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2023-10-03 04:00:00
Handel: Trio Sonatas for Oboe & Violin (Convivium)
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)Eight Trio Sonatas for Oboe & Violin HWV380-385Trio Sonata in G minor, Op. 8 No. 2, HWV393 Elizabeth Wallfisch,Violin; Anthony Robson, Oboe;Richard Tunnicliffe, Cello; Paul Nicholson, HarpsichordConvivium(Period Instruments)Hyperion CDA67083 (2000)[Flac & Scans]
2022-04-08 09:33:50
Schoenberg in Hollywood: Tod Machover's opera finally gets its European premiere in Vienna
Tod Machover's 2018 opera Schoenberg in Hollywood takes as its starting point the moment when, having fled Nazi Germany and taken refuge in Los Angeles in 1935, the composer had a meeting with film producer Irving Thalberg (brokered by Harpo Marx!). The project was a soundtrack for the film The Good Earth, but it quickly ground to a halt as Schoenberg wanted total control of the film score. Simon Robson's libretto does not so much examine Schoenberg's life in Hollywood as to consider what it is to be an artist with the tension between integrity (including Schoenberg's unfinished opera Moses und Aaron) and bringing great artistic development to the masses but needing some compromise. Machover's opera was commissioned by Boston Lyric Opera and received its premiere in 2018 [see Boston Classical Review's review of the 2018 premiere]. The planned European premiere was delayed by COVID, but this is finally happening and rather […]
2022-03-30 23:51:51
Arkansas Symphony Orchestra Releases World Premiere Recording of Florence Price "Piano Concerto in One Movement” with the Composer’s Orchestration
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (March 29, 2022)– The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra (ASO) has released the world-premiere recording of groundbreaking Little Rock composer Florence Price’s own orchestration of her “Piano Concerto in One Movement.” Concert pianist Karen Walwyn joined ASO musicians and Artistic Director and Conductor Geoffrey Robson for the first commercial recording by ASO to be made available worldwide. This work was recorded at Robinson Center Performance Hall following a free community concert ASO performed in September 2021. The free concert celebrated the Little Rock community’s diverse musical traditions and kicked off a series of performances and events recognizing Florence Price’s musical legacy. The recording was released in advance of Florence Price Day, April 9, marking 135 years since her birth in Little Rock, Arkansas. “It is our hope that this recording will contribute depth and clarity to the interpretation of Florence Price's unique music. We feel the spirit of Little Rock in her music and believe […]
2021-03-01 01:00:00
Chris Jenkins: IS CLASSICAL MUSIC RACIST? AN AESTHETIC APPROACH, February 26, 2021 by Aesthetics for Birds
[…] repetition” to refer to musical content within jazz and funk tunes that the unobservant listener might categorize as endless repetition, remarking that “we continue to listen to the repeating riffs of funk… because the repetitive macro-structure is built from constantly shifting rhythmic micro-elements, and because we take pleasure in the way these micro-innovations surprise us while still sustaining the overall pattern of musical organization.” Image Credit: Robson Hatsukami Morgan Part of the problem is that even musically sophisticated Western listeners are not trained thoroughly in the analysis of dynamically repetitive music. Western music has long emphasized the importance of melody and harmony over rhythm. Kant’s theory of music, for example, held that harmony, and then melody, were the most important music elements due to harmony’s mathematical perfection, while Schopenhauer proclaims, “… in the deepest notes […]
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