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Our Favorite Christmas Recordings (CD Reviews)
[…] this CD is a hidden gem of a Christmas recording! Ki ho’alu Christmas: Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar. Do You Hear What I Hear?; C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S (The Meaning of Christmas); Christmas Carol Waltz; Mele Kalikimaka; Away in a Manger; Winter Wonderland; Christmas Memories; It Came Upon a Midnight Clear; Little Drummer Boy; Fireside Ki ho’alu; Medley: Kanaka Waiwai / Jesu Mo Ke Kahuhipa; Po La’i E (Silent Night); Silent Night. Keola Beamer, guitars; Ledward Kaapana, guitar, autoharp; Moses Kahumoku, guitar; Cyril Pahinui, 12-string guitar. voice; James “Bla” Pahinui, guitar; Barney Isaacs, acoustic steel guitar; George Kuo, guitar; Rev. Dennis Kamakahi, 12-string guitar, voice; Ozzie Kotani, guitar; George Kahumoku, 12-string guitar; Cindy Combs, guitar; Joanie Komatsu, guitar, voice; Ruth Komatsu, recorder. Dancing Cat Records 090222-38037-2. For those unfamiliar with slack key guitar, here is a quick explanation courtesy of the good folks at Wikipedia: “slack-key guitar (from Hawaiian kī hōʻalu, which means "loosen the [tuning] key") is a fingerstyle genre of guitar music that originated in Hawaii. Nearly all […]
2023-08-18 14:00:00
2020-06-30 11:00:55
The opening round candidates have today been announced for the 2020 Cecil Aronowitz International Viola Competition – to be held in Birmingham, England from the 14th to 20th of November, 2020. Vittorio Benaglia (Italy) Alvaro Castello (Spain) Yuxin Chen (China) Jone Diamantini (Italy) Edgar Francis (United Kingdom) Chang Ge (China) Seamus Hickey (Ireland) Brian Isaacs (United […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2020-05-26 13:39:15
16-year-old Fang Zhang wins Percussion Final of BBC Young Musician 2020
[…] well as the winner of the Strings Final, which will be broadcast next weekend. Fang Zhang moved to the UK from China to study at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester. At the Percussion Final, he performed Piazzolla’s much-loved Libertango, arranged for marimba and piano by Nunoya, and Csaba Zoltán Marján’s Niflheim for solo marimba. He was praised for his lightness of touch and broad dynamic range. He was up against four other finalists including 16-year-old Lewis Kentaro Isaacs, who currently attends the Purcell School. He performed John Psathas’s One Study One Summer, a work for mixed percussion including marimba, cymbals and pots and pans. He also played Pius Cheung’s Etude in E minor for solo marimba. 16-year-old Thomas Luke wins Keyboard Final of 2020 BBC Young Musician 17-year-old Alexander Pullen returned to the competition having reached the Percussion Final in 2018. Since competing last time, he has started as Eton College […]
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