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2020-12-06 10:42:18
The rising toll: This week’s Covid losses
124 Bulgarian tenor Kamen Tchanev, 56 125 Lee Dykes, music teacher, father of six 126 Sudanese singer Hamad Al-Rayah, 80 127 Russian curator Irina Antonova, 98 128 Bengali sarod maestro Ustad Shahadat Hossain, 62 129 Chicago producer Matthew Agostini, 50 130 Pennsylvania jazzman Russ Neff 131 Yo Yo Ma ensemble player Bassam Saba, 61 132 […]
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2020-12-05 18:21:52
Yo Yo Ma ensemble member dies of Covid, aged 61
From the Lebanese National Conservatoire: With a heavy heart, we are sorry to inform you all that our beloved Conservatory’s President Bassam Saba passed away at 11:40am Beirut time due to COVID complications. Bassam Saba was a multi-instrumentalist who worked with Yo-Yo Ma, Kristjan Järvi, Sting, Alicia Keys, Herbie Hancock and Quincy Jones. He was […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2020-08-26 15:05:09
Afghanistan’s Most Famous Actress, And First Female Filmmaker, Shot In Kabul
Saba Sahar, who is a senior police officer and an activist as well as a performer and producer/director, was shot in her car or her way to work. She was comatose for 20 hours but is now out of danger, said her husband. The Taliban has denied responsibility. – CBS News
2020-05-13 08:23:50
A disc full of discoveries: the first group of Goethe settings from Stone Records' complete Hugo Wolf songs
[…] flowing piano creating a sense of drama. From Mignon we move to the Pied Piper, with Der Rattenfänger, and setting a character rather more lascivious and swaggering that in Browning's poem; sung by Roderick Williams with a light tone to create a delightful character piece. And we have more fun with Ritter Kurts Brautbart which tenor Adrian Thompson almost makes into an operatic scena (and Wolf does quote Karl Goldmark's opera Die Konigin von Saba). Guttman und Gutweib is Goethe's version of a Scots ballad, here sung by Rowan Hellier. Wolf creates a drama full of character, perhaps trying to hard with what is after all a ballad, but there is some fabulous witches' music in the piano. Next comes a pair of songs from Goethe's play, Der Gross-Cophta. Both are characterful, almost comic, beautifully sung by Roderick Williams, and in both the music hints at strange doings […]
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