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British composer (1927-1997)
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2024-03-14 16:30:24
Staatskapelle Halle/Bollon(Naxos)Four harps, a wind machine and a heckelphone feature on this little known score for an abandoned Nijinsky ballet. Ballet music is not something
2020-01-27 11:37:00
Where have all the random mutations gone?
Very refreshing to see Sir Andrew Davis leveraging the Michael Tippett link in the Chicago Symphony's Beethoven celebration this week. (Classical trivia question: has the Chicago orchestra's music director Riccardo Muti ever conducted Tippett?) Of course any Tippett in Chicago is good news. But it is, literally, little Tippett - the Little Music for String Orchestra (10 minutes) and Praeludium for Brass, Bells and Percussion (6 minutes). The website of Tippett's publisher Schott lists no forthcoming performances of his meaty Third Symphony, which quotes the opening of Beethoven's Ninth, or of his Piano Concerto which is influenced by Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto. Those Tippett works are important random mutations of Beethoven's DNA; as are, for instance, Wilfred Josephs' Variations on a Theme of Beethoven, and Uri Caine's orchestrated Diabelli Variations. Martine Batchelor teaches a secular strand of Buddhist practice with her husband Stephen. In her book 'Let Go: A Buddhist Guide […]
2018-01-10 02:25:00
The Three Tenors, Dominic McGorian, Shane Morgan and Derek Moloney performing at St. Josephs Church Mountmellick on Sunday night. Photo Denis Byrne A wonderful evening of soaring voices was held in St Joseph's Catholic Church in Mountmellick on Sunday December 17. The concert by the Three Tenors, was organised by the parish in aid of the Parish Debt Fund, and many traditional opera favourites like Nessun Dorma rang through the church, enjoyed by an appreciative audience.
2017-12-27 18:43:45
The Three Tenors, Dominic McGorian, Shane Morgan and Derek Moloney performing at St. Josephs Church Mountmellick on Sunday night. Photo Denis Byrne A wonderful evening of soaring voices was held in St Joseph's Catholic Church in Mountmellick on Sunday December 17. The concert by the Three Tenors, was organised by the parish in aid of the Parish Debt Fund, and many traditional opera favourites like Nessun Dorma rang through the church, enjoyed by an appreciative audience.
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