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2022-07-14 06:25:30
Summer at Snape
[…] trumpeter Alison Balsam who joins the Britten Sinfonia, and cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason joins Chineke! Orchestra and conductor Kevin John Edusei for a programme which includes Shostakovich's Cello Concerto. There is also a chance to hear the Emerson Quartet and the Takacs Quartet. The jazz and blues programme includes Ayanna Witter-Johnson, the Joe Stilgoe Trio, the Piccadilly Dance Orchestra and many more.Reaffirming Snape Maltings’ commitment to the development of young artists, the Suffolk Youth Orchestra and conductor David Stowe, return for their annual performance. Suffolk's finest young players will present a wide-ranging programme of Khachaturian, Satie, Dukas, Lili Boulanger, Walton, Copland and Hérold.Full details from the Snape Maltings website.
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ArtsJournal: music
2020-05-04 14:30:00
The Writers Van Gogh Liked To Read Included Charles Dickens And Harriet Beecher Stowe
In the category of things some of us hadn’t thought enough about before this moment: “Vincent was an avid and multilingual reader, a man who could not do without books. In his brief life he devoured hundreds of them in four languages, spanning centuries of art and literature. Throughout his life, his reading habits reflected […]
2020-04-14 06:27:39
A profound sense of imagination: music for unusual combinations of instruments by Howard Skempton on 'The man hurdy-gurdy and me'
Howard Skempton The man hurdy-gurdy and me; Sirinu; metier Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 12 April 2020 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Chamber music by Howard Skempton, from miniatures to two larger-scale concertos, all for unusual combinations of instrumentsThis disc from the ensemble Sirinu on Divine Art's metier label brings together some of Howard Skempton's chamber pieces, mainly for unusual instrumental combinations. So we have a chamber version of the Concerto for Accordion and Oboe, and the Concerto for Hurdy-gurdy and Percussion, alongside a selection of smaller pieces performed by Sara Stowe (soprano, keyboard, gamelan), Matthew Spring (hurdy-gurdy, lute, viol, gamelan, double bass), Jon Banks (accordion, medieval harp, gamelan), Chris Brannick (percussion, gamelan), Christopher Redgate (oboe, harpsichord, gamelan) and Isabelle Carre (flute, alto flute, piccolo, recorder, gamelan). Sirinu is a British ensemble specialising in early and world music, and one of their interests is commissioning new music for old […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2020-01-14 20:04:51
This Writer May Have Been Russia’s Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Any man who’s ever killed a chicken knows that it’s best not to look it in the eye. [With his Sportsman’s Notebook, Ivan] Turgenev forced his fellow landowners to do that, look the serfs in the eye. Alexander II acknowledged the role these stories played in guiding him to issue the Emancipation Edict that freed […]
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