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All the conducting master class
2024-03-27 04:08:00
Overview The 2024 Mason Summer Conducting Symposium provides continuing professional development opportunities for conductors and educators of all levels (K-12 through professional) focused on developing gestural vocabulary and ensemble leadership. Large group masterclasses and individualized feedback will allow participants to explore new approaches to score study, movement, and rehearsal techniques. Dr. Soo Han, Director of […]
2024-03-25 18:25:45
SCRUTINY | TSO Under Conductor Ryan Bancroft Sounds Superb In Program Of Shostakovich, Prokofiev & Clyne
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra, with conductor Ryan Bancroft and soloist Isata Kanneh-Mason, deliver superb Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Clyne.
2024-03-21 10:56:00
For young classical audiences the sound is the message
[…] The second step is to create a solution. For several decades in its search for a new younger audience classical music has been trying to solve the wrong problem. Putting the music through a programmatic blender to produce the aural equivalent of baby food is not the solution. New audiences are bass literate; for the younger audience the sound is the message. Sonically chewable music is already in the repertoire - Pléïades, The Rite of Spring, Arcana, and so on. Sometime DJ Mason Bates is mining this mother lode very successfully with his works for orchestra and electronics. An example of how to set the gamma rhyths bouncing is the bass reproduced in the Grammy-nominated San Francisco Symphony's SACD of Bates' Liquid Interface. Classical music must also look beyond existing repertoire to give new younger audiences the sound fix they crave. Digital technologies now make sound-shaping experiments possible. Yet the classical music world throws a hissy fit anytime anyone […]
2024-03-06 17:37:39
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