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English composer (1895–1984)
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- conductor, composer, musicologist, music teacher
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2024-04-18 09:15:00
Engaging the audience: James Newby and Joseph Middleton in a folk-inspired programme at a cool Leeds café/bar
Leeds Lieder 2024 - Joseph Middleton, James Newby - Through the Noise at Hyde Park Book ClubMatyas Seiber, John Jacob Niles, Thomas Traill, Joseph Suder, Percy Grainger, Vaughan Williams, Britten, Ravel: Cinq Mélodies populaires grecques, Mahler: Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen; James Newby, Joseph Middleton; Leeds Lieder & Through the Noise at Hyde Park Book Club17 April 2024A new collaboration sees Leeds Lieder at a cool café/bar with an engaging and beautifully sung programme of songs inspired by folk-musicA former fuel storage tank is not the usual venue for a song recital, but Hyde Park Book Club is no usual venue and last night's recital there (17 April 2024) by baritone James Newby and pianist Joseph Middleton was a collaboration between Leeds Lieder (of which Middleton is the artistic director) and Through the Noise, the organisation that promotes its concerts, noisenights, via a distinctive crowdfunding model. The recital was all of folk-inspired music, from Matyas […]
2024-03-21 16:56:05
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2024-03-14 05:00:52
Why did obituaries for pop star Eric Carmen omit Rachmaninoff?
By Jacob Stockinger The American songwriter and pop singer Eric Carmen (below) died in his sleep at 74 last Sunday. The cause has still not been revealed. I haven’t checked out all the obituaries for Carmen, who fronted as the lead singer for The Raspberries before striking out on his own prolific and profitable career. […]
2024-03-07 07:39:00
Danza Gaya: Simon Callaghan & Hiroaki Takenouchi play with wonderful elan & relish, clearly having a great deal of fun
[…] she focused on teaching and performance. First of we hear her 1934 piece, Recuerdos Preciosos (Precious Memories), written after a trip to Barcelona, the first movement all laid-back heat and the quiet cool of the cloister in the cathedral, the second a lively evocation of a busy amusement park. The first response to these engaging pieces is why has it taken so long for pianists to bring them to our attention.Pamela Harrison studied with Gordon Jacob and Arthur Benjamin, her finely crafted tonally-based music gradually going out of fashion in the post-war climate. Her Six Dances is a relatively late work, from 1976, originally written for a friend who had taken up the piano late in life. Written for piano duet, it is played on two pianos here. Six contrasting, delightful movements where Harrison's ear is deceptive, the outward conventionality and charm of the music being underpinned by sly wit.We […]
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