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2024-04-09 14:14:01
PREVIEW | The Bach Elgar Choir Brings Cinematic Space Journey To Hamilton, London, Toronto
The Bach Elgar Choir is bringing a musical and cinematic trip to the stars to Hamilton, London, and Toronto titled Space Journey.
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2024-03-26 12:56:43
[…] solidly movement and music-led, dancing round the edges of abstraction.Marina Mascarell’s The Shell, a Ghost, the Host & the Lyrebird opens feeling like early morning, with stillness and subdued light, and sparse shimmering music. From the ceiling fall ropes and swathes of fabric, like a ship’s rigging, and there’s the subtle impression of a voyage somewhere, choreography gently rocked by the water’s undertow. It’s a dreamy piece, although its potency wanes, not dissimilar to Antony Hamilton’s Forever & Ever, which is built like a big crescendo with a fizzle-out ending. Forever & Ever looks fab though, and it’s full of striking visual surprises, mostly courtesy of costume designer Paula Levis. The dancers emerge in hooded cloaks and cone-shaped hands, like a cross between The Traitors and a Pet Shop Boys gig. There is constant transformation, from monochrome to colour, from silence to a stark electro beat of increasing intensity, a […]
2024-03-18 18:35:14
THE SCOOP | Hamilton Philharmonic & Hamilton Music Collective Launch New Music Education Initiative
The Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra (HPO) and the Hamilton Music Collective (HMC) have announced the new Marnie and Larry Paikin Music Education Initiative.
2024-03-17 06:17:00
I disliked Naxos’ recording of Hamilton Harty’s Irish Symphony, finding the performance overly breathless and oddly balanced, but this version of the Piano Concerto is marvelous. It knocks about eight minutes off the Chandos competition, and instead of sounding too hasty, it gives the music a welcome Irish snap. Particularly in the finale the march […]
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