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2023-11-15 09:19:00
From sound art in Middlesbrough & 2000 children in the Royal Albert Hall to Brett Dean's Cello Concerto & Brian Irvine's operas: The Ivors Classical Awards celebrating today's classical music
The Ivors Classical Awards - Abel Selaocoe, Dobrinka Tabakova (winner of Best Community & Participation) (Photo: Hogan Media - Shutterstock)The Ivors Classical AwardsBFI Southbank14 November 2023Video clips of West Sussex Youth Orchestra, Youth Choir and Young Voices performing Ned Bigham's Together and apart at Chichester Cathedral, the choir and orchestra of Mount St. Mary's College, Sheffield performing Harry Castle's Heroes, the Royal Albert Hall filled with children with the Armonico Consort all performing Toby Young's It takes a city and the reaction of passers by as Olivia Louvel's sound art piece, LOL, was broadcast across the public address system of Middlesbrough's CCTV surveillance network! Just a few of the works on celebrate at this year's Ivors Classical Awards ceremony, which took place at the BFI Southbank on 14 November 2023.The arts, and classical music in particular, might be under threat from budget cuts and the cost of living crisis, but as […]
2020-11-16 14:29:42
Hidemith at 125_2020
This Week in Classical Music: November 16, 2020. Hindemith at 125. Paul Hindemith was born on November 16th of 1895 in Hanau, near Frankfurt. We’ll pick up where we left off four years ago when we wrote about his life until about 1923. He was then living in Frankfurt, already well known both as a composer and a violist (he organized the Amar Quartet where he played the viola), performing in Salzburg and working at the new music Donaueschingen Festival. (A brief note about the festival: it was organized in 1921, it’s the oldest and probably the most prestigious festival of contemporary music in existence, and Hindemith’s music was played there during its first season). Hindemith also got married to an actress and singer named Gertrud Rottenberg; Gertrud came from a prominent Frankfurt family (her grandfather was the mayor of Frankfurt) and was partly Jewish, which affected Hindemith’s life later […]
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2020-10-13 09:24:33
New music fest is cancelled at two days’ notice
The Donaueschinger Musiktage, the oldest and best showcase for contemporary music, was scrapped last night due to Covid-19. It was due to take place from October 15 to 18. ‘In view of the rapid development of the past few days, we had no other choice, said artistic director, Björn Gottstein. ‘It’s frustrating and incredibly painful.’ […]
2018-09-06 08:00:00
You can't hold music still
That photo shows Brian Eno's installation 77 Million Paintings at the Sydney Opera House in 2009. In his essay for the 6 CD box Music for Installations Eno muses on the ephemeral nature of his installation as follows:That was interesting for me, getting into the frame of mind where I felt I didn't have to hold on to everything, that I could just enjoy it and let it pass into history. For somebody whose career had, thus far anyway, been built around capturing ephemeral things and making them permanent - recording - this was a big conceptual shift. I accepted that it was going to keep changing and it was going to keep surprising me, and that no moment of it was more important than any other. And that was also what I found with the music. You just have to enjoy it as it passes away into memory. […]