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All the conducting master class
2023-08-03 13:53:00
wlu.ca/academics/faculties/faculty-of-music/assets/resources/laurier-conducting-symposium-institute,-november-25-2023.html Overview Conducting Symposium Institute at Laurier (CSI Laurier) is a one-day event for music educators and students who want to improve their conducting and rehearsal skills. Held at the Savvas Chamberlain Music Building on Wilfrid Laurier University’s Waterloo, Ontario, Canada campus. Participants will learn from presentations, Q&A, and hands-on sessions with the Laurier Wind Orchestra and Chamber ensembles. […]
2022-08-09 08:27:00
Reviews of the National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company at Buxton
[…] with Jenny Arnold his inventive choreographer, and John Andrews conducts the G&S Festival’s own National Symphony Orchestra. The piece may, when written in the early 1890s, have been a bit derivative of past Gilbert-Sullivan glories: Gilbert’s plot is about a distant island that decides to improve itself by adopting all the benefits of Victorian English society – the rulers (and some members) of the Army and Navy, a lawyer, a county councillor, a Lord Chamberlain, and a crafty businessman on the make, and of course there’s much flouncing around in posh costumes and drinking of cups of tea. Cue jokes at the expense of all of that, and there are references in the script (and in the score for the latter of them) to both The Mikado and HMS Pinafore. Clarke has removed the locale from the “luxuriant and tropical landscape” of the original book to a generally […]
2022-03-23 14:29:02
Celebrating 40 years: The Lichfield Festival 2022 with a new 40-part motet by Thomas Hyde and Stephen McNeff's new opera
[…] performing Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience. There are recital appearances from cellist Steven Isserlis and guitarist Paul Galbraith, pianist Danny Driver (one of the festival's new associate artists), and the Brodsky Quartet. The festival's Young Artist series continues with a whopping ten recitals, and a former young artist, horn play Ben Goldscheider returns to perform RVW and Brahms with the Goldfield Ensemble. There are fireworks, dance, spoken word, lectures, poetry and much much more, including the Lord Chamberlain's Men in an all-male staging of Shakespeare's As you like it. Full details from the festival website.
2021-07-14 09:22:00
Review of Pauline Viardot's Cendrillon at Buxton International Festival
[…] the musical numbers are sung in the original French (side-titles translate), with design by Anna Orton, costume design by Michelle Bristow and lighting by Rachel E Cleary. The story is a mild-mannered version of the familiar European Cinderella, as told by Perrault and set to music by bigger names than Viardot. So the sisters are not so much ugly as vain, and not even very nasty, and Prince Charming appearing disguised, mainly as his own Chamberlain (Buttons, as we now know him) is simply assumed from the start. Prince Charming is a woman’s “trouser” role, and the main event at the ball is when the girls are each invited to sing (Viardot leaves it to the performers to select their own contributions here, and Iwan Davies has the sisters sing the Barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffmann, while Cinderella gives us a slice of Massenet) – though we learn later […]
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