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American composer and music pedagogue
- chamber music, opera, religious music, symphonic music
- United States of America
- composer, music teacher
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2024-03-19
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2024-03-11 00:00:00
N. Y.My City, my beloved, my white! Ah, slender,Listen! Listen to me, and I will breathe into thee a soul.Delicately upon the reed, attend me!Now do I know that I am mad,For here are a million people surly with traffic;This is no maid.Neither could I play upon any reed if I had one.My City, my beloved,Thou art a maid with no breasts,Thou art slender as a Silver reed.Listen to me, attend me!And I will breathe into thee a soul,And thou shalt live for ever.Ezra PoundHaydnSymphony No. 49 "La Passione"AdamsThe Wound-dresserSchubertSymphony No. 8 "Unfinished"BergThree Orchestral PiecesDigital download with covers and some booklets BachPiano Concerto No. 1SchoenbergPiano ConcertoMozartSymphony No. 36Emanuel Ax pianoRachmaninovSymphony No. 2ProkofievPiano Concerto No. 2Yefim Bronfman pianoChristopher RouseOdna ZhiznSymphonies Nos. 3 & 4Prospero's RoomsStravinskyThe Rite of SpringRespighiPines of RomeFountains of RomeTchaikovskySymphony No. 2StuckySon et LumiereBerliozLes Nuits d´etéMussorgskyPictures at an ExhibitionJoyce DiDonato mezzosopranoMussorgskyNight on Bald MountainRimsky-KorsakovScheherazadeMozartGreat Mass in C minorJennifer Zetlan sopranoJennifer Johnson […]
2024-03-04 10:05:00
There is no right reaction to great music
Quite justifiably the adventurous Matangi Quartet from the Netherlands received acclaim for their recent recording of quartets by Silvestrov, Schnittke, and Shostakovich. But their 2022 ECM disc of Ruins and Remains, a suite for piano, string quartet and percussion composed by Wolfert Breferode slipped under the media radar, probably because in the meaningless ontology of music genres it is pigeonholed as 'jazz'. Composer Wolfert Breferode again defies those meaningless pigeonholes: he studied classical and jazz piano at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague before establishing a formidable reputation as a leading Dutch jazz pianist and recording four albums for ECM.Ruins and Remains was composed by Wolfert Breferode in 2018 in response to a commission to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. Since the premiere however the work has evolved to embrace a wider perspective on human frailty, helped by the improvisatory experiments of the Matangi Quartet and […]
2024-02-29 07:43:00
One of the oldest-established festivals in the UK, the Norfolk & Norwich comes round in the merry month of May.
[…] present the ‘live’ version of her seventh solo album, Antiphony of the Trees, in a concert focusing solely on the recorder taking inspiration from the sound of birdsong which cuts through the crisp air of the Fen valley where she lives. Armed with bass, tenor, alto and double recorders, she’ll transcribe birdsong into a minimalist solo chamber-music recital. Fellow East Anglian and, indeed, festival favourite, Luke Wright, returns to the fold with his latest critically-acclaimed show, Silver Jubilee. peppered with a bit of ‘stand-up’ for good measure. The show promises a hoot as it features some wild experiments in the form of a nervous kitten called Sir John Betjeman and a healthy smattering of drum ‘n’ bass, delivered, of course, by the directness and pathos for which Luke is so well known for. Local poetry collective, Toast, will curate and host this year’s Speak Easy, a performance poetry tent pitched in Festival […]
2024-02-28 08:30:00
A playful look at mathematics: Keisha Thompson's DeCipher project wins the fifth Opera North / University of Leeds DARE Art Prize
Keisha Thompson (Photo: Elmi Ali)Manchester-based writer, performer, producer and maths educator Keisha Thompson has been announced as the fifth winner of the annual DARE Art Prize. DARE is a partnership between the University of Leeds and Opera North, and in association with the National Science and Media Museum and The Tetley, Leeds, and the prize challenges artists and scientists to collaborate on new approaches to the creative process.Keisha Thompson’s project DeCipher takes a playful look at mathematics, aiming to place the subject at the heart of everyday life – literally ‘deciphering’ what many people perceive to be a difficult topic to underline its relevance and make it more accessible to everyone. Recognising that knowledge around mathematical topics, such as coding and economics, gives individuals an advantage in society, Keisha is looking to create an interactive performance piece which delves into the power dynamics attached to mathematics as content, history, pedagogy, […]
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