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2022-01-05 10:08:48
Choir of Puebla Cathedral (Photo by Gusvel / Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0) Christmas in Puebla; Siglo de Oro, Patrick Allies; Wigmore Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 31 December 2021 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) Bursting with life, the music from 17th century Puebla in Mexico shows how the sacred and secular intertwine in this engagingly delightful programmeThe New Year's Eve gala concert at Wigmore Hall on 31 December 2021 formed a delightful conclusion to this year's concert going. Christmas in Puebla featured Siglo de Oro, artistic director Patrick Allies in music associated with Puebla Cathedral in Mexico, a pilgrimage church in what was then New Spain. The programme centred on Juan Gutierrez de Padilla, his Missa Joseph fili David alongside lighter, more secular-influence works by Padilla and his contemporaries. Allies directed an ensemble that consisted of nine singers and a varied instrumental ensemble of two guitars, baroque harp, bass […]
2021-09-06 13:24:35
The violin was made in 1728 by the then 84-year-old Antonio Stradivari. It is named the “Artot” Stradivarius for once belonging to Alexandre Artot, a Belgian concert violinist who passed away at only 30 years of age. “Awful boarding process today with Delta for flight 5720 from LGA to MCI,” tweeted Christina Bouey, concertmaster […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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ArtsJournal: music
2021-02-03 16:29:00
A Leading Classics Scholar Condemns Classics As A Field
Dan-el Padilla Peralta’s “vision of classics’ complicity in systemic injustice is uncompromising, even by the standards of some of his allies. He has condemned the field as “equal parts vampire and cannibal” — a dangerous force that has been used to murder, enslave and subjugate. “He’s on record as saying that he’s not sure the […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2021-02-02 15:30:38
America’s Leading Black Classics Scholar Says The Field Needs A Complete Overhaul. Is That Even Possible?
Dan-el Padilla Peralta came to the U.S. from the Dominican Republic at age 4 and grew up extremely poor; it was his childhood fascination with ancient Greece and Rome, combined with his academic talents, that got him school scholarships and pulled him out of poverty and into a professorship at Princeton. Today he argues that […]
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