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LSO/Rattle - Jolas and Messiaen, 15 June 2023
Barbican HallBetsy Jolas: Ces belles années Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie Faustine de Monès (soprano)Peter Donohoe (piano)Cynthia Millar (ondes Martenot)London Symphony OrchestraSir Simon Rattle (conductor)Images: Mark Allan Simon Rattle’s tenure as Music Director of the LSO has been cruelly cut short by English nationalism. The United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union, together with Theresa May’s spiteful quashing of a new concert hall project on the grounds that it had been supported by her political enemy George Osborne, ultimately proved too much. And who can blame him, with a family in Berlin? There is only so much fighting one can do. If a great city such as Munich made me an offer, I should be off like a shot. Not that London in general or the LSO in particular has seen the last of Sir Simon; he will return as Conductor Emeritus, not least to continue the Janáček opera series whose Katya Kabanova […]
2022-03-22 07:00:18
The Art Of The Pitch
In April 2021, I had the pleasure of being a guest speaker for Dr. Michael W. Millar’s Nonprofit Music course at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona). As a required course for Cal Poly Pomona’s music industry majors, the students cover a broad range of topics and my session focused on one of the more interactive sessions in the form of listening to and refining elevator pitches. Specifically, pitches ...
2021-03-04 20:20:00
Anglais - Interview with Lotte de Beer, stage director of Aida at the Opéra national de Paris
[…] to have a more diverse approach, from someone who could see the world from the other side. We have collaborated with great artist Virginia Chihota – from Zimbabwe, but she lives in Ethiopia – whose work is about the marginalized black female body. It’s beautifully harsh and tender how she portrays strength and frustration. She intensively listened to the piece and made sketches that were then turned into puppets by puppet designer and director Mervyn Millar from Significant Object company. So, we merged Virginia’s painting style and Mervyn’s puppetry against the 19th-century tableau vivant. The puppeteers are visible next to the singers to bring the object to life together. It’s a very collective approach which immediately confronts a generous culture against an individualistic culture. And, of course, the object is enlivened but can also be turned back into an object. That has something to do with objectifying people like we […]
2020-11-28 19:51:17
The fellows are Vera Gjaja (15), Alisha Heng (17), Marina Zurita McKinnon (16), Jordan Millar (14), Zola Saadi-Klein (17) and Azalea Twining (14). During the 2020-21 season, the six aspiring teen composers will be mentored by established composers: Valerie Coleman, Kristin Kuster, Tamar Muskal, Gity Razaz, Ellen Reid and Alex Temple. This award-winning mentorship program, […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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