Fernande Decruck News
French composer (1896-1954)
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- composer, pianist, music teacher
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2022-02-26 05:12:00
[…] International Women’s DayThe Chelsea Symphony celebrates International Women’s Day on March 11 and 12, 2022 by featuring women and non-binary musicians in the organization's community.The bassoon takes center stage each night with soloist Melissa Kritzer presenting the World Premiere of Scott Switzer’s Meditations and Reflections (3/11 only) which is based on compositions by the medieval polymath Hildegard of Bingen, and soloist Nisreen Nor performs Miguel del Aguila’s Malambo (3/12 only). Both concerts are completed with Fernande Breilh Decruck's Partita for Strings, Brass and Timpani, and Florence Price’s Symphony No. 1.TCS has always championed new works and works by female composers. Fernande Breilh Decruck is a special favorite of The Chelsea Symphony, as she was an early 20th-century French-American composer who lived and worked in the Chelsea neighborhood.“Her Voice”:Friday, March 11 @ 8pm ET and Saturday, March 12 @ 8pm ET.St. Paul's German Lutheran Church, 315 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011.For […]
2019-11-09 06:02:00
Classical Music News of the Week, November 9, 2019
[…] San Francisco Bay Area on December 5–8. For complete information, visit https://philharmonia.org/2019-2020-season/handels-judas-maccabaeus/ --Stephanie Li, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & ChoraleChelsea Symphony's Annual Holiday Concert The Chelsea Symphony's Holiday Concert at 8pm on December 6th, 2019, features the orchestra's annual performance of Aaron Dai's "The Night Before Christmas," narrated by actor and comedian Mario Cantone, best known for his role as Anthony on Sex and the City. Also on the concert is the NYC premiere of Fernande Breilh-Decruck's Les clochers de Vienne: Suite de Valses, a work first published in 1935 and is unique in its pioneering inclusion of the vibraphone, an instrument that only became widely available in the previous decade. The orchestra will also perform Arturo Márquez's Danzón No. 2. Written in 1994, Danzón No. 2 is one of the most widely-known works from the Mexican contemporary classical canon, and was featured in the Amazon original series "Mozart in the […]
2019-03-22 16:40:24
The French 20th century saxophone: Tableaux de Provence from Dominic Childs & Simon Callaghan
Debussy, Decruck, Maurice, Borne Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 22 March 2019 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) A recital which highlights the French love affair with the saxophone in the 20th centuryThe French composers of the late 19th and 20th centuries seem to have had an affinity with the saxophone. On this new disc from saxophonist Dominic Childs and pianist Simon Callaghan on Resonus Classics we have works by Debussy, Fernande Decruck, Paule Maurice and Francois Borne. Quite how much of Debussy's Rhapsodie for saxophone and piano is by Debussy is anyone's guess. It was commissioned by the redoubtable Elise Hall, an American who took to the saxophone and commissioned composers accordingly. Debussy worked on his Rhapsodie for eight years and never really finished it, when he died he apparently left an orchestral sketch, and it was the composer Jean Roger-Ducasse who tidied things up. The version performed […]
2019-02-23 06:27:00
Classical Music News of the Week, February 23, 2019
[…] and exceptional keyboardist in Florence, Naples, Venice, and Rome, where he created The Triumph of Time and Disenchantment. Friday, April 12, 2019, 7:30 pm First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple 77 W Washington Street Chicago, IL 60602 Saturday, April 13, 2019, 7:30 pm Galvin Recital Hall 70 Arts Circle Drive Evanston, IL 60208 Tickets can be purchased in advance online at thirdcoastbaroque.org ($10-50) or at the door ($10-60). --Nathan J. Silverman Co. PRRare Breilh-Decruck Work Performed The Chelsea Symphony (TCS), continues its 2018-2019 season reflecting on social action with a chamber concert series featuring two pieces written during world wars, including a rarely heard work for voice and orchestra by French and erstwhile New Yorker, Fernande Breilh-Decruck. French composer Fernande Breilh-Decruck's Cinq poèmes chrétiens (Five Christian Pieces) for voice and orchestra based on text by French poets was written and performed in 1944 occupied France while the composer […]
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