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2022-01-12 01:48:44
Juilliard Announces Details of Weeklong Focus Festival, January 23-28 [Works of Scott Joplin, William Grant Still, Mary Lou Williams James P. Johnson and Duke Ellington]
[…] New Juilliard Ensemble in a program of rags by Joplin in contemporaneous theater orchestra versions; two of Ives’ Ragtime Dances; Varèse’s Octandre; Cowell’s Sinfonietta; and Crawford Seeger’s Three Songs to Poems by Carl Sandburg (with soprano Britt Hewitt as soloist). Charles Ives’ Symphony No. 3, “The Camp Meeting,” completes the program on January 23 in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater. The January 26, the program includes Persichetti’s Sonatine for Organ Pedals Alone; Wolpe’s Two Pieces for Piano; Carter’s Sonata for Cello and Piano; William Grant Still’s Incantation and Dance for oboe and piano; Menotti’s “Monica’s Waltz” from The Medium; and a survey of ragtime to jazz featuring Blake’s “Charleston Rag,” Mary Lou Williams’ “Drag ‘Em,” James P. Johnson’s “Carolina Shout,” and Ellington’s “Come Sunday.”
2021-10-12 07:38:10
To enter this music is to enter a different world, one that you wonder why you never discovered it earlier: Martin Jones plays Elisabeth Lutyens' piano music on Resonus Classics
[…] gritty. The music perhaps has a bit more edge to it and less sense of the misty poetry than the 1978 and 1979 pieces above, but there is instead a rhetorical feel about it, a clear sense of philosophical point to the discourse. Plenum I is another substantial single-movement work, the first of a set of four pieces for different instrumental combinations written in the mid-1970s. Plenum I for solo piano dates from 1972, premiered by Katharina Wolpe (the pianist daughter of composer Stefan Wolpe) and again the score has no barlines and a great use of silence. For a composer renowned for her combative and uncompromising attitudes, Lutyens certainly knew when to shut up and when to pare her art down to the minimum. There is a freedom here and a beautiful elegance to the writing as lines and notes emerge from nowhere, it must be a wonderful work to hear […]
2020-06-08 14:39:37
Charles Wuorinene, 2020
[…] died less than three months ago, on March 11th of 2020 at the age of 81. Wuorinen (pronounce WOrinen) was born on June 9th of 1938 in Manhattan; his father was a prominent Finnish-American historian. Charles wrote his first compositions at the age of five. In 1962 Wuorinen formed an ensemble, The Group for Contemporary Music, which performed the music of modernist American composers of the day such as Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter and Stefan Wolpe, as well as the music of Wuorinen himself. In 1970s he taught at the Manhattan School of Music. As many composers of his age, he experimented with electronic music, at some point in the 1970s even getting a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to conduct sonic experiments at AT&T’s Bell Labs. In 2000s James Levine became a champion of Wuorinen’s music and commissioned a piano concerto (his fourth). Overall, Wuorinen composed about 270 pieces, […]
2019-09-16 13:58:00
Omer Meir Wellber' inaugural at the BBC Phil
[…] because, he says, he was already a composer and wanted to find out how those instruments worked. He stayed in ‘normal’ schooling, with extra teaching at the music specialist school in Beer-sheva until the time came for national service in the army (as all Israeli youngsters do) – but his time in uniform was cut to a year and a half so that he could join the national Jerusalem Music Academy. He studied with Michael Wolpe (himself taught by Alexander Goehr at Cambridge) because at that point he wanted to make composing his main interest (and he does have a string of compositions to his name), but gradually shifted to conducting. From 2008 to 2010 he was assistant to Daniel Barenboim, both at the Staatsoper in Berlin and La Scala (he and his family now have their home in Milan), and he acknowledges the importance his mentors have had […]
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