Jeanette MacDonald News
American singer and actress (1903-1965)
Commemorations 2025 (Death: Jeanette MacDonald)
- soprano
- United States of America
- film actor, actor, musician, opera singer, stage actor, voice actor, recording artist
Last update
2024-03-15
Refresh
2024-02-08 08:14:00
Sitting in a concert hall is not a great place to have a musical experience: Frederick Waxman introduces Our Mother, Figure's dramatic staging of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater
This is my body Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri from Figure at the Swiss Church in 2023The ensemble Figure, co-artistic directors Frederick Waxman and Philip Barrett, has had some considerable success with its stagings at Opera Holland Park of Handel's Serse (in 2022) and Shakespeare/Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream (in 2023), but last year the company also created a remarkable immersive staging Buxtehude's sacred cantata sequence Membra Jesu Nostri [see my review].From 20 to 23 March 2024 they will be presenting Our Mother at Stone Nest. This will be a dramatised staging of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with additional music by Alex Mills. Directed by Sophie Daneman, the staging will be performed by women of multiple generations, Dame Emma Kirkby, Catherine Carby, Rowan Pierce and Katie MacDonald.When I chatted to Frederick Waxman about the production he commented that whilst everyone knows the first 20 seconds or so of Pergolesi's music, they wanted to […]
2023-09-19 08:07:00
Bringing life to Glasgow's oldest building: the seventh Glasgow Cathedral Festival
[…] (guitar) and Roksana Smirnova (piano). F W Murnau's romance-drama Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), which won three Oscars at the first ever Academy Awards, will have a score from organist, composer and improvisor Thierry Escaich.There are lunchtime chamber-music recitals from flautist Matthew James Higham with pianist Hye Soo Kang, the Sacconi Quartet and pianist Emma Abbate, and organist Richard Gowers. Twighlight in the Crypt features Columbian-American soprano Stephanie Lamprea and sound artist Alistair MacDonald for a performance integrating the human voice with avant-garde electronics with music by Katrin Klose, Robert Laidlow, Lisa Robertson and Alistair MacDonald.There are free tours of the historic building and cathedral’s master stonemason will give a talk explaining the ancient techniques used over the centuries in his fascinating craft, accompanied by a tour of the yard.Glasgow Cathedral opened in 1197 and is the oldest cathedral on mainland Scotland, though much of the present building […]
2023-08-06 06:48:00
....towards a Pure Land
....towards a Pure Land for small string ensemble and orchestra by Jonathan Harvey describes, in the words of the composer, "a state of mind beyond suffering where there is no grasping... a model of the world to which we can aspire". In the photo above I am interviewing Jonathan Harvey in August 2010. When the interview was finished I drove down from his house on the Sussex Downs and ate alone in a restaurant in Lewes. During my meal I listened to the interview again on headphones, and as I listened it became apparent that something rather special had been captured. This was confirmed when the interview was subsequently broadcast on Future Radio: how many contemporary composers have made the news - not arts - sections of the Guardian and the Telegraph in the same week? Very sadly, the interview was made even more special by Jonathan's untimely death two years […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2023-04-09 06:41:57
Brian Stokes Mitchell and Audra MacDonald – Ragtime... The post Ruth Leon recommends… Brian Stokes Mitchell and Audra MacDonald – Ragtime appeared first on Slippedisc.
or
- timeline: Lyrical singers (North America). Performers (North America).
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): M...