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3 Shades of Blue/Kind of Blue (Book/CD Review)
[…] three but other jazz luminaries as Kaplan weaves the three biographies into an overview of the development of different forms of jazz such as swing bebop, post-bop, cool jazz, modal jazz, harmolodics, and free jazz. But of special interest to fans of classical music might be to learn that all three of these jazz giants were influenced by classical music. For example, Kaplan writes that one piece that Miles almost became obsessed with was Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli’s 1957 recording of Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G… Miles wanted to put wide-open space into his music the way Ravel did. He wanted to use different scales the way Khachaturian, with his love for Asian music, did… Davis told Evans that the new album he had in mind would make use of some of the Western classical themes they’d analyzed together…” Evans had been classically trained, but ultimately decided that he wanted to become […]
2024-03-04 21:47:08
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2024-01-08 16:07:00
Catching up, January 2024
This Week in Classical Music: January 8, 2024. Catching up. Last week we simply wished you a happy New Year, so this week we’ll try to make up for it and cover the first two weeks of the year. January 5th should be officially named Piano Day, as on this day three great pianists were born: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, in 1920, Alfred Brendel, in 1930, and Maurizio Pollini, in 1942. Pollini still performs, but we stopped attending his concerts some years ago: he’s now just a shadow of his great self. This doesn’t diminish his prodigious talent that he brilliantly displayed for decades with virtuosity and incisive repertoire, which, unique to a pianist of his stature, included the music of many modern composers. (In comparison, the repertoire of his compatriot, the perfectionist Michelangeli, was very narrow). Two prominent Soviet cellists were born during these two weeks, Sviatoslav Knushevitsky, on January 6th […]
2023-12-18 09:27:00
The Edinburgh Benedetti Sessions took place from 9 – 11 December at Stewart's Melville College, Edinburgh. Over the weekend the Foundation worked with just shy of 450 young people, the largest ever number to attend the Benedetti Sessions. The Edinburgh Sessions were led by Nicola Benedetti and the Foundation’s team of tutors, hosting young people of all ages and stages and instrumental teachers from across Edinburgh. The Sessions approach music in a way that inspires fun and enjoyment, a greater sense of togetherness, and a true abandonment of caution, as well as connecting to creativity, rhythm and improvisation.On Saturday, the Intermediate and Advanced Orchestras came together to work on a new piece for mass string orchestra – Enigma-Bolero arr. The Ayoub Sisters.More information from the Benedetti Foundation website.
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