Clara Novello News
English soprano singer
- soprano
- classical music
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- opera singer
Last update
2024-04-23
Refresh
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-20 20:24:21
Lookouts Aloft! A Composer Puts Out to Sea
[…] has also gotten some ink on these pages HERE. Recognized for both her compositions and her very popular memoirs, and despite two years of incendiary work as a suffragette with Emmaline Pankhurst, the leader of the Women’s Social and Political Union in the UK, Smyth was dubbed Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1922. She revised the Mass in 1925, thinking it might finally be imprinted and performed. However, her publisher at the time, Novello, declined, saying they would never engrave a work for which there was no demand. Despite this, the Mass was heard more than a few times all over the UK, many with piano accompaniment. The final performance, led by her dear friend, Sir Thomas Beecham in 1933 served as a jubilee honor for her 75th birthday. Sadly, she then too deaf to hear it, but she nevertheless enjoyed seeing the standing ovation. Beecham famously quipped […]
2024-02-12 07:56:00
Magnum Opus: Britten Sinfonia's composer development scheme showcases work from 2023 composers David John Roche, Daniel Soley and Crystalla Serghiou
[…] for Magnum Opus 2024 comprise Alex Groves, Eden Lonsdale and Anibal Vidal, who’ll write new works for septet to be premièred London’s Milton Court (opposite Barbican Centre) on Tuesday 9 April (6.00pm, see Barbican website) while also choosing chamber pieces for their works to be paired with. They’ll be supported by programme directors, Dani Howard and Michael Zev Gordon, working towards writing new chamber concertos to be premièred at the 2024 autumn showcase. Alex Groves is an Ivor Novello-nominated composer and curator working across contemporary classical and electronic music. His work often blends classical instruments and live processing to create uncanny sound worlds which blur the line between acoustic and electronic. Eden Lonsdale (a British/German composer) focuses his music on exploring the various ways that movement and stasis can co-exist, as well as the interconnectedness of harmony, timbre and melody. Often using very limited materials, his dense and immersive sound-worlds attempt to draw the ear […]
2024-02-02 08:18:00
A vivid panorama of Freya Waley-Cohen's compositional interests & techniques: Manchester Collective in Spell Book at the Barbican
[…] book WITCH, which Waley-Cohen read in the spring of 2019, the song cycle Spell Book now contains eight individual songs, two of which received their world premieres this evening. Working with a trio of singers, each with their own distinct vocal approaches, these eight songs presented a vivid panorama of Waley-Cohen's compositional interests & techniques. [Tamás's book also inspired Waley-Cohen's 2022 opera, WITCH, premiered at the Royal Academy of Music and nominated for a 2022 Ivor Novello Award in the Stage Works Category].The first songs, spell for Lillith & spell for sex featured the bright, radiant & nimble coloratura of Katie Bray. Her light, deft touch clearly conveyed a good deal of the mischief and violence of Tamás's words. Both her register and vocal character allowed her to blend subtly with the instrumental timbres - especially the woodwinds and violins - and although this led to the loss of some of […]
2023-10-19 14:45:46
Thomas Adès, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Joby Talbot, Hannah Kendall and Dobrinka Tabakova are among the 2023 Ivor Novello Award nominees
or
- timeline: Lyrical singers (Europe).
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): N...