Ezra Sims News
American composer of microtonal music (1928-2015)
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- chamber music, choral music, electronic music, microtonal music, symphonic music, twelve-tone technique
- United States of America
- composer, musicologist
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2024-04-21
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2024-04-12 04:00:00
Peter Donohoe from 1978 to 2017
[…] Sonata (1924) [10'18]2.01 - 2.04 Serenade in A [11'43]2.05 Piano-Rag Music [3'34]2.06 Tango [3'13]2.07 - 2.09 Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments * [19:18]2.10 - 2-16 Movements for Piano and Orchestra * [9:30]2.15 - 2.17 Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra * [16:35]Peter Donohoe- piano; Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by David Atherton*Somm CD266-2 [recorded July 1995* & January 1999*, September 2016 and June 2017; issued 2018][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venues: Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton, UK and Tsuen Wan Town Hall, Hong Kong*Recording engineers: Paul Arden Taylor and Mike Hatch*; Producers: Sive Oke and Stephen Johns*Gerald Finzi:01 - 03 Cello Concerto in A minor, op.40 * [37'08]04 Eclogue for piano and strings, op.10 [10'51]05 Grand Fantasia and Toccata for piano and orchestra, op.38 [13'44]Tim Hugh- cello*; Peter Donohoe- piano, Northern Sinfonia conducted by Howard GriffithsNaxos 8.555766 [recorded January 2001; issued 2001][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and […]
2024-03-20 11:42:45
Turner Sims, SouthamptonPianist is a wonderfully unfussy and straightforwardly lucid interpreter of sonatas completed months before composer’s deathOver the last two years
2022-06-21 06:35:53
Giving voice to unconventional instruments: the Lawrence Graduate Bayreuth Tuben Quintet
[…] to unconventional instruments and non-traditional ensembles."Eve Beglarian (born 1958) - I am really a very simple personAlex Temple (born 1983) - Thick LineMoondog (1916-1999) - Two instrumental rounds in snaketime: round 1Rei Coman (born 1999) - Gaelic Call (first half)Arvo Pärt (born 1935) - SummaRei Coman (born 1999) - Gaelic Call (second half)John Cage (1912-1992) - Toy PianoArvo Part (born 1935) - SolfeggioLawrence Graduate Bayreuth Tuben Quintet (Lee Cyphers, Ann Ellsworth, John Gattis, Mariel Lopez, Kyra Sims, Leander Star, Lydia Van Dreel )Available via BandcampNever miss out on future posts by following usThe blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee.Elsewhere on this blogMadcap theatre & magnificent music: Janacek's The Excursions of Mr. Brouček at Grange Park Opera - opera reviewA strong affinity to melodic music: I chat to composer John Brunning about his works for guitar - interviewStrong meat: Grange Park Opera stages Ponchielli's rarity, La Gioconda in a […]
2021-07-27 23:48:00
African Diaspora Music Project is Helping Singers & Orchestras Diversify Their Repertoire With New Database of Works By African Diaspora Composers
[…] oratorio performances in the United States, Europe, South America, Asia, New Zealand, Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. She has appeared in recital on many concert series including Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Broadway’s Hudson Theater, and Lincoln Center. Represented by Joanne Rile Artist Management, she toured in "Gershwin on Broadway" with pianist Leon Bates and currently tours in that show with Joseph Joubert, piano and Robert Sims, baritone. She has recorded eighteen compact disks of primarily American Music including solo CDs Songs of Illumination, (Centaur Records), and on Albany Records Ah love, but a day, He’ll Bring it to Pass, (Joseph Joubert, piano), Witness with the Czech National Symphony, Heart on the Wall with the Prague Radio Symphony and La Saison des fleurs, CDs with three publications including A Hall Johnson collection from Carl Fisher publisher. Her newest releases due […]
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