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2019-07-18 14:00:26
Shafer/Mumford/Sewailam/Boehler/Bridge Academy Singers/Odense SO/Starobin/Shwartz(Bridge)Poul Ruders’ new opera, based on a little-known Brothers Grimm story, veers between neoromanticism and something a little edgier It’s very rare for a new opera to make it on to disc before it is seen in public. But
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2017-06-09 13:16:09
Maestro move: Poles pick Costa Rican
The Wrocław Philharmonic have named Giancarlo Guerrero as their music director. He succeeds the US-Israeli Benjamin Shwartz, who has held the job for the past four years. Guerrero, who is music director of the Nashville Symphony, will conduct four week in Wroclaw this year and eight weeks next. His opening concert takes place tonight.
2017-02-27 13:52:15
Barbican, London A programme celebrating John Adams’ 70th birthday was well-played, but sadly lacking in subversiveness and wit The Britten Sinfonia’s programming is usually so inspired that it’s a surprise to question it. This was a 70th birthday tribute to John Adams, the most exuberant and successful standard-bearer of what, like it or not, is known as the minimalist school. But was it a celebration, or an indication that the school is hitting a dead end? Admittedly, the Sinfonia is limited by its size in terms of which Adams’s works it can play. The pieces chosen were 1992’s Chamber Symphony and 1982’s Grand Pianola Music. In between, it was joined by the highly professional teenage trainees of the Britten Sinfonia Academy, for Philip Glass’s Music in Similar Motion, a 1969 piece that doggedly defines minimalist techniques. Continue reading...
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2017-02-06 16:38:12
Happy news: Maestro gives birth
The Barbican Centre has rather drily reported a change of cast: We are sorry to announce that Joana Carneiro is no longer able to conduct this concert. Happily, this is due to her having recently given birth, and we send her and her family all our best wishes. We are delighted that Benjamin Shwartz is able to step in to conduct at such short notice. Ms Carneiro , who is Portuguese, is music director of the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, California, and principal conductor of Orquesta Sinfonica Portuguesa and Teatro Sao Carlos in Lisbon. We send good wishes to mother and child.
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