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English composer
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- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- composer, organist, choir director, playwright, poet
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2023-08-18 10:34:45
Happy 87th birthday to actor and filmmaker Robert Redford.
2022-03-21 05:48:00
[…] crowned him the “King of Ragtime.” But like so many composers before and after him, the fashion for his syncopated rhythms diminished steadily after his death in 1917, with jazz, blues, bebop, swing, rhythm-and-blues, rock ’n’ roll, and the like coming into their own. Then something funny happened. In the early 1970’s Joplin’s music came back into vogue with a best-selling record album by pianist Joshua Rifkin, followed by the success of the Paul Newman/Robert Redford film The Sting, which featured pianist/composer Marvin Hamlisch doing Joplin tunes on the soundtrack. This was doubly ironic since the movie was set in the midst of the Great Depression, decades after the decline in popularity of Joplin’s ragtime. Yet the music fit the mood of the film, so it worked, and helped to create a new Joplin Renaissance, with a slew of new Joplin records appearing from practically everybody. My own favorites have […]
2021-07-20 08:59:40
Young contemporary composers to late Haydn: London Oriana Choir at Opera Holland Park
Interior of Eistenstadt Cathedral where Haydn's Mass in D was premiered(photo Rudolf Strutz) Redford, Daley, Curry, Mack, Disley-Simpson, David, Haydn; Sian Dicker, Hannah Bennett, Guy Withers, Alex Jones, London Oriana Choir, City of London Sinfonia, Dominic Ellis-Peckham; Opera Holland Park Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 19 July 2021 A welcome chance to hear large-scale choral music again in an imaginative programme which mixed works from the choir's five15 commissioning programme with Haydn's great mass in the time of distressThis year, a sort of fringe festival has grown up around the main festival at Opera Holland Park. James Clutton, the company's director, has been taking advantage of the nights when the theatre is dark to offer the space to other performers, providing performance opportunities at a time when badly needed. So, British Youth Opera will be performing its season there, there is a song recital series next week, Mahler's […]
2019-06-21 08:22:26
Focus, concentration, engagement and enthusiasm: Gabrieli Roar in An English Coronation
[…] like to expand the project, and increase the number of choirs but of course this requires further fundraising.You can read more about Garieli Roar's work at the Gabrieli website.An English Coronation 1902-1952Ernest Bullock - FanfareParry - I was gladAcclamations and FanfaresElgar - O hearken thouRVW - Creed from Mass in G minorPlainsong (arr Ernest Bullock) - Come Holy GhostHandel - Zadok the PriestAcclamation and FanfareParratt - Be strong and play the manAnon (attributed to John Redford) - Rejoice in the Lord alwayS.S.Wesley - Thou wilt keep himRVW - The Old HundredthRVW - O Taste and Seearr. Merbecke - The Lord's PrayerStanford - 'Coronation' Gloria in B flatGibbons - Three-fold AmenWalton - Coronation Te Deumarr. Britten - National AnthemElsewhere on this blog Displaying their charms: Thomas Arne's The Judgement of Paris receives its first recording (★★★★) - CD review Gender bending Baroque: Lawrence Zazzo and Vivica Genaux […]
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