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2023-11-09 10:00:00
New Oratorio by Tracy K. Smith and Aaron Siegel Gives Voice to Civil War-Era African American Troops
Merkin Hall is a beautiful venue, warm in both temperature and acoustics. On Nov. 2, Tracy K. Smith, the former.. The post appeared first on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN.
2023-08-25 00:00:34
Raymond Bisha presents the first in a series of podcasts that explore newly remastered recordings on the VOX label dating from the 1970s. This instalment features four albums by the St Louis Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin, in which the orchestra and solo pianists Abbey Simon and Jeffrey Siegel variously perform works by Rachmaninov and
2022-06-16 14:44:03
Toronto, June 16, 2022 – The COC Ensemble Studio welcomes four new artists for the company’s 2022/2023 season: soprano Ariane Cossette, mezzo-sopranos Queen Hezumuryango and Alex Hetherington, and pianist Brian Cho. The four officially join the highly specialized development program for Canadian opera professionals this August, alongside returning sopranos Charlotte Siegel and Midori Marsh, baritone Jonah Spungin, [...]
2022-05-31 06:46:00
A forgotten voice from an earlier era: Mr Onion's Serenade - Mandolin Music of the Edwardian Era
[…] were mandolin orchestras all over Europe, the USA and Japan. A huge amount of music was written for these ensembles, and most was subsequently lost and forgotten. This charming new disc from mandolin player Matt Norman, Mr Onion's Serenade, revisits much of the forgotten late 19th and early 20th century repertoire for mandolin ensemble with composers such as Angelo Ciglia, Mario Maciocchi, Alfonso Cipollone, Will D Moyer, Raffaele Calace, Giuseppe Sgallari, Emile Grimshaw, Luigi Canora, Samuel Siegel and Ant H Claassens. Many are Italian but there are two Americans and one Englishman, which indicates something of the spread of enthusiasm for the instrument in the Edwardian period. Bizarrely, the second flourishing of the instrument, in the late nineteenth century, was started by a touring ensemble, none of whom actually played the mandolin. The Spanish group called Estudiantina Española Fígaro played guitars, violin and bandurrias, but they were so popular both […]
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