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2022-03-26 05:25:00
Classical Music News of the Week, March 26, 2022
[…] ensemble works by 15 composers was commissioned in honor of 5BMF’s 15th Anniversary and On Site Opera’s 10th Anniversary seasons, and marks the third installment of 5BMF’s critically-acclaimed flagship Five Borough Songbook project.The Five Borough Songbook, Volume III is divided into five sections with three songs inspired by locations in each of New York City’s boroughs. It features 15 new works written by Arianne Abela, Raquel Acevedo Klein, Kinan Azmeh, Colin Britt, Majel Connery, Laura Jobin-Acosta, Will Healy, Brian Lawlor, Jessica Meyer, Angélica Negrón, Nkeiru Okoye, Juri Seo, Aaron Siegel, Darian Thomas, and Jonathan Woody.For details, visit https://5bmf.org/events/songbook-vol-iii/--Katy Salomon, Morahan Arts and MediaLos Angeles Master Chorale Announces 2022-23 SeasonThe Los Angeles Master Chorale, led by Grant Gershon, Kiki & David Gindler Artistic Director, announced its 2022-23 season during GALA 2022, held on March 23, 2022, at Walt Disney Concert Hall in celebration of Gershon’s 20th anniversary season. As Gershon noted […]
2021-04-18 10:56:55
A Life On-Line: rare Vaughan Williams, unknown Venetians, Welsh language opera, vertical harpsichords
[…] Fisher and Francois Couperin which looked at the French influence on Bach's early keyboard music. The programme came live from the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris (no on-demand I'm afraid), but what made it so fascinating was that Alard was playing a copy of a clavicytherium or vertical harpsichord. Yes, exactly what it seems, the strings run up and down. Alard's instrument was a modern copy (by Jean Tournay, 1975, and restored by Emile Jobin in 2012) of one by Albertus Delin in Tournai, Belgium (1760). And we stay in France for our final concert of the week, Les voix humaines from Musica Antica Rotherhithe live from Sands Films' Music Room. A lovely exploration of 17th and 18th century French music mixing names that we knew with names that were unfamiliar, and alternating fine vocal items from Jessica Eucker and Camilla Seale with some stunning viola da gamba playing […]
2021-01-19 02:50:00
The Philadelphia Orchestra announced ten new Digital Stage programs to take place between January and June this year; they'll include works by Mason Bates, Valerie Coleman, Florence Price, Caroline Shaw, Melinda Wagner, and others. The orchestra also announced the appointment of Nathalie Stutzmann as principal guest conductor, starting in the 2021-22 season. Opera America awarded IDEA Residencies to composer Laura Jobin-Acosta, librettist J. Mae Barizo, and composer Tamar-kali Brown. The press releases noted that "This new program provides New York City-based composers and librettists of color an opportunity to explore opera as an expressive medium." and also that "Each artist will receive a full-year residency at OPERA America’s National Opera Center and a total package of $22,500." Sheri Greenawald was given the San Francisco Opera Medal by SFO, acknowledging her long service to the company, as a singer and as head of the San Francisco Opera Center. Greenawald retired from that position […]
2020-05-11 06:37:04
'I have my habits, my fixations if you like ... without them I can't get any of my effects right': the first Carmen, exploring the performance of Célestine Galli-Marié
[…] non-French speaking countries, notably the USA. It is only since the Wexford Festival's 1986 production of the original opéra comique version of Mignon that the balance was restored. After the 1883 performances at the Opéra-Comique, Carmen was always presented there in the version with spoken dialogue. We can get glimpses of this tradition in two recordings, both with forces from the Opéra-Comique. That from 1950 with André Cluytens conducting with Solange Michel and Raul Jobin, is the last gasp of a dying tradition. Yet the singers are all Francophone and the performance very much a company affair, and this remains one my go-to recordings when I want to listen to Carmen. A more important historical document is the recording of Carmen from 1911 (originally on 54 sides of 78rpm discs). Here we have Marguerite Mérentié and Augustarello Affre conducted by François Ruhlmann; plenty of dialogue, voices which are characterful […]
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