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British Army officer, composer, and flautist
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2024-03-28
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2024-03-18 16:16:12
Ellen Reid turns climate emergency into grand opera while Samy Moussa picks up where Stravinsky left off
2024-03-08 15:52:00
Lumen Christi: I chat to Master of Music, Simon Johnson about his first disc with the choir of Westminster Cathedral
Simon Johnson & the choir of Westminster Cathedral recording at Buckfast AbbeyAd Fontes, the record label founded by Buckfast Abbey, is releasing Lumen Christi on 22 March 2024. A sequence of sequence of music for the Easter Vigil from the choir of Westminster Cathedral, this will be a follow-up to the choir's Vexilla Regis disc on the label. The new disc features plainchant alongside music by Lassus, Andrew Reid, Victoria, Palestrina, Matthew Martin, Jean L'Heritier, Jean Langlais and Martin Baker. But perhaps more significantly, the disc is the first one for the choir under its current Master of Music, Simon Johnson. Simon became Master of Music at Westminster Cathedral in September 2021, following thirteen years as the Organist and Assistant Director of Music at St Paul’s Cathedral.The choir's disc Vexilla Regis, released in 2019, featured music for Holy Week so the new disc, with its focus on the Easter Vigil Liturgy […]
2024-02-27 09:57:00
Intense and disturbing, a story without any redemption: Stephen McNeff's new opera A Star Next to the Moon based on Juan Rulfo's novel Pedro Páramo
[…] of Music & Drama's Silk Street Theatre on Monday 26 February 2024. With a libretto by Aoife Mannix based Juan Rulfo's novel Pedro Páramo, the opera has had a long journey to fruition as Stephen McNeff discussed in my recent interview with him, but creating a large-scale new opera in two acts with a cast of eleven, chorus and orchestra is no small achievement indeed. Martin Lloyd-Evans directed and Dominic Wheeler conducted with designs by Anna Reid. Jacob Harrison was Pedro Páramo, Holly Brown was Susana, Steven van der Linden was Juan Preciado, plus Emyr Lloyd Jones, Rachel Roper, Joe Chalmers, Shana Moron-Caravel, Vladyslava Ionascu-Yokovenko, Jonah Halton, Yolisa Ngwexana and Ana-Carmen Balestra.Following a death-bed promise to his mother, Juan Preciado (Steven van der Linden) travels to Comala to seek out his father, Pedro Páramo. In Comala, Juan finds people that knew his mother but he comes to realise that the town […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-11-27 16:40:28
The Last Transcendentalist
[…] that the human soul actively brings a priori transcendent notions of unity, harmony and meaning to experience. Faucett, however, brings a key detail to our attention, apparently distinctive of Dwight. Dwight’s Transcendentalist friends chided Dwight for his faith in “spontaneity,” urging him to cultivate will-power. Was Dwight less Kantian than they? We should remember that Kant himself was singularly unmusical. Through Emerson, Dwight may have been exposed to Victor Cousin, who syncretized Kant with Thomas Reid, the Scottish philosopher of “common sense.” Thomas Reid argued that music is the most basic, natural, universal human “language”. Just as a human child naturally interprets his or her mother’s smile as a sign of benevolence, so the human child naturally understands the emotions that are expressed in music. Both Dwight’s predilection for music and for “spontaneity” have a strong Reidian flavor. Moreover, much of Shaftesbury’s rapturous aesthetics and of Hutcheson’s emphasis on innate […]
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