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2022-03-29 00:15:18
WNET: Friday on PBS: "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" from the Metropolitan Opera premieres April 1 at 9 PM ET (Check local listings)
Walter Russell III and dancers in "Great Performances at the Met: Fire Shut Up in My Bones." Photo courtesy of The Metropolitan Opera. Featuring a libretto by filmmaker Kasi Lemmons and a score by Grammy-winning jazz musician and composer Terence BlanChard, the opera tells the story from Charles M. Blow's memoir. James Robinson and Camille A. Brown co-direct this new staging, with Brown also choreographing, becoming the first Black director to create a mainstage Met production. Baritone Will Liverman stars as Charles alongside soprano Angel Blue as Destiny/Loneliness/Greta with soprano Latonia Moore as Billie and Walter Russell III as Char’es-Baby.
2021-02-18 06:21:00
A Roundup of Recent Releases (CD Reviews)
[…] of the colours of modern composition. I love for instance Messiaen and Dutilleux. I wanted some of that sense of complexity in the chords. Too much complexity, however, can create a prison for improvisers. In some of the pieces, like ‘Archipel’, we take just a small fragment of written material and develop it further and further...” Bordenave also notes that the nine tracks on the album are based on poetry by the French writer René Char, explaining that “the melodies were responses to some of the poems, or impressions drawn from them.”The sound produced by the trio is spare and haunting, recorded in typical ECM style with both clarity and ambience. This is music born out of reflection that invites further reflection on the part of the listener. Even if you are not really all that much of a jazz fan, unless you are someone who is pathologically opposed to […]
2018-05-04 07:00:00
South China Morning PostTwo-time world champion Pasqualino Barbasso grew up making pizza in his family's restaurant. He branched out into pizza acrobatics and now travels the world ...
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