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Australian musician (1926-2011)
- piano
- opera
- Australia
- composer, pianist, school teacher, music teacher
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2024-02-11 19:52:00
Rutgers Symphony Orchestra. Ching-Chun Lai, conductor; Diana Kim, violin. February 10, 2024.
Nicholas Music Center, Mason Gross PAC, New Brunswick, NJ. Open seating ($12.50).There is supposedly "no video recording or photography" inside the music center, at all times. I have no idea how strictly the policy is enforced. I managed to snap this shot of Kim and Lai leaving the stage.Programsubito con forza (2020 by Unsuk Chin (b. 1961).Symphony No. 2, H. 295 (1943) by Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959).Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 (1806) by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827).After attending one of their events, I get bombarded with Rutgers advertisements. Not that there is anything wrong with it (except the tremendous waste of paper and other resources), and that's how I found out about tonight's performance by the RSO, with Beethoven's violin concerto on the program. At a cost of $10 (for seniors, plus handling fee), nothing can possibly go wrong.And nothing did. Indeed I loved the Beethoven violin concerto. Kim did […]
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2023-11-03 09:42:37
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2023-11-01 07:38:00
[…] Victora Vita Poleva, Michael McGlynn, Ola Gjeilo, Anna Kuzina-Rozhdestvenskaya, Sarah McLachlan, and Marta Keen, including six tracks commissioned especially for this album.The highlight of the album is, as might be expected, the ensemble's performance of Byrd's mass – emotional when needed, but maintaining a regular and calm unfolding of clear counterpoint, soaring melismas and a certain relentlessness that keeps the flow of the musical lines through every cadence without breaking the restless forward drive of Byrd's writing. Gross theatricalities are avoided pretty much throughout, and the feeling is that these are five singers who are truly in service to the musicianship of the composer. Yes, they do reflect the meaning of the text, and create a variety of moods and movements, but always in exquisite good taste.The new works are carefully selected to sustain the meditative mood through the album, as might be expected with Apollo5's stated aim of creating “...a collection […]
2022-08-09 09:07:00
Prom 30: Gavin Higgins' Concerto Grosso for brass band and orchestra with the Tredegar Band and BBC NOW
Prom 30, Gavin Higgins: Concerto Grosso for brass band and orchestra - The Tredegar Band, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Ryan BancroftBBC Proms (Photo BBC/Mark Allan)Gavin Higgins: Concerto Grosso for brass band and orchestra, Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique; The Tredegar Band, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Ryan Bancroft; BBC Proms at the Royal Albert HallReviewed 8 August 2022 (★★★★½)From Higgins' remarkable use of colour and timbre in his new work for brass band and orchestra to the classical underpinnings of Berlioz' Romantic symphony in a fine prom with Welsh forces.For the BBC National Orchestra of Wales' final BBC Prom at the Royal Albert Hall on Monday 8 August 2022, Ryan Bancroft conducted them in two large-scale works. First came the world premiere of Gavin Higgins' Concerto Grosso for Brass Band and Orchestra when the orchestra was joined by the Tredegar Band, then came Berlioz' Symphonie fantastique.Brass bands have not been a regular feature of […]
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