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2024-02-03 08:50:00
What about blowing the box to pieces: composer Eímear Noone on writing for video games, films and TV
[…] is a nice challenge. And Eímear comments, rather proudly, that she recently wrote a French chanson! All this is fun because it means you have to stretch your creativity to do what the developers want.Eímear studied at Trinity College, Dublin and whilst in college she was not aware of video game music. As a teenager, she had been drawn to atonal and serial music but attended a Summer school given by Finnish composer Kalevi Aho (who studied with Einojuhani Rautavaara and Boris Blacher). Aho warned against boxing yourself in stylistically, with no use of traditional harmonies or melody. Eímear thought about going further and simply blowing the box to pieces.Video Games in Concert at the Royal Albert Hall in 2023, Video Games in Concert - Eímear Noone & the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra (Photo: Andy Paradise)Whilst at Trinity College, UCLA opened an outpost which enabled Eímear to do film music modules. Her first big credit came about by […]
2022-08-03 08:46:00
Black, el Payaso: Pablo Sorozábal's engaging operetta gets its UK premiere in an enterprising production by Cervantes Theatre at Grimeborn
[…] Elena Jauregui on violin, percussion and, at one point, toy trumpet. The libretto was adapted by Ignacio Garcia and translated by Simon Breden. The work was presented with English dialogue and sung Spanish.Anyone expecting a Spanish theme to the evening was going to be disappointed. As well as Spain, Sorozábal trained in Leipzig and Berlin, where he studied with Friedrich Koch (in preference to Schoenberg). Interestingly amongst Koch's other pupils are Kurt Weill and Boris Blacher. Sorozábal described Black, el Payaso as an operetta, and its Ruritanian theme and musical style align it very much with late Viennese operetta. Sorozábal's music includes a csardas and 'gypsy music', as well as more modern elements such as a tango, whilst the plot (based on a French novel, La princesse aux clowns of 1923 by Jean-Jose Frappa) involves a country on the Black Seas which has had a revolution and a group of emigres in […]
2021-08-27 21:33:23
Held biannually, the competition is open to international violinists under 26 years of age. This year's 28 candidates were selected from 124 young musicians. The first prize winner will receive CHF 20,000 as well as a number of concert engagements. This year's jury members include Salvatore Accardo (President), Kolja Blacher, Friedemann Eichhorn, Koichiro Harada, Yuzuko […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2021-05-06 20:39:03
We’re coming to you from Michigan State University College of Music for the Dorothy DeLay MasterClass Series. A protege of Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School, Mr. Blacher is a former Concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic and currently serves on faculty at the Hanns Eisler Conservatory of Music, in Berlin. To watch more from the series, […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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