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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-04-23 21:54:31
A Final Flourish with Cappella Clausura
[…] asked to utilize early music instruments, therefore educating themselves and the audiences about these beautiful old sounds. As a friend of living composers, Amelia has both commissioned and performed 21st -century music written by such luminaries as Elena Ruehr, Hilary Tann, Augusta Thomas Read, Patrician van Ness, Gabriela Lena Frank, Joan Tower, and more. In her constant search for music by women from every century that has gone unheard, she has performed music by Barbara Strozzi, Raffaella Aleotti, Sulpitia Cesis, Rebecca Clarke, Florence Price, and Lili Boulanger. To name a few! In her final year, Amelia has expressed to us that she feels so proud to be able to title each concert by the composers’ names alone: Hilary Tann, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Ethel Smyth, and finally Chiara Cozzolani. It is really gratifying that for Amelia’s final concert we are collaborating with H&H’s educational program, Chorus of Sopranos and Altos. With […]
2024-04-23 20:31:33
PREVIEW | The Works Of Barbara Strozzi & Maddalena Casulana Come Under The Spotlight In Apocryphonia’s Next Concert
Strozz-ulana! the next concert for Toronto's Apocryphonia, spotlights the vocal works of composers Barbara Strozzi and Maddalena Casulana.
2024-03-05 09:40:00
New music for non-traditional inclusive ensembles: RNS Moves & National Open Youth Orchestra in dynamic new pieces
[…] Adoo and the robo-recorder, invented and played by Liza Bec. Werner worked closely with them to integrate the distinctive instruments into the music. Werner's new piece is inspired by city life, evoking the sensation of strolling through a bustling landscape and being drawn to buskers using a mixture of field recordings and solo parts played live by the players. The concert will include more of Werner's pieces, plus Liza Bec’s Space Dinosaur Music and music from Purcell and Barbara Strozzi to Stockhausen and Nina Simone. Full details from The Glasshouse website.Members of the National Open Youth OrchestraThe National Open Youth Orchestra, world’s first disabled-led national youth ensemble, is returning to the Barbican's Milton Court Concert Hall on 21 April 2024 for Feel the Music, a relaxed performance welcoming a diverse audience inclusive of disabled and neuro-divergent concert goers and families to a joyous afternoon of music. Twenty-four of the orchestra's young disabled and non-disabled musicians will perform […]
2024-02-10 12:00:41
The bass-baritone sets sail on a voyage of high drama and superb diction, while the Russian cellist channels the Italian city via Barbara Strozzi and Brian Eno• Never restricting himself to operatic repertoire, the Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel has returned to the studio after a five-year gap with
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