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2022-03-24 05:49:42
Pianist Miki Yamanaka’s Human Dust Suite was one of the standout releases of 2020, a counterintuitiively colorful reflection inspired by Agnes Denes’ famous photo of cremated human remains. Yamanaka couldn’t wait until the lockdown was over, so she went DIY for her latest album, Stairway to the Stars, an intimate home recording streaming at Bandcamp. […]
2021-07-03 19:27:35
Founded in 1965, the National Arts Council was open for 26 citizens to serve as advisors. The president appointed the members and if approved by the Senate, they would serve for six years. The council’s first members were artists such as Ralph Ellison, Paul Engle, Elizabeth Ashley, Gregory Peck, Oliver Smith, William Pereira, Minoru Yamasaki, […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2021-01-25 00:29:00
The Broad Stage Presents The West Coast Premiere of Heartbeat Opera’s "Breathing Free" Wednesday, February 10 at 7pm PT & Saturday, February 13 at 7pm PT
Photo: Derrell Acon, bass-baritone; Anaiis Cisco, filmmaker; Kathryn Boyd Batstone, Director of Photography (Los Angeles); Celine Layous 1st AC/Gaffer (Los Angeles) Wednesday, February 10 at 7pm PTSaturday, February 13 at 7pm PTFeaturing 9 interconnected music videos with music fromBeethoven's Fidelio, Negro spirituals and works by Harry T. Burleigh, Florence Price, Langston Hughes, Anthony Davis and Thulani Davis. Each screening will be followed by a live panel discussion with artists and advocates highlighting themes surfaced in Breathing Free relating to incarcerated populations.Tickets and info at thebroadstage.org/breathingfree Heartbeat Opera, the radical indie opera company “leading the charge in online opera” (Parterre) with “groundbreaking” virtual content (Operawire) that is “hacking the corporate contours of Zoom into a postmodern proscenium” (Washington Post)—announces the West Coast Premiere of Breathing Free, an ambitious filmed song cycle dedicated to the celebration of Black artistic voices. Breathing Free builds on Heartbeat's 2018 collaboration […]
2020-10-30 22:09:14
Today’s installment concerns vibraphonist and pianist Miki Yamanaka’s Human Dust Suite album, streaming at Bandcamp. She takes inspiration for the record’s five-part centerpiece from Agnes Denes’ famous 1969 black-and-white photograph, which shows what’s left of a corpse after it’s been cremated. Full disclosure: the suite is on the quiet side and far more of a […]
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