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2024-04-23 13:00:18
Dinosaur surviving the crunch
I have a confession and you may need to sit down for it: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita was one of the gateway drugs to my eventual opera fandom. The post appeared first on parterre box.
2024-04-09 08:14:00
Gŵyl Machynlleth Festival
The mid-Wales market town of Machynlleth plays host to artists from classical, Welsh and world music each August for the Machynlleth Festival / Gŵyl Machynlleth which, this year, runs from 18 to 25 August 2024 under artistic directors Julius Drake and Dennis Jones, with concerts taking place in The Tabernacle, a former chapel that is now an intimate and acoustically wonderful concert venue.Welsh artists performing at this year's festival include Clwyd-born pianist Llyr Williams in an all-Chopin recital, Welsh male voice choir Cantorion Gogledd Cymru and the closing concert will feature soprano Natalya Romaniw and harpist Alis Huws. The Three Soloists concert features tenor Elgan Llŷr Thomas, soprano Meinir Wyn Roberts and baritone Steffan Lloyd Owen with pianist Eirian Owen.Other highlights include Schubert’s Trout Quintet with Tom Poster and the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, Poulenc’s opera La Voix Humaine with soprano Mercedes Gancedo and Festival Co-Artistic Director, Julius Drake, Marmen Quartet and John Myerscough in Haydn, Ravel and Schubert’s quintet, genre-defying […]
2024-03-15 16:06:00
Crouching composer, hidden dragon
[…] opposite the Potala Palace, the Dalai Lama’s former residence. Buddha Passion is another example of the culture-washing that the classical industry and media so enthusiastically support, with reviews echoing Decca's PR speak using headlines such as 'Tan Dun’s message of love and compassion' - Guardian, and 'An immense work that straddles East and West' - Standard. Leaving aside all that unfortunate cultural baggage, sadly the music of Tan Dun's Buddha Passion rarely rises above the level of an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, with one of the few dissenting voices, Marc Bridle at Opera Now, describing it as "A flawed work which isn't all it seems".Not one reviewer questioned the hidden Chinese dragon behind the Buddha Passion. Not one reviewer questioned Tan Dun's setting of the Heart Sutra in the penultimate act, a text held by the Dalai Lama to be one of the core teachings of Buddhism. In 2021 Radio Free Asia reported that […]
2024-03-06 11:44:49
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