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2024-03-31 09:20:00
To boldly go: Daniel Pioro and the Marian Consort in music for violin and voices by Tom Coult, Nick Martin and Bach
[…] is a substantial four-movement work written in 2020 for Daniel Pioro, and premiered by Pioro and The Willow Consort, conductor Danny Purtell, in Copenhagen in September 2020 in a programme that also included Bach's Partita No.2 with the chorales. Martin's choice of text hovers between the sacred and the secular. The first movement, 'Kyrie - Ciaccona' mixed the Greek Kyrie with a poem by Swedish-speaking Finnish poet Edith Södergran (1892-1923), 'A Foreign Song' set American poet Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), 'Little Astronaut' set British writer Robert MacFarlane and 'Wachsenden Ringen' set Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926). But apart from the sense that the texts' meanings might have inspired Martin, the work could have been wordless because little or no text came across in the performance. The Marian Consort gave poised and smooth account of the music, yet text seemed less important than physical beauty and expressiveness of the sound. Even the […]
2024-03-27 10:14:00
Perth Festival of the Arts: from Wallace and Gromit for brass band and The Magic Flute in Scots to the Czech National Symphony Orchestra and Tenebrae
[…] and France, whilst the choir Tenebrae presents A Prayer for Deliverance with music by Holst, Cecilia McDowall, Joel Thompson, and Herbert Howells. On the Festival’s final evening, one of the world’s finest brass bands, The Fairey Band, presents a combination of music and animation, performing a brass band arrangement of Mussorgsky's I to accompany animated interpretations. This will be its first screening in Europe. And at the other end of the spectrum, there is a screening of Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers with John Notts' original music played by The Fairey Band.Perth Festival’s Artists of the Year Concert returns with pianist Eleanor Pugley, multi-disciplinary artist Tallulah Rose, and singer-songwriter Alisa Black. One of Scotland’s largest exhibitions of contemporary Scottish Art – arTay returns in a new partnership with Perth legal firm Lindsays. Family events include Singing and Rainbows Under the Sea with opera singers Colleen and Katie in a magical underwater adventure with little onesThere […]
2024-02-04 20:56:00
[…] Well – Joanna Marsh sets text from “Revelations of Divine Love” by another medieval mystic, Julian of Norwich – believed to be the earliest surviving English-language writings by a woman.Into Being – Ingrid Stölzel’s setting of the Sanskrit Mantra “So ham ham sa.”Sohbet of the Rare Small Bird – Forrest Pierce sets Sufi reflections on spiritual teaching and learning, from ancient Persian texts.Natural History – Emma O’Halloran meditates on the thousands of species discovered by British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace and described in his book “The Malay Peninsula.”Tickets range in price from $15 to $50 and can be purchased online through www/VoltiSF.org or at the door.
2023-12-21 10:00:00
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