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2022-02-16 17:20:39
William Kraft was born in 1923, in Chicago, Illinois. He was a graduate of Columbia University, where he received two Anton Seidl Fellowships and completed a bachelor’s degree cum laude in 1951 and a master’s degree in 1954. He studied composition with Jack Beeson and Henry Cowell, orchestration with Henry Brant, percussion with Morris […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2021-04-02 08:52:00
Review of the Hallé filmed concert at the Bridgewater Hall, released 1st April 2021
[…] to with zeal. She talks as enthusiastically and urgently as she conducts, bridging the gap between the Bacewicz overture and the Suitefrom Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring music. (It’s the 13-instrument version, the soundworld of the original ballet, incidentally the same one that Manchester Camerata members filmed and recorded in the Stoller Hall in January for Radio 3 and released as a one-day-only stream on 24th February). The Hallé principals and soloists (and notably Gemma Beeson on piano) play with tenderness and affection for Delyana Lazarova, producing a delightful and sweetly evocative sound – the Bridgewater Hall acoustic helps what is effectively a chamber music score to take a mellow tinge, like a stage performance seen through a gauze. The conductor has just told us she’s going to ‘let you see those characters and hear the story’ of the ballet, and she does just that, with the ending of the […]
2018-03-22 09:36:00
Review of Halle concert with Jonathon Heyward, conductor, and Benjamin Grosvenor, soloist
[…] that’s there to be found in the orchestral writing (as well as the big, blockbusting chords). There was no empty grandiosity in either his approach or that of Jonathan Scott, with momentum in the rhythms and clean, vigorous orchestral playing. Jonathan Scott knows the Bridgewater Hall organ probably better than most, and made its firm but mellow pedal sound tell in the slow movement and its ‘beating’ tones blend well into the texture. Gemma Beeson and Peter Durrant were on form with the piano’s contributions, and there was a nice sense of stasis in the subdued moments before the final colossal outburst of C major. Jonathon Heyward
2017-07-15 17:41:13
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Happy 67th birthday author and blogress Arianna Huffington. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=nncY-MA1Iu8 Born on this day in 1905 lyricist Dorothy Fields. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYVUjwWE-Hc Born on this day in 1921 composer Jack Beeson. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc8f3fbLh4s Happy 84th birthday guitarist/lutenist Julian Bream. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq2fccUDPh8 Happy 83rd birthday composer Harrison Birtwistle. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmBuvePA-WE
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