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2024-04-19 16:54:19
Pacific Symphony and Principal Pops Conductor Enrico Lopez-Yañez are delighted to announce the 2024-25 Pops Series, promising a lineup that is as diverse as it is captivating. This season, we invite you to join us on a remarkable musical journey that spans the realms of Broadway, Holiday classics, and iconic rock and Latin hits, all performed with the dynamic Hollywood sound of our orchestra.
2024-04-08 03:30:00
A Jazz Musician on Classical Music and Jazz
[…] technically acceptable.FR: Does the idea of letting those two aspects live within the same album feel new to you this time around?EI: Yeah, I think so. Of course, nothing's truly new. There's always a precedent. But as far as I know, no jazz pianist has put a sonata on a record on a jazz label like Blue Note.FR: When I read the title, I was also reminded of something you mentioned somewhere. You wrote an article about Billie Holiday, and you considered the title “Billie Holiday: Technician.” And it seems that a lot of stuff that you've written is about assessing jazz from, I guess, a technical standpoint in some way. That it is music that can be explained in those terms. And the piece that you've chosen for this title is a deceptively simple, Count Basie-ish tune... EI: Well, that's right. A lot of the time, something simple on the surface is full of […]
2024-03-14 11:00:19
[…] ended his relationship with her in order to marry the former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy. The story of Callas, much like the storylines of the romantic operas in which she starred, goes that she was betrayed by the man she loved before going into a decline that ended in her death eight years later.Callas is not alone in being mythologised as the great female singer who dies unhappy and alone: Judy Garland, Edith Piaf, Billie Holiday, Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, the list goes on. There appears to be something irresistible about the idea that a woman of huge talent should be crucified by her success, that she has no right to expect to lead a happy and fulfilled life. With Callas, as with Garland, the emphasis is always on the way down, never the glorious prime. Renée Zellweger won an Oscar for her portrayal of Garland at the very end […]
2024-03-08 15:52:00
Lumen Christi: I chat to Master of Music, Simon Johnson about his first disc with the choir of Westminster Cathedral
Simon Johnson & the choir of Westminster Cathedral recording at Buckfast AbbeyAd Fontes, the record label founded by Buckfast Abbey, is releasing Lumen Christi on 22 March 2024. A sequence of sequence of music for the Easter Vigil from the choir of Westminster Cathedral, this will be a follow-up to the choir's Vexilla Regis disc on the label. The new disc features plainchant alongside music by Lassus, Andrew Reid, Victoria, Palestrina, Matthew Martin, Jean L'Heritier, Jean Langlais and Martin Baker. But perhaps more significantly, the disc is the first one for the choir under its current Master of Music, Simon Johnson. Simon became Master of Music at Westminster Cathedral in September 2021, following thirteen years as the Organist and Assistant Director of Music at St Paul’s Cathedral.The choir's disc Vexilla Regis, released in 2019, featured music for Holy Week so the new disc, with its focus on the Easter Vigil […]
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