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2024-03-08 11:52:00
Sounds of Blossom: Kew Gardens' Spring festival offers a full sensory experience with collaboration with the Royal College of Music
Magnolia campbellii 'Pink tulip tree' © RBG KewKew Gardens' Spring festival, Sounds of Blossom, will see visitors not only enjoying the sights and smells of Spring blossom at the gardens but hearing sounds too, as as bespoke compositions emerge from blossom trees thanks to a new collaboration with the Royal College of Music.Working with students from the Royal College of Music, the festival will feature six bespoke commissions that celebrate Kew’s unique landscape in the spring, with recordings of music emerging from carefully chosen locations, including avenues of cherry blossom and vistas dotted with magnolias, offering the prospect of a complete sensory experience. There will be Spring and blossom-inspired music from six of the college's students, Daniel Musashi, Jasmine Morris, Tymon Zgorzelski, Lucy Holmes, Delyth Field, and Louis Enright.Kew Gardens' Sounds of Blossom festival runs from 23 March to 14 April. There will be blossom-inspired dishes in the cafes, and a series of free talks from Kew […]
2024-02-16 08:09:00
As Puccini's Manon Lescaut opens English Touring Opera's Spring tour, I chat to soprano Jenny Stafford who sings the title role in Jude Christian's new production
Photo by soprano Julia Mariko before the sitzprobe for ETO's production of Puccini's Manon Lescaut via TwitterEnglish Touring Opera's Spring 2024 season opens at the Hackney Empire on 24 February 2024 with Puccini's Manon Lescaut, followed by Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress on 2 March, and the tour continues across England until 28 May. The tour also features a new family opera by Omar Shahryar and Hannah Khalil, The Great Stink.The new production of Puccini's Manon Lescaut is directed by Jude Christian (who directed Tom Coult's debut opera Violet at Aldeburgh Festival in 2022) and conducted by Gerry Cornelius, with Jenny Stafford as Manon, Gareth Dafydd Morris as Des Grieux and Aidan Edwards at Lescaut. I recently caught up with Jenny Stafford in a gap in rehearsals to chat about Manon and Puccini.When we chat, Jenny has been in rehearsals for just over two weeks and feels that they are 'whizzing through it', something she appreciates. Working through […]
2024-02-05 05:46:00
(Semi) Recent Releases No. 71 (CD Reviews)
[…] All are standard jazz piano trio pieces, but the opening piece, Conundrum, is through-composed, with no improvisation – unusual for a jazz trio.On the eighth (Killing Me Softly With His Song, made famous in the 1970s in a vocal arrangement by Roberta Flack) and tenth (Iverson’s The Feeling Is Mutual) tracks, Iverson is joined by Simón Willson on bass and Vinnie Sperrazza on drums, musicians with whom he had developed a rapport playing together in support of the Mark Morris Dance Company. Iverson says that they were going for a ‘60s sound for these tracks, which they recorded in the same room together, without wearing headphones. Now we come to the two most fascinating tracks on the album. ‘round Midnight is a standard that by now even most people otherwise unfamiliar with jazz are probably familiar, for it has been played by so many different musicians in so many different arrangements. However, Iverson has come up with […]
2024-02-01 10:58:48
Abigail Morris proves a compelling cut-glass frontwoman as the London quintet dispense gothicky orchestral rock
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