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English composer and organist
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2024-02-19 04:16:00
Florence Price: Symphony 4 - William Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony (streaming review)
[…] at the style of music presented here: incorporating themes from historically Black music, such as spirituals, as well as some jazz elements, while at the same time looking backwards in the sense of using traditional Western classical music forms. In this symphony, the first movement is built upon the motive of the familiar spiritual tune Wade in the Water. (Those of us of a certain age may be more familiar with that tune from the Ramsey Lewis Trio 1966 instrumental recording than from any more traditional presentations.) While the movement contains stretches of appealing music, I find that the “Wade“ motive is being asked to carry more than it can bear, so to speak, with the music beginning to be a little repetitious without clear progression. Things improve significantly in the beautiful second movement, in which multiple themes, mostly fragments of spirituals, intertwine and are punctuated by dramatic crescendos. The […]
2024-01-15 04:30:00
Penitence & Lamentation (CD Review)
by Karl Nehring Nicolas Gombert: Lugebat David Absalon; William Byrd: Domine secundum actum meum; Thomas Tallis; In jejunio et fletu; Absterge Domine; Thomas Crecquillon: Pater peccavi: Robert Ramsey: How are the mighty fallen; William Byrd: Emendemus in Melius; Ye sacred muses; Ne irascaris Domine; Nico Muhly: Fallings; Robert Carver: O bone Jesu. Byrd Ensemble; Markdavin Obenza, artistic director. Scribe Records SRCD12As music lovers and listeners with seemingly infinite options from which to choose when we decide we have the time and the means to listen to music, whether that be on earbuds as we exercise or commute, headphones or desktop speakers as we work at our computers at home or in the office, or best of all, through a carefully chosen and set up audio system in our own familiar listening room at home, we are free to choose the mood of the music to which we are going to listen. There are times when we might want to hear something energetic, perhaps […]
2022-09-12 07:00:00
2022-07-29 20:39:00
Aidan Clare Ramsey had an article in VAN Magazine the other day in which he discussed classism and money and the extent to which they control who has a shot at getting started and being successful in wester classical music. Kate Wagner had an article on similar themes on The Baffler about three years ago.There's been some publicity in the last few years about the high percentage of people with doctorates and people in academia who have one or more parents who have a doctorate or are in academia. It's getting harder and harder for people from less privileged backgrounds to get into academic and classical music.Today, Joshua Barone has an article in the NY Times about Santtu-Matias Rouvali, who is presently chief conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, and who is presumed to be a candidate to succeed Jaap van Zweden at the NY Philharmonic. It definitely caught my […]
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