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South Florida Classical Review
2024-02-16 17:13:00
Good male vocal groups that present serious repertoire, rather than more […]
2023-11-02 07:34:00
[…] Choir and Girl Choristers of Merton College, conducted by Benjamin Nicholas with an instrumental ensemble using a libretto devised by Simon Jones, Chaplain of Merton, and including Merton poets. (9/12/2023). There is a film screening of The Snowman with Howard Blake's score played live by Southbank Sinfonia (10/12/2023). Samuel Ali performs Messiaen's La Nativité du Seigneur (14/12/2023).The Vache Baroque Singers and La Vaghezza will be celebrating the music of Salomone Rossi in A Baroque Hanukkah (13/12/2023). Other wisitors include The Gesualdo Six (12/12/2023), the choir of New College, Oxford (15/12/2023), the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge (18/12/2023), National Youth Music Theatre Chorus & Orchestra (16/12/2023), choir of Westminster Abbey (20/12/2023) and the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford (20/12/2023).The Tallis Scholars and Peter Philips celebrate their 50th anniversary with While Shepherd's Watched (21/12/2023). Polyphone and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment come together with conductor Stephen Layton to perform Bach's Christmas Oratorio, parts 1-3 (22/12/2023) and […]
2023-10-13 08:16:00
London Oriana Choir celebrates 50 years of music making
[…] Icons at St Paul's Covent Garden on 4 November 2023, a concert in aid of Music for Dementia featuring works by Benjamin Britten, Cecilia McDowall, Sir John Tavener, Sir James MacMillan, Eriks Esenvalds, Felix Mendelssohn, Dobrinka Tabakova and more. Cecilia McDowall, the choir's patron, has written a new commission for them, whilst singer-songwriter Beth Nielsen Chapman will be making a special appearance at the gala concert in March, recreating part of a seminal 2006 performance with the choir. The Gesualdo Six will be joining with the choir to perform Eric Whitacre’s seminal multi-choir work, The Stolen Child, at Union Chapel in July.Full details from the choir's website.
2023-10-04 08:32:00
Haunted by the women he mistreated, Charles Dickens' carefully managed image as a family man starts to unravel: Clare Norburn & The Telling's latest concert play, What the Dickens!
Clare Norburn and her company, The Telling, have become known for their concert plays, presenting drama about Medieval, Reniassance and Baroque figures alongside music of their period including Gesualdo, Hildegard of Bingen, Galileo and Purcell. For their latest adventure, the company has moved to the 19th century and Norburn's What the Dickens! places Charles Dickens under the microscope.As Norburn explains: "In What the Dickens? I’ve reimagined Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol, taking inspiration from the secrets of Dickens' life: his secret mistress, his terrible treatment of his wife and his early life as a boy working in a factory which made shoe blacking, of which he was deeply ashamed. I have also drawn on how unwell and febrile he was in his final years: he put so much energy into his theatrical readings that he would often collapse afterwards in the wings. So I have used all those elements to overlay the familiar […]
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