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2024-03-26 08:31:00
Worcester 2024: Three Choirs Festival releases full festival line-up along with announcing a new composer development scheme
Three Choirs Festival 2023 (Photo: James O'Driscoll)The Three Choirs Festival has launched a new composer development scheme. New Voices Academy will be devoted to choral music, led by composer Daniel Kidane and hosted by the Three Choirs Festival in partnership with Carice Singers and Spitalfields Music.Applications are now open, for the Academy will run from Friday 26 July to Tuesday 30 July, embedded within the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester, and will offer four ‘springboard’ and further ‘sandbox’ places for composers at the start of their professional careers. It will provide workshop, showcase, recording and networking opportunities alongside panel discussions and sessions on the practicalities and business of composition, concert and rehearsal access, and discussion time in which participants will co-design future iterations of the Academy so that it best serves today’s early-career composers.Applications are encouraged from any composer in the early stages of their career who feels they would […]
2024-03-14 02:27:48
Mezzo-soprano Rosalind Elias had a long, leading career in opera on the international scene. She was
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-01-10 17:09:52
Texts Meet Tones: Origins and Meanings
Although Elias Dagher and I started working on the Boston Text and Tone Festival last summer, the four days of concerts running from January 18th-21st will reflect and celebrate years of close professional relationships, new encounters, old friendships, and diverse musical perspectives. The concerts will feature 12 performers, 21 composers, and 25 poets. Details and tickets HERE. Our friendship began while we were studying solo piano repertoire during our time at NEC. As we started working more and more with singers in text-based music making, we experienced a new kind of expressive mixture, the wild world where openness and directness meet. The “abstract” world of music itself (open-ended, suggestive, spiritual) met the “literal” world of words (direct, structured, narrative). Or is it the other way around? Perhaps music is more literal and poetry more abstract! Whatever the case, there are infinite possibilities whenever these universes collide. And thanks to countless […]
2023-10-30 07:35:00
This opera, so dependent on the wedding of text and music, is a natural candidate for Opera-in-English (I believe one of the first recordings of the work, with Jerome Hines and Rosalind Elias, was in English). The argument that Bartók carefully composed it to match the rises and falls of Hungarian remains valid, but understanding […]
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