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2022-01-10 06:36:00
Music of Telemann, Platti, Vivaldi, and Geminiani. Gottfried von der Goltz, Freiburger Barockorchester. Aparte Music AP262.By John J. PuccioAlthough period-instrument bands have been around for a very long time (for example, Nikolaus Harnoncourt founded the Concentus Musicus Wien some seventy-odd years ago). But it wasn’t until the 1980’s or so that they really took off and proliferated. Today, a lot of them are gone, yet those that remain are still going strong. My own favorites for a long time have been the Philharmonia Baroque, La Petite Bande, and the subject of today’s review, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Why those three? Because they seem to be having the most fun playing the music, enjoying what they are doing. They may not always be the richest-sounding or most-precise ensembles I’ve heard, but they are among the most enjoyable to listen to. Certainly, the Freiburg group appears to be enthusiastically embracing the music […]
2021-11-15 08:00:01
The composer didn’t write his songs to be played at stuffy recitals by musicians in ties and tails. A new project aims to put the fun back into Franz I’m at a festival on the west coast of Denmark, in an industrial port that started out as a handful of farms in the 16th century and ended up having the longest dock in Europe, 12km long, by the late 19th. On my way to rehearsals, music fills the squares of the town. It’s a lively, noisy place. The auditorium itself is full, and spontaneous applause keeps interrupting the flow. We’re not entirely sure why (was it the wine-tasting that preceded the concert?) but the audience hang on every moment, word and gesture. We’re performing a song cycle by Franz Schubert, set to words by Wilhelm Müller, called Die Schöne Müllerin (The Lovely Maid of the Mill). A love-sick boy is […]
2021-03-18 19:48:00
DPTV.org: Sonia Sanchez – A Trailblazing American Woman - The award-winning poet, Civil Rights activist and Black Arts Movement Leader - Tonight at 8 p.m. ET
Sonia Sanchez (Getty Images/Anthony Barboza) Detroit Public Television March 18, 2021 The award-winning poet, Civil Rights activist and Black Arts Movement leader talks about her life and literary career in an intimate conversation presented by PBS Books Watch this Thursday at 8 p.m. on Facebook Live As PBS Books continues highlighting Trailing Blazing American women, its next conversation – this Thursday at 8 p.m. – is with none other than Sonia Sanchez. Few women have carved more creative trails or set Hotter literary blazes than this great American poet and author. A leader of the Black Arts Movement, she has written more than a dozen books of poetry as well as essays, plays and children’s books. She is known as the first poet to use urban Black English in written form, using rhythm to change the world of poetry. […]
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