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2024-01-16 20:02:00
New Jersey Symphony. Xian Zhang, conductor; Augustin Hadelich, violin. January 13, 2024.
Count Basie Center, Red Bank, NJ. Orchestra (Seat H-104, $68).Augustin Hadelich and Xian Zhang after the Beethoven Violin Concerto.ProgramI am a white person who __ Black people by Daniel Bernard RoumainViolin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61 by Beethoven.Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky/Ravel.The main draw for the program is of course Hadelich performing the Beethoven violin concerto. Indeed that's the headline on the Program Notes handed out at the concert. For me the Mussorgsky/Ravel piece is also interesting on two fronts: the music itself is very enjoyable; and, having listened to it at a NY Phil concert a couple of months prior, I wonder how NJS would compare.Roumain (DBR) is NJ Symphony's "Resident Artistic Catalyst." No idea what the job description is, but seeing his work on the program would not surprise anyone. He did come on the stage to talk a bit about the work. It was composed […]
2023-05-26 07:00:00
2022-03-11 10:40:35
DARE Art Prize: call for applications for this prize for collaboration between the arts and sciences
Samuel Hertz performing Gunslinger, his transcription of a glacier melting, with musicians Kieran Blyth and Wilfred Amis in the Howard Assembly Room (Photo Opera North) The fourth iteration of the DARE Art Prize is calling for entries. Awarded by the University of Leeds and Opera North in association with the National Science and Media Museum and The Tetley, the prize is awarded to and artist with an original proposal for creative works in partnership with leading scientists at the University of Leeds. The three past winners have interacted both with the university's scientific work and musicians from Opera North in a surprising variety of ways. Composer and inaugural Prize winner Samuel Hertz worked with low-frequency infrasound, delving into climatology, the environment and the paranormal, with outcomes including a musical transcription of a glacier melting. I chatted to Samuel in 2017 when he was working on the project, see my […]
2021-09-27 10:58:28
Wales Millennium Centre, CardiffDirector Lindy Hume brings into sharp focus the more disturbing aspects of Puccini’s opera – with the WNO orchestra under Carlo Rizzi bringing the emotion Welsh National Opera has gone from iconic to deliberately iconoclastic. Joachim Hertz’s long-lived 1978 staging of Madam Butterfly has been replaced with Lindy Hume’s new production, in which Japan and Japonisme is passed up in favour of an “imagined biosphere”, a service-sector for the pleasures of the wealthy. Hume’s lightbox set brings into sharper focus not simply the sexist mores where Cio-Cio-San is a commodity, but the supremacist, imperialist and colonialist attitudes in the characters embodying male entitlement and coercion. At its core, Puccini’s opera has always been shocking: callous Pinkerton joy-rides his way into a deal based on the trafficking of young girls; Butterfly’s desperate need to buy into the marriage fantasy is just as uncomfortable. But Hume’s approach makes for a […]
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