Margaret Jane Wray News
American opera singer
- soprano
- United States of America
- opera singer
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2022-02-03 07:26:55
[…] by Honor Blackman) and Cleveland Watkiss (born in Hackney to Jamaican parents and an outright winner of a host of awards ranging from the Best Vocalist in the London Jazz Awards in 2010 to the Ivor Novello Award for Innovation in 2021. The Revd Richard Lawry (formerly an actor working with the National Theatre and Old Vic companies and now rector of St Nicholas’ church, Blakeney, in north Norfolk) acts as the Narrator while Bradley Wray is the tap-dancer in the high-octane movement ‘David Danced before the Lord’, an invigorating and wonderful passage of the whole work. Without a shadow of doubt, Ellington’s music contains a unique blend of contrasts and contradictions. At once visceral and elegant, intimate and shouting, traditional and progressive, the music is unique, exciting, earthy and refined. Ellington could be well described as the best equipped of all American composers to stand at the junction between […]
2021-05-22 04:56:00
Classical Music News of the Week, May 22, 2021
[…] Parker Woods (University of Chicago); composer Gabriela Lena Frank (Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Arts Academy); violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins (Music Kitchen); composer/violist Jessica Meyer; violist Ashleigh Gordon (Castle of Our Skins); Aizuri Quartet; double bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku (Chineke!); violinist David Radzynski (Concertmaster, Israel Philharmonic); hornist/composer Jeff Scott (Imani Winds, Oberlin Conservatory); electroacoustic violist/composer Trevor New; pianist Donna Weng Friedman (Heritage And Harmony); conductor Lina Gonzalez-Granados (Unitas Ensemble); composer Derek Bermel (American Composers Orchestra); choreographer S. Ama Wray (UC Irvine), Jonathan Alsberry (Hubbard Street Dance Chicago); choreographer/filmmaker Darshan Singh Bhuller; director/designer Karin Fong (Imaginary Forces); arts attorney Brian Goldstein; Rebecca Bray, Steve Lambert (the Center for Artistic Activism); social media/marketing consultant Jamie Benson; conductor/composer Peter Askim (Next Festival’s Artistic Director); and more. Additional artists offering mentorship and project guidance include percussionist Ross Karre (Artistic Director, International Contemporary Ensemble) and Elaine Grogan Luttrull (founder, Minerva Financial Arts).For details, visit https://next-fest.org/--Maggie Stapleton, Jensen ArtistsGuitarist […]
2021-01-18 12:15:55
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