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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-08 18:08:24
Dance Music of the Germania Musical Society
A free concert resulting from the research of this writer along with the efforts of the Harvard Musical Association Library Committee takes place on March 3rd at 3:00, at St. John’s Church, 27 Devens Street, in Charlestown. Just show up (entry is free). Leave a comment below if you have questions. Winsome duo-pianists Chi-Wei Lo and Xiaopei Xu, collectively known as Psychopomp Ensemble (guide of souls), who have been reinventing the recital, once brilliantly interpolated the Beatles’ “Imagine” into the Gottschalk’s “The Union” HERE at 52:40; they will preside in an acoustically warm sanctuary on a restored 1870 Chickering concert grand. A light reception will follow. The Germania Musical Society deserves to emerge from the cocoon of writings by musicological specialists and reclaim the interest of a larger public. Twenty-four virtuosi, most from Josef Gungl’s orchestra, left Germany after the revolutions of 1848-1849, with utopian and transcendental expectations for a musical […]
2021-02-09 09:41:58
A Celtic Prayer: an imaginative survey of late 20th century and contemporary Scottish sacred choral music from George McPhee and the choir of Paisley Abbey
[…] MacRae's Adam lay ybounden was written in 2003 for a Royal School of Church Music festival at the abbey. Unaccompanied and full of intense, close harmonies, the work uses organ but not so much to support the choir as to comment.For many years master of music at St Andrew's University, Cedric Thorpe Davie studied with RVW and with Kodaly, and is best known today for his film scores. His setting of a text by George Wither (1580-1667), The Lord is He whose strength doth make me strong for choir and organ has a vigorous hymn-like quality to it, whilst Come, Holy Ghost, the Maker is more intimate, with some beautiful moments, yet still with a nod to hymnody. I first came across the music of Edward McGuire on the Red Note Ensemble's 2015 disc Entangled Fortunes devoted to McGuire's chamber music [see my review]. On this disc we have his […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2020-12-07 13:30:48
Oh, An All-Streaming World Is What You Want? Think Again
It’s not going to be great, friends. “If the movie theater experience, as a cultural force, winds up Withering on the vine, then it’s likely that movies as we’ve known them will also Wither on the vine. Pauline Kael said it best in the ’70s, when she was writing — Witheringly — about the phenomenon […]
2020-08-17 09:13:35
Mozart: Cosi fan tutte - Zoe Drummond, Damian Arnold, Nicholas Morton - Waterperry Opera Festival Mozart Cosi fan tutte, Jonathan Dove Ariel; Isabelle Peters, Beth Moxon, Zoe Drummond, Damian Arnold, Nicholas Morton and Oskar McCarthy, Daniella Sicari, Guy Withers, Rebecca Meltzer, Bertie Baigent; Waterperry Opera Festival Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 16 August 2020 Mozart's comedy in a semi-staging full of youthful energy and imaginationIt seems most appropriate that the last opera we saw before lockdown was Mozart (English National Opera's new production of Le nozze di Figaro) and that our first opera since then was also Mozart, Cosi fan tutte. Having cancelled the planned season, Waterperry Opera Festival put on a mini-season, and we caught the closing night on 16 August 2020, with Mozart's Cosi fan tutte in a semi-staging directed by Guy Withers and conducted by Bertie Baigent with Isabelle Peters, Beth Moxon, Zoe Drummond, Damian […]
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