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English composer, conductor, and pianist
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2019-10-01 06:38:25
Celebrating the centenary of the cellist Kenneth Heath, and the rediscovery of the Cello Concerto written for him by his father, J.R. Heath
[…] Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Handel's Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 7 in Bb major HWV325, and the Cello Concerto written for Heath in 1938 (when he was 19 years old) by his father J.R.Heath. J.R.Heath was a doctor by profession, but also a musician and a composer. He worked as a GP in the Barmouth area, where he founded the Barmouth Choral Union and was associated with the composers Joseph Holbrooke and Granville Bantock, and his compositions were influenced both by Welsh and by Balkan culture (he saw service in the Balkans during the First World War). The performance of J.R.Heath's Cello Concerto will be the first since 1962.In his obituary in The Times newspaper later that month, George Malcolm wrote: “He wanted no more than to be what he was: an absolutely first-class professional cellist, whose musicianship, technique and artistic sensitivity had survived, uncorrupted […]
2017-03-03 02:48:04
On the next Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday, March 4th, 5–6 pm on WRTI-FM : Sir Alexander Mackenzie Two British composers populate this month’s Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday at 5:00 p.m. on WRTI. Josef Holbrooke and Alexander Mackenzie were well known and enjoyed success, but they often struggled to gain more than a foothold in performance circles. The reasons, however, were different. Holbrooke was also a critic and writer. His opinions about music, especially music from outside of England, both rankled and were seen as self-serving. Mackenzie for almost four decades was busy running the Royal Academy of Music, which left him little time to compose. Nevertheless, he helped begin the renaissance of 20th-century British music, of which Holbrooke was a beneficiary. Mackenzie’s musical family included a violinist father and grandfather. Young Alexander played in his father’s orchestra from the age of 8, and two […]
2016-01-16 15:01:14
[…] under William Vennard at the University of Southern California School of Music and participated in Lotte Lehmann’s vocal master classes. 1 Gavin Bryars Happy 73rd birthday Gavin Bryars! Born on this day in 1943 in Goole, Yorkshire. Bryars studied philosophy at Sheffield University but became a jazz bassist during his three years as a philosophy student. The first musical work for which he is remembered was his role as bassist in the trio Joseph Holbrooke, alongside guitarist Derek Bailey and drummer Tony Oxley. The trio began by playing relatively traditional jazz before moving into free improvisation. However, Bryars became dissatisfied with this when he saw a young bassist (later revealed to be Johnny Dyani) play in a manner which seemed to him to be artificial, and he became interested in composition instead. Bryars’s first works as a composer owe much to the New York School of John Cage (with […]
2015-01-29 19:10:09
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