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British cellist and composer
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- composer, music teacher, cellist
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2024-02-28 16:00:26
Former Oasis frontman and The Stone Roses guitarist pair up for a collaborative self-titled album
2023-08-24 06:45:00
The Bayreuth Festival is thrust into a new age, the digital age, by the application of Augmented Reality in a ground-breaking new production of Wagner's Parsifal
[…] productions audiences might as well sit at home and watch Wagner on DVD’. There you have it!Reviewed by Tony cooperConductor: Pablo Heras-Casado Director: Jay Scheib Stage designer: Mimi Lien Lighting designer: Rainer Casper Costume designer: Meentje Nielsen Video/AR designer: Joshua Higgason Dramaturg: Marlene Schleicher Chorus master: Eberhard Friedrich Amfortas: Derek Welton Titurel: Tobias Kehrer Gurnemanz: Georg Zeppenfeld Parsifal: Andreas Schager Klingsor: Jordan Shanahan Kundry: Ekaterina Gubanova First Knight: Siyabonga Maqungo Second Knight: Jens-Erik Aasbø First Squire: Betsy Horne Second Squire: Margaret Plummer Third Squire: Jorge Rodríguez-Norton Fourth Squire: Garrie Davislim Klingsor’s Zaubermädchen: Julia Grüter, Betsy Horne, Evelin Novak, Margaret Plummer, Marie Henriette Reinhold, Camille Schnoor, Alto solo: Marie Henriette Reinhold Never miss out on future posts by following usThe blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee.Elsewhere on this blogRevenge is the name of the Dutchman’s game: Dmitri Tcherniakov’s Holländer at the Bayreuth Festival - […]
2021-07-16 15:00:44
Classic Rock: Yes’ “Shoot High, Aim Low”
Shoot High, Aim Low comes from the 1987 album, Big Generator, by the English progressive rock band, Yes. The song is hazy, hypnotic, and sonically alluring. It drifts over an eternally reassuring rhythmic groove, laid down by Alan White (drums) and Chris Squire (bass), which emerges from the chaotic “white noise” of an orchestra warming up—an obvious homage to The Beatles. Exuberant Spanish guitar riffs punctuate warm, glowing synth tones. Occasionally, seemingly “wayward” harmonies challenge ...
2020-07-13 07:08:10
The Invention of English Opera: the surprising history of opera in 17th century England, part one, from masques to dramatic-opera
Inigo Jones' design for Oberon's Palace from The Masque of Oberon (1611) Considering that the country went through two revolutions, including an interregnum when music was ostensibly banned, there was a surprising amount of music theatre in England in the 17th century, and like other countries artists, performers and aristocrats eagerly experimented music and drama, sometimes creating something which we would recognise as opera, and sometimes coming up with hybrid forms. The vigour and ubiquity of Italian opera in England in the 18th century should not blind us to the importance of the tradition of the 17th century English opera. In this first article we look at how the first operas, and the distinctive English genre of semi-opera, developed out of the masque tradition. The MasqueThe masque tradition developed from the elaborate pageants and courtly shows of ducal Burgundy in the late Middle Ages. Masques were typically […]
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