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Lovely Music: Louth CMS annual June celebration features operas by Robert Ashley, Stockhausen’s Stimmung, Linda Catlin Smith & more
Robert Ashley photographed by Mimi Johnson in 1975Louth Contemporary Music Society will be presenting its annual mid-June festival, Lovely Music, in Co Louth, Ireland on 14 and 15 June 2024. The title, Lovely Music, originated as the ironic, combative title that Mimi Johnson, a New York agent, chose in 1978 for a record label she founded to feature composers she represented, including her husband, the American composer Robert Ashley (1930-2014) and this year, the festival will be featuring two of Ashby's operas. Crash is Ashley's final work, an opera for six singers but as Ashley explained, "All of the singing is very soft vocally, but amplified, and all of the singing of the words is very fast. This is a special kind of vocal sound that the audience will have rarely experienced." Crash is being presented by Varispeed Collective and they join forces with Irish colleagues at the Spirit Store: Sean Carpio, Caoimhe Hopkinson and Steve Welsh […]
2023-10-02 15:27:29
Giulio Caccini, 2023
[…] (yesterday was the last performance). Even though Caccini wrote three operas, he’s better remembered for his collection of songs called Le nuove musiche (the New Music), published in 1602. Here are two songs from this collection, Amor, io parte and Alme luci beate, but the whole collection is wonderful. In this 1983 recording, the soprano is Montserrat Figueras, the wife of Jordi Savall, who accompanies her on the Viola da Gamba (Figueras died in 2011). Hopkinson Smith is playing the lute.
2023-10-02 15:19:06
Giulio Caccini - Amor, io parteMontserrat Figueras (Soprano)Jordi Savall (Viola da gamba)Hopkinson Smith (Lute)
2023-10-02 15:18:30
Giulio Caccini - Alme luci beateMontserrat Figueras (Soprano)Jordi Savall (Viola da gamba)Hopkinson Smith (Lute)
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