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A bold statement of cultural synthesis: Vache Baroque's Jonathan Darbourne on celebrating the art of Salmone Rossi
[…] long, multi-authored preface attests to the time and thought Rossi and his close circle had put into such an experimental project. It was absolutely a ‘grand plan,’ with the aim to rediscover (or reinvent) the music that would have been heard in the First Temple in Jerusalem thousand of years before. The Songs of Solomon was a bold statement of cultural synthesis, an attempt to breathe new life into Jewish ceremony and worship by utilising a Gentile art form.We think this mixing together of seemingly clashing cultures deserves celebration and chimes so strongly with our mission at Vache Baroque and those of so many other arts organisations. Taking inspiration from this, our first offering was to mix old and new by making two music videos with madrigal backing tracks - one by Rossi, the other by a fan of his, Thomas Weelkes. We gave the texts modern storylines which were realised […]
2022-04-23 05:01:00
Classical Music News of the Week, April 23, 2022
[…] Bach’s musical innovations.To be held on Friday, May 6, 2022 at 7:30pm at the W83 Auditorium and Sunday, May 8, 2022 at 2:30pm at the Flushing Town Hall, the program also includes J.S. Bach’s beloved Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 and Concerto for Two Violins in D minor. NYCP Music Director Dongmin Kim conducts the concerts, which feature violinists Kristin Lee, Harriet Langley, and Brian Hong.For details, visit http://www.nycpmusic.org/--Katy Salomon, Morahan Arts and MediaNew Works by Kate Gentile, Fay Victor & Peter EvansOn Thursday, May 26, 2022 at 8:00PM at Roulette Intermedium, the International Contemporary Ensemble presents Fay Victor’s SIRENS AND SILENCES – marking the debut performance of Victor’s work in a concert with the Ensemble after joining as a new, permanent Ensemble member in the summer of 2021 – and the world premiere of Kate Gentile’s biome ii. Trumpet player and composer Peter Evans presents new compositions for a quartet of […]
2021-12-18 06:21:00
[…] mid-20th century. The cast is led by soprano Maria Natale as Emmeline.Full information here: https://tulsaopera.com/season/2021-22-season/emmeline/--Lisa Jaehnig, Shuman AssociatesInternational Contemporary Ensemble Presents SIRENS AND SILENCEOn Friday, January 21, 2022 at 8:00PM, the International Contemporary Ensemble presents Fay Victor’s SIRENS AND SILENCES, which will be the debut performance of Victor’s composed work in a concert with the Ensemble after joining as a new, permanent Ensemble member in the summer of 2021, plus the world premiere of Kate Gentile’s biome ii. The performance will take place at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn.Fay Victor’s SIRENS AND SILENCES (2020) was commissioned by the Jazz Coalition and is a “memory document” composition created to encapsulate “the moments when NYC was the epicenter of the Coronavirus pandemic and the sonic experience of living through that,” according to Victor. Of hunkering down and staying home during the pandemic, “The quiet was deafening, punctuated for days only by the sound […]
2021-11-06 05:33:00
Classical Music News of the Week, November 6, 2021
Telegraph Quartet Performs in “A Musical Call for Climate Action”On Friday, November 12, 2021, at 11am PT the Telegraph Quartet, winner of the 2016 Naumburg Chamber Music Award, will perform on “Live from Vienna and San Francisco: A Musical Call for Climate Action,” presented by The ClimateMusic Project and Friday Nights with Yury Revich. The Telegraph’s performance will take place for live audiences at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and will be available to stream online at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 8pm CET, with additional live performances from Vienna.The Telegraph Quartet will perform Richard Festinger’s string quartet, Icarus in Flight, a musical representation of climate change data from 1880 to 2080 with projected simulations. Festinger collaborated with The ClimateMusic Project for over a year to create the piece, which models three human drivers of climate change – population growth, carbon emissions, and land-use change – based on […]