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British opera singer
- bass-baritone
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- opera singer, music teacher
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2020-05-18 07:33:04
In search of Bach and Handel, and Mendelssohn too: Baroque music aficionado, Tony Cooper, travels to Leipzig and Halle
St Thomas’ Church, Leipzig (Photo: S-kay - Own work, Public Domain) I’m strolling through the lovely and welcoming city of Leipzig and for some reason or other I feel there’s a touch of magic in the air! Maybe it’s because I’m lost in the mists of time in the company of that great German baroque composer, Johann Sebastian Bach. Who knows! Statue of Bach, St Thomas' Church, LeipzigPhoto Eric Pancer Leipzig, however, enjoys a rich musical tapestry inasmuch as Richard Wagner was born here, Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn died here and JS Bach spent the best part of three decades here employed as Kapellmeister at St Thomas’ Church from 1723 until his death in 1750. Robert Schumann also lived here, Georg Philipp Telemann worked here and just up the road in Halle, George Frideric Handel was born. That’s just for starters! And Leipzig’s […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2019-09-24 19:02:20
Theatre Ticket Prices Just Go Higher And Higher. Time Was, Folks Rioted Over That.
Back in 1809, the newly renovated Theatre at Covent Garden in London raised the cost of the cheapest tickets by half a Shilling, and people fought in the streets over this for three months. (Twenty people died.) In 2019, prices have, in some cases, more than doubled in the past ten years as most people’s […]
2018-09-04 08:22:29
My Myra at the Bishopsgate Institute
The Bishopsgate Institute is celebrating the return of its Piano-in-Residence Myra, the restored 1927 Steinway Model D Grand piano which was once owned by Dame Myra Hess, with a new concert series My Myra. To open the series, on Saturday 8 September 2018, Martin Segerstråle (artistic director of the series) presents a programme of chamber-music by female composers including some of Dame Myra Hess's repertoire. There will be music by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel and Clara Schumann along with Dame Myra Hess's most famous piece, her transcription of Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring.The My Myra series is curated by individual musicians inspired by their own experience of Myra, and the concerts take place in the institute's stunning 120-year-old Great Hall. The second event in the series, Admission: One Shilling (17 November), focuses on Dame Myra Hess's famous wartime National Gallery concerts with Dame Patricia Routledge and pianist Piers Lane.Dame Myra Hess’s preferred […]
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2018-07-27 09:41:20
Ailing music magazines are bought out
The Mark Allen Group, which bought Gramophone for a proverbial Shilling in 2013, has today taken over all the assets of the Rhinegold stable. These include such titles as Classical Music magazine, Opera Now, Music Teacher and International Piano. Let’s see if they can kick some life into a suffering print-mag field. The news has […]
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