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2024-02-05 05:00:50
Jake Shears’ series reveals the ripple effects of hits such as Sylvester’s radical disco classic ‘You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)’
2021-11-24 11:47:03
Black Violin, a crossover duo made up of violinist Kevin Sylvester and violist Wilner Baptiste, has been honored with an Excellence in Arts prize at the Caribbean American Heritage (CARAH) awards. Run by the Institute for Caribbean Studies (ICS) and patronized by the Caribbean Diplomatic Corps, the awards aim to celebrate the contributions of […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2020-11-23 01:14:00
Free Directories of Classical Music Written by Black Composers, including Repertoire for Violin and Orchestra, Launched by Music by Black Composers
[…] Inc.; Sheila A. Jones, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association and Director of Community Stewardship/African American Network; historian and journalist William J. Zick; and Lee Newcomer, owner of Performers Music.Serving on the Honorary Board for MBC are trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis, violinist Joshua Bell, actor Leslie Odom, Jr., jazz bassist and composer Stanley Clarke, mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves, pianist and composer Billy Childs, television commentator Gretchen Carlson, pianist and pedagogue André Watts, Kevin Sylvester, and Wilner Baptiste from Black Violin, and violinist and composer Daniel Bernard Roumain. The idea for MBC started with a recording Rachel Barton Pine made for Cedille Records in 1997 titled Violin Concertos by Black Composers of the 18th and 19th Centuries. The album contains historic compositions by Afro-Caribbean and Afro-European composers from the Classical and Romantic eras that had long been underrecognized. Soon after its release, Pine found herself sitting […]
2020-07-06 04:19:00
Schubert: Trout Quintet (CD review)
[…] cello, and double bass, not because that was a preferred arrangement of the time but because several musicians were coming together to play a quintet by Hummel, and Schubert figured he’d write something of his own for them to play. Christoph Eschenbach The work is known as the “Trout” because the fourth movement is a set of variations on Schubert's earlier song, “Die Forelle" ("The Trout"). Schubert wrote it at the request of Sylvester Paumgartner, a wealthy Austrian music patron and amateur cellist, who suggested that Schubert include a set of variations on the “Trout” song. The performers on this Avie disc are the Thymos Quartet, which includes Gabriel Richard, violin; Nicolas Carles, viola; Delphine Biron, cello; and Yann Dubost, double bass; with the addition, of course, of Eschenbach on piano. Eschenbach, whom one must assume had the greatest voice in the way the ensemble plays the quintet, […]
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