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2020-11-17 19:56:16
Economic Impact: A Quick and Dirty Critique
Teaching arts policy this fall, I needed a two-page briefing to warn my students off using economic impact studies as an arts advocacy tool. Here’s the result. – Michael Rushton
2020-09-02 12:43:25
A distinct voice: a new disc from Resonus explores Florent Schmitt's Mélodies, a wide-ranging survey of song by an under-rated composer
Florent Schmitt Mélodies; Sybille Diethelm, Annina Haug, Nino Aurelio Gmünder, René Perler, Fabienne Romer, Edward Rushton; Resonus Classics Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 28 August 2020 Star rating: 4.5 (★★★★½) Spanning over half a century, a survey of the songs of Florent Schmitt reveals a fascinating side to this still under-rated composer Florent Schmitt is an intriguing figure, a lesser-known 20th century French composer whose work is not entirely unknown but who still does not have a strongly defined profile. Ever since the 1970s, when performances of his large-scale setting Psaume XLVII began to appear in concert halls and on disc, individual works or groups of works have come to the fore without Schmitt's career being in strong focus, most recently and most intriguingly in 2017 the BBC Symphony Orchestra performed Schmitt's Antoine et Cléopâtre Suites, music from a 1920s production of Shakespeare's play translated by Andre Gide.Now […]
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2020-08-28 22:05:15
Wise replaces James Rushton
Wise Music Group, the leading classical publisher, has appointed Wiebke Busch as the new Managing Director, UK Rights Companies. She succeeds the veteran James Rushton, who is retiring after a 40-year career.
2020-07-05 11:31:53
A Life On-Line: Dreaming of the Silver Screen in Montpellier, Weber's Euryanthe in Vienna, Tippett's The Ice Break in Birmingham,
[…] production live in Berlin some time. The Armonico Consort has gone back to live music making behind closed doors, and on Wednesday gave us a fine account of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas at the lovely Court House in Warwick. [YouTube] Elsewhere counter-tenor Clint van der Linde recorded Tallis' anthem If ye Love me, singing all four parts including tenor and bass [YouTube] and on Digital Lieder Salon baritone Simon Wallfisch and pianist Edward Rushton dived deep into the song repertoire [Facebook]. The Irish singer Catriona O'Leary (most recently featured on Anakronos' The Red Book of Ossory, see my review) has been exploring the unaccompanied repertoire on her YouTube channel, and in each video she is costumed too; the most recent featured three traditional English and Irish songs [YouTube] Mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston is looking for people to sponsor a song as part of her Isolation Songbook project […]
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