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2024-01-29 10:42:00
Stanford, Holst and an RVW premiere: the 17th English Music Festival at Dorchester Abbey
[…] Richard II in Stratford in 1912-13.Other events during the weekend include violinist Rupert Marshall-Luck and pianist Peter Cartwright in Holst, Bliss, Howells, Farrar and Stanford's Violin Sonata, tenor Brian Thorsett and pianist Richard Masters in Finzi, Ireland, USA-based English composer Frank E Tours (1877-1963) and Arthur Somervell's Maud, the Godwine Choir in a mixed programme including Howells, Havergal Brian and Holst's Hymns from the Rig Veda, plus concerts from the Flutes and Frets Duo, pianists Philip Leslie and Paul Guinery, Excalibur Voices, Shiry Rashkovsky (viola) and Richard Uttley (piano), and Ensemble Kopernicus.The weekend ends with a concert from the strings of the English Symphony Orchestra, conductor John Andrews, in a mixed programme the beings with Howells' Serenade and ends with Rawsthorne's Light Music for Strings and along the way fits in classics like Warlock's Capriol Suite and rarities like Bliss' Two Contrasts.Full details from the English Music Festival's website.
2024-01-14 16:00:35
[…] hazily remembered pub crawl heralds a new sense of self-possession.Scored for chamber orchestra, the opera is nevertheless one of Britten’s most musically extravagant, brimming with pastiche and stylistic flourishes, and Eric Crozier’s libretto, which transports a Maupassant short story from Normandy to Suffolk, is a similarly dense, colourful affair. Giles Havergal’s production, revived by Elaine Tyler-Hall, wisely resists further embellishment. Staged in the round in the bijou Howard Assembly Room, with characteristically slick designs by Leslie Travers – plastic grass and fruit crates serving as parlour, shop, and street – it succeeds instead by drawing its audience irresistibly close, for an intimate view of village politics in all their cacophonous glory.
2024-01-13 17:21:00
Eavesdropping on their dramas: Opera North's 'in the round' production Britten's Albert Herring
[…] Walker with Judith Howarth as Lady Billows, Heather Shipp as Florence Pike, Amy Freston as Miss Wordsworth, William Dazeley as Mr Gedge, Paul Nilon as Mr Upfold, Richard Mosley-Evans as Sid, Dominic Sedgwick as Sid, Dafydd Jones as Albert Herring, Katie Bray as Nancy, Claire Pascoe as Mrs Herring, Rosa Sparks as Emmie Spashett, Willow Bell and Oliver Mason as Cissie Woodger and Harold Wood (alternating with Lucy Eatock and Dougie Sadgrove). Designs were by Leslie Travers, lighting by John Bishop and movement by Tim Claydon.The Howard Assembly Room is a rectangular space with a gallery on three sides. For this production, the orchestra was at the end of the space, the action in the centre of the room with the audience on three sides. There was no set, as such, everything was created out of boxes which were re-arranged and re-configured by the cast during scene changes. Instead of […]
2023-12-07 15:08:09
THE SCOOP | Elaine Choi Awarded The 2023 Leslie Bell Prize For Choral Conducting
The Ontario Arts Council (OAC) has announced that Dr. Elaine Choi is the recipient of the 2023 Leslie Bell Prize for Choral Conducting.
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