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French composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist
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2024-03-19
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2024-02-05 05:00:50
The upcoming auction of timepieces opens a Portal onto the passions of the Rocket Man
2024-01-13 08:44:00
A shelter where people can be sure of quality and find so much to discover: founder Michael Adda on his record label, La Dolce Volta
[…] music such as jazz or minimalism, because he does not have the network to promote that style of music. But if someone wants to record this music, he can recommend labels that are more suitable for those styles, and he finds musicians like this approach.When I asked what was coming up he said that they have many things in the pipeline. Pianist Michel Dalberto has recorded clarinet and piano works with the jazz clarinettist Michel Portal. The Belgian pianist, Florian Noack has recorded a disc of transcriptions including a Bach harpsichord concerto and Rimsky Korsakov's Scheherezade, and I want to be like you from The Jungle Book! There are piano trios from Trio Sora, an all-female group who have already recorded Beethoven for Naive. And the Swiss pianist, Cédric Pescia is recording Bach. There will be two new discs with Olivier Latry in Liszt, Dupre and Durufle.The distinguished French pianist […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-11-27 16:40:28
The Last Transcendentalist
Bill Faucett’s delightful, sober, and beautifully researched “John Sullivan Dwight: The Life and Writings of Boston’s Musical Transcendentalist” has the merit of a good portrait. The subject comes vividly to life through careful contextualization but is not reduced to context or explained by context. The more we gaze, the more we are struck by the sitter’s personal idiosyncrasy and free agency. Take, for example, the portrait of the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck by Duplessis, painted in Paris in 1775, a copy of which hung in Dwight’s living room in the late years of his life. Gluck is firmly located in time and space by his clothes and harpsichord, but he gazes freely upward to heaven in a moment of timeless inspiration. Gluck’s soul seems to transcend circumstances, irreducibly personal and noumenal. Faucett does something analogous with John Sullivan Dwight. He provides abundant details that anchor Dwight solidly in his generation […]
2023-09-07 23:02:15
A beautiful garden is like a Portal to another world. You leave the everyday behind and step into a place of color and possibility, life blooming around every corner. It nourishes the spirit—a good piece of music can do the …
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