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2024-04-15 03:30:00
3 Shades of Blue/Kind of Blue (Book/CD Review)
[…] the European music.” (An interesting fact not mentioned in Kaplan’s book is that at some point later in his career, Evans struck up a friendship with the legendary Canadian classical pianist Glenn Gould; in fact, Evans recorded his famous overdubbed solo album Conversations with Myself using Gould’s piano.) As for Coltrane, Kaplan observes that “almost everyone associated with John Coltrane took note of his voracious appetite for learning about music in general and his instrument in particular… Like Charlie Parker, he made a point of learning to play in every key; also like Parker, and like Miles, he listened broadly and deeply, not just to jazz but to the modern Europeans. ‘Trane and I,’ Jimmie Heath recalled, ‘used to go to the Philadelphia Library together and listen to Western classical music – they had the headphones, you know. We would play Stravinsky and people like that and listen to all this music we could.’” There.is […]
2024-04-10 09:31:00
Dramatic Britten, athletic Watkins and high-energy Mozart: Britten Sinfonia, Ben Goldscheider and Nicky Spence at Milton Court
[…] of wood.' The work began with short, vivid gestures from the strings, with the space around the gestures playing an important role. As these gestures assembled into a high energy structure the work became visceral and dramatic. Throughout the piece, even during quieter moments, it was these string gestures that dominated and Weir achieved some striking effects by combining multiple layers of repeating motifs. Conductor Michael Papadopoulos is an alumnus of the Royal Opera House's Jette Parker Young Artist Programme and he joins the conducting staff at Vienna's Volksoper in September. He drew a disciplined, vivid and at times visceral performance from the players despite apparently using only small, precise gestures.Performed without a conductor, Britten's Serenade for tenor, horn and strings featured tenor Nicky Spence and horn-player Ben Goldscheider centre stage and throughout the work the two men made the piece about their duet, rather than a tenor solo with horn […]
All the conducting master class
2024-03-09 02:49:00
Opera Conductors/Répétiteurs – Jette Parker Artists Programme Applications for opera conductors and répétiteurs to join the Jette Parker Artists Programme for the 2024-26 Seasons, starting in September 2024, are now open. Jette Parker singers, stage directors and music staff are full-time salaried employees with the Royal Opera for 24 months running September through August. Artists […]
2024-02-20 09:27:00
La voix humaine: two different productions bring Poulenc's intimate drama to London
[…] Opera Company is presenting Poulenc's La voix humaine in a double bill with Philip Hagemann's Roman Fever at the Susie Sainsbury Theatre at the Royal Academy of Music.Green Opera's critically-acclaimed production of Francis Poulenc's La Voix humaine returns for a strictly limited run, 14-16 March 2024 at the newly reconstructed purpose-built King's Head Theatre. New Zealand soprano Katherine McIndoe with Eleanor Burke as director and André Callegaro as music director, these latter two both Jette Parker Young Artists at the Royal Opera House.Green Opera is the first and only environmentally-sustainable opera company; for every £10 donated or ticket purchased, Green Opera plants a tree with Eden Reforestation Projects. So far they have planted over 2,000 trees! The March performances are in support of the Maternal Mental Health Alliance to whom 25% of the box office proceeds will be donated.Full details from the Kings Head Theatre website.Pegasus Opera's double bill features […]
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