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2022-07-14 04:00:00
Johnson: 'Victory Stride' The Symphonic Music
[…] more of a suite really: four movements of easy to assimilate jazz with excursions into light dance music. Some of it is rather latino and carries inflections from Gershwin, Tin Pan Alley and Broadway. This is jazz: gippy, swinging, snorted and carefree. The two movement piano concerto Jazz a Mine is from two years later that the ‘symphony’. It’s a display piece that strikes home like a sort of child of Rhapsody in Blue and Tavares’ Concerto in Brazilian Forms. The last and slow movement might almost recall the famous song from the film Casablanca. The American Suite - Lament is the toughest music here. It is as if Johnson had decided to crossed swords with Bartók. sidling and sliding suave way and with some peremptory interpolations by the piano. Drums is a symphonic poem which opens with a cannonade of drums à la Fanfare For The Common Man but […]
2022-07-04 12:22:11
Photo: Florida Memory, Marion Duncan in costume for 4th of July play, Tavares, 1895, flickr Despite
2020-01-26 20:42:09
Anglais - The Little Match Girl ‘Retold’ in Aisha and Abhaya at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
On the Royal Opera House’s website Aisha and Abhaya is listed under both ‘opera and music’ and ‘ballet and dance’ as if to suggest it is a hybrid piece. While, however, it undoubtedly consists of music, dance and film, it is hard to see how it qualifies as an opera since across the hour-long piece only a small amount of (non-operatic) singing features in Ori Lichtik and Gaika’s specially created soundtrack. Nevertheless, this point is made solely for information purposes because what is presented has some merit. Director Kibwe Tavares’ new work takes The Little Match Girl as its starting point, but turns the protagonist into a refugee fleeing from an unspecified war-torn country in 2017 in order to make her experiences feel more relevant. She is also transformed into two sisters who present different reactions to a shared experience as Aisha represents hope, and thus clings to her memories […]
2019-06-24 10:51:50
Daily CommercialTavares – The newly renamed and relocated Lake County Museum of Art is set to open its doors to the public starting at 6 p.m. Friday with a grand-opening ...
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