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2024-03-22 12:00:00
Organ Reborn! Norwich Cathedral Organ Festival: A new music festival for Norwich
[…] WOOFYT! workshop for ‘grown-ups’, too, in the Weston Room (Wednesday, 10 July, 1pm) offering adults everything they want to know about organ design and construction. Tickets £5. Booking via TicketSource. Whilst also in the Weston Room (Tuesday, 9 July, 3pm) David Briggs, an internationally-acclaimed organist and improviser and artist-in-residence at the Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York City, will give a talk on Pierre Cochereau (born 9 July 1924) organist of Notre Dame de Paris from 1955 to 1984. By all accounts, he led an extraordinary and fulfilling life not just as an organist but also as an improviser and composer as well. Tickets £5. And being a celebrated exponent of the organ music of the 20th-century French tradition, Mr Briggs will also perform a programme of French organ works on the same day at 8pm. Tickets £12. Seating unreserved. And a further event in the Weston Room (Friday, 12 […]
2024-03-21 15:00:48
Stravinsky: Petrushka; Debussy: Jeux; Prélude à l’Après-midi d’un Faune album review – flat and muted
Orchestre de Paris/Mäkelä(Decca)Despite first-rate playing, the young conductor with the orchestral world at his feet fails to deliver the drama behind the vivid gesturesWith three major European orchestras already in his charge, and with rumours that he is about to be named as the next chief conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra,
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2024-03-20 15:03:58
Conductor Bar Avni from Israel has won first prize with a cash award of €20,000 Created in 2019 by the Philharmonie de Paris and the Paris Mozart Orchestra, the La Maestra Competition is an international competition exclusively for women conductors. For this year’s edition, three finalists competed for top prizes and performance opportunities at the Philharmonie de Paris on March […]
2024-03-18 18:10:25
A hundred and eleven years ago, a ballet audience in Paris […]