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Genevan theologian, protestant pastor, teacher, musician, poet and painter (1787-1864)
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2020-09-28 09:50:36
Betsy Jolas and more: Anne Lovett and Romain Malan in recital at the Institut Francais
Anne Lovett, Romain Malan (Photo Phil Roulaud) The French pianist and composer Anne Lovett helped the Institut Francais in South Kensington to celebrate Bastille Day by live-streaming a recital on-line. She is returning to the Institut on Thursday 8 October 2020, with cellist Romain Malan for a recital to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Diaphonique, the Franco-British fund for contemporary music. The recital will be presented in mixed form, with a live-socially distanced audience and streamed on-line, with people able to choose in which form they participate.The repertoire for the concert includes music by Faure and Massenet (including the Meditation from his opera Thais), as well as works by the Franco-American composer Betsy Jolas (born 1926), one of Lovett's own pieces and concluding with Astor Piazzolla's Grand Tango Created in 2010, the Diaphonique fund supports collaborative projects of classical contemporary music between France and the United Kingdom. It funds […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2020-07-23 20:32:00
The Harvard Professor Who Turned Distance Learning Into A High Art
For many professors, the sudden transition was a struggle. For Malan, it was the natural extension of a decade’s worth of experimentation. “Our team is fortunate to have been doing this blend of education for quite some time,” he told me recently. “For us, it was very straightforward.” – The New Yorker
2015-01-07 18:00:19
[…] not dangerous. Someone once offered to sell me some grass. I thought he meant a grass mat. Later I would listen to Otis Waygood Blues band and of course Alvin Lee, the fastest guitar player in the world, The Allman Brothers, Rodrigues, Cream… There was a curious innocence in our jorling. ** When I was sent on assignment to Cape Town there was the thrill – it never grew old – of landing at D.F. Malan, finding a hire car and putting on The Cars ‘Heart Beat’ City. Once I saw George Benson in Cascais. I became quite emotional and had to remind myself to breathe when he sang ‘In Your Eyes.’ That was back in the day. These days I am more Leonard Cohen than George Benson. Now I’ve heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don’t really […]
2013-10-15 10:04:09
Sweet sounds for stressed souls
There is something about live music which gives it such a huge edge over recorded music that it drives audiences out of their homes into concert halls the world over. In Johannesburg, lovers of classical music are most often driven to the Linder Auditorium in Parktown where two Johannesburg institutions have their musical home. The Johannesburg Musical Society, founded in 1902, the the country’s oldest musical society, and Johannesburg’s oldest organisation. They have ten chamber music concerts a year and this year audiences have heard the likes of Mattia Zappa (cello) and Massimiliano Mainolfi (piano), Lukas Vondracek on piano, the Duo de Salzburg, the Trio Broz, Vassily Primakov (piano), Petronel Malan (piano), Sergey Malov (violin/viola) and Bryan Wallick (piano), the Charl du Plessis Trio in a crossover jazz concert and the very unusual Dutch Toeac Accordian Duo. Their final concert of the year will take place on 23 November at 20:00 […]
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