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American musician
- piano, voice
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- United States of America
- composer, singer, jazz musician, pianist, songwriter
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2024-04-15 08:08:00
Energy, discipline, control and sheer love of music-making: National Youth Orchestra and National Youth Brass Band in Gavin Higgins, Dani Howard, Prokofiev, Julius Eastman and more
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Jessica CottisCatalyst: Coleridge-Taylor, Julius Eastman, Gavin Higgins, Dani Howard, Prokofiev; National Youth Brass Band and National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Tess Jackson, Jessica Cottis; Royal Festival HallReviewed 14 April 2024From Julius Eastman's creative provocation in the Clore Ballroom to the stupendous combined brass band and orchestra in Higgins new piece, an astonishing day of music making full of energy, discipline, control and sheer love of music-making Under the catch-all title of Catalyst, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain arrived at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 14 April 2024 and filled the building with music. During the afternoon, there was a side-by-side performance with local school children of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Ballade in the Clore Ballroom, as part of the orchestra's outreach programmes. Then before the main concert members of the main concert, members of the orchestra gathered in the Clore Ballroom for a […]
2024-04-12 04:00:00
Peter Donohoe from 1978 to 2017
[…] December & October^ 1990; first issued 1991 [CD-rip; flacs, cover and inlay scans - booklet sourced from internet]Recording venues: CTS Studios, Wembley*, No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London and Butterworth Hall, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, UK^.Recording engineers: Mike Sheady & John Kurlander*; Producers: Andrew Keener & David Murray*Edward Elgar:01 - 03 String Quartet in E minor, op.83 [26'25]04 - 06 Piano Quintet in A minor, op.84 ^ [36'03]Peter Donahoe- piano^, Maggini String Quartet [Laurence Jackson & David Angel- violins, Martin Outram- viola, Michal Kaznowski- cello]Naxos 8.553737 [recorded December 1995; issued 1997][CD-rip; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: St Martins Church, East Woodhay, Hampshire, UKRecording engineer: Andrew Groves; Producer: Andrew WaltonIgor Stravinsky:1.01 - 1.03 Three movements from'Petrushka' [16'50]1.04 - 1.07 Four Etudes, Op. 7 [8'19]1.08 - 1.11 Sonata in F-sharp minor [29'15]1.13 - 1.14 Sonata (1924) [10'18]2.01 - 2.04 Serenade in A [11'43]2.05 Piano-Rag Music [3'34]2.06 Tango [3'13]2.07 - […]
2024-04-10 06:36:00
[…] of creating something in which music, story and image work as a single entity. In March 2024, two Digital Opera Shorts were released.GRIEF explores the physical and emotional impact of loss and features music by British Ghanaian-Nigerian composer, musician and actor Francesca Amewudah-Rivers and text by writer/performer Connor Allen, known for his tenure as the Children’s Laureate of Wales and his role as an associate artist at The Riverfront in Newport. The performance features baritone Byron Jackson, dance and choreography from Arnold Matsena with additional vocals from Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, plus musicians from Sinfonia Cymru including Simmy Singh (who wrote the music for interbeing).interbeing explores humanity's bond with nature and features music by Simmy Singh, a co-founder of the Manchester Collective and Sinfonia Cymru's creative associate, and libretto and visuals by multi-disciplinary artist ASHA, with soprano Anna Dennis.Coming up Music Theatre Wales will be presenting Bwystfilod Aflan, a new monodrama by Conor Mitchell and […]
2024-04-04 06:47:00
States of Innocence: Ed Hughes' new opera after Paradise Lost premieres at the Brighton Festival with Sir John Tomlinson
[…] living in fear of reprisals from the restored Stuart monarchy, dictating his poem to a chorus of Readers. His Wife and Assistant (based on historical characters who served as Milton's amanuenses) engage with and contribute to the story. Wife becomes Eve, the Assistant becomes Satan, and as the domestic scenario takes a dream-like turn we enter the Garden, and the events of the Fall are enacted.The performances feature Sir John Tomlinson as Milton with Stuart Jackson, Rozanna Madylus, Tim Morgan, and Rachel Duckett, directed by Tim Hopkins, with projections designed by Ian Winters. Andrew Gourlay conducts the New Music Players.Full details from the Brighton Festival website.
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