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American film composer (1929–2004)
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- classical music, contemporary classical music
- United States of America
- conductor, composer, film score composer
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Tomasz Konieczny plays the title character, a Goldsmith who is possessed by his jewelry, in a live videocast of Paul Hindemith’s opera.
2022-08-03 08:46:00
Black, el Payaso: Pablo Sorozábal's engaging operetta gets its UK premiere in an enterprising production by Cervantes Theatre at Grimeborn
Pablo Sorozábal: Black, el Payaso; Michael Lafferty, Raphaela Papadakis, Giuseppe Pellingra, Juliet Wallace, David Powton, director Paula Paz, music director Ricardo Gosalbo; Cervantes Theatre at the Grimeborn Festival at Arcola TheatreReviewed 2 August 2022 (★★★★)A fantasy plot, that hid themes of exile and revolution in plain sight, is at the heart of this 1941 Spanish operetta full of lovely melodies and with musical links to Berlin music-theatre and Viennese operetta from the Silver AgePablo Sorozábal, who died in 1988 at the age of 91, was the last representative of the romantic Spanish zarzuela tradition. He is perhaps best known internationally for the romanza 'No puede ser' (from his 1936 zarzuela La tabernera del puerto) which was sung by Placido Domingo at the Three Tenors concert!There was a rare chance to hear Sorozábal's work in London when the Cervantes Theatre presented the UK premiere of Sorozábal's Black, el Payaso (Black, the Clown) at Arcola Theatre's […]
2022-07-17 19:45:56
In a 1970 overview of Beethoven Diabelli Variations recordings, my late colleague Harris Goldsmith divided the performances into three basic categories: One strives for large-scale drama, structural unity, and cumulative momentum (i.e. Artur Schnabel, Rudolf Serkin); another treats each variation as a separate structural and emotional entity (Paul Baumgartner, Hans Richter-Haaser); the third focuses on […]
2021-12-18 09:45:13
Something more raw, that goes back to the origins of the stories: I chat to composer Glen Gabriel about his new album, Norse Mythology
[…] management company. The young Glen wanted to be an actor, as this enabled him to depict his feelings, but he enjoyed classical and orchestral music. He loved the musical scores and realised that this was where he wanted to put his expression and his feelings. When I ask about musical heroes, he immediately names the major film composers who were around when he was growing up and sparked his interest in the 1980s, including Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, Ennio Morricone (1928-2020), Danny Elfman and Hans Zimmer, whose early works inspired the young Glen. He realised later that the composers in this list were in their turn inspired by fantastic older composers (for instance Jerry Goldsmith studied with Miklos Rosza and Maria Castelnuovo-Tedesco) , and he started to listen to those too. Looking ahead, there is another new album which has its release planned for February 2022. This was also recorded […]
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