Anthony Payne News
British composer (1936-2021)
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- United Kingdom
- composer, musicologist
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2024-03-04 07:33:00
Musical strengths, visual confusion & two Rakes: English Touring Opera's new production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress
[…] 2024, with Jack Sheen conducting. Frederick Jones was singing Tom Rakewell, but before the performance it was announced that Jones had recently returned after illness, and after the Act One the role was sung from the side of the stage by Brenton Spiteri (who is playing Edmondo in ETO's production of Puccini's Manon). Nazan Fikret was Anne Trulove, Jerome Knox was Nick Shadow, Trevor Eliot Bowes was Father Trulove, Lauren Young was Baba, Amy J Payne was Mother Goose and Robin Bailey was Sellem. Designs were by April Dalton, lighting by Ben Ormerod and movement by Alex Gotch.Is Stravinsky's opera (his first full-length opera) a pastiche, something new or simply Stravinsky? Much is often made of the self-consciously classical structure that Stravinsky used for the opera, but ETO's programme book quotes conductor Mark Wigglesworth as saying "it isn't neo-anything: it's pure Stravinsky, and Russian Stravinsky, the same person who wrote […]
2024-02-04 01:31:00
Jukka-Pekka Saraste at San Francisco Symphony
[…] been an intimate because eventually she started rifling through his pockets. Eventually, she found the phone and silenced it, but only after the scherzo had ended and the last movement had begun. This episode was unnerving and unpleasant, because of the interruption and because of its length. There's a reason that SFS has polite announcements before every concert asking audience members to silence all electronic devices. (For the last two weeks, flutist and principal piccolo Cathy Payne has been the orchestra member whose recorded announcement is used.)I do not care how you dress. I support applause between movements. I hope that you won't wear perfume. And I deeply wish that you would silence your phone/pager/other potentially noisy electronic device before the concert starts and at the end of intermission, if you've turned it back on.=-=
2023-10-20 08:39:00
Music Night and Day: Handel Hendrix House in the evening, Daylight Music in Leytonstone
Daylight Music at St John's LeytonstoneThe Handel Hendrix House opens for special night time viewings, presenting both music by Handel and Hendrix in their own contexts, whilst Arctic Circle's Daylight Music is back with a run of daytime concerts presenting an eclectic mix of contemporary music Arctic Circle's Daylight Music returns for a limited edition run this Autumn at St John’s Leytonstone, E11 1HH with daytime concerts beginning Saturday 21 October. The opening event features composer David Julyan, best known for his work with cinema auteur Christopher Nolan, British-Nigerian composer, music producer and songwriter Tony Njoku, Liverpool born guitarist (and founder of the dream pop outfit Engineers) Mark Peters, and Angèle David-Guillou playing the St John's organ. Future events will feature The Sensory Illusions & Vulliamy Murray Duo, and The NJE with Davey Payne, Yova + Rachel Horton-Kitchlew. Full details from Daylight Music website.For night time fun, Handel Hendrix House, the Mayfair […]
2023-10-02 06:30:00
Modernising Monteverdi: The Coronation of Poppea from English Touring Opera in a radical new version by Yshani Perinpanayagam
Monteverdi: The Coronation of Poppea - Keith Pun (Love), Jessica Cale(Poppea), Amy J Payne (Arnalta) - English Touring Opera (Photo: Richard Hubert Smith)Monteverdi: The Coronation of Poppea, arranged Yshani Perinpanayagam; Jessica Cale, Martha Jones, Kezia Bienek, Trevor Eliot Bowes, Feargal Mostyn-Williams, Elizabeth Karani, Amy J Payne, director Robin Norton-Hale, conductor Yshani Perinpanayagam; English Touring Opera at the Hackney EmpireReviewed 30 September 2023Robin Norton-Hale opens her tenure at ETO with an ambitious and stylish production of Monteverdi's masterpiece in a radical new version that showcases some fine individual performances.English Touring Opera's Autumn 2023 season opened at the Hackney Empire on Saturday 30 September 2023. This was the first season under new General Director, Robin Norton-Hale, and the opening production of Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea was directed by Norton-Hale and so, much anticipated. Conducted by Yshani Perinpanayagam with Jessica Cale as Poppea, Kezia Bienek as Ottavia, Feargal Mostyn-Williams as Otton, Martha Jones as […]
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