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2022-01-19 00:41:28
[…] pianist, Elizabeth G. Hill. The opening day concludes with a name synonymous with Charleston and the arts, Gian Carlo Menotti, and his Trio for Clarinet, Piano and Violin. Additional featured highlights include Toshiro Mayuzumi’s Concerto for Xylophone & Piano, Jesse Montgomery’s Strum, and Florence B. Price’s Quintet in A Minor for Piano and Strings. The Festival will welcome weekend patrons to two virtuosi chamber orchestra presentations featuring Afro-Cuban composer Jose White Lafitte’s La Bella Cubana, Vivaldi’s Concerto for 2 Trumpets, Arensky’s Variation on a Theme by Tchaikovsky, Chevalier de Saint Georges’ Violin Concerto in A Major, Robert Aldridge’s Tango for Gabriela, Piazzolla’s Primavera Porteño, with a finale performance of Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s String Quartet No. 1, Calvary, mvmt III. Rondo: Allegro Vivace, a composition based on the African-American spiritual Calvary. “Regaining artistic traction this past fall within an environment safe for our musicians and […]
2021-09-03 00:58:00
MPNnow.com: Violinist Annelle Kazumi Gregory will perform José White Lafitte's “Violin Concerto” 7:30 p.m. at Smith Opera House, Geneva, NY
Annelle Kazumi Gregory Daily Messenger [Geneva, New York] Symphoria coming to Geneva on Sept. 24 COURTESY OF GENEVA CONCERTS Geneva Concerts will present Symphoria, the orchestra of central New York, at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 24 at the Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca St., Geneva. Violinist Annelle Kazumi Gregory will perform José White Lafitte's “Violin Concerto” in a program that ends with Beethoven's Symphony No. 5. ***
2021-09-02 07:47:21
Re-visiting the American Dream: Emma Jude Harris' production of Amy Beach's only opera Cabildo
[…] am not clear quite why Beach turned to opera so relatively late in her career, and the work was not performed in her lifetime and had to wait until 1947 before its premiere and its first fully professional performance was not until 1995, with the first UK performance not until 2019.In the opera, Beach makes use of folk-song and Creole tunes, and the libretto by Nan Bagby Smith tells the story of the pirate Pierre Lafitte during the War of 1812, between the USA and Great Britain, when Britain has New Orleans under siege. The Cabildo was the seat of Spanish colonial city hall of New Orleans, and in 1812 was used by the Louisiana territorial superior court. American director, Emma Jude Harris directed Beach's Cabildo at Grimeborn in 2019, the work's UK premiere, and now the production is transferring to Wilton's Music Hall, 7-11 September 2021, with Peter Martin, Helen Stanley, […]
2021-04-12 23:53:00
SFCV.org: "Black Classical Music History in One Convenient Box": CBS Black Composers Series Reissued by Sony on 10 CDs
[…] material. José Mauricio Nunes Garcia’s Requiem Mass is good enough to substitute for Mozart’s well-trodden Requiem — try a blindfold listening test on people and see who they think wrote it — as Walker’s increasingly-played Lyric for Strings could stand in for Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings. Roque Cordero wrote his Violin Concerto for Allen, who revels in its abstract, twisting, turning lines, while on the other hand, José White Lafitte’s Violin Concerto is a virtuoso piece straight out of the middle of the 19th century, done to a spectacular turn by Rosand. A greatly underrated violinist with an unshakable dark-colored tone, Rosand, who was white and Jewish, has written that this was the only record that he was allowed to make for Columbia mainly because more famous violinists on the label didn’t want to learn the Concerto due to […]