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2023-08-20 14:37:01
On this day in 1961 at the 22nd Venice Film Festival L’Année dernière à Marienbad directed by Alain Resnais won the Leone d’oro award.
2022-08-15 13:05:21
Coleridge-Taylor and Lili Boulanger, 2022
This Week in Classical Music: August 15, 2022. Coleridge-Taylor and Lili Boulanger. Two composers, whose music has probably been performed more often in the last two years than during all the years since it has been written, were born this week: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a composer of Afro-British origins, and Lili Boulanger, a French female composer. Coleridge-Taylor was born in London on August 15th of 1875. His mother was English, his father – a descendant of freed American slaves who settled in Sierra Leone. His father returned to Africa before Samuel was born, and his mother named him Samuel Coleridge Taylor after the Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. They lived with his mother’s father in a family that loved and played music, and it was recognized early on that Samuel was musically talented. Later, he was helped by Edward Elgar, who recommended him to the “Three Choirs Festival,” a music festival which […]
2022-07-15 06:00:06
Blending tabla music with Sergio Leone, the album follows the story of two women in India who rob a bank
2022-06-13 08:41:20
Baroque mind games: Handel's Tamerlano at The Grange Festival
[…] confined in a single space over a short period of time and then we see what happens. Which leaves a lot of scope. At The Grange Festival, we caught the first night (10 June 2022) of Daniel Slater's new production of Handel's Tamerlano, Robert Howarth conducted the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, with Raffaele Pe as Tamerlano, Paul Nilon as Bajazet, Sophie Bevan as Asteria, Patrick Terry as Andronico, Angharad Lyddon as Irene and Stuart Orme as Leone. Designs were by Robert Innes Hopkins with lighting by Johanna Town. Handel:Tamerlano - Sophie Bevan, Paul Nilon, Raffaele Pe The Grange Festival (Photo Simon Anand) There was no drop curtain, the opera opened in a foyer, entrances left and right with a grill across the back. Only the Islamic styling of the grill's ornament and a notice in Cyrillic script hinted at the location. During the overture a guard, […]
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