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Organ Reborn! Norwich Cathedral Organ Festival: A new music festival for Norwich
[…] July, 10.30am, with Organ Festival Eucharist, a special and celebratory service featuring Norwich Cathedral Choir accompanied by members of Norwich Baroque. Music includes Haydn’s Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo ( the Little Organ Mass). In the afternoon of the same day, Organ Festal Evensong (3.30pm) features Norwich Cathedral Choir singing William Walton’s Chichester Service and the festival anthem, The Twelve (free admission) while in the evening of 7 July (8pm), Norwich Cathedral’s assistant organist, Robbie Carroll, will perform an organ solo transcription of Holst’s The Planets with the upper voices of Norwich Cathedral’s Chamber Choir offering their ethereal voices to the final movement ‘Neptune - the mystic’. Free admission. Retiring collection. Youth at the helm! WOOFYT! The Wooden One-Octave Organ for Young Technologists being held in the Weston Room (Monday, 8 July - all day) will be followed by a further couple of sessions (Wednesday, 10 July - morning) / […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-08 18:08:24
Dance Music of the Germania Musical Society
[…] the orchestra had separated, a profitable engagement offered at Washington, to give four concerts and to perform at an “Assembly Ball,” and the grand Inauguration Ball. The offer was, of course, accepted, and the dispersed members hastily recalled. After the inauguration festivities the Society concluded to try concerts again. This time they fixed upon Baltimore, and on the 8th of March gave their first performance in that city, at Brown’s building; the more fashionable resort, Carroll Hall, being engaged by Gungl’s band, which performed the same evening. The condition of musical taste in Baltimore at the present day is not very flourishing. The receipts of the symphony concerts, which were directed by Mr. L. H. Southard, of the Peabody Institute, for several years, fell short of the expenses. The field, generally, has been so far from promising, that Mr. Southard, after a number of years spend in trying to cultivate […]
2023-12-03 09:15:00
Norwich-based music writer, Tony Cooper, offers an account of Organ Re-born! a mini-concert series mounted in celebration of the return and rebirth of Norwich Cathedral’s organ.
[…] fervent hearts out with fine renderings of William Walton’s Magnificat/Nunc Dimittis (Chichester service), Ralph Vaughan Williams’ setting of George Herbert’s text (Let all the world in every corner sing), Benjamin Britten’s Te Deum Laudamus and Herbert Howells’ A Hymn for St Cecilia, a work also heard in the BBC Singers’ concert. Concluding the service, David Dunnett played the Organ Voluntary ‘Toccata’ from Suite Op. 5 by Maurice Duruflé but as a curtain-raiser, assistant organist, Robbie Carroll, played a total of three pieces which concluded with a fine rendering of César Franck’s Choral no.2 in B minor. The Norwich Cathedral Organ rebuild project (Photo: Bill Smith / Norwich Cathedral)It was nice to see a couple of senior past members of Norwich Cathedral’s ministry team at Festal Evensong most notably Canon Jeremy Haselock and the Very Reverend Dr Jane Hedges who would, of course, have been instrumental in early talks about the […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-11-26 06:14:03
A uniquely gifted American composer, David Del Tredici left us some remarkably rich music. “An experimentalist who leaned into New Romanticism,” an NY Times sidebar reads, referring to the frank and unabashed tonal lyricism of several of his works inspired by Lewis Carroll. He was the first West Coast composer I ever knew in person, a California native who had started out as a concert pianist. I first saw Del Tredici at Princeton, where he was a year ahead of me in graduate school. Already he was writing impressive music: I Hear an Army for soprano and string quartet used a text from James Joyce’s Chamber Music, and the armies of chromatic scales in swirling strings were impressively regimented. One could tell his ideas were large scaled. (For his opera requirement, studying for that year’s M.F.A. oral exams, he chose a big item, Wagner’s Götterdämmerung.) I heard two later works, equally […]
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