Elsie Griffin News
English operatic and operetta soprano
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- soprano
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- opera singer
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2024-03-15
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2023-09-24 21:10:38
David Biedenbender Portrait CD on Blue Griffin (Review)
2022-05-26 00:00:47
June 3 release - Florence Price piano music: "Scenes in Tin Can Alley" on Blue Griffin Records by Josh Tatsuo Cullen, Pianist
SCENES IN TIN CAN ALLEY PIANO MUSIC OF FLORENCE PRICE JOSH TATSUO CULLEN New! Pianist Josh Tatsuo Cullen performs music by Florence Price “Scenes in Tin Can Alley” released June 3, 2022 on Blue Griffin Records “Cullen performed with an astounding mixture of coolness and intensity… with an unfailing sense of rhythm and drive” — Stuttgarter Zeitung The music of Florence Price (1887 – 1953) is enjoying a renaissance. The 2009 discovery of a trove of manuscripts in the African-American composer’s abandoned summer home generated a lot of excitement and renewed interest in her life and work. The pianist Josh Tatsuo Cullen has recorded an entire album of her evocatively-titled music for solo piano, all specifically from that 2009 discovery. "Scenes in Tin Can Alley: Piano Music of Florence Price" (Blue Griffin BGR615) is released […]
2022-05-16 23:05:20
Alvin Singleton Four String Quartets Momenta Quartet Alvin Singleton 80832 Momenta QuartetEmilie-Anne Gendron, Alex Shiozaki, violins; Stephanie Griffin, viola; Michael Haas, cello Alvin Singleton's (b. 1940) approach to music-making has all along been involved in an interplay with listeners and their psychology. While this does not mean he has been centered on simply pleasing his audiences, his work seems to constantly draw his audience into confronting challenges of listening, and they tend to end up pleased. Therefore, with so many of his pieces, they might be extremely complex and masterfully crafted, but seldom do you feel he presents the listener with something they cannot understand on at least a basic level. When asked recently about why ordinary listeners seem to "get" his music, he answered: "Perhaps because it's structurally filled with surprises, a lot of silences, and […]
2022-01-29 05:44:00
[…] Chukerman, JAC CommunicationsHeartbeat Opera's Radical Fidelio OpensHeartbeat Opera presents its first-ever tour this February: FidelioReorchestrated, reduced, and reimagined for our times, Heartbeat brings the prison system and Black Lives Matter to light within Beethoven’s 1814 masterpiece.Music by Ludwig van Beethoven; original libretto by Joseph Sonnleithner and Georg Friedrich Sonnleithner; adapted & directed by Ethan Heard; arranged & music directed by Daniel Schlosberg. New English dialogue co-written by Marcus Scott and Ethan Heard.Cast: Derrell Acon and Kelly Griffin return to their roles of Roc and Leah; Victoria Lawal is Marcy; Curtis Bannister is Stan; and Corey McKern is Pizarro. Also featuring the voices of more than 100 incarcerated singers and 70 volunteers from six prison choirs across the Midwest.Tour stops:The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NYThursday, February 10 at 7pmSaturday, February 12 at 7pmSunday, February 13 at 2pmThe Mondavi Center, UC Davis, CASaturday, February 19 at 7:30pmScottsdale Center for the Performing […]
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