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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-20 20:24:21
Lookouts Aloft! A Composer Puts Out to Sea
[caption id="attachment_33427" align="alignleft" width="228"] Smyth in 1901 by Sargent[/caption] Dame Ethel Smyth (1854-1944) said, “I want women to turn their minds to big and difficult jobs, not just to go on hugging the shore, afraid to put out to sea.” This is the story of a woman — in the long history of women stifled by important or influential men in their lives or eras — who did the big and difficult job over and over. Ethel Smyth, a strong-minded musician, fought against her father’s pontifical noise and ‘put out to sea’ (or at least crossed the channel) in 1877 at age 19 to study at the Conservatorium in Leipzig. One of the top Smyth scholars, Amy Zigler, has a brief biography available HERE. BMInt is happy to publish this preview in the context of a Cappella Clausura’s performance of Smyth’s Mass in D at Emmanuel Church at 4pm on […]
2023-12-13 09:28:00
Surrender to the gentle magic: Benjamin Tassie combines live-performance & field recording focusing on water-powered instruments to remarkably poetic effect
Benjamin Tassie; A Ladder is Not the Only Kind of Time; Benjamin Tassie, Sam Underwood, Rebecca Lee, Rob Bental; Birmingham Record CompanyReviewed 13 December 2023Part live-performance, part-field recording, this disc captures the poetic interaction between natural landscape and ancient man-made sounds, featuring three waterpowered instruments The Rivelin Valley in Sheffield was once a thriving hub of water-powered industry, and even today the ruins of twenty watermills and twenty-one mill dams can be found along the river’s length, ghosts of Sheffield’s industrial past that have become haven for wildlife.This new disc from Birmingham Record Company, A Ladder is Not the Only Kind of Time, features music by Benjamin Tassie that doesn't just evoke this landscape, instead Tassie's pieces were produced with the landscape, in dialogue with the river. The album features three new water-powered instruments designed and built by Tassie with instrument maker Sam Underwood. A harpsichord, hurdy gurdy, and a […]
2023-10-25 12:17:00
Kammermusiksaal Beethoven: Overture: Coriolan, op.62 Mozart: Piano Concerto no.21 in C major, KV 467 Haydn: Symphony no.98 in B-flat major Jan Lisiecki (piano)Chamber Orchestra of EuropeAndrew Manze (conductor) In some ways, this concert proved a mixed bag, but it was well planned and it came right where ultimately it mattered. Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture was the weakest of the three performances. The symphonic Beethoven continues to elude not only, it seems, the grasp of most though not all contemporary conductors; this seems often to hold for audiences too, seemingly unaware as they Lap up the latest fads of what they are missing. Was ever there a time when we needed Beethoven more? Not since the 1940s when, ironically, such music seemed better able to speak. Listen to Furtwängler in this overture, and the tragic impulse will never have felt more immanent. Alas, justified postwar suspicion of totalities has now degenerated into […]
2023-10-06 17:06:52
The orchestra’s former conductor — now its music director emeritus for life — opened Carnegie Hall’s season with a two-night engagement.
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