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2020-11-23 01:14:00
Free Directories of Classical Music Written by Black Composers, including Repertoire for Violin and Orchestra, Launched by Music by Black Composers
[…] currently working on further directories of music for violin and piano and music for multiple violins. In addition, MBC is collaborating with colleagues to build directories of music for viola, cello, bass, string quartet, piano, organ, recorder, school band, school orchestra, and symphony. MBC also aspires to function as a hub for existing resources by linking to directories created by others. A directory of Repertoire for Classical Guitar, compiled by Ciyadh Wells and Neil Beckmann, is now linked to MBC’s website. It includes data about sheet music, recordings, composers’ biographies, composition length, and the year written. The works are categorized as chamber classical guitar, solo electric guitar, chamber electric guitar, solo “other plucked string,” and chamber “other plucked string” music. The directory features 139 compositions by four women and 16 men, which were composed between 1973 and 2020.MBC’s repertoire directories serve as companion resources to […]
2020-10-13 06:34:07
The City of Derry International Choir Festival
The City of Derry International Choir Festival has been part of Northern Ireland's musical life since 2013, with its combination of participatory events for choirs of all ages and abilities and wide range of guest artists. This year, the festival will be somewhat different as from 21 to 25 October 2020, it all takes place online. Belfast's composer laureate, Brian Irvine, has written a new piece specially for the festival A new topography of love which will be performed by the Derry-based chamber choir Codetta and the Beckmann Foundation Choir from Tequila, Mexico, accompanied by an animation. There will be concerts from the chamber choir Tenebrae (in Allegri, Bach, Lassus and Reger), and Irish six-piece a cappella group Ardú. And there will be a series of video performances from choirs from all over the globe. Bob Chilcott will direct a 350-strong virtual chorus made from singers all over the globe, and […]
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2020-02-05 09:31:42
Message received: MEXICO CITY, January 4 (EL UNIVERSAL) – Young people with scholarships from the OperaStudio Beckmann will receive classes...
2019-11-28 13:03:00
Samson et Dalila, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 27 November 2019
Images: Matthias Baus Dalila – Elina Garanča Samson – Brandon Jovanovich High Priest of Dagon – Michael Volle Abimelech – Kwangchul Youn Old Hebrew – Wolfgang Schöne First Philistine – Andrés Moreno Garcia Second Philistine – Jaka Mihelač Philistine Messenger – Javier Bernando Samson Double (Dancer) – Nikos Fragkou Dalila Double (Dancer) - Lisa Schramm Damián Szifron (director) Étienne Pluss (set designs) Gesine Völlm (costumes) Olaf Freese (lighting) Tomasz Kajdański (choreography) Romain Gilbert, Heide Stock (assistant directors) Jana Beckmann (dramaturgy) Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Martin Wright) Staatskapelle Berlin Daniel Barenboim (conductor) Hand on heart, I have never seen anything quite like this. From curtain rise to reveal a dog running across stage—accompanied by palpable audience bewilderment and highly audible laughter—to a bizarrely offensive final act seemingly co-directed by David McVicar and ‘Mad’ Melanie Phillips, film director Damián Szifron’s first foray into opera […]
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