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British composer (1923-1994)
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2023-12-18 08:39:00
Pandora's Box: great tunes, a neat moral, energetic performances, London Youth Opera premieres Stuart Hancock & Donald Sturrock's new opera
Stuart Hancock: Pandora's Box - London Youth Opera at Susie Sainsbury Theatre, Royal Academy of Music (Photo: Nina Swann)Stuart Hancock: Pandora's Box; London Youth Opera, conductor: Alastair Chilvers, director: Valentina Ceschi; Susie Sainsbury TheatreReviewed 16 December 2023Full of good tunes, with an underlying moral and in a performance full of energy, London Youth Opera premieres Stuart Hancock and Donald Sturrock's new operaFor over 50 years, W11 Opera presented opera for families, performed by children. The company's remit is no longer restricted to the W11 postcode and to reflect this, relaunching with a new name, London Youth Opera, the company presented the premiere of composer Stuart Hancock and librettist Donald Sturrock's third collaboration with the company. Stuart Hancock: Pandora's BoxCharlie Swann (Prometheus), Mahala De Santana SantosTodd (Zeus)London Youth Opera (Photo: Stuart Hancock)On Saturday 16 2023, at the Royal Academy of Music's Susie Sainsbury Theatre, London Youth Opera presented Pandora's Box with music […]
2022-12-02 13:21:47
He drew the best from complex instruments at Riverside Church in Manhattan, at countless recitals and on the “Hour of Power” TV show.
2022-05-21 06:07:00
Classical Music News of the Week, May 21, 2022
[…] on Boston’s CRB Classical 99.5 on Sunday, June 5 at 7 pm ET.Public media producer GBH presents Greenwood Overcomes, a special two-hour radio broadcast of the Tulsa Opera’s 2021 concert commemorating the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre. Hosted by GBH’s Arun Rath, Greenwood Overcomes features works by 23 living Black composers, performed by eight Black artists including mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves; soprano Leah Hawkins; soprano Leona Mitchell; tenor Issachah Savage; tenor Noah Stewart; mezzo-soprano Krysty Swann; bass Kevin Thompson; and bass-baritone Davóne Tines. The program, which included eight world premieres, was co-curated by Tulsa Opera Artistic Director and composer Tobias Picker and Metropolitan Opera Pianist and Assistant Conductor Howard Watkins, who featured as pianist throughout the broadcast.For details, visit https://beta.prx.org/stories/420629--Constance Shuman, Shuman AssociatesInsight with Scott Yoo - Franck Piano QuintetScott Yoo and fellow artists take you on a "museum docent's guide" beyond the score of César Franck's Piano Quintet.Harold J. […]
2022-02-09 08:15:35
Orchestra of the Swan celebrates the centenary of Walton's Façade on SOMM
Walton Façade, Henry V; Roderick Williams, Tamsin Dalley, Kevin Whately, Orchestra of the Swann, Bruce O'Neil; SOMM Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 8 February 2022 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Celebrating the centenary of Walton's Façade, a lively and characterful new recording alongside the music for Henry VWilliam Walton's Façade, the entertainment using poems by Edith Sitwell, premiered in 1922 and to celebrate the Centenary, SOMM Recordings has issued a new disc which pairs Walton's Facade with his music from Henry V performed by Roderick Williams, Tamsin Dalley, Kevin Whately and the Orchestra of the Swan, conductor Bruce O'Neil, musical director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. It is difficult to quite fathom the fuss the surrounded the premiere of Façade in 1922. Partly it was because the Sitwells were great self-publicists and loved to generate a stir, but there were boos and catcalls at the first public performance […]
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