Loulie Jean Norman News
American musician (1913-2005)
Commemorations 2025 (Death: Loulie Jean Norman)
- soprano
- pop music
- United States of America
- musician, opera singer
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2024-04-25
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2024-04-12 04:00:00
Peter Donohoe from 1978 to 2017
[…] far as I know, it is the only recording issued of Donohoe playing any of Rachmaninov's concertante works. Also one of his earliest recordings, made when he was 25. An excellent performance and recording. Ludwig van Beethoven:01 - 03 Piano Concerto No.5 in E-flat major, op.73 'Emperor' [39'38]04 - 06 Piano Concerto No.4 in G major, op.58 * [34'44]Peter Donohoe- piano & BBC Symphony Orchestra; Anthony Goldstone- piano & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra *; conducted by Norman Del MarBBC Radio Classics (IMP) BBCRD 9110 [recorded August 1982 and July 1981*; issued 1995][CD-rip; flacs, cover and inlay scans - booklet sourced from internet]Recorded in concert at Royal Albert Hall, London. Recordings from BBC Sound Archives.Recording engineers: not given; Producers: Anthony Sargent and CB Samuelson* As with the Rachmaninov, this is the only recording of a Beethoven Concerto by Donohoe that I know of.George Gershwin:01 Rhapsody in Blue (original version, orch F Grofe) […]
2024-04-06 08:42:00
Spell Book, Witch & Stone Fruit: composer Freya Waley-Cohen on the power of ritual and spells
[…] also admires great melodists like Mozart and Schubert, and she always ends up going back to Bach, doodling through Bach's chorales to get her brain in order.When I ask about heroes, she comments that she is uncomfortable with the idea of a hero and scared of making one. She listens to a lot of the music of her peers, and she has always listened to her friends and peers and mentions Gabriella Smith and Andrew Norman.Freya Waley-Cohen: WITCH - Royal Academy of Music, 2022The process of writing music, for her, involves both paper and computer. She sketches a lot on paper and fills notebooks with manuscript and writing, but then she gets onto Sibelius and continues things there, but might jump out and return to sketching. She admits that she has never had tidy or fast handwriting. This is partly because she is ambidextrous and when young, was told to […]
2024-04-03 06:35:00
A wondrous snapshot of British singing: Ralph Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music and the sixteen singers chosen for the first performance
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music - exploring the sixteen singers chosen for the first performance; Isobel Baillie, Elise Suddaby, Eva Turner, Stiles-Allen, Muriel Brunskill, Astra Desmond, Margaret Balfour, Mary Jarrod, Walter Widdop, Parry Jones, Frank Titterson, Heddle Nash, Roy Henderson, Robert Easton, Harold Williams, Norman Allin, Keith Falkner; Albion RecordsReviewed 2 April 2024A remastering of the iconic 1938 recording along with a solo track from each of the sixteen soloists (plus one extra) providing a wondrous snapshot of British singing in the 1930sRalph Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music has become rightly become iconic and on this disc from Albion Records the original 1938 recording is explored from a different angle. We hear that original recording with Isobel Baillie, Elise Suddaby, Eva Turner, Stiles-Allen, Muriel Brunskill, Astra Desmond, Margaret Balfour, Mary Jarrod, Walter Widdop, Parry Jones, Frank Titterson, Heddle Nash, Roy Henderson, Robert Easton, Harold Williams, and Norman Allin conducted by Sir […]
2024-02-05 07:32:00
Late romantic at Wigmore Hall: Simon Callaghan in Cyril Scott's sonata
[…] Sonata No. 1 at Wigmore Hall on 3 February 2024 alongside a wide-ranging programme of music from Scott's era with works by Percy Grainger, Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky. In fact, all three of these composers connected to Scott in some way.Scott was a man of connections. He studied in Frankfurt (including piano with one of Clara Schumann's pupils), where he met Percy Grainger and they formed part of the Frankfurt Gang with Balfour Gardiner, Norman O'Neill, Roger Quilter and Frederick Kelly, all of whom studied composition there with Iwan Knorr. Scott knew Stravinsky and visited him in Switzerland where Stravinsky played Scott parts of The Firebird, then a work in progress. It is speculated that Scott's fondness for constantly changing time signatures (something found in the piano sonata) influenced Stravinsky. Scott also knew Debussy, and the latter's support helped Scott with his publishers and Scott was often referred to as […]
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