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2021-04-18 23:16:00
Cynthia Cozette Lee: Black Classical Firsts Honored in April: Day 16 – Sylvia Olden Lee, Acclaimed Vocal Coach, Pianist and Music Educator
[…] September 17, 1943. Mrs. Sylvia Olden Lee and Maestro Everett Lee had two children, the late Everett Lee, III who sadly passed away in 2018 and Dr. Eve Lee and two grandchildren. Sylvia Olden Lee and Everett Lee eventually separated. While in New York, Sylvia Olden Lee studied piano with Victor Wittgenstein and performed in solo recitals. She taught voice interpretation and accompanied voice technique students in the studios of Elisabeth Schumann, Eva Gautier, Konraad Bos, Rosalie Miller, Fritz Lehmann and others. In addition, she prepared singers for the New York City Center and Metropolitan Opera. Also Mrs. Lee coached opera at Tanglewood with Boris Goldovsky. While at Tanglewood, Mrs. Lee was the technical advisor for the world premiere of Britten’s “Peter Grimes.” During this time, Sylvia Olden Lee assisted her husband, Maestro Lee, in preparing concert versions of his opera concerts with his symphony, Cosmopolitan Symphony, a world-class, diverse […]
2021-03-24 10:20:01
Connected Skies: six new works from composer Angela Elizabeth Slater debuting digitally
Composer Angela Elizabeth Slater set herself a challenge last year, to write six new works for solo instrument and voice, each lasting around ten minutes. The resulting pieces, for double bass, cello, flute, accordion, percussion and mezzo soprano are being debuted digitally as part of a series called Connected Skies. Each month from January 2021 to June 2021, Slater is releasing a filmed performance of one of the works, along with a blog about its creation and more. So far we have seen a double bass piece for Maggie Cox, a solo cello piece for Sarah Gait, and an accordion piece for Kamila Olas. To come are a new piece for flute with glissando head piece for Emma Coulthard, a percussion piece for Iris van den Bos, and a piece for mezzo-soprano Kameryn Leoung. Slater did a Ph.D at Nottingham University and was selected as a 2020/21 Tanglewood Composition Fellow. She was […]
2021-02-18 15:21:48
Boston Symphony Orchestra Names First Woman Chief Executive by BY JULIA JACOBS
2019-08-15 05:07:00
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: Operetta Arias (CD review)
Otto Ackermann, Philharmonia Orchestra. EMI 7243 5 66989 2 5.If you are like me, one of the joys of owning a large record collection is rediscovering something you haven't played in years. A friend of mine reminded me of this disc when he played a few excerpts from his own copy on the eve of his departure for Sri Lanka. He was heading off for two years in the Peace Corp, his idea of retirement, and since he could only bring a few CDs along with him, he was trying to decide which couple of dozen to take. Ms. Schwarzkopf headed his list. The recording, from 1957 (released in 1959), remains one of the finest things the German-born Austro-British soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915-2006) ever did, and she recorded a mountain of marvelous discs. She and her record-producer husband, Walter Legge, were meticulous about every detail of a song and a […]
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