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2021-10-12 09:07:56
A chance to hear Alfredo Casella's Concerto for Orchestra next week, performed by the Kensington Symphony Orchestra
Alfredo Casella The Italian composer, pianist and conductor Alfredo Casella (1883-1947) had a remarkably varied career. He was one of the generazione dell'ottanta (generation of '80), which included Casella himself, Malipiero, Respighi, Pizzetti, and Alfano; composers born around 1880, the post-Puccini generation who concentrated on writing instrumental works, rather than operas. Coming from a musical family (his cellist grandfather was a friend of Paganini, his father, mother and brothers were all musicians) he studied composition at the Paris Conservatoire with Faure, where Enescu and Ravel were fellow students and he became acquainted with Debussy, Stravinsky and Falla. From 1927-1929 he as the principal conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra (to be succeeded by Arthur Fiedler whose name is indelibly linked to the Boston Pops). As a composer his biggest success was with his ballet La Giara to a scenario by Pirandello! And his organisation of a Vivaldi Week in 1939 helped to […]
2021-05-14 00:42:00
TheBerkshireEdge.com: Sculptures "inspired composer William Grant Still to write his Suite for Violin and Piano"
Victor Romanul (Courtesy Victor Romanul) William Grant Still (1895-1978) By Carl Van Vechten. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons. The Berkshire Edge Romanul the Romantic: Profile of a BSO violinist by David Noel Edwards Posted on May 13, 2021 BOSTON — Picture a music stand holding three items: sheet music, a metronome, and a photograph. The sheet music tells the performer what to play, the metronome how quickly. And the photograph keeps the performer in sync with the composer’s emotional state. That may sound a bit newfangled, even new-agey, but this is the kind of thing people were doing when the Romantic era was in full flower around the middle of the 19th century. Music was expected to be about more than itself. And when did that era end? It depends on whom you […]
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2020-09-08 09:47:04
First lady of the tuba has died, aged 88
Connie Weldon, who has died in Miami, was the first woman to play tuba in world-class orchestras. In 1954, she played under Leonard Bernstein’s baton at Tanglewood Music Festival and never looked back. Next stop was Arthur Fiedler with the Boston Pops. After a stint in the North Carolina Symphony she won a Fulbright Fellowship […]
2020-03-31 08:24:00
Young, gifted and black but still forgotten
A child prodigy fêted by Leonard Bernstein and Virgil Thomson, her music performed by five leading American orchestras while still a teenager, as a pianist accompanied by the New York Philharmonic at age 16, ranked alongside Aaron Copland and Marc Blitzstein as a composer, mourned with a Pontifical Requiem Mass in St Patrick's Cathedral, New York, and rumoured subject of a Hollywood biopic. That is the executive summary of a mercurial but forgotten American music legend. Child prodigies, female composers and musicians of colour have become classical click bait fodder. But the story told in this post is still important. Because the forgotten figure was a woman who had a black father and white mother. It is also important because she experienced the barriers to musicians of colour that still linger on today away from the celebrity circus. But most importantly, despite acclaim in her lifetime just half a century […]
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