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2019-12-15 16:10:33
On Bethlehem Down: Chamber Choir of London & Dominic Ellis-Peckham at St George's Church, Bloomsbury
[…] singers was enough to weaken the heart of the grumpiest of critics. Bethlehem Down at St George's Church, Bloomsbury on Friday 13 December 2019 featured music by Cecilia McDowall, Richard Allain, Kerry Andrew, Jonathan Rathbone, Adrian Peacock, Peter Wishart, Judith Weir, Bob Chilcott, Toby Young, Sally Beamish, John Rutter, Sir William Walton, Imogen Holst and Herbert Howells, as well as arrangements by Sir David Willcocks, Andrew Carter, Henry Walford Davies, Charles Wood and Wolfgang Lindner. The concert was billed as being by candlelight and so lights were low and there was a stylish arrangement of candles on the floor. The singers generally performed in a single arc or two lines, but for some items they surrounded the audience in a single arc, and in others they made full use of the many different spaces of the church.We started with Cecilia McDowall's Now may we singen, with a big […]
2019-05-29 19:05:00
To reach the source you must go against the flow
Earlier this year a post here presented a fallible listing of classical composers with Buddhist tendencies, a listing to which Alex Ross offered several additions. But both of us, inexcusably, overlooked Laurie Anderson; she is a longtime student of the Tibetan Buddhist teacher Mingyur Rinpoche and won a Grammy this year for her collaboration with the Kronos Quartet Landfall. Laurie Anderson is the subject of an excellent new profile in the online Buddhist magazine Tricycle in which she explains "I follow some of [Mingyur Rinpoche's] teaching when I’m writing now, and it’s a new way for me to think about music. So music and meditation are coming closer and closer". That is Laurie Anderson photographed above at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, and her genre-crossing work encompasses performance, film, music, installation, writing, photography, and sculpture - video sample here. In 1956 the American psychologist Robert M. Lindner wrote an influential book titled Must […]
2018-09-18 07:35:51
Riveting and remarkable: Anna Prohaska & Eric Schneider in An der Front:
Anna Prohaska (Photo © Holger Hage / DG) An der Front (Behind the lines; Anna Prohaska, Eric Schneider; Herbst Gold at Schloss Esterházy Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 13 September 2018 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) A collage of songs presenting the ordinary man and woman's view of war creates a vividly engaging eveningHerbst Gold is a music festival which takes place in September (this year 6 to 18 September) in Schloss Esterházy in Eisenstadt in Austria. The schloss is, of course, best known as the work place of the composer Joseph Haydn who worked for the Princes Esterházyfor over 40 years. Empiresaal at Schloss Esterházy, Eisenstadt (Photo Lennard Lindner) The theme of this year's festival was Krieg und Frieden (War and Peace) and as part of this theme soprano Anna Prohaska and pianist Eric Schneider brought their programme An der Front (Behind the Lines) […]
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