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“I had to develop the gall and conviction to defy discrimination and societal prejudice” – tabla player Anuradha Pal
By Neha Kirpal While high-schoolers usually look forward to spending their summer vacation enjoying
2021-02-06 20:21:00
Haydn's Creation: Chaos and Light
The ‘Representation of Chaos’, with which The Creation opens, is justly the most celebrated number in the oratorio, and it is clear from the sketches that Haydn took unprecedented pains over its composition. Heinrich Schenker wrote of Haydn ‘stretching and straining’ his musical means, to recall in its mysteries ‘the mysteries of Chaos’. Without the aid – or constraint – of a text, the composer depicts the universe prior to the Creative act, whilst also prefiguring that act. This movement does not begin in C minor; it opens with an emphatic unison C, of indeterminate length and indeterminate tonality. As Hegel would point out in the second chapter of his Logic, an absolute – that is, a true beginning and basis for all subsequent determinations – cannot in itself be determinate. From the outset, Haydn evolves his tonality, but he does not immediately introduce a […]
2020-05-29 13:18:09
Austrian composer Franz Schubert left us about 600 songs. Among these is the amazing “Gretchen am Spinnrade”, in English: Gretchen at the spinning wheel. The lyrics are as follows: Gretchen at the spinning-wheel English Translation © Richard Stokes My peace is gone My heart is heavy; I shall never Ever find peace again. When he’s not with me, Life’s like the grave; The whole world Is turned to gall. My poor head Is crazed, My poor mind Shattered. My peace is gone My heart is heavy; I shall never Ever find peace again. It’s only for him I gaze from
2019-11-03 09:58:52
The Exiled Outsiders
Hans Gál (2nd right) in the internment camp(Photo Courtesy of The Hans Gál Society) The Exiled Outsiders - Hans Gál, Max Kowalski, Peter Gellhorn; Madeleine Bradbury-Rance, Simon Wallfisch, Richard Stemp, Barbara Gellhorn, Nigel Foster; London English Song Festival at Hinde Street Methodist Church Reviewed by Anthony Evans on 31 October 2019 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) A fitting tribute to three composers who escaped Nazi Germany & made lives in the UK, and the contribution they made to their adopted countryHinde Street Methodist church was, once more, the venue for this the fourth concert in the London Song Festival series exploring the theme of Outsiders. At the 31 October 2019 concert, The Exiled Outsiders, the pianist Nigel Foster once again crafted an imaginative and revealing programme. The singers were the soprano Madeleine Bradbury-Rance and the baritone Simon Wallfisch. Richard Stemp and Barbara Gellhorn were the speakers. […]
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