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Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2023-10-29 09:00:39
Royal Opera House, LondonLauren Cuthbertson and Marcelino Sambé reprise their roles to glorious effect in Cathy Marston’s inspired paean to Jacqueline du Pré, while an adaptation of Sam Steiner’s hit play Lemons… feels squeezedUpstairs and downstairs, in the main house and in the smaller Linbury theatre, the Royal Ballet is exploring what narrative dance can do. Upstairs is having a rather better time of it. Cathy Marston’s
2022-04-09 13:17:39
Another lovely composition for Study and writing Discover “Air” by Helen Keeling-Marston
2021-09-19 07:46:00
‘Let music not be forgotten in the meantime’: Sonatas, Fantasies, and Fragments by Schumann and Chopin
[…] between works. ‘Im Legendenton’, a Eusebian Lieder ohne Wortre of paradoxically timeless archaism – a musical ruin – that blossoms with typical Romantic passion, is flanked by Florestan’s sonata tendencies. For Daverio, it offers an instance of Schlegel’s conception of the Arabeske: ‘humorous, witty, or sentimental digressions that intentionally disturb the chronological flow of a narrative’, yet, ‘as a total form, […] tempers a seemingly chaotic diversity through a deliberately concealed logical process’. For Nicholas Marston, it is from here that Florestan’s flanking music is derived, if only in retrospect, by way of parallel to Schlegel’s fragmentary novel La Lucinde. The idea of a single reading misses the point. A multiplicity of readings, of (potential) performances, both fragments and unifies. Such, then, are those ‘difficulties in form and content’ to which Schumann would later refer, and which seem to have discouraged even Liszt, the dedicatee of the Fantasie, from frequent […]
2020-09-19 09:35:04
Composing The Red Shoes: I chat to Terry Davies about creating the score for Matthew Bourne's ballet based on Bernard Herrmann's music
[…] interest in film music. And of course the work of Bernard Herrmann, and he comments that there is a lot of amazing music in Herrmann's scores, pointing out The Ghost and Mrs Miller and Citizen Kane, both of whose scores are mined for The Red Shoes. His working life has been 'a complete desert' this Summer, but he has done some talks for his local cinema. In March 2020, his new ballet for choreographer Cathy Marston (who choreographed The Cellist, the Jacqueline Dupre-inspired ballet for the Royal Ballet in February 2020) was due to premiere at San Francisco ballet. This is all Terry's own music, and the ballet is the story of Mrs Robinson, the character from the film The Graduate; he describes the score, which is written for good size orchestra including acoustic guitar, as eclectic tonal. The premiere of the piece is now planned for February 2021. He […]
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