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2024-02-14 18:32:01
SCRUTINY | Soulpepper’s De Profundis: Oscar Wilde In Jail Is A Trumph Of Style & Substance
In the final analysis, Prest, Wilson and Ross have collectively created a stunning piece of theatre in De Profundis: Oscar Wilde in Jail.
2024-02-03 08:50:00
What about blowing the box to pieces: composer Eímear Noone on writing for video games, films and TV
Eímear Noone (Photo: Andy Paradise)Dublin and LA-based composer Eímear Noone is known for her scores for video games, films and TV. She received a Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Video Game Score, and recent work also includes the score for Maxine the drama series on Channel 5 and the new production by Stephen Fry based on Oscar Wilde’s short story The Canterville Ghost. Her music from World of Warcraft featured in the 2023 BBC Prom celebrating soundtracks from the worlds of film, TV and gaming. But she can also be found regularly on the concert platform and in May 2024, Eimear will be conducting The Heritage Orchestra in Video Games in Concert, an orchestral tour visiting Brighton, Liverpool, Wolverhampton, Manchester and Bournemouth.The idea of presenting music from video games in concert, without the visuals from the games, is a deliberate one on Eímear's part, she loves the orchestra and wants […]
2023-12-30 09:32:00
2023 in concert reviews: Gavin Higgins x2, Allan Clayton's Samson, Reginald Mobley in Bayreuth, the Pink Singers & Brixton Chamber Orchestra both party and Bitches Brew is back
[…] Jesu Nostri. At the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival, countertenor Reginald Mobley gave us Purcell, rare Handel cantatas and Ignatius Sancho.Jérémie Rhorer and Le Cercle de l'Harmonie combined the music of Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn with the texts that inspired them. Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake enchanted in songs by Robert & Clara Schumann, Schubert, Henze and Mahler all setting texts by Rückert. Nigel Foster's London Song Festival presented the world premiere of Granville Bantock's remarkable Oscar Wilde setting, The Sphinx.Colin Currie and the BBC Concert Orchestra celebrated The Beano including the premiere of a new concerto by Gavin Higgins, and we caught up with Higgins' The Faerie Bride at the Three Choirs Festival.Our correspondent, Florence, helped the Kronos Quartet celebrate its 50th anniversary, and enjoyed a modern recreation of Miles Davies' iconic Bitches Brew.Handel: Samson - Allan Clayton - Philharmonia Chorus, Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings - BBC Proms (Photo: BBC/ […]
2022-09-18 10:25:00
[…] registered with me previously. Gore is still present, most memorably in the bloodstained emergence of the naked executioner Naaman, fresh from his deed. Whether one considers that gratuitous will probably remain a matter of taste, but it seemed to me clear, indeed far clearer than before, that this was a comment not only on an interwar world of militarised, fascist violence, but also, more importantly, on the dangers and joys of an aestheticism passed from Wilde to Strauss, via Pasolini’s Salò and Sade himself to McVicar and to us. Politics and aesthetics are not to be disentangled, however much characters onstage and audience offstage might wish them to be. Nor can we forget the past; a harrowing retelling of abuse during the Dance of the Seven Veils makes that clear. There are doubtless lessons to be learned there, but no one, least of all Salome, will do so: itself, of […]
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