John Henry H Hopkins Jr. News
American clergyman, hymnist, illustrator, composer (1820-1891)
- United States of America
- cleric, hymnwriter, journalist, composer, writer, illustrator
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2020-12-03 20:28:00
I've got an optimistic announcement from the Palm Beach Symphony about their anticipated "triumphant return to performing." They will have a televised holiday program, followed by this: The four Masterworks Series concerts are currently scheduled to be performed at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in accordance with health and safety guidelines following CDC recommendations and guidance from local and state officials. At this time, it is anticipated that the first Masterwork concert in January will be livestreamed without an audience in the hall. The Symphony hopes to perform the remainder of the season as a mix of livestream and select seating. The press release has the level of boosterism you would expect about the orchestra and its music director/conductor Gerard Schwarz. Weirdly, despite the programming, the press release omits what I would consider his most important activity as a conductor: his ongoing commitment to performing and recording […]
2016-12-05 14:32:58
St David’s Hall, Cardiff Harry Christophers’ choral group celebrated the feast of the Epiphany and the Magi with a programme that moved from plainsong and Palestrina to Herbert HowellsThe Sixteen’s Christmas tour has established itself as an unmissable date on the Advent calendar. This year’s programme celebrates the feast of the Epiphany: plainsong and Renaissance motets featured alongside traditional and more recent carols, all loosely interwoven to create what felt like a time-travelling set of variations on the theme of the Magi’s visit to the infant Jesus. As always, it was the Sixteen’s clarity of diction and the shades of expressive colour that director Harry Christophers brought to the interpretations that beguiled the ear. JH Hopkins Jr’s We Three Kings may have been an obvious choice, but the words “sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying, sealed in the stone-cold tomb” are rarely delivered with such pianissimo chill.Of the Latin motets, Palestrina’s Videntes Stellam […]
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