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2023-04-24 07:14:12
It’s good to have the mostly-weekly series of organ concerts at St. Patrick’s Cathedral back again. It took a long time for the church to complete the renovations on the organ there, but in the couple of years leading up to the 2020 lockdown, there were some memorable concerts in that space. Yesterday’s performance, by […]
2021-11-20 06:04:00
Classical Music News of the Week, November 20, 2021
[…] Shuman, Shuman AssociatesThe Crossing Presents 12 World Premieres in “Carols after a Plague”Grammy Award-winning choir The Crossing, led by conductor Donald Nally, continues its 2021-2022 season with their annual Jeffrey Dinsmore Memorial Concerts, The Crossing @ Christmas. This year’s program is the culmination of a year-long focused project: “Carols after a Plague” features an evening of world premieres by Leila Adu, Alex Berko, Edith Canat de Chizy, Viet Cuong, Samantha Fernando, Vanessa Lann, Mary Jane Leach, Shara Nova, Joseph C. Phillips Jr., Nina Shekhar, Tyshawn Sorey, and LJ White. The composers’ works all address the topic of plague – be it a pandemic, racism, climate change, gun violence, homelessness, diasporas, isolation, or loneliness – through their own idea of a carol, a brief choral work of joy or lament.“Carols after a Plague” premieres Sunday, December 12, 2021 at 3:00pm at Dekelboum Concert Hall in College Park, MD presented by The […]
2021-08-18 09:06:06
High Energy: an evening of firsts from the Manchester Collective and Mahan Esfahani at the BBC Proms
[…] Cage (who was 63 at the time and also gay, yet from a very different generation both musically and socialogically) commented afterwards that Eastman's '[ego]... is closed in on homosexuality. And we know this because he has no other ideas.' Many of Eastman's scores were lost as a result of personal problems (a dependence on drugs, eviction and homelessness), and much has be recovered and reconstructed by Eastman's friends including the composer Mary Jane Leach, whose recovery of an early 1980s recording of The Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc enabled cellist Clarice Jensen to transcribe the work as only a fragment of Eastman's manuscript survived. This was the first performance The Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc in a new version for string orchestra. After some chanting from the players we launched into a heavy-rock inspired cello and bass line which evidently comes from a 1978 Patti Smith song, Rock […]
2021-07-03 05:28:00
Classical Music News of the Week, July 3, 2021
[…] conventionally indoors. Instead, The Crossing created ECHOES – amplification technology that allows outdoor, distanced performances. ECHOES was featured in a number of the ensemble’s 10 live and animated films, released during the pandemic and directly addressing the social issues of the time.The Crossing’s 2021-2022 season “return / emerge / remember” features world premieres by Justine F. Chen, Gabriel Kahane, Leila Adu, Ambrose Akinmusire, Alex Berko, Edith Canat de Chizy, Viet Cuong, Samantha Fernando, Mary Jane Leach, Shara Nova, Joseph C. Phillips Jr., Nina Shekhar, Tyshawn Sorey, LJ White, Stacy Garrop, Marcos Balter, Aaron Helgeson, Tawnie Olsen, and David Shapiro. Collaborators include the JACK Quartet, the Dublin Guitar Quartet, tenor saxophonist Matthew Levy, organist Scott Detra, and percussionist Ted Babcock.For complete information, visit https://www.crossingchoir.org/--Katy Salomon, Morahan Arts and MediaNaumburg Orchestral ConcertsThe Naumburg Orchestral Concerts continue. All concerts are at the renovated Naumburg Bandstand in Central Park, New York City.Two artists will […]
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