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2022-08-01 14:57:24
Rott and Power, 2022
[…] each other, the former in Beersel, the latter in Mons, both in modern day Belgium). Antoine Busnois ,who was a generation younger, is usually considered the third of the most consequential Franco-Flemish composers of the mid-15th century. The Franco-Flemish school was one of the two dominant music schools of the time, the other being developed in England (notice the absence of the Italians). Two English composers overshadowed the rest in the flourishing music scene: John Dunstaple and Leonel Power. Up till now we were amiss in not addressing Power’s life and music. Power was older than either Dunstaple or Dufay: he was born sometime between 1370 and 1385. There are few records of his life. Power’s name is first mentioned on a list of clerks of the household chapel of Thomas, Duke of Clarence: he’s listed as an instructor of the choristers (Thomas was a brother of Henry V, the […]
2021-11-15 14:34:55
On Diversity, 2021
This Week in Classical Music: November 15, 2021. On Diversity. Those of you who sometimes read our weekly entries know that our musical interests are pretty broad. We’ve written about composers going to back to the 15th century, from John Dunstaple, Guillaume Dufay and Antoine Busnois to Josquin des Prez and the greats of the High Renaissance, Palestrina, Tomás Luis de Victoria and Lasso. On the other hand, we’ve written about many contemporary composers, such as Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen György Kurtág, Luciano Berio and, we suspect to the chagrin of some, presented examples of their music. We’ve also written about some contemporary American composers; Jennifer Higdon, Shulamit Ran, Libby Larsen, Augusta Read Thomas and others. We’ve promoted festivals of contemporary music, such as Chicago’s Ear Taxi. At the same time, the bulk of our posts are about the core of what we know as classical music, from Bach to Mahler, […]
2020-05-04 11:28:01
Time, Space and Change: new works by Ed Hughes from metier
[…] The result, filtered through Hughes' ears, is something vigorous and at times visceral, again with the idea of multiple ideas combining simultaneous so the original carol drifts in an out of focus. Next comes a movement based on Stella Celi Extirpavit, a three voice motet by John Cooke (1385-1442) from the Old Hall Manuscript which Hughes expands into something fluid and flowing, definitely contemporary yet with intriguing hints.The polyphonic motet Veni sancte spiritus by John Dunstaple (1390-1453) is the inspiration for the next movement. Dunstaple uses both the sequence Veni sancte spiritus and the hymn, Veni creator spiritus in his original. Hughes writes a core of diatonic harmonies, inspired by the structure of Dunstaple's piece, overlaid with shifting chromatic lines. This creates the sense of multiple things happening (and of course, Dunstaple's own music was often about multiple ideas presented concurrently), in the Sinfonia's largest movement. In iejunio et fletu […]
2019-10-19 05:38:00
Classical Music News of the Week, October 19, 2019
Concerts at Saint Thomas Celebrates the 100th Anniversary of Saint Thomas Choir SchoolThe Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys marks the 100th anniversary of Saint Thomas Choir School with a performance with Orchestra of St. Luke's on November 7, 2019 at 7:30 pm at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue (on West 53rd Street, NYC). The concert will include a repertoire of Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43, a concerto for piano and orchestra, which will mark the 85th anniversary of the piece's premiere in Baltimore by the Philadelphia Orchestra and Leopold Stokowski on November 7, 1934. The performance will feature Saint Thomas's newly appointed Organist and Director of Music Jeremy Filsell at the keyboard. The concert will continue with an homage to T. Tertius Noble, who founded the choir school in 1919, with extracts of his cantata Gloria Domini, which has not been performed in New […]
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