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2024-03-12 09:19:00
It's back: Classical Pride returns to the Barbican with a five celebration of LGBTQ+ composers and artists
After a debut last year, Classical Pride, artistic director Oliver Zeffman is back with a five-day festival from 3 to 7 July 2024, showcasing the breadth, diversity and depth of talent of LGBTQ+ composers and artists, past, present and future.The centre piece of the festival is a concert at the Barbican Hall where Oliver Zeffman conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in programme featuring a new commission from Jake Heggie with soprano Pumeza Matshikiza, Cassandra Miller's Round, Szymanowski’s Symphony No. 3, ‘Song of the Night’, with tenor soloist Russell Thomas and LGBTQ+ Community Choir, Saint-Saens' Piano Concerto No. 2 with Pavel Kolesnikov and music by Tchaikovsky and Copland.At Milton Court Concert Hall, the Fourth Choir, conductor Nicholas Chalmers will be focusing on the relationship between Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears in My Beloved Man featuring music by Britten, Barber, Imogen Holst, Barber and more.There is a free performance of Julius Eastman’s Gay […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-01-06 21:26:14
“No Choice but Love: Songs of the LGBTQ+ Community”
[…] in Spanish. From Valverde, two songs in Danish to poems by Tove Ditlevsen. The first is particularly entrancing, much like a Schumann song but with subtly updated harmonic touches. Poulenc’s cycle of nine brief songs, Tel jour, telle nuit, ends CD 1, appropriately, because this is the work, composed of course for Poulenc’s friend and main vocal interpreter, baritone Pierre Bernac, that resulted after some of the squabbling and advice portrayed (or imagined) in Jake Heggie’s humorous and touching work, which directly precedes it here: Friendly Persuasions. Heggie’s four songs evoke imagined but plausibly characteristic interactions between the composer Poulenc and four of his friends and colleagues, including harpsichordist Wanda Landowska and, in the second song, Bernac. [caption id="attachment_57319" align="alignright" width="524"] Eric Ferring (Gillian Riesen photo)[/caption] All in all, No Choice but Love is one of the most imaginative debut recitals I have ever encountered. Ferring sings with total control […]
2023-10-31 01:41:00
I haven't seen this opera, though I can say that when I read about it a few weeks ago I was surprised and dismayed to see that two white men were telling the story of two women, one Black and one white, in a story set during the American Civil War. (Shades of Richard Danielpour and Toni Morrison's Margaret Garner, which is based on Morrison's novel Beloved.) I am not the only person who had this reaction.Joshua Kosman, SF Chronicle. This review also contains some comments on Heggie's first opera, Dead Man Walking, which I liked less than anyone I know.Ilana Walder-Biesanz, SFCV.Kendra Preston Leonard, Ph.D. (musicology), her blog.Molly Glentzer, Houston Chronicle (paywalled).Steven Brown, Texas Classical Review.Scott Cantrell, Dallas News.
2023-10-10 16:43:04
Newswire | The Met: Live in HD 2023–24 season opens with live transmission of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking
New York, NY (October 9, 2023) —The Metropolitan Opera opens its 2023–24 Live in HD season with Jake Heggie’s masterpiece Dead Man Walking on Saturday, October 21, at 12:55PM ET—the first of three works from recent years to be presented live in cinemas this season. Based on Sister Helen Prejean’s memoir, which also inspired the [...]
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