William Thomas Best News
English organist (1826-1897)
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- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- musician, organist, composer
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2021-06-09 07:47:58
Hooray for summer! Hooray for BBC Proms! Hooray for Royal Albert Hall! Tony Cooper reports on this year’s musical extravaganza
[…] measuring 2 feet 6 inches in diameter and 42 feet high makes up the organ and these pipes weigh almost one tonne while the organ itself - measuring 70 feet high and 65 feet wide – weigh in at 150 tonnes. If laid end to end, the pipes - the smallest one, incidentally, is as wide as a drinking straw - would span approximately nine miles. The first-ever recital fell to the English organist, William Thomas Best, on 18 July 1871 but over the years it has been played by such notable composers and organists as Anton Bruckner, Charles-Marie Widor, Camille Saint-Saens, George Thalben-Ball, Dr Stephen Cleobury and Dame Gillian Weir and, of course, by a host of contemporary artists including Nitin Sawhney, Eels and McFly. Sir Henry Wood with Vaughan Williams (top middle) and the sixteen singers who premiered the Serenade to Music in 1938 […]
2018-09-10 09:21:14
BREMF 2018 - Europe: 700 years of music from 17 European countries
The Brighton Early Music Festival (BREMF) is going topical this year. Never really un-topical, previous festivals have explored our roots, our relationship to the earth including climate change, this year the festival is exploring the theme of Europe. Running from 26 October to 11 November 2018 in venues in and around Brighton, the festival is bringing 700 years of music from 17 European countries to Brighton, exploring Britain’s long and often tempestuous relationship with the rest of the European continent from medieval times onwards.One highlight is the festival's staging of a double bill of Baroque operas at The Old Market in Hove, where director Thomas Guthrie will be comparing and contrasting Monteverdi's Ballo delle ingrate with one of the first operas in English, Blow's Venus and Adonis. The productions will involve some of the best young vocal talent, as well as street dance choreographed by J P Omari.Nurturing young talent is […]
2017-02-17 16:51:52
Occult following
My first live Norma was in the early 80’s at the Met, during the spring run of Renata Scotto’s ill-fated turn at the role. It was a Tuesday night, if I recall, prior to the Saturday matinee that Scotto cancelled and Adelaide Negri took over. Scotto’s musicianship was her usual impressive standard, but the voice simply wouldn’t do what that great artist wanted it to do. Afterwards, I fell madly in love with the live 1955 La Scala recording, with Callas in fiery form and a great supporting cast and an audience in an absolute frenzy. So I was extremely curious, maybe even wary, of attending Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Norma last Monday night, having heard some reports that Sondra Radvanovsky had some difficulties in her opening night performance in the title role. I need not have worried. Radvanovsky delivered a vocal and histrionic performance that should be the […]
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