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2022-08-03 09:39:00
The youngest ever winner of BBC Young Musician in 2008, Peter Moore becomes the first trombone soloist at the BBC Proms for nearly 20 years with George Walker's concerto
Peter Moore (Photo Benjamin Ealovega)Trombonist Peter Moore is all of 26. In 2008 at the age of twelve, he became the youngest ever winner of the BBC Young Musician competition and is now principal trombone of the London Symphony Orchestra and professor of trombone at the Royal Academy of Music.On Tuesday 16th August 2022, Moore makes his BBC Proms solo debut when he performs George Walker's Trombone Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Vasily Petrenko, as part a programme including works by Prokofiev and Copland. Amazingly, this is the first time there has been a trombone soloist at the proms in almost 20 years.George Walker (1922-2018) was the first Black composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1996. He studied at the Curtis Institute with Rudolf Serkin, William Primrose, Gregor Piatigorsky and Rosario Scalero (Samuel Barber's teacher). His Trombone Concerto was written in 1957 and is one of the earliest […]
2021-07-29 07:03:39
American Quintets: Kaleidescope Chamber Collective's debut recording features the 1st recording of a mature Florence Price work alongside Amy Beach and Samuel Barber
[…] the traditional scherzo. The finale is fast and furious, returning us to the composer's dramatic world. In between these two comes Samuel Barber's Dover Beach for baritone and string quartet. Whilst the medium of voice and string quartet was hardly a common one (Schoenberg used it in his Second String Quartet of 1908), it was something that had been taken up by Italian composers in the 20th century including Pizzetti, Respighi and Barber's teacher, Rosario Scalero. A setting of a poem by Matthew Arnold's, Dover Beach introduces a more recent vein of American tonal music into the mix on the disc. Barber was born in 1910 so any influence of Dvorak and Brahms is long distant. He gives us a contemplative vocal line, expressively flexible as it follows Arnold's complex poetry; RVW once complimented the composer, saying that he had tried setting the poem but failed. Around this flow the […]
2021-02-27 20:53:00
WaynesboroSymphonyOrchestra.org: Livestream Sunday, Feb. 28, 3 PM ET: Florence Price, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, George Walker & William Grant Still
[…] in 1939 became the organist for the Graduate School of Theology of Oberlin College. He graduated at 18 from Oberlin with highest honors in his Conservatory class and was admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music to study piano with Rudolf Serkin, chamber music with William Primrose and Gregor Piatigorsky, and composition with Rosario Scalero (a student of Samuel Barber). Walker graduated from the Curtis Institute with Artist Diplomas in piano and composition in 1945, becoming one of the first black graduates of the music school. As a composer, Walker’s music has been influenced by a wide variety of musical styles due to his exposure to the music of Chopin, Brahms, Beethoven, jazz, folk songs, and church hymns. Unwilling to conform to a specific style, […]
2020-09-13 23:30:00
Thomas Schippers conducts Barber, Berg, Menotti and d´Indy
[…] a hot brick. Barber not only gets these notes to sing, he harnesses them for a driving fugue and praising fanfares during the closing aspiring chorale. Schippers leads the best recorded account I know.Barber wrote the Overture to "The School for Scandal" practically dewy-fresh from his composition lessons at the Curtis Institute. The work proclaims a new voice in music, with an individual approach to melody not heard before. While I sometimes hear Stravinsky, Brahms, Scalero, and Chopin in Barber's music, whatever I perceive as the core of it remains his own. He also came up with one of the few comic overtures to stand comparison with Mozart – not only sparkling and tender, but well worked-through. Even at this young age, Barber has mastered the late-Romantic orchestra; he can apply bright colors without obscuring the lines, and his string-writing (Barber was a pianist and professional-caliber singer) is amazingly idiomatic […]
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