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- guitar, voice
- bass-baritone
- United States of America
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2022-06-20 13:41:14
From Father Willis' last organ to English musical life around 1700 and the musical coal-merchant: King's Lynn Festival's Early Music Day
[…] The Taste of the Nation, a programme that explores English music at the juncture of the 17th and 18th centuries, following Henry Purcell's death in 1695, giving a vibrant picture of the changing fashions and astonishing success of Italian styles, genres and indeed musicians at the dawn of the 1700s.For the late-night concert, Ensemble Hesperi, paint a picture of London’s vibrant musical scene in the early 1700s, through the lens of the extraordinary coal merchant Thomas Britton, one of London’s first concert promoters!Full details from the festival website.
2022-05-05 00:13:16
[…] Orchestra Ryan Murphy — Cello, San Antonio Symphony Eliesha Nelson — Viola, The Cleveland Orchestra David A. Norville* — Oboe, Sound Garden Wind Quintet Adedeji Ogunfolu — Horn, Pacific Symphony Rufus Olivier, Jr. — Principal Bassoon, San Francisco Ballet Orchestra; San Francisco Opera Orchestra Joy Payton-Stevens* — Cello, Seattle Symphony Orchestra (former) Barry Perkins — Trumpet, Pacific Symphony Derek Reeves — Principal Viola, Fort Wayne Philharmonic Patricia Reeves — FLute, Richmond Symphony Orchestra Britton Riley — Cello, National Symphony Orchestra Meredith Riley — Associate Principal Second Violin, Richmond Symphony Orchestra Priscilla Rinehart — Horn, Broadway (current), Sarasota Orchestra (former) Adam Sadberry — Acting Principal Flute, Memphis Symphony Orchestra Michael Scott — Bassoon, Memphis Symphony Orchestra Shea Scruggs* — Oboe, Cincinnati Symphony; San Francisco Opera; Baltimore Symphony (all former) Sonora Slocum — Principal Flute, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Herbert Smith — Trumpet, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Weston […]
2022-02-04 00:35:29
Mapping Black dignity: Kennedy Center launches "Cartography Project” today; "Cartography’s" first installment features "The Road Ahead" by Carlos Simon
[…] NSO and WNO Orchestra The Road AheadCarlos SIMON, music; Marc BAMUTHI JOSEPH, libretto and spoken word(WNO commission)With Katerina Burton, soprano; Karen Lowry-Tucker, violin; Amy Frost Baumgarten, cello; Robert Ainsley, piano Anthem for GOJessica MAYS, music(NSO commission; Aurora, CO)With Heather LeDoux Green & Jane Bowyer Stewart, violins; Eric deWaardt, viola; David Teie, cello; Jeffrey Weisner, double bass; Scott Christian, percussion Ahead of TimeNathaniel HEYDER, music(NSO commission; Cleveland, OH)With Paul Cigan, clarinet; Robert Rearden, horn; Jennifer Mondie, viola; Britton Riley, cello; Scott Christian, percussion Breonna’s LullabyDerek Douglas CARTER, music(NSO commission; Louisville, KY)With Paul Cigan, clarinet; Ruth Wicker, viola; Paul DeNola, bass; Jiyoung Oh, piano Mo(u)rningB.E. BOYKIN, music; Brittny Ray CROWELL, libretto(WNO commission; Atlanta, GA)With Martin Bakari, tenor; Amy Frost Baumgarten, cello; Dana Scott, piano The Burning BushJasmine BARNES, music; Joshua BANBURY, libretto(WNO commission; Baltimore, MD)With Suzannah Waddington, soprano; Daniel J. Smith, baritone; Roderick Demmings, Jr.; Raymond Caldwell, director Progeny of Perpetual IndependenceLiz GRE, music; Junauda PETRUS-NASAH, libretto(WNO […]
2021-02-15 00:12:00
NWAOnline.com: Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette: Classical Composition: APO introduces African-American composer's 1947 sonata
Irene Britton Smith (1907-1999) Courtesy Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College Chicago Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette by Becca Martin-Brown| Today at 1:00 a.m. [Feb. 14, 2021] It was 1989, and Helen Walker-Hill, a member of the piano faculty at the University of Colorado in Boulder, was working on a book titled "From Spirituals to Symphonies: African-American Women Composers and Their Music." She wanted to interview a Chicago teacher named Irene Britton Smith -- not because Smith was a composer, as far as she knew, but because Smith had reportedly known African-American composers Florence Price and Margaret Bonds. What she discovered brought a completely unknown African-American composer into the spotlight. And Smith's work is now a topic of interest for Arkansas Philharmonic musicians Er-Gene Kahng and Nathan Carterette, who will perform her Violin Sonata for Piano Feb. […]
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