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English organist and composer for organ, born 1785
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-04-23 21:54:31
A Final Flourish with Cappella Clausura
[…] breathe, or watching two pages turned by mistake and then fixed immediately – how lucky was I to be there? Amelia’s creative thinking has included so many novel collaborations: a particularly notable one was the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Boston Women’s Memorial along with Meredith Bergmann, the sculptor, and the Boston Women’s Heritage Society, and Suffrage100MA. Amelia created a unique celebration with commissions to young BIPOC composers setting the texts of Abigail Adams, Phillis Wheatley, and Lucy Stone. Each young composer was asked to utilize early music instruments, therefore educating themselves and the audiences about these beautiful old sounds. As a friend of living composers, Amelia has both commissioned and performed 21st -century music written by such luminaries as Elena Ruehr, Hilary Tann, Augusta Thomas Read, Patrician van Ness, Gabriela Lena Frank, Joan Tower, and more. In her constant search for music by women from every century […]
2024-04-17 21:04:04
PREVIEW | Esprit Orchestra Ends 2023-24 Season With Sonic Universe
Esprit Orchestra will conclude their 41st season with Sonic Universe on April 25, featuring compositions by R. Murray Schafer and iconic John Adams.
2024-04-12 19:33:57
THE SCOOP | Amadeus Choir: 50 Years Of Song & Honouring Lydia Adams As Conductor Emerita
The Amadeus Choir of Greater Toronto, during their 50th birthday celebrations, have announced the designation of Lydia Adams as Conductor Emerita.
2024-03-28 16:22:06
Andres/Segev/Metropolis Ensemble/Cyr(Nonesuch)These three works showcase the US composer’s distinctive and accomplished musical languageLike a number of US composers of the thirtysomething generation, Timo Andres takes the minimalism of John Adams and Philip Glass as the starting point for his eclectic musical language. But as shown by the solo piano Colorful History, which Andres himself plays as the centrepiece to this collection, his music explores a much broader musical landscape.The solo piece, a chaconne of increasing complexity, is framed by two concertos: The Blind Banister for piano from 2017 (composed for Jonathan Biss, but with Andres as the soloist here) and Upstate Obscura for cello. The piano concerto (Andres’s third for the instrument) was commissioned as part of a series inspired by Beethoven’s five examples: for Andres, the pairing was with the second piano concerto, but there’s no hint of Beethovenian pastiche or allusion in his music. Instead the work begins almost […]
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