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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-10-18 18:35:41
Will You Be There?
[…] varied over the harmonic pattern of a Renaissance ground bass, the passamezzo antico. Who are the parents of this beautiful, child of diverse origins? Insofar as we claim citizenship in the family of man, the infant is ours. Like so much of what we perform for you today, such a song is the fruit of our common awareness of mortality, and of our common, precious, fragile humanity. By Anne Azéma and Joel Cohen A Short Production History This program premiered at Longy School of Music of Bard College in November 2021 in the depths of COVID [reviewed HERE]. Then, as now, students of an eponymous course taught by our Artistic Director joined the pros onstage. In the fall of 2022, this program began its touring experience, and particularly in New York City. It is expected to tour domestically during the early weeks of […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-08-30 21:19:28
Machover’s VALIS This Way Comes
[…] relevant today—in a world coming to grips with “deep fakes” and the rapid development of AI technology—than when it was first presented. It tells the story of Horselover Fat—the author’s alter ego—who has a devastating-yet-enlightening “pink light” experience. Fat explores the blurred boundaries between reality and AI technology and considers the possibility of hope in a world where all knowledge is available but little of it is verifiable.” The soprano from 1987, our own Anne Azéma, joined me in interviewing Tod Machover. Lee Eiseman: Tod, did you write the part of Sophia for our Anne Azéma? Tod Machover: I found the Philip K. Dick novel by chance in a Paris bookstore when searching for a text with a subject related to technology and humanity. VALIS jumped off the shelf, and I got even more than what I bargained for. Anne Azéma: We met at French Cultural Attaché Véronique Marteau’s. And […]
2021-12-15 21:59:07
Best of 2021: Holiday Music
Hodie Christus Natus Est Boston Camerata, Anne Azéma Harmonia Mundi CD A trio of female singers accompanied by hurdy gurdy, harp, rebec, and bells present a diverse program of medieval Christmas music in English, Latin, Italian, Iberian, and French. Plainsong hymns, responses, carols, and dances, all by anonymous sources, are performed with impeccable sound, […]
2021-12-10 08:33:58
Christmas disc round-up: from Christmas Matins in Bavaria & Nine Lessons & Carols at King's College, Cambridge to festive brass from Canada & the Wexford Carols
Daniel Hyde and the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, recording In the Bleak Midwinter in the chapel in December 2020 This year's Christmas round-up has something of an edge to it, many of the discs were recorded under the challenge of social distancing and the effect of the pandemic on child choristers who will have been deprived of the experience of singing in public. Some choirs have clearly made good use of the time offered, whilst others such as King's College, Cambridge took advantage of the unusual circumstances to record the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols in a chapel empty of audience.There is also a sense of looking back, the King's Singers return to their roots, whilst on Alto we can hear the Deller Consort in Medieval carols recorded in the 1950s and 1960s and the St Florian's Boy's Choir celebrates its 950th birthday with archive recordings. It is […]
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