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2022-06-16 23:54:25
Chicago Tribune: "In her mighty performance of Price’s concerto, Cann didn’t just surmount the acoustic challenges of the Pritzker Pavilion stage..."
Michelle Cann performs Florence Price's Piano Concerto in One Movement with the Grant Park Orchestra on June 15, 2022. (Chuck Osgood / HANDOUT)Chicago TribuneBy Hannah EdgarJune 16, 2022Wednesday was a night for Grant Park Music Festival diehards.First, those present had to brave the 90-plus degree heat, which bit a sizable chunk from opening night crowds in both the Pritzker Pavilion and on the Millennium Park Great Lawn. Festival orchestra musicians visibly sweltered in their concert blacks, with some busting out shorts and sandals for the concert.Nor was the evening’s bluster any help. High winds yanked sheet music from stands, sent program books fluttering and caused a pair of speakers to swing perilously several yards above the head of Carlos Kalmar, Grant Park’s artistic director and principal conductor, for most of the evening.But if soloist Michelle Cann won’t forget her festival debut […]
2022-05-26 13:45:36
Here in the west we emphasize musical specialization to the point of absurdity. In the Middle East and Africa, pretty much everybody is expected to be a competent drummer: after that. you find your own axe or axes. In that context, it’s less surprising that Kresten Osgood, the popular Danish drummer, would also turn out […]
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2021-02-25 14:52:30
Free stream of the month: Breaking the Waves
This is truly breaking. Los Angeles Opera will co-present with Opera Philadelphia, a streamed performance of Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves, unquestionably America’s breakthrough opera of the past decade. LA Opera will stream Breaking the Waves from March 19 until April 12. Cast includes Soprano Kiera Duffy and John Moore. Steven Osgood conducts.
2019-06-04 10:14:37
Deep Light: Weber, Finzi, RVW, Schumann, Francaix
[…] A Victorian 'Love Island' - Handel's Partenope from Hampstead Garden Opera - opera review An eclectic mix: I chat to Clare Stewart of the vocal group Apollo5 about their latest release, O Radiant Dawn - interview Polish connections: Grazyna Bacewicz, Witold Lutoslawski, Henryk Gorecki from Southbank Sinfonia (★★★★) - CD review The textures of sound: Bastard Assignments at Mountview in Peckham (★★★★) - concert review Clive Osgood: Sacred Choral Music (★★★½) - CD review Delicatessen II - More Choice Morsels of Early English Song (★★★★) - CD review Home
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