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2022-01-17 19:40:49
Edwin “Eddie” Basinski had been the second-oldest former Major League Baseball player. He passed away at a care facility in Gladstone, Oregon, where he had been residing for the past seven years. Born in 1922 in Buffalo, New York, into a working-class Polish-American family, Basinski was encouraged by his mother, who was a pianist, to […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2021-06-09 07:47:58
Hooray for summer! Hooray for BBC Proms! Hooray for Royal Albert Hall! Tony Cooper reports on this year’s musical extravaganza
[…] Augusta Read Thomas, Britta Byström, Grace-Evangeline Mason and Gity Razaz. All of the composers have taken the Hall’s original name The Royal Albert Hall of Arts and Sciences as inspiration for their respective works. Described as ‘the voice of Jupiter’, the Hall’s mighty organ - one of the largest in the world - was designed and built by Henry Willis at a cost of approximately £8000 and built in just 14 months. Prime Minister, William Gladstone, when visiting Willis’s Rotunda Organ Works in Camden Town, commented on its brilliant tone. The organ - whose wind system was originally powered by two steam-engines - was first heard at the Hall’s grand opening ceremony on 29th March 1871. A staggering total of 9999.pipes measuring 2 feet 6 inches in diameter and 42 feet high makes up the organ and these pipes weigh almost one tonne while the organ itself - measuring 70 […]
2021-05-01 04:58:00
Classical Music News of the Week, May 1, 2021
[…] to inspire music makers across genres, from techno and electronica to rock and roll. In the words of The Guardian, “There’s just a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history and Steve Reich in one of them.”Reich will be joined in conversation with Brooklyn-based painter Amy Sillman, who had two triumphal exhibitions in New York last year -- a show of her own work at Barbara Gladstone Gallery and one she curated for the reopening of The Museum of Modern Art. Coincidentally, she is also Steve Reich’s cousin.Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 7:30pm EDTStreaming at https://live.bangonacan.org/--Maggie Stapleton, Jensen ArtistsPARMA Live StageOn Thursday, May 6th at 7:00 pm EDT, composer and pianist David Haney and multi instrumentalist Dave Storrs will present a unique classical experience featuring improvisations on famous works by Ravel, Stravinsky, among others.Learn more about the event here:https://www.parmarecordings.com/event/david-haney-live-stream-05-06-21/On Friday, May […]
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