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Welsh-American opera singer (1849-1922)
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2020-11-21 10:00:39
A restlessness with the present: soprano Katharine Dain chats about her new recital disc 'Regards sur l'infini'
[…] albeit sometimes to small audiences, with the first one being to Katharine's husband and her fourth housemate during lockdown. She and Sam were able to give a public recital in the Summer, two weeks before recording the programme. Alongside Messiaen's Poèmes pour Mi, the programme includes two of Delbos' songs from her song-cycle L'âme en bourgeon. Not only was Delbos Messiaen's wife but her song cycle sets poems written by Messiaen's mother, the poet Cécile Sauvage (1883-1927) when she was pregnant with Olivier. Messiaen's cycle was written in the first flush of his marriage to Delbos (and dedicated to her, Mi was his nickname for her). Katharine sees Messiaen as being flushed with the idea of marriage as heaven, as something sacramental. They are not love songs, and few are tender, most look forward to their future life in heaven, which Katharine sees as a bizarre perspective for a newly-wed […]
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Faces of classical music
2019-10-31 17:34:00
Olivier Messiaen: L'Ascension, 4 meditations for orchestra – Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra (HD 1080p)
[…] part Olivier Messiaen, in full Olivier-Eugène-Prosper-Charles Messiaen, (born Dec. 10, 1908, Avignon, France – died April 27, 1992, Clichy, near Paris), influential French composer, organist, and teacher noted for his use of mystical and religious themes. As a composer he developed a highly personal style noted for its rhythmic complexity, rich tonal colour, and unique harmonic language.Messiaen was the son of Pierre Messiaen, who was a scholar of English literature, and of the poet Cécile Sauvage. He grew up in Grenoble and Nantes, began composing at age seven, and taught himself to play the piano. At age 11 he entered the Paris Conservatory, where his teachers included the organist Marcel Dupré and the composer Paul Dukas. During his later years at the conservatory he began an extensive private study of Eastern rhythm, birdsong, and microtonal music (which uses intervals smaller than a semitone). In 1931 he was appointed organist at […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2019-08-21 14:33:11
Belgian Festival Could Be Removed From UNESCO Cultural Heritage List For Use Of Blackface
A character called Le Sauvage, covered in black face makeup, is featured on one of 22 floats in a traditional parade as part of the Ducasse d’Ath, held in late August in a small town in Wallonia. A letter from 14 anti-racist groups as well as academics and activist asking UNESCO to de-list the festival […]
2019-07-08 15:16:26
Various venues, CheltenhamThe festival honoured a pledge for gender parity with striking new work by Judith Weir, Dani Howard and Thea Musgrave The Cheltenham music festival celebrates its 75th anniversary this year. Dedicated from the outset to performing the work of contemporary British composers, that commitment continues, with three premieres from Judith Weir, Dani Howard and Thea Musgrave on the opening weekend also underlining Cheltenham’s signing up to a 50/50 gender split by 2022, part of the PRS foundation’s Keychange pledge. Weir’s The Prelude, performed by the Nash Ensemble with flautist Philippa Davies and a trio of strings, took the form of a five-section suite. Flowing lyrically and sounding more benign than implied in two of the titles, Waltz Macabre and Menuet Sauvage, this emerged as an attractive potential companion to Mozart’s flute quartets.
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