Hank Ballard News
American R&B recording artist; singer and songwriter
- rhythm and blues
- United States of America
- musician, singer, composer, songwriter, recording artist
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2024-04-25
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2022-06-22 12:00:00
Roberta Rust plays piano music by Louis W Ballard, heard by John Dante Prevedini. '... a probing, articulate and understated artistic collaboration whose proper exposure is long overdue.'
2022-04-16 09:20:18
From the Shenandoah Valley to Kensington Gardens: I chat to Ella Marchment about her new role at Shenandoah Conservatory & directing the UK premiere of Mark Adamo's Little Women
[…] were in transit), she has not been in the UK since 2020!Further ahead, she will be taking over as artistic director of an American organisation, another job that Ella is able to work into her schedule as Shenandoah Conservatory. And at the conservatory they are planning a project called Native American Inspirations, which will include new music by the Native American composer Brent Michael Davids, alongside that of other Native American composers, Russell Wallace, Louis Ballard (1931-2007), Dawn leriho:kwats Avery and Jennifer Stevens. A group of students will be taking the project to the Venice Biennale in the Autumn (20 September 2022). She also plans to bring Opera Harmony out of hibernation. She has been working with an artistic director from Kyiv and selected a Ukrainian opera to record; excerpts will be recorded around the world. This is not the most straightforward thing to organise, but will […]
2022-01-25 19:00:00
[…] Haas: String Quartet no.2: ‘Wild Night’ Dieter Gogg, arr. Iain Farrington: Als ob; Theresienstadt, der schönste Stadt der Welt František Domažlický: Song without words for string quartet Ullmann: Yiddish Songs for choir; Der Kaiser von Atlantis: ‘Komm Tod, du unser werter Gast’ (arr. Farrington) Simon Wallfisch (baritone)Guildhall School MusiciansBBC SingersNicholas Chalmers (conductor)Ullmann: Der Kaiser von Atlantis, dir. Kenneth Richardson Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps Kaiser Overall – Thomas Johannes Mayer Loudspeaker – Derrick Ballard Soldier – Oliver Johnston Harlekin – Robert Murray Bubikopf – Soraya Mafi Death – Henry Waddington Drummer Girl – Hanna Hipp BBC Symphony OrchestraJosep Pons (conductor)Guildhall School Musicians Images: BBC/Mark Allan Holocaust Memorial Day falls on 27 January, thus poignantly entwined—forever?—with the birthday of Mozart. Much could and doubtless should be said about that dialectical relationship, but let us leave that for another time, perhaps […]
2021-12-02 06:06:00
Piano Potpourri, No. 3 (CD reviews)
[…] the music must sound hostile and unlistenable, the end result is far from that. Strange, perhaps, but compelling – musically compelling at that. And so the rest of the album goes, fresh, bracing new sounds, expertly played and magnificently recorded. If you are a fan of piano music and have at least a modicum of musical adventurousness in your soul, Northscapes belongs on your audition list.Bonus Recommendations:Puerta. Jorge Rossy, vibraphone, marimba; Robert Landfermann, double bass; Jeff Ballard, drums, percussion. ECM 2661 382 2596.There is an interesting backstory here. Jorge Rossy was for a time the drummer in the Brad Mehldau Trio, but left that group to return to his native Spain and concentrate on his piano playing. He was replaced in Mehldau’s piano trio by the American drummer Jeff Ballard. And now we have here Rossy on neither drums nor piano, but rather on vibes and marimba, recording an album of […]
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