George Whitefield Chadwick News
American composer (1854-1931)
Commemorations 2024 (Birth: George Whitefield Chadwick)
- organ
- opera, symphony
- United States of America
- composer, music teacher, university teacher
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2024-04-24
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2022-07-09 08:31:30
Growing up with Hildegard: Voice trio on the importance of Hildegard of Bingen's music to them alongside contemporary pieces
[…] colours to the music and they choose the keys to enable them to do such switching. And this extends to the group itself, as there is no one director, just three people coming together as they want to.When I ask about influences, they mention three composers, Vivien Ellis who performed with Sinfonye and whose music they find evocative, Moira Smiley in the USA, who was part of a project with Stevie Wishart and they worked with her, and Helen Chadwick who has been very supportive and participated in workshops. Another influence is SOAS. Both Victoria and Clemmie were studying ethnomusicology at SOAS when they formed voice and the music that they were exposed to at SOAS (one was studying Judeo-Hispanic music) had a big impact on Voice. As a group, they are keen to avoid labels and the range of repertoire which does not put them in a box, and many festivals are fond of labels. […]
2022-04-07 05:18:00
Recent Releases, No. 27 (CD reviews)
[…] watching the performance of some of our white GOP Senators during the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson as I write these words leaves me more than a little angry and skeptical about racial and political matters in 2022 America, I’m sorry to have to say but I just can’t in good conscience let it go unsaid…] At the NEC she was taught music theory by the institution’s director George Whitfield Chadwick, a leading figure of the so-called Second New England School of composers who had a special interest in African-American folk melodies and rhythms. He used a pentatonic melody resembling a spiritual in a symphony seven years before Dvorak’s “New World'' Symphony of 1893.”Although what we have here are two recordings on different labels featuring performances of the same major work, Symphony No. 3 by, my intention is not at all to present this as any […]
2022-02-27 02:17:55
[…] Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle who were writing the score of the epochal 1921 musical, Shuffle Along, the first Broadway show in over a decade to be written, produced, and performed entirely by Black talent. Still provided uncredited arrangements and also played oboe in the show’s pit orchestra. While performing in Shuffle Along, during its Boston tryout, Still studied composition for four months with George Whitfield Chadwick, who was director of the New England Conservatory. (He also studied for two years, 1923-25, with French avant garde composer Edgard Varese.) Still left Pace and Handy Music in spring 1921 and followed its senior partner, Harry Pace, to assist in the creation and founding of Black Swan Records, a black record company created for the documentation of black artistic talent emerging out of the shadows of […]
2022-01-19 01:37:11
[…] father was a successful dentist who later in life wrote a novel, her mother was a fine singer and pianist – a prominent family in the city’s black community. Florence’s musical gifts were apparent from an early age, and she was sent to the New England Conservatory where she was a star student in organ and piano pedagogy, as well as in the private composition lessons she took with George Chadwick, the school’s director. After graduation, she returned to teach in Little Rock, and in 1912 she married Thomas J Price, an up-and-coming lawyer. Increasingly violent racism and the enactment of Jim Crow laws eventually forced the couple and their young children to join ‘the Great Migration’ of blacks fleeing the South, and they eventually settled in Chicago where, with her exceptional abilities as a composer, pianist and choral […]
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