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French composer and conductor
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-11-19 15:52:28
Saxophone Highlights Next BSO Concerts
[caption id="attachment_57087" align="alignleft" width="222"] Adolphus Sax[/caption] In the usually very popular post-thanksgiving subscriptions concerts (Friday afternoon and Saturday night), an instrument more associated with big bands takes pride of place on the Symphony Hall stage as BSO Assistant Conductor Earl Lee leads the sultry, atmospheric 1949 Saxophone Concerto by French composer Henri Tomasi; as soloist Steven Banks makes his BSO debut. The show opens with a very French symphonic poem, César Franck’s Le Chasseur maudit — “The Cursed Hunter” —based on a ballad about a man who commits the grave sin of hunting on the Sabbath and is doomed to be chased eternally by demons. The closer, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, opens with the famous “fate” motif, before composer’s great gift for beautiful melody sweetens it. Tickets HERE. Our brief discussion with Earl Lee follows. FLE: Franck’s Le Chasseur maudit (Accursed Huntsman) surprisingly isn’t actually a BSO rarity. Starting with Gericke […]
2022-07-19 14:48:00
City of London Sinfonia's 2022/23 season - The World Rediscovered
[…] Underground, Dance with the Devil features music by Vivaldi, Locatelli, Piazzolla and Copland, plus traditional folk music, to create a whirlwind musical tour that explores how the diabolical has inspired composers past and present. Then Painting with Music is a kaleidoscopic concert curated by CLS’ Principal Clarinet, Katherine Spencer, and an invitation to enter a different kind of art gallery, where pictures are painted with sounds instead of colour with music by Cecilia McDowall, Jean Françaix, Telemann, Henri Tomasi, and André Caplet plus improvisations and composer and sound artist, Gawain Hewitt, will present a sonic guide book for each piece.Choreographer, movement director and performer, Sarah Dowling, will be taking up the role of CLS' Artist-in-Residence for the 2022/23 season. Sarah Dowling is perhaps best known for her twenty year-long collaboration with ground-breaking immersive theatre specialists, Punchdrunk. She will work with the musicians to develop their skills and confidence in using movement to enhance story-telling […]
2022-04-23 07:42:00
Korros: I chat to the trio about rediscovering Elizabeth Poston's trio for flute, clarinet and harp
[…] Archant) Stravinsky wrote his short Epitaphium for flute, clarinet and harp in 1959 (it was the first work by Stravinsky where he ordered the harmony serially throughout), and the group long thought this the first work for this particular line up (but in fact, Elizabeth Poston pipped Stravinsky to the post). Other major works for this line-up include a piece by Luciano Berio inspired by the Stravinsky, and a work by French composer Henri Tomasi (1901-1971). The fame of the Debussy Sonata seems to have led to a far greater number of works for that line up, but when chatting to Nicholas, Camilla and Eliza, they felt that the clarinet replaces the viola rather well and the instruments blend so beautifully. They came across Elizabeth Poston's trio because Camilla went on to a harpist forum asking about music by female composers, intending include more in their repertoire. One harpist recommended […]
South Florida Classical Review
2022-03-01 21:34:27
When composer Michael Dellaira attempted to read Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa’s […]
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