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2024-03-20 11:42:45
Turner Sims, SouthamptonPianist is a wonderfully unfussy and straightforwardly lucid interpreter of sonatas completed months before composer’s deathOver the last two years
2024-02-19 04:16:00
Florence Price: Symphony 4 - William Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony (streaming review)
[…] the style of music presented here: incorporating themes from historically Black music, such as spirituals, as well as some jazz elements, while at the same time looking backwards in the sense of using traditional Western classical music forms. In this symphony, the first movement is built upon the motive of the familiar spiritual tune Wade in the Water. (Those of us of a certain age may be more familiar with that tune from the Ramsey Lewis Trio 1966 instrumental recording than from any more traditional presentations.) While the movement contains stretches of appealing music, I find that the “Wade“ motive is being asked to carry more than it can bear, so to speak, with the music beginning to be a little repetitious without clear progression. Things improve significantly in the beautiful second movement, in which multiple themes, mostly fragments of spirituals, intertwine and are punctuated by dramatic crescendos. The movement […]
2024-02-07 17:59:46
The Australian whistler’s debut record has a cinematic feel which recalls the film soundtracks of Ennio Morricone
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2023-12-25 11:00:20
This year, our readers were blown away by productions from Machinal to Free Your Mind – with one theatregoer returning to watch Groundhog Day four timesFortune theatre, LondonA gloriously silly take on second world war subterfuge. Think MI6 the musical, complete with General Melchett, cross dressing, and lots of eye rolling at Ian Fleming. The score is infectious, the jokes so fast you will only catch half of them on the first viewing, and a half dozen performers create the presence and energy of 50 on Broadway. See it while you can – you will laugh and cry, and you won’t regret it. Lewis, 32, London
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