Doriot Anthony Dwyer News
American musician (1922-2020)
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2022-07-26 15:00:24
Montréal, May 4, 2022 – Bradyworks, in co-presentation with Chants libres and Le Vivier, announce the world premiere of Backstage at Carnegie Hall : an opera about racism and the electric guitar. The music is by Tim Brady and the libretto is by Audrey Dwyer. The performances will take place on September 23 and 24, 2022 [...]
2022-06-28 19:44:00
Diderot String Quartet. June 26, 2022.
[…] written for three voices, and is thus excluded in today's performance.As an exercise in composition, one could imagine Bach trying different techniques to see how things turn out, all "limiting" himself to the fugue structure, and the same theme. If no one had said anything, I would have called the set variations on a theme, since I may not identify readily the fugue format.Two things of note said during the introduction by the cellist Paul Dwyer. One is that in one fugue the different instruments go at different tempos (VII), and the other is there is one with an inverted theme. I got both. Not a given as it took me a while to figure out the one in Rachmaninoff's Variations on a Theme by Paganini.For the Mendelssohn, they changed their bows and kept their instruments. I had not encountered this quartet before (remember: not a great chamber music enthusiast), […]
2022-05-31 14:37:32
Longborough, Moreton-in-MarshWith a strong cast including Bradley Daley, Paul Carey Jones’s Wotan and Julieth Lozano’s delightful Woodbird, any weaknesses in the staging were more than compensated for Need Wagner have made Siegfried quite so objectionable? Thomas Mann called him a “buffoon, god of light, and anarchistic social revolutionary all at once”, but it’s not just simply buffoonery, rather innocence tarnished with insolence and the petulance of an overgrown child who’s a bully. Yet in Longborough Festival Opera’s new production, the third stage of its Ring Cycle, directed by Amy Lane, the suggestion is that, brought up by the appalling Mime (Adrian Dwyer), he couldn’t be otherwise. A case of nurture contaminating the nature-boy, who learns better things when out on his own in the wild. All of this can make the first act an attempt at reconciling disparate elements, while at the same time wondering whether Siegfried has a voice which […]
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