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2024-04-04 06:36:00
JAM's annual Music of Our Time concert took place last week, on 20 March 2024 at St Bride's Church, Fleet Street, London and featured music by Toh Yan Ee, Steve Richer, Marisse Cato, George W. Parris, Anselm McDonnell, Christopher Churcher and Jonathan Woolgar, plus JAM's 2010 commission, Tarik O’Regan's The Night's Untruth and their 2024 commission, Isabelle Ryder's Illumination.If you missed the concert, then JAM has produced a lovely little video on YouTube introducing it.
2024-02-07 11:32:00
Music of our Time: JAM's exploration of new music for choir, brass quintet and organ returns to St Bridge's Church
[…] sleep as a metaphor via excerpts from poems written in the 17th to 20th centuries. There is also the world premiere of a JAM commission by Isabelle Ryder, participant of the Composers’ Residency 2023. Illumination, for organ and two trumpets, pays homage to St Brigid (St Bride) of Kildare, patron saint of St Bride’s Church.Having received over 200 entries to its 2023 Call for Music, JAM has programmed eight submitted pieces, including works by Toh Yan Ee, Steve Richer, Donald Wetherick, Marisse Cato, George W. Parris, Anselm McDonnell, Christopher Churcher and Jonathan Woolgar.Full details from JAM's website.
2023-09-14 03:30:00
Recent Releases No. 57 (CD Reviews)
by Karl NehringChen Gang and He Zhanhao: Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto (arr. Yan Huichang and Ku Lap-Man); Saint-Saëns: Introduction et Ronde Capriccioso in A minor, op. 28; Massenet: “Méditation” from Thaïs; Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen. Joshua Bell, violin; Singapore Chinese Orchestra conducted by Tsung Yeh Those looking for something different but not too far “out there” might well find themselves fascinated by this recording, one that mixes East and West in an unusual way. The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto, which was inspired by a romantic Chinese legend, was written in 1959 by the Chinese composers Chen Gang (b. 1935) and He Zhanhao (b. 1933). Their original version, which they richly scored for a full Western symphonic orchestra, has achieved global popularity. For this recording, however, violinist Joshua Bell has chosen to perform an adaptation of the work by Yang Hui Chang and Ku Lap-Man for an orchestra of mostly traditional Chinese instruments. As the liner notes explain, “the sound world of the […]
2023-05-02 18:31:00
Blank Out at Cal Performances
[…] memories keep on haunting us in our dreams. Even after many years, some of these memories change, some remain clear flashes which we can relive.Blank Out is very much about the relationships between the living and the dead, about memory and grief.I have to note that I have missed several local appearances, with Philharmonia Baroque, by baritone Roderick Williams. I had previously seen him in person in the last SFS War Requiem and in London in Birtwistle's Yan Tan Tethera. He is a great singer and I am so very sorry to have missed those local appearances.Joshua Kosman, SF ChronicleLisa Hirsch, SFCV
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