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Estonian conductor and composer (1899-1977)
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- conductor, composer, choir director, music teacher
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2022-03-08 10:17:11
Black Renaissance Woman: Samantha Ege and John Paul Ekins explore music by six remarkable women from the Chicago Renaissance
Margaret Bonds, Nora Holt, Helen Hagan, Betty Jackson King, Florence Price; Samantha Ege, John Paul Ekin; Lorelt Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 7 March 2022 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Samantha Ege returns to Chicago between the wars to shed light on the remarkable circle of women surrounding Florence PriceHaving previously recorded a disc of Florence Price's music, pianist Samantha Ege returns to Price's world with Black Renaissance Woman on Lorelt with pianist John Paul Ekins. The disc presents music by five remarkable Black female composers, Margaret Bonds, Nora Holt, Helen Hagan, Betty Jackson King and Florence Price, all part of the same remarkable circle of Black women composers and musicians in Chicago. We have a tendency to think of Florence Price in isolation, the first Black woman composer to have a symphony performed by a major American symphony orchestra, but remarkable though Price was she […]
2021-09-21 13:09:50
The early music/theatre group The Telling is returning to live venues with a six-date tour next month featuring the premiere of Clare Norburn's latest concert play I, Spie [read my interview with Clare in which we chat about her new work including I, Spie and her award-winning online series, Love in the Lockdown]. Directed by Nicholas Renton and featuring three actors and five musicians, I, Spie tells the story of Elizabethan composer John Dowland's brush with espionage. I, Spie is centred around an extraordinary letter which Dowland wrote to Queen Elizabeth's spymaster Sir Robert Cecil in 1595. At the time, Dowland was travelling Europe, having taken umbrage in having not secured a court post as a lutenist when one fell vacant. Cecil had signed Dowland’s travel papers and probably told him to "keep his eyes and ears open". So when, as a Catholic Englishman abroad, Dowland was approached by English ex-Pats […]
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2020-08-30 18:19:42
Salzburg pats itself on the back
For once, the festival’s closing report is really pertinent. Salzburg was the first to break the clone that shut down other summer fests. ‘In this special festival year at the festival, we all created something together, which hardly anyone could expect a few weeks ago: that with a very thoughtful, smart yet no one overloading […]
2019-03-26 08:00:03
Dance Maze: new chamber music by Tom Armstrong on Resonus Classics
Dance Maze chamber music by Tom Armstrong; Simon Desbruslais, Jakob Fichert, Nicola Meecham, Audrew Riley, James Woodrow, Fidelio Trio; Resonus Classics Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 23 March 2019 Star rating: 3.5 (★★★½) Revision and re-working is the key to this fascinating collection of chamber music from contemporary British composerThis disc from Resonus Classics is an intriguing selection of the recent chamber music by the contemporary British composer Thomas Armstrong. Performed by Simon Desbruslais (trumpet), Jakob Fichert (piano), Nicola Meecham (piano), Audrey Riley (cello), James Woodrow (electric guitar) and the Fidelio Trio (Darragh Morgan, Robin Michael, Mary Dullea), we have six pieces which span a remarkable range of Armstrong's career. The selection of pieces presents a remarkable example of Armstrong's technique as each piece is part of a process of revision which seems to be an ongoing part of Armstrong's compositional process. Some are replacements, though it seems that […]
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