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2022-05-11 09:31:21
A Stylophone Orchestra, an Ondes Martenot, Tea and Cake: Welcome to the amazing world of Arctic Circle's Daylight Music
[…] England. His work is uniquely textured, employing a range of instruments, sound-sources, and processes. Space In This Place (4 June, St John on Bethnal Green) features Minihi, comprising percussionists and composers Zands and Louise Anna Duggan, Rattle, the drums and vocals duo Katharine Eira Brown & Theresa Wrigley, and improvising recorder player Fatima Lahham. Outside of the Box (18 June, St John's Leytonstone) features Guido Spannochi Quartet, featuring Vienna-born London based saxophonist Guido Spannochi, Tony Bianco, an American jazz drummer and composer, and Khabat Abasis an Iraqi Kurdish artist her work reflects on socio-political circumstances in Iraqi Kurdistan. Lost Map (16 July, St John, Bethnal Green) features three very different vocalists Gordon McIntyre, Emma Kupa, and Alexia Avina. Full information from Daylight Music's website.
2021-07-07 09:12:41
More than just a film composer: Nino Rota's viola sonatas at Sands Films Music Room
Like many 20th-century film composers, Nino Rota has suffered the curse of having his non-film music (of which there is a significant quantity) disappear behind his film scores. Yes, he wrote music for The Godfather, La Strada and 148 other film scores, but there are also 11 operas, three symphonies, concertos and much much more. And two viola sonatas, one dating from the 1930s and the other from 1945, and there is a chance to hear these later this month, when Lorena Canto (viola) and Yvain Calvo (piano) perform them at Sands Films Music Room on 15 July 2021. Rota was a child prodigy and composed his first opera when he was eleven. Encouraged by Arturo Toscanini he studied at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia in the 1930s before returning to Milan where he graduated from the University in 1937. This is the period of the first viola sonata. Then […]
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