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2021-09-11 01:06:43
Bach To Black Suites For Piano Rochelle Sennet piano Johann Sebastian Bach Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Jeffrey Mumford R. Nathaniel Dett H. Leslie Adams Frederick Tillis Illinois News Bureau Sep 8, 2021 9:30 am by Jodi Heckel | Arts and Humanities Editor CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Rochelle Sennet, a professor of piano in the School of Music at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, recorded suites by J.S. Bach and by a variety of Black composers in her project “Bach to Black” to broaden the appeal of each to diverse audiences. The first in a series of three recordings planned for the project, “Back to Black: Suites for Piano” was released in June by Albany Records, and it is available through the major streaming services. The three-disc set features Sennet performing 12 pieces of music – Bach’s six English suites and six compositions by Black composers. […]
2021-09-11 01:06:00
Illinois.edu: New recording pairs music of Bach with works by Black composers
Bach To Black Suites For Piano Rochelle Sennet piano Johann Sebastian Bach Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Jeffrey Mumford R. Nathaniel Dett H. Leslie Adams Frederick Tillis Illinois News Bureau Sep 8, 2021 9:30 am by Jodi Heckel | Arts and Humanities Editor CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Rochelle Sennet, a professor of piano in the School of Music at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, recorded suites by J.S. Bach and by a variety of Black composers in her project “Bach to Black” to broaden the appeal of each to diverse audiences. The first in a series of three recordings planned for the project, “Back to Black: Suites for Piano” was released in June by Albany Records, and it is available through the major streaming services. The three-disc set features Sennet performing 12 pieces of music – Bach’s six English suites and six compositions by Black composers. […]
2020-08-02 11:25:00
Wagner and Ludwig II
(Article, ‘Ludwig II, King of Bavaria,’ first published in The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia, ed. Nicholas Vazsonyi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013)) Lohengrin's arrival in Brabant, August von Heckel, 1882-3 (Neuschwanstein) Ludwig II, King of Bavaria (b. Nymphenburg Palace, Munich, 25 Aug. 1845; d. Lake Starnberg, near Munich, 13 June 1886; reign 10 Mar. 1864 to 13 June 1886). Succeeded his father, Maximilian II, but closer in artistic ambition to Maximilian’s deposed father, Ludwig I. Aestheticism was a hallmark of Ludwig’s reign, which witnessed construction of neo-Romantic, “fairy-tale” castles such as Linderhof, Herrenchiemsee, and Neuschwanstein; the latter’s wall frescoes depict Wagnerian scenes. Though Ludwig was hardly devoted to the more mundane of his duties and was no consummate politician, Bavaria under his rule nevertheless successfully held out for a high price even when there was no alternative to German unification. Ludwig won a private, secret income from Bismarck’s […]
2018-06-14 19:57:17
Anglais - Outstanding Musical Credentials Create an Enchanting Lohengrin at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
[…] experience seem too thick. Nevertheless, certain elements work very well as glances between Ortrud and Elsa in Act II are skilfully managed. These suggest that Ortrud knew the odds were stacked against her and Telramund preventing the marriage, but that their main aim was to cast doubt in Elsa’s mind and reap the rewards later. It is also a nice touch to see Lohengrin and Elsa’s bed chamber bear a painting from August von Heckel’s Lohengrin mural cycle, which can be found in Ludwig II of Bavaria’s Neuschwanstein (literally New Swanstone) Castle. Alden’s aim is to show how Lohengrin might be the people’s saviour but ‘may also simply be an innocent stranger onto whom the people project their longings, and whom King Heinrich manipulates for his own militaristic purposes’. If this is an idea that might seem impossible to convey in a staging, Alden certainly succeeds in doing […]
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