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High Energy: an evening of firsts from the Manchester Collective and Mahan Esfahani at the BBC Proms
[…] a culturally inexperienced audience to get on board', mixing new music with old music, often works not in the regular repertoire. Though the group performs at venues such as Manchester's Stoller Hall and London's King's Place, they are just as likely to be found at the CLF Art Cafe in Peckham or The White Hotel which is a former garage in Salford. At the Royal Albert Hall they performed with contact microphones (sound engineer Joseph Reiser) which with the dramatic lighting brought something of the club-nite vibe to the hall, and the 16 players managed to fill the hall with vibrant sound. We were grabbed from the word go with the furious energy of Henryck Gorecki's Harpsichord Concerto. Whilst the work has Baroque-inspired structures underneath, this is a world away from the composer's best known work the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. Written in 1980 for the Polish harpsichordist Elżbieta […]
2018-02-02 17:29:20
Tony Award-nominated actor Louis Zorich, who played a grumpy Greek diner owner in "The Muppets Take Manhattan" and the father of Paul Reiser's character on the NBC sitcom "Mad About You," has died. He was 93. Zorich's Broadway credits include "Becket," ''The Odd Couple," Stephen Sondheim's "Follies" and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom."
2016-03-24 15:29:48
Barbican, London As much an art installation as a concert, the visuals occasionally communicated the composer’s sense of awe, but it was the music which impressed mostFor the second evening of their Barbican residency, Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic turned to Messiaen’s Des Canyons aux Étoiles for a performance that was as much an installation as a concert. Messiaen’s profoundly Catholic meditation on the glory of creation as revealed in the landscape of Utah was transformed into a big multimedia event by photographer Deborah O’Grady and lighting designers Seth Reiser and Stephen Terry. Shifting coloured lights reflected the composer’s synaesthesia. Images of Bryce Canyon and Zion national park, their landscapes slowly changing before our eyes, were displayed on a vast screen behind the players.There were, however, tensions within it. Messiaen saw the canyons as an earthly paradise that formed an intimation of its celestial counterpart. For O’Grady, they are […]
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