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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-27 00:47:06
Over the weekend the Handel & Haydn Society welcomed back Conductor Laureate Harry Christophers to Symphony Hall for its yearly portion of Mozart and Haydn. Predictable selections of those two composers capped the ends of event, but the addition of music from Hildegard von Bingen and Raffaella Aleotti gave the audience a rewarding exploration of nearly 700 years of composition. [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
2023-11-04 09:31:00
Music knows no borders: countertenor Reginald Mobley on the music of Ignatius Sancho, spirituals as Early Music and the importance of diversity
[…] from volume one. As a result, Reginald has been commissioning contemporary composers to create larger-scale works based on Sancho's music, and next year the Academy of Ancient Music will be premiering a new Sancho-inspired commission from Roderick Williams.Reginald has been working with the Boston (USA) based Handel & Haydn Society (founded in 1815 and the longest-serving such performing arts organization in the USA) as programming consultant, helping to expand and diversify the repertoire. With Harry Christophers, the Handel & Haydn Society's artistic director until 2022, Reginald commissioned Jonathan Woody’s Suite for Orchestra, a suite of dances based on Sancho's music, which the orchestra recorded during the Pandemic. Reginald did a similar project in September 2022 at The Juilliard School when violinist Rachel Podger directed a Suite of Dances and Songs, arranged by Nicola Canzano. Reginald loves the idea of capping a programme with some music by Ignatius Sancho, as it […]
2022-11-15 14:42:37
Manchester-born Jonathan Cohen will replace Harry Christophers at the helm of America's oldest arts organisation
2022-11-13 13:02:28
Bath AbbeyPurcell’s Welcome Songs and music written for the coronation of James II provided a pertinent lessonOn what’s thought to have been his 18th birthday, 10 September 1677, Henry Purcell’s first appointment to the court of Charles II was as composer-in-ordinary. Going on to become organist at Westminster Abbey and to the Chapel Royal, also serving James II and William and Mary, Purcell’s prolific composing career – cut tragically short, like that of Mozart – proved to be rather extraordinary.In the context of Charles III’s recent accession to the throne,
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