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2024-03-13 20:48:41
PREVIEW | The Happenstancers Present Being Pascal Dusapin
The Happenstancers, Toronto’s chamber music innovators, are presenting Being Pascal Dusapin on April 6, a premiere for many of the French composer's works.
2022-03-28 12:01:24
Nothing has Changed. Everything has Changed
Under the evocative title, Nothing has Changed. Everything has Changed, Louth Contemporary Music Society (LCMS) returns with its midsummer festival (17 and 18 June 2022) in Dundalk, County Louth in the Republic of Ireland. LCMS hasn't been inactive during the last two years, and this year's festival opens with Linda Catlin Smith's Meadow which LCS issued as a recording in 2020 [see my review] and Sam Perkin's Flow, which was also issued as recording. This opening programme will also include the premieres of pieces by Andrew Synnott and Gavin Bryars. During the day on 18 June 2022 there will be a chance to hear music by Pascal Dusapin and Catherine Lamb, plus Icelandic improvisers Bára Gísladóttir and Skúli Sverrisson. The final concert of the festival is a real treat, the Estonian choir Vox Clamantis will be giving the world premiere of Siobhán Cleary’s Storm in Devon,plus Arvo Pärt’s LCMS commission The Deer’s Cry, music by the […]
2021-01-02 10:11:37
Researching the mathematics of emotions: composer Arash Safaian on his recent fantasy about Beethoven's music, 'This is (Not) Beethoven'
[…] with Arash via Zoom to find out more. Arash was born in Iran son of the Iranian artist Ali Akbar Safaian who emigrated to Germany when Arash was a child, and he grew up in Bayreuth. Arash studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nürnberg and showed his paintings in solo and group exhibitions, before moving to the Academy for Music and Theatre in Munich to study composition with Jan Müller-Wieland and Pascal Dusapin, and film music with Enjott Schneider. He won the ECHO:KLASSIK 2017 prize for his piano concerto cycle ÜberBach and the Bavarian Film Prize 2019 for Best Film Music for his music for the film Lara, directed by Jan-Ole Gerster. This is (not) Beethoven takes the form of a 15-movement work for piano and orchestra. Arash describes it as a fantasy about Beethoven's music and likens the form to Mussorgsky's multi-movement Pictures at an Exhibition. […]
2019-11-16 16:37:00
Chaya Czernowin - Heart Chamber (world premiere), Deutsche Oper, 15 November 2019
[…] that such is the case for any opera—and yes, in many ways of course it is. However, I think it is probably fair to say that it is still more so the case for some operas, and some types of opera, than others, at least vis-à-vis the orchestra, or whatever stands in its place. For me, Heart Chamber took one back, with an effect not entirely unlike—whatever the differences in means—a work such as Pascal Dusapin’s Passion, to the earliest, Monteverdian days of opera: not in the sense of pastiche, nor even, as with Dusapin, of reference, but, to quote Czernowin, of ‘being about the voice, about using the voice, about communicating with the voice.’ That is, I know, what some, more responsive to its charms than I, say of bel canto opera too; I shall leave it to them to comment on any such affinity. Vocal colour, both through […]
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