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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-29 19:16:31
NEP Piques Our Interest
New England Philharmonic’s “New Music New England” [tickets HERE] celebrates our region and features Grammy-winning organ soloist Paul Jacobs Boston on Sunday March 3rd at 3:00 pm at the Boston University Tsai Performance Center. In a concert which also includes, Wang Lu’s Surge (2022), Ives’s Three Places in New England (1935), David Sanford’s Thy Book of Toil (2014), a pair of works by composers we know, Kati Agócs and John Harbison, particularly piqued our interest. John Harbison’s What Do We Make of Bach? for orchestra with organ obligatto premiered in October 2018 with the Minnesota Orchestra, conductor Osmo Vänskä, and organist Paul Jacobs, organist. Agócs summarizes her Perpetual Summer (2010) for BMInt readers below, and our interviews with Perpetual Summer with Harbison and Jacobs follow. [caption id="attachment_27163" align="alignleft" width="232"] Kati Agócs (Samantha West photo)[/caption] “Perpetual Summer is scored for large orchestra. Elegiac, even apocalyptic in tone, the work represents my reaction […]
2024-02-21 08:42:00
On an Endless Road: Itō Noe and the Women Composers of Her Time
Itō Noe Itō Noe (1895-1923) was a Japanese writer and feminist anarchist who was killed by Japanese state forces when she was just 28. A new song cycle by British composer Francesca Le Lohé celebrates the brief life of this brave and radical woman. The song cycle has been written for Japanese singer and biwa player Akiko Kubota who makes her UK debut on a tour from 5 to 9 March 2024 for International Women's Day with concerts in London (5/3/2024), Huddersfield (7/3/2024), Manchester (8/3/2024) and Leeds (9/3/2024).Kubota's programme, On an Endless Road: Itō Noe and the Women Composers of Her Time premiered in Tokyo in December 2023 and the UK tour is being presented by Hera, an intersectional feminist opera company, in association with Illuminate Women’s Music.Kubota plays the satsuma biwa, a Japanese stringed instrument originally played by samurai and traditionally used to accompany songs chronicling the achievements of warriors in Battle. At the concert […]
2024-02-12 19:05:10
PREVIEW | TAP:EX VERSUS Brings Art And Music Together For A Unique Experience
Tapestry Opera, with OCAD U and Art Battle Canada, are presenting an event called TAP:EX VERSUS on February 22 where music and painting will merge.
2024-02-05 09:09:00
Not everyone climbs mountains
These photos were taken by me on my recent trip to India. Listening and reading while in Goa set me thinking about a response to a recent post here. On his excellent The Music Salon Canadian blogger Bryan Townsend wrote:On an Overgrown Path tells us There is no mass market for classical music. I'm pretty sure of two things regarding that: first, I have known this ever since I got into classical music, so it ain't news and two, that is a big part of the appeal. Not everyone climbs mountains and not everyone listens to classical music.Bryan's thoughtful response supports my thesis that for two decades classical music has been chasing a non-existent mass market, as exemplified by the strategy of turning BBC Radio 3 into a clone of Classic FM complete with 'info-commercials'. But, and that is very important but, we cannot overlook that classical music is losing […]
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