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Irish opera singer
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2023-10-03 08:19:00
Nigel Foster's London Song Festival celebrates centenaries and more: Ned Rorem, Walton's Facade, Rachmaninoff, Walter de la Mare & the Mackintosh raincoat
[…] Escape to the City: Edith Sitwell in London is a multi-media celebration of the life and work of the poet Edith Sitwell, and the centenary of Façade, with music by William Walton, Britten, Michael Head, Noël Coward, Debussy, and the premiere of songs by Hayley Jenkins. The series ends on 1 December 2023 with A Rural Ramble, a programme English Song and German Lieder about the countryside from the winners of the 2022 John Kerr Award for English Song, Peter Edge (baritone), Frasier Hickland (piano).Full details from the London Song Festival website.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-09-16 21:24:53
Just Arrived on the Shelves
[…] legend is that all of Webern’s works for orchestra, from the Passacaglia, op. 1, through the Six Pieces, op. 6, to the final Cantatas opp. 29 and 31, were recorded in just two hours of leftover time from Stravinsky recording sessions. Webern's many songs (opp. 3, 4, 8, 12-19, 23, and 25) were divvied up by sopranos Grace-Lynne Martin and Marni Nixon* (suppressed as and later famous as the singing voices of Audrey Hepburn, Deborah Kerr, Natalie Wood, Jeanne Crain and Marilyn Monroe), whose pitch accuracy Craft once described as “better than violin.” Another essential part of the Webern legend is that Craft’s four-LP set was the best-selling multiple-disc classical album ever, though it hardly seemed credible even in the early 1960s, when I heard the story from Milton Babbitt. Craft is well remembered as the assistant and sidekick, like a faithful son, to Igor Stravinsky between their first meeting, […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2023-08-08 10:32:44
This is Hugh Kerr’s response to Cecile McLorin... The post A critic walks out at Edinburgh Festival appeared first on Slippedisc.
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2023-07-02 09:02:52
By Hugh Kerr of Edinburgh Music Review: After... The post Review: Lise Davidsen lights up old Covent Garden Don appeared first on Slippedisc.
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