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2021-10-09 04:54:00
Classical Music News of the Week, October 9, 2021
[…] Institute of Chicago will adhere to all current protocols related to the COVID-19 pandemic, as determined by the state of Illinois and the CDC. As of September 30, requirements include providing proof of vaccination (or a negative COVID test within 48 hours of the performance date) and masking at all times.For details, visit https://www.musicinst.org/family-concert-duke-it-out--Jill Chukerman, JAC CommunicationsSt. Charles Singers’ 2021–2022 SeasonSt. Charles Singers’ 2021–2022 season featured the world premiere of a new work by Jake Runestad, Overturn the Night, Oct. 2 & 3 in St. Charles, Illinois.Candlelight Carols Dec. 3 and 5 in St. Charles, Dec. 4 in Chicago.Ensemble’s decade-long Mozart Journey Project to culminate with concerts April 9 and 10 and August 27 and 28 in St. Charles.For complete details, visit https://stcharlessingers.com/--Nathan J. Silverman Co. PRMinnesota Orchestra To Celebrate Former Music Director Edo de Waart’s 80th BirthdayEdo de Waart, the Minnesota Orchestra’s Music Director from 1986 to 1995, returns to […]
2021-10-09 04:54:00
Classical Music News of the Week, October 9, 2021
[…] Institute of Chicago will adhere to all current protocols related to the COVID-19 pandemic, as determined by the state of Illinois and the CDC. As of September 30, requirements include providing proof of vaccination (or a negative COVID test within 48 hours of the performance date) and masking at all times.For details, visit https://www.musicinst.org/family-concert-duke-it-out--Jill Chukerman, JAC CommunicationsSt. Charles Singers’ 2021–2022 SeasonSt. Charles Singers’ 2021–2022 season featured the world premiere of a new work by Jake Runestad, Cello Songs, Oct. 2 & 3 in St. Charles, Illinois.Candlelight Carols Dec. 3 and 5 in St. Charles, Dec. 4 in Chicago.Ensemble’s decade-long Mozart Journey Project to culminate with concerts April 9 and 10 and August 27 and 28 in St. Charles.For complete details, visit https://stcharlessingers.com/--Nathan J. Silverman Co. PRMinnesota Orchestra To Celebrate Former Music Director Edo de Waart’s 80th BirthdayEdo de Waart, the Minnesota Orchestra’s Music Director from 1986 to 1995, returns to the […]
2020-12-03 05:43:00
Two Contemporary Choral Recordings (CD reviews)
Works by Pärt, Vasks, MacMillan, and RunestadBy Karl W. Nehring Presented for your musical enjoyment are two recent releases of choral music, the first comprising works by three composers whose names should be familiar to most music lovers, the second by a composer whose name is less likely to be known. The first features music traditionally religious in nature, while the second is more literary in orientation but not exclusively secular. Indeed, both releases are quite capable of lifting listeners’ spirits. To look at them both together is to see a kind of quick candid snapshot of current approaches to contemporary choral composition, performance, and engineering.Stabat: Includes works by Arvo Pärt, (Da Pacem, Domine; The Woman with the Alabaster Box; Magnificat; Nunc Dimittis; Stabat Mater); Peteris Vasks (Plainscapes); James MacMillan (Miserere). Graham Ross, Choir of Clare College, Cambridge; The Dmitri Ensemble. Harmonia Mundi HMM 905323. Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, (b. 1935) […]
2019-10-05 04:36:00
Classical Music News of the Week, October 5, 2019
[…] the pioneering InsideOut Concerts with their immersive orchestra experiences (to feature in two programs this PACS season), the launching of a series of recordings on Recursive Classics that have been applauded by critics in Gramophone, The Arts Desk, and elsewhere, and compelling stand-alone events such as their "Tribute to Veterans" (an event that saw more than 300 musicians on the Carnegie Hall stage, and the New York premiere of Dreams of the Fallen by Jake Runestad and poet and military veteran Brian Turner). For more information, visit https://chambersymphony.com/ --James Inverne Music ConsultancyMiller Theatre Presents a "Composer Portrait of Vijay Iyer," with Jennifer Koh and The Knights The New York Times states that "there's probably no frame wide enough to encompass the creative output" of composer, pianist, bandleader, and scholar Vijay Iyer. A 2013 MacArthur Fellow, a 2012 Doris Duke Performing Artist, and DownBeat magazine's Artist of the Year four times, […]
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