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American opera singer
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- opera singer, performing artist, voice teacher
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2023-12-25 14:44:00
Once upon a time, I wrote my first twenty-first century fugue back in December, 2015. (I do have one ancient twentieth century fugue as well.) I've played this fugue at some point just about every year since, but have never been happy with the original piano recording I made on an out-of-tune piano. So, the other day when I found time on a beautiful Steinway to record my new "O come, all ye faithful" fugue, I did a few takes of Fugue in Royal David's City and definitely improved on the old version. (A better organ version is still on the to-do list.) Just in case you don't know the original tune which famously opens every King's College Lessons and Carols service, here it is. Some of the verses are printed below as well.MMerry Christmas! 1 Once in royal David’s citystood a lowly cattle shed,where a mother laid her babyin a […]
2023-10-26 03:30:00
Rachmaninoff: The Piano Concertos and Paganini Rhapsody (CD Review)
by Ryan RossYuja Wang, piano; Los Angeles Philharmonic; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor. Deutsche Grammophon 486 4759 (2 CDs) It is a strange coincidence that as I have been listening to these Rachmaninoff discs, I just finished reading Samuel Lipman’s Music After Modernism (Basic Books, 1979). This book is a series of essays outlining the author’s thoughts about the Western classical tradition during what he saw as its twilight years. One of his arguments is that the lack of vital new repertoire adopted by performers in any enduring way sees them adding new interpretations of well-established favorites to an ever-growing backlog. One wonders what Lipman would have thought of the explosion of previously unrecorded repertoire and its champions from the 1980s up to the present, with the advent of the compact disc and then streaming. (Since he passed away in 1994, his experience of these developments would have been limited or non-existent.) But given the […]
2023-05-31 23:00:00
Glenn Gould´s commercially released Bach recordings for Columbia.Remastered 2015 using DSD.30 CDs with original LP sleeves and labels.240 page booklet with original liner notes and an essay by Michael Stegemann."I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the music of any one composer during all that time, that composer would almost certainly be Bach." (Glenn Gould)Beauty is momentary in the mindThe fitful tracing of a portal;But in the flesh it is immortal.The body dies; the body's beauty lives.So evenings die, in their green going,A wave, interminably flowing.So gardens die, their Meek breath scentingThe cowl of winter, done repenting.(Peter Quince at he Clavier/ Wallace Stevens)CD 1Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 [1955 Recording]CD 2Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 19Bach: Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D minor, BWV 1052Columbia SymphonyLeonard BernsteinCD 3Partita No. 5 […]
2022-10-14 17:17:06
Blanchett is the maestro offscreen and on, where her conductor composes a coming discord By Tom Meek
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