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2024-03-10 15:40:39
Nash Ensemble: Terezín-Theresienstadt review – incredibly moving survey of composers lost to the Holocaust
Wigmore Hall, LondonWorks by Hans Krása, Viktor Ullmann, Pavel Haas and Gideon Klein were wonderfully performed, while Konstantin Krimmel gave a heart-rending account of of songs written in the ghetto-camp – an essential and unforgettable experienceThe
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-17 13:50:36
[…] Dutoit was one of these, as were Harold Farberman of the BSO’s percussion section (30 years later I had very good lessons from him at the Conductors Institute in South Carolina), and a very able Norwegian, Sverre Bruland; the younger conducting students, not “actives,” included John Harbison. Charles Munch was on campus, of course, directing BSO concerts. Berlioz’s Grande messe des morts, the Requiem, was on the menu, and Lorna Cooke de Varon and Alfred Nash Patterson took turns rehearsing every available choral voice, including all the composers’, for the eventual performance, and so it was that I sang as an anonymous chorister under Munch’s direction, just that one time. Munch took no part in running the BMC, which was overseen that summer by Aaron Copland, Ralph Berkowitz, and a few others. Weekly concerts by the BMC Orchestra were mostly directed by the “actives” and by de Carvalho and Seymour […]
2023-12-19 09:41:00
Nevill Holt refocuses as a multi-arts festival for 2024 under guest festival director James Dacre.
[…] their shared French heritage. In the wider arts, there will be an Anthony Caro exhibition across the Nevill Holt estate alongside an outdoor sculpture collection including work by Antony Gormley, Rachel Whiteread, Allen Jones, Conrad Shawcross, Marc Quinn and Sean Henry. Other events include comedian Mark Watson, Michael Morpurgo, and Alice Roberts.Over 1,500 primary schoolchildren will perform a 50-minute version of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel in theatres across the region with sopranos Fiona Finsbury and Eleanor Sanderson-Nash, directed by Jonathan Ainscough and conducted by Simon Toyne. Their final performance will fall during Nevill Holt Festival 2024. Meanwhile, the music scholars of Northampton’s Malcolm Arnold Academy will present a chamber music concert in the atmospheric surroundings of the Chapel, accompanied by Jem Lowther and Jamie Milburn and the Big Band of Malcolm Arnold Academy will be led by jazz artist Jamie Glew-Osborn in a programme of jazz standards and big band classics.Full […]
2023-12-19 09:07:00
75th Aldeburgh Festival: Judith Weir's Blond Eckbert, Britten's Curlew River, Sumidagawa & more
The plans for next year's Aldeburgh Festival have been announced, and it turns out that 2024 is one of those years full of celebratory numbers. 2024 will be the 75th Aldeburgh Festival, composer Judith Weir's 70th year, 60 years since the premiere of Britten's Curlew River and Roger Wright's last festival after 10 years of being CEO. So, plenty to celebrate then.The festival opens with a new production of Judith Weir's 1994 opera Blond Eckbert, a co-production with English Touring Opera that will be directed by Robin Norton-Hale and conducted by Gerry Cornelius. Judith Weir is one of the festival's featured musicians and there will be performances of her music by BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ryan Wigglesworth, pianists Rolf Hind and Steven Osborne, the Nash Ensemble, Aldeburgh Voices, and Tenebrae, the BBC Singers perform her oratorio blue hills beyond blue hills, soprano Clare Booth performs the mini grand opera King Harald's Saga, the […]
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