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2024-03-04 19:46:30
PREVIEW | Tafelmusik’s Staircases Blends Baroque With New Music, Poetry And Images
Tafelmusik's Staircases, an original program created by Alison Mackay, incorporates two new works by composer and bass-baritone Jonathan Woody.
2023-12-18 09:27:00
What would be the biggest headline ever?
[…] in Venice recorded with members of the Berlin Philharmonic. He has also appeared in the Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic concerts. Iiro Rantala is one of the very few musicians whose new albums I buy automatically - need I say more? For years classical music has tried in vain to expand its audience. Among the great musicians who blurred the boundaries between classical and jazz were Igor Stravinsky - the Ebony Concerto written in 1945 for the Woody Herman band - and Leonard Bernstein - Prelude, Fugue and Riffs. Many, including this writer, were first exposed to great music by jazz musicians such Jacques Lousier and the MJQ. Why is jazz so underrated?
2023-11-04 09:31:00
Music knows no borders: countertenor Reginald Mobley on the music of Ignatius Sancho, spirituals as Early Music and the importance of diversity
[…] create larger-scale works based on Sancho's music, and next year the Academy of Ancient Music will be premiering a new Sancho-inspired commission from Roderick Williams.Reginald has been working with the Boston (USA) based Handel & Haydn Society (founded in 1815 and the longest-serving such performing arts organization in the USA) as programming consultant, helping to expand and diversify the repertoire. With Harry Christophers, the Handel & Haydn Society's artistic director until 2022, Reginald commissioned Jonathan Woody’s Suite for Orchestra, a suite of dances based on Sancho's music, which the orchestra recorded during the Pandemic. Reginald did a similar project in September 2022 at The Juilliard School when violinist Rachel Podger directed a Suite of Dances and Songs, arranged by Nicola Canzano. Reginald loves the idea of capping a programme with some music by Ignatius Sancho, as it gives audiences a way to understand the diversity of places like 18th-century London.Born […]
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