William Shakespeare Hays News
American writer (1837-1907)
- United States of America
- poet, lyricist, songwriter, writer
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2023-10-06 13:00:58
New Releases (October 2023)
This section is an advertising supplement. To announce here, contact [email protected]. Etiquette Maureen Batt and Erin Bardua, soprano; Lucy Hayes Davis, mezzo-soprano; Tara Scott, piano; Brad Reid, clarinet Leaf Music, September 2023 Etiquette by composer Monica Pearce, with libretto by John Terauds, offers a glimpse of 1920s icons by diving into the lives of Dorothy [...]
2023-09-02 00:54:00
A Canon for Kim
I don't post personal stuff too much here on the blog. Early on, I posted about the birth of my third child, a son who's now mowing down the Elgar Cello Concerto, so that was some time ago. But today happens to be the birthday of a very special person, my sister-in-law Kim. When she married my older brother almost forty years ago, she became part of my own large, tight-knit family - my fifth sister, as it were - and she's been a role model in countless ways.She was perhaps the first piano major I really knew, some years ahead of my college days, and she also preceded me as a pianist-turned-organist (although she took real lessons!), a church choir director (again, she had legit training), and piano teacher. She also has done all sorts of things I could never imagine, including designing her own house and significantly re-designing another, […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-08-30 21:19:28
Machover’s VALIS This Way Comes
Tod Machover’s first opera, VALIS, garnered rave reviews at its 1987 Paris Premiere. The CD — still available on Bridge Records — earned a “Best of the Year” from The New York Times. Thirty years later, a brand-new Jay Scheib production, starring Davóne Tines and Anaïs Reno, debuts at the MIT Theater Arts Performance Space (345 Vassar Street, Cambridge) on September 8th and 9th at 7:30 pm and on the 10th, at 3:00 pm. MIT Theater Arts Performance Space, 345 Vassar Street, Free tickets are HERE. For more on the production click HERE. “Based on the novel of the same name by Philip K. Dick, VALIS is perhaps even more relevant today—in a world coming to grips with “deep fakes” and the rapid development of AI technology—than when it was first presented. It tells the story of Horselover Fat—the author’s alter ego—who has a devastating-yet-enlightening “pink light” experience. Fat explores the blurred […]
2023-08-30 04:00:00
English 18th-Century Keyboard Concertos (Paul Nicholson, The Parley of Instruments Baroque Orchestra)
Georg Frideric Handel (1685-1758Chaconne in G minor (Original Version)Organ Concerto Movement in D minorThomas Roseingrave (1688-1766)Organ Concerto in D majorThomas Chilcot (ca. 1700-1766)Concerto in A major, Op. 2 No. 2James Nares (1715-1783)Concert (Sonata) in G major, Op. 2Philip Hayes (1738-1797)Piano Concerto No. 4 in A major James Hook (1746-1827)[Flac & Scans] Piano Concerto in D major, Op 1 No. 5 Paul Nicholson, The Parley of Instruments Baroque Orchestra (Period Instruments) Hyperion CDA66700 (1994)
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