral favourites including Parry’s I was glad, Handel’s Zadok the Priest and Wesley’s Blessed be the God and Father. Ashley Grote, Edmund Aldhouse and Tansy Castledine jointly conduct what promises a marvellous and invigorating concert featuring Norwich Cathedral organists, David Dunnett and Robbie. Tickets £15-£35. A festive treat, too, is in store on Sunday, 7 July, 10.30am, with Organ Festival Eucharist, a special and celebratory service featuring Norwich Cathedral Choir accompanied by members of Norwich Baroque. Music includes Haydn’s Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo ( the Little Organ Mass). In the afternoon of the same day, Organ Festal Evensong (3.30pm) features Norwich Cathedral Choir singing William Walton’s Chichester Service and the festival anthem, The Twelve […]
2024-03-21 10:56:00
For young classical audiences the sound is the message
In David Hepworth's recommended history of EMI's Abbey Road studios he makes an observation that may just hold the key to unlocking the new younger audience that classical music has sought for so long in vain. Writing about the increasing importance of pop music in late 1950s Hepworth explains that "whereas the people working in classical music wanted to record music, the people in pop increasingly wanted to record sounds". The ultimate example of studio-created sound taking priority over music culminated in the seminal “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band" which took five-and-a-half months of sound-shaping at Abbey Road for the album's13 tracks to be completed. Classical dogma dictates that the music takes priority - note perfect interpretations, historically informed performances, pedigree of the musician, concert hall etiquette etc. In the classical world sound is the servant of music, as in the never-ending search for the acoustically perfect concert […]
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