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2024-03-15 16:06:00
Crouching composer, hidden dragon
[…] opposite the Potala Palace, the Dalai Lama’s former residence. Buddha Passion is another example of the culture-washing that the classical industry and media so enthusiastically support, with reviews echoing Decca's PR speak using headlines such as 'Tan Dun’s message of love and compassion' - Guardian, and 'An immense work that straddles East and West' - Standard. Leaving aside all that unfortunate cultural baggage, sadly the music of Tan Dun's Buddha Passion rarely rises above the level of an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, with one of the few dissenting voices, Marc Bridle at Opera Now, describing it as "A flawed work which isn't all it seems".Not one reviewer questioned the hidden Chinese dragon behind the Buddha Passion. Not one reviewer questioned Tan Dun's setting of the Heart Sutra in the penultimate act, a text held by the Dalai Lama to be one of the core teachings of Buddhism. In 2021 Radio Free Asia reported that […]
2024-03-06 11:44:49
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2024-02-27 09:57:00
Intense and disturbing, a story without any redemption: Stephen McNeff's new opera A Star Next to the Moon based on Juan Rulfo's novel Pedro Páramo
Stephen McNeff: A Star Next to the Moon - Jacob Harrison (Pedro Páramo) - Guildhall School of Music & Drama (Photo: David Monteith-Hodge)Stephen McNeff: A Star Next to the Moon; director: Martin Lloyd-Evans, conductor: Dominic Wheeler; Guildhall School of Music & DramaReviewed 26 February 2024Stephen McNeff's powerful new opera tells a disturbing story with a performance that pulls no punches and outstanding contributions from the young castStephen McNeff's opera, A Star Next to the Moon debuted at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama's Silk Street Theatre on Monday 26 February 2024. With a libretto by Aoife Mannix based Juan Rulfo's novel Pedro Páramo, the opera has had a long journey to fruition as Stephen McNeff discussed in my recent interview with him, but creating a large-scale new opera in two acts with a cast of eleven, chorus and orchestra is no small achievement indeed. Martin Lloyd-Evans directed and Dominic Wheeler conducted […]
2024-02-24 09:51:00
The Lady of Satis House: composer Jacques Cohen talks about finally bringing his 2012 Charles Dickens-inspired monodrama to disc
[…] about communicating feelings. Both the opera and one of the other works on the disc are programmatic, but if audiences enjoy the music without thinking of the programme then Jacques is happy with that too. He wants his music to evoke a feeling, and whilst all the music on the disc has a dark element, there is a wide spectrum of emotions.His piece Creation, which premiered in March 2023 conducted by Jacques as part of Lloyd’s Choir's centenary, is his largest work to date; he would like to work on that scale more. During lockdown, when everything stopped, he had time to work on two large-scale orchestral scores and is currently working on performance plans for them. But works like Creation and Exodus Fragments, which premiered in 2015, both create a bigger sound alongside a sense of drama which makes the works sound bigger.He uses his own version of tonality. […]
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