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2021-06-26 05:30:00
Classical Music News of the Week, June 26, 2021
[…] FellowsThe Colburn School, a renowned performing arts school based in Los Angeles, today announced the first national cohort of its recently expanded Fortissima program. Housed under Colburn’s Center for Innovation and Community Impact, Fortissima is an artistic and leadership development program for high school age young women from underrepresented minorities in classical music who demonstrate excellence on an orchestral instrument and have an interest in pursuing a career in music.The 2021 Fortissima Fellows are:Gabriela Salvador Riera, 14-year-old violinist from Wilmington, Delaware.Suubi Laurent, 14-year-old cellist from Attleboro, Massachusetts.Anagha Kapsi, 15-year-old violinist from Exton, Pennsylvania.Leena Hocutt Duarte, 17-year-old violinist from Cary, North Carolina.Genesis Garay, 16-year-old trumpet player from Los Angeles, California.Valeria Serrano, 17-year-old violist from Arlington, Virginia.Leah Marcelle, 16-year-old pianist from Los Angeles, California.Bianca Quddus, 14-year-old clarinetist from Richmond Hill, New York.Lauren Edwards, 16-year-old violinist from Owings Mills, Maryland.Esme Arias Kim, 15-year-old violinist from Hoffman estates, Illinois.Fortissima’s innovative leadership curriculum, paired with […]
2015-08-10 12:26:17
Hitting more guitar on my classical shelf – Christopher Parkening: tribute to Segovia. Parkening plays pieces written for or by Segovia – crisp playing well-recorded. Not sure why though: it’s not as if the pieces are re-interpreted in a major way but the guitar sound is different from the Segovia recordings. fan gone to pieces Then the man himself Andres Segovia with: The Segovia Collection Vol 1: an all Bach program – includes transcriptions of Bach violin, cello partitas; Vol. 5: 5 centuries of Spanish Guitar music: Milan, Sanz, Sor & more; Vol. 8: works by Castelnuovo-Tedesco Music For Guitar; Bach; Milan. A pair of Lp to cd transfers of Music for Guitar/On Stage/Mexicana/Unique Art. Plus another Lp to cd transfer of Rodrigo Riera: Renaissance Guitar; Betho Davezac: Elizabethan Guitar. roofless The transferred lps go back to my east coast days & represent my growing enjoyment of […]
2014-08-30 16:34:14
[…] is music for 2 oboes, 2 horns, 2 clarinets, etc, etc. Here is the “Menuetto” from the historic recording with Members of the 18th Century Orchestra. This is wonderful music with which one can introduce Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The performers are: Ku Ebbinge (The Netherlands) – Oboe Alayne Leslie (USA) – Oboe Eric Hoeprich (USA) – Clarinet Guy van Waas (Belgium) – Clarinet Alf Hörberg (Sweden) – Basset Horn Carles Riera (Catalonia – Spain) – Basset Horn Ab Koster (The Netherlands) – Horn Stefan Blonk (The Netherlands) – Horn Claude Maury (France) – Horn Teunis van der Zwart (The Netherlands) – Horn Danny Bond (USA) – Bassoon Donna Agrell (Alaska – USA) – Bassoon Anthony Woodrow (England – UK) – Double Bass Tags: Music for woodwinds, Clarinet, oboe, horn, bassoon, Gran Partita, Mozart, […]
2014-08-04 12:36:26
Liona Boyd
Liona’s first lp, Classical Guitar, was a small sensation when it was released in 1977. Canada suddenly had a world-class, stunningly good-looking, female classical star. Long blond hair and seen in public, dating, the likes of Pierre Trudeau. Strangely classical guitar remains male dominated so she’s still an exception there. the gloveless life Now there’s nothing unusually about her choice of material on that first lp – standard classic per material give exceptional playing – I loved the Debussy. This is one of my lp to cd transfers. Mitt roamer On the shelf this one and the next include: Ernesto Bitetti: Four Centuries of Spanish Guitar Music; Betho Davezac: Elizabethan Guitar Music; Rodrigo Riera: Renaissance Guitar; Turibio Santos: Five Centuries of French Guitar Music. The tip of my classical guitar iceberg. what the right hand knows Works for or adapted for guitar by Sor, Granados, Debussy, Bach, […]
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