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Award-winning composer Wang Jie grew up in Shanghai in the wake of the Cultural Revolution. A gifted pianist, she studied.. The post appeared first on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN.
2022-03-19 04:18:00
JoAnn Falletta to Conduct Three World Premiere PerformancesThe Buffalo Philharmonic led by JoAnn Falletta will perform three world premieres commissioned by the orchestra this Spring at Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo, New York: Kenneth Fuchs’s Point of Tranquility (Sat. Mar. 19 & Sun. Mar. 20), inspired by abstract expressionism; Russell Platt’s Symphony in Three Movements (For Clyfford Still), (Sat. Apr. 23 & Sun. Apr. 24), a musical interpretation of abstract impressionist works by Still that hang in Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Art Gallery; and Wang Jie’s The Winter that United Us (Sat. June 11), celebrating the City of Buffalo. The BPO opened the season in September with the world premiere of Daren Hagen’s Bandana Overture.Falletta, who has garnered international praise as an advocate of new and lesser-known music, has introduced over five hundred works by American composers, including well over 100 world premieres. She remarks “Orchestral music is a beautiful continuum, stretching back over three centuries […]
2021-10-21 14:00:08
Liza Lim/Elision(Huddersfield Contemporary Records, three CDs)Working with the excellent Australian ensemble Elision, the set is a superb demonstration of Lim’s originality The first three of Liza Lim’s five operas to date are represented in this deeply impressive collection, together with her 2005 song-cycle for soprano and 15 instruments, Mother Tongue. Only one scene from the 2000 “ritual street opera in seven parts”, Yuè Lìng Jié (Moon Spirit Feasting) is included, but both The Oresteia from 1993 and The Navigator of 2008 are included complete. All of the works involve the brilliant Australian new-music ensemble Elision, with whom Lim has worked regularly since she and the group’s founder members were students together in Melbourne in the mid 1980s. The libretto of The Oresteia was put together by Lim and the director Barrie Kosky from
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2020-12-27 08:56:00
Your Name Engraved Herein (2020) – A film by Kuang Hui Liu – Edward Chen, Jing Hua Tseng, Fabio Grangeon, David Hao-Chi Chiu, Leon Dai, Jason Wang, Jean-François Blanchard (Download the movie)
[…] and it's the immediate, mutual attraction whose nature will unfold slowly. "Your Name Engraved Herein" doesn't unfold as a typical "stepping out of a closet" narrative, and the sheer sexuality is never a topic. It's the emotional suit that interests the director Kuang-Hui Liu, who's concentrating on the difficult circumstances under which people were discovering their socially unacceptable love interests. The way Kuang-Hui Liu is bonding Birdy and A-Han in the script co-penned with Jie Zhan and Alcatel Wu is thoughtful and time-faithful. Bravery gets shied away by the fear of social rejection, emotions get replaced by the practicality of the correct social behavior. At the same time, the film is a great homage to the music of Charlie Parker, with the jazz variations accompanying the story, but it also calls for another reference – Alan Parker's "Birdy" (1984) with Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage in main roles, in […]
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