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English composer and conductor (1875–1912)
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2024-03-01 18:49:28
Rediscovering the rigor of composers Julia Perry and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-20 15:54:11
Music for Food presented Musicians from Marlboro in vibrant takes on selections of Coleridge-Taylor, Dvořák, Webern, and Schoenberg at Williams Hall, NEC on Sunday. [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
2024-02-16 07:46:00
Olawale Olayinka: Songs My Mother Taught Me
Olawale Olayinka is a young Nigerian classically trained violinist, currently based in London. If you have seen Brixton Chamber Orchestra or Chineke! then you may well have seen him. His performances with Chineke! include appearances last Summer performing Beethoven, Holst, Vaughan Williams' and Coleridge-Taylor, conducted by Kellen Gray, as well as with the orchestra at the 2023 Brit Awards at the O2 performing with Stormzy.Olayinka has just released a self-produced EP entitled Songs My Mother Taught Me, six tracks in which he plays traditional songs in modern versions with a mix of his solo violin and electronics. We begin with Oluronbi, just violin melody over ambient electronics, intriguing and engaging. The irregular phrase lengths in the music make it distinctive, whilst Olayinka's decision to not dress up the material pays dividends. The same approach applies to Labe igi orombo, with rather touching results and to the haunting Iwe Kiko. There […]
2024-01-11 08:51:00
Created by Nigerian/Romanian pianist Rebeca Omordia in 2019, the African Concert Series is returning for a sixth season in 2024. A highlight is a whole day of concerts at Wigmore Hall on 17 February 2024.The day begins with a recital from the Seattle-based Ghanaian/American pianist William Chapman Nyaho. Piano music from Africa and the African Diaspora features music by Nigerian Joshua Uzoigwe (1946-2005), Ghanaians Fred Onovwerosuoke (born 1946) and Robert Kwami (1954-2004), Black British Samuel Coleridge Taylor (1875-1912), Jamaican Oswald Russell (1933-2012), and African Americans Hale Smith (1925-2009) and Margaret Bonds (1913-1972).The afternoon features a programme of Spirituals performed by Leon Bosch (double bass) and Rebeca Omordia (piano) in arrangements by Leon Bosch. The evening performance features African chamber music by London-born Nigerian Tunde Jegede, performed by Tunde Jegede, kora and cello, Mohamed Gueye percussion and NOK Orchestra including Tunde Jegede's Mandé Suite, Kora Concerto, and Invocation along with his arrangements of traditional African songs.In the early part […]
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