Michael Aaron News
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- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America
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2024-04-24
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2024-04-08 03:30:00
A Jazz Musician on Classical Music and Jazz
[…] all piano players love the European tradition. I don’t like the word “decolonizing” because that sounds like you want to shame people who love Bach, Beethoven, and Chopin — meaning, you want to shame me! Get out of here! Bach, Beethoven, and Chopin are truly great! But when you get to the establishment and the academy in America, someone like John Coltrane is definitely not considered to be as serious as someone like Gershwin or Aaron Copland. But honestly, Coltrane was bigger and better than either. I like Gershwin, I like Copland – I'm not against those guys. But in terms of some sort of absolute peak of an aesthetic, Coltrane was much, much greater. Coltrane is actually like Bach, Beethoven, and Chopin. My dream is that classical musicians, especially in America, could learn to be a little more humble and take John Coltrane more seriously. That goes for all […]
2024-03-26 10:14:00
Young Lovers: Louise Alder and Joseph Middleton in an entrancing evening at Wigmore Hall
[…] delightfully skittish in character, whilst 'Liebst du um Schönheit' was serious and rather touching as she caressed the phrases, both performers taking their time. 'Um mitternacht' is the dark one of the set, here plangent and intent turning to intense rapture. Finally, 'Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen' (a song that I always want - erroneously! - to translate as I have become off-hand with the world), interior and infinitely sad with a mesmerising final verse.Aaron Copland wrote his Emily Dickinson settings in 1949 and 1950, initially he was not planning a cycle but the songs kept coming. There is no specific theme, instead Copland tries to present a picture of the rather tart-voiced New England poet. There are many themes to the poems set, love and mortality, nature, faith and doubt, but the essential element lacking is sentimentality, Dickinson might be open, direct, quirky and complex, but even when […]
2024-02-24 21:49:50
Aaron Copland’s delightful and oft-recorded violin sonata opens this recording, whose program is one of the more intelligent, thoughtfully designed, and best played you’ll ever hear, in repertoire that may not rock the Billboard charts but that speaks importantly to listeners who enjoy tuning into music that displays aspects of “American” style around the mid-20th […]
2024-02-23 19:13:01
INTERVIEW | Soprano Measha Brueggergosman-Lee And Composer Aaron Davis Talk About Zombie Blizzard
Zombie Blizzard brings together soprano Measha Brueggergosman-Lee, author Margaret Atwood, composer Aaron Davis, and the Hannaford Street Silver Band.
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