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2023-10-13 08:16:00
London Oriana Choir celebrates 50 years of music making
London Oriana Choir and Dominic PeckhamLondon Oriana Choir, music director Dominic Peckham, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a season packed with goodies. The choir's first ever rehearsal was on 14 November 1973; it was founded by Leon Lovett, starting life as an evening class under the auspices of the Inner London Education Authority. David Drummond took over as musical director in 1997 and will be returning to conduct the choir as part of the gala concert in March 2024. The current MD, Dominic Ellis-Peckham, joined in 2013.The season launches with Choral Icons at St Paul's Covent Garden on 4 November 2023, a concert in aid of Music for Dementia featuring works by Benjamin Britten, Cecilia McDowall, Sir John Tavener, Sir James MacMillan, Eriks Esenvalds, Felix Mendelssohn, Dobrinka Tabakova and more. Cecilia McDowall, the choir's patron, has written a new commission for them, whilst singer-songwriter Beth Nielsen Chapman will be making a special appearance at […]
2022-02-22 05:00:55
Ben Lovett backed by musicians and tech heavyweights in $50mn round led by Gibson Brands
2021-12-23 06:11:00
By Karl W. NehringSophie Hutchings: By Night; Slow Meadow: Helium Life Jacket; Jon Hopkins: Scene Suspended; Þorkell Sigurbjörnsson; Heyr himna smiður; Jóhann Jóhannsson: A Pile of Dust; Kelly Lee Owens & Sebastian Plano: Find Our Way; Ólafur Arnalds: momentary; Anne Lovett: Infinity; Benjamin Rimmer: In the Shining Blackness; Ola Gjeilo: Still; Stephen Barton: The Universe Within You; Nainita Desai: My Mind is Still; Hildur Guðnadóttir: Ascent; A Winged Victory for the Sullen: Atomos XI; Luke Howard: There is a Solitude. Voces8 (Andrea Haines, Eleonore Cockerham, soprano; Katie Jeffries Harris, Barnaby Smith, alto; Blake Morgan, Euan Williamson, tenor; Christopher Moore, Jonathan Pacey, bass). Decca B0034074-02,Voces8 is an English vocal octet originally founded in 2003. They have had numerous personnel changes over the years, but have remained consistent in their overall sound. As you can see from a glance through the listing of selections on their latest offering, they have decided this time around […]
2021-11-30 03:02:00
[…] to know "Not while I'm around." It's as gorgeous, and soaring, and heart-stirring a melody as anything by Rodgers, Loewe, Kern or even Gershwin. But it's also stuck in a rather creepy scene in Sweeney Todd, sung by a character who often has more of a "character" voice and who seems thoroughly unqualified to provide what he's so eloquently professing to offer. As if that weren't enough, there's some really unsettling accompanimental material when Mrs. Lovett takes a verse. This song can function as a relatively sweet lullaby - if you don't know too much about it (and if you don't mind a big emphasis on "Demons"), but Sondheim could certainly have saved it for a more traditionally comforting context and gotten more heartwarming mileage out of it. I'm not sure he wrote a more beautiful song, and though its beauty works beautifully in the scene, one couldn't blame him […]
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