Catherine Hayes News
Irish operatic soprano (1818-1861)
- soprano
- Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- opera singer
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2024-03-19
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2023-10-06 13:00:58
New Releases (October 2023)
This section is an advertising supplement. To announce here, contact [email protected]. Etiquette Maureen Batt and Erin Bardua, soprano; Lucy Hayes Davis, mezzo-soprano; Tara Scott, piano; Brad Reid, clarinet Leaf Music, September 2023 Etiquette by composer Monica Pearce, with libretto by John Terauds, offers a glimpse of 1920s icons by diving into the lives of Dorothy [...]
2023-09-02 00:54:00
A Canon for Kim
[…] battles, but with courage and hope - and surrounded by a lot of love.We were able to visit her a few weekends ago, and with a few lazy summer days left afterwards, I decided to write a canon for her. To canon-ize her as a saint among us, one might say. I've actually never written a canon before, though I've written a lot of fugues and I've visualized Bach canons. This summer I learned that Greg Hayes, the longtime singing director at the chamber music camp my kids have attended for more than ten years, has often encouraged students to write canons. Upon his retirement from the camp this summer, we got to hear a few canons written and sung in his honor, and this idea stuck with me. So upon our return from that weekend visit, I spent a Sunday afternoon pushing notes around and then did a bit more […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-08-30 21:19:28
Machover’s VALIS This Way Comes
[…] out of being on a monitor or out of a screen. Sometimes they’re on a monitor. Sometimes they’re things prepared ahead of time. Sometimes they’re being filmed live. Sometimes they are in a little box. Sometimes they are everywhere. *** LE: Who invented the first hyper instrument? AA: You’re talking to him! LE: No. No, you’re off by 50 years! TM: [LAUGHTER] Well, we coined the term... LE: You coined the term, maybe, but John Hayes Hammond, who built Hammond Castle and wrapped it around a huge a pipe organ, placed microphones and speakers within the chambers, so he could go beyond the expression of swell shades that opened and closed; he could use amplified sounds of individual stops, which he could control with additional pedals to dynamically expand the tonal range of the instrument. TM: Cool! I know a fair amount about the history of music technology, but not […]
2023-08-30 04:00:00
English 18th-Century Keyboard Concertos (Paul Nicholson, The Parley of Instruments Baroque Orchestra)
Georg Frideric Handel (1685-1758Chaconne in G minor (Original Version)Organ Concerto Movement in D minorThomas Roseingrave (1688-1766)Organ Concerto in D majorThomas Chilcot (ca. 1700-1766)Concerto in A major, Op. 2 No. 2James Nares (1715-1783)Concert (Sonata) in G major, Op. 2Philip Hayes (1738-1797)Piano Concerto No. 4 in A major James Hook (1746-1827)[Flac & Scans] Piano Concerto in D major, Op 1 No. 5 Paul Nicholson, The Parley of Instruments Baroque Orchestra (Period Instruments) Hyperion CDA66700 (1994)
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