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2022-09-15 04:12:30
One of the best of the ongoing series of outdoor free jazz shows on the Lower East Side starts at 1:30 PM on Sept 18 in the community garden at 710 E 5th St. in Alphabet City. Trumpeter Chris Williams kicks off the afternoon in a trio with Luke Stewart on bass and Cinque Kemp […]
2022-04-02 08:47:20
A tradition of excellence in danger of being eroded: the Continuo Foundation started simply as an idea to support the UK's period instrument groups
[…] and she feels that it is lovely that a pot of money inspired creativity. Tina had no idea that there were so many period performance groups in the UK; to date, over 100 groups have applied for grants. Many are run by musicians, who have little fund-raising and marketing expertise. So from the outset, the foundation set out to have this expertise in house with its expert advisors (currently David Hill, Dr Berta Joncus, Lindsay Kemp and Joseph McHardy), which means that groups' applications do not have to be long and involved; this has been welcomed by groups applying and is a success. The advisory panel makes recommendations which are then discussed by the trustees. The development of the foundation has been in carefully controlled stages. That first round of grants in January 2021 was intended to help get musicians back to work. Now, in what Tina calls the second […]
2022-03-24 16:29:47
Six Brandenburgs: Six Commissions
St Mary's Abbey, West Malling - the modern church & Norman tower Music@Malling is festival that brings music to historic venues in and around West Malling in Kent. The main festival is in October each year, but in April 2022 the festival is having an extra outing. Across three concerts on 23 April 2022 in St Mary's Abbey in West Malling, Music@Malling presents Six Brandenburgs: Six Commissions, a delayed celebraton of the 300th anniversary of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos which were presented to the Margrave of Brandenburg by Bach in 1721.Steven Devine will direct Chamber Domaine in all six Brandenburg Concertos, and each concerto will be accompanied by a new piece, conducted by Thomas Kemp, artistic director of Music@Malling. Six composers, Brian Elias, Daniel Kidane, Deborah Pritchard, Stevie Wishart, Joseph Phibbs and Michael Price have each written a piece that is intended as a response to one of the Bach concertos. […]
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