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2023-05-16 11:29:12
The cellist Alison Moncrieff-Kelly was one of the... The post A violin theft with a happy ending appeared first on Slippedisc.
2017-04-13 13:00:50
We are all born mad. Some remain so
Born on this day in 1906 playwright Samuel Beckett. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2QJ0FYE3pw Born on this day in 1810 composer Félicien David. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwfbH7–_JE Born on this day in 1892 soprano Gladys Moncrieff. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ5HDAsLY28 Born on this day in 1906 bass Endre Koréh. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvDZ9Ikvc7U Born on this day in 1911 conductor Nino Sanzogno. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow9zpUw91J4 Born on this day in 1923 tenor Gianni Raimondi. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWnmZ7l2W44 Born on this day in 1931 soprano Anita Cerquetti. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=F15dTQ-qv6Q Born on this day in 1941 soprano Margaret Price. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBlxJHDtd3Q Happy 71st birthday mezzo-soprano Della Jones. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=o294D5MkRoE
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2017-04-02 13:23:13
Just in: 200 musicians attack Guardian writer
[…] Printed Music Specialist, Blackwell’s Music Shop Katherine Marriott, mezzo-soprano Chris Marshall, Head of Professional Development, Birmingham Conservatoire Cecília Melo, Magistrate Virgílio Melo, composer Chris Mercer, composer, Lecturer, Northwestern University Nathan Mercieca, Teaching Associate, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University Jonathan Midgley, lay clerk, Ely Cathedral Madeleine Mitchell, state-school educated violinist, professor, Royal College of Music Cara Ellen Modisett, pianist, Episcopal music director and essayist Alison Moncrieff-Kelly, cellist, music educator, and examiner Josephine Montgomery, violinist, early years string teacher Ivan Moody, composer, CESEM – Universidade Nova, Lisbon Eva Moreda Rodriguez, Lecturer in Music, University of Glasgow Dittany Morgan, former Sub principal Viola BBC symphony and teacher of Violin/ Viola Huw Morgan, freelance choral director and organist Kate Morgan, Director of Music, Harrogate Ladies’ College Katie Morgan, flautist, music writer, and flute and music theory […]
2016-06-03 21:11:45
There ought to be clowns
[…] strips the play of all its joy, humor, and style—and while Wilde might have enjoyed the opera’s outrageousness, he could hardly have appreciated its vacuity. With such vulgar, harebrained music, how does one judge the performances? Well, I admire the singers’ gumption. They survived the composer’s sadistic setting with voices relatively capable of phonation, in part thanks to the adroit playing of the New York Philharmonic, under the precise baton of Ilan Volkov. As Algernon Moncrieff and John Worthing, Benedict Nelson and Paul Curievici were amiable Wildean prototypes, doing their best to seem suave and witty under such grueling conditions. However, despite their athletic singing and physicality, their performances seemed more like endurance tests than outright triumphs. As Gwendolen Fairfax, mezzo-soprano Stephanie Marshall proved reliable, if a bit bland. Poor Claudia Boyle, as Cecily Cardew, squeaked her way through the piece with admirable courage, despite the stratospheric setting of her […]
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