Jessie Bond News
singer and actress (1853-1942)
- mezzo-soprano
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- opera singer
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2024-04-23
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2024-04-10 06:36:00
Music Theatre Wales' New Directions programme is devoted to re-imagining opera and in an age when the funds for commissioning and presenting new opera live are getting harder to come by, the company has released a pair of Digital Opera Shorts. The idea is that these short, digital pieces bring together all the elements that make opera so powerful – a continuous musical arc that conveys the inner story; an impactful human message; image; performance; and the operatic voice.This year, four artists were invited to collaborate in opera for the first time. None of them had previously met, but all were excited by the potential of this multidisciplinary artform, and by the prospect of creating something in which music, story and image work as a single entity. In March 2024, two Digital Opera Shorts were released.GRIEF explores the physical and emotional impact of loss and features music by British Ghanaian-Nigerian composer, musician […]
2024-04-08 03:30:00
A Jazz Musician on Classical Music and Jazz
[…] somewhat in despair, “God, this is the worst masterpiece.” Aha! That’s a good title, I've got to use it…Unfortunately, many read the title and did not consider the essay. If I had the chance to publish again, would I change the title? I don't know. FR: How did your jazz interest start?EI: My parents weren't musicians or music fans. Music came in through the TV set. Early things I liked weren’t really jazz, but they were jazz-adjacent. The James Bond movies, what was that music by John Barry? The Pink Panther cartoon, what was that music by Henry Mancini? Vince Guaraldi’s Charlie Brown Christmas music. Stuff on Sesame Street or Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. When I was ten years old or so, I started on a journey to find my first jazz records.FR: Are you able to pinpoint what you liked? Was it the chords, the texture of the music, the rhythms?EI: I don’t know exactly, but […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-14 15:45:32
A Long Road of Remembrance and Hope
The oratorio O Lungo Drom (The Long Road) is an authentic testimony of the Sinti and Roma people, whose journey since time immemorial has been shrouded by poetic and popular imagination. It finds its voice for the first time here directly through the words of Sinti/Roma poets and writers, set to music by Roma composer Ralf Yusuf Gawlick. This oratorio will receive its joint U.S. premières on April 5th at College of the Holy Cross and the 6th at Boston College, with soprano Clara Meloni, baritone Christoph Filler, cimbalomist László Rácz and the Alban Berg Ensemble Wien, the same cast performing on the world première recording recently released on Decca Eloquence Australia. Harpsichordist Peter Watchorn, a professor at Boston College and co-founder, executive producer and CEO of the record label Musica Omnia (which hosts seven Gawlick recordings), recently spoke with the composer. PW: In the past decade, you have shared […]
2024-02-26 05:00:16
The ex-boss of Classic FM is rebooting the BBC’s venerable home of classical music, with new shows and presenters – including a special slot for ‘perfect fit’ Jools HollandThe office of the controller of Radio 3, in Old Broadcasting House in London, has one solitary wood-panelled wall, a remnant of a more stately era of the BBC, before the glassy, shimmering heights of New Broadcasting House rose up to overshadow its 1930s predecessor. The current incumbent is Sam Jackson. He is, perhaps, the least suited-and-booted of any of his forerunners – he is wearing jeans, sneakers and a printed blue shirt straight out of the wardrobe of
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