Julie de d'Aubigny News
17th-century French opera singer
- mezzo-soprano
- Kingdom of France
- actor, opera singer, swordfighter
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2020-10-18 07:14:44
Classical-music aficionado, Tony Cooper, looks in on the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s special anniversary year
[…] young people during Lockdown through BBC Ten Pieces, BBC Young Composer and Connecting the Dots initiatives.The orchestra’s pioneering work, rich and varied, forms part of its day-to-day working life and it performs an unrivalled range of established, recent and brand-new repertoire, all led by a distinguished artistic team. Recent seasons have seen adventurous new takes on the concert format characterised by collaborations with physicist and broadcaster Professor Brian Cox and writers David Sedaris and Armistead Maupin. And last year, Jules Buckley, who has worked across grime, hip-hop, dance, jazz and classical, was appointed Creative Artist in Association. His first project in this role (in February of this year) featured an acclaimed orchestral collaboration at the Barbican with singer-songwriter, Lianne La Havas.The orchestra has long-established ties with the BBC Symphony Chorus and the BBC Singers and together they are set to move from the iconic Maida Vale Studios (the orchestra’s home […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2019-01-22 17:34:41
Gallery Sues Former Employee For Stealing “Trade Secrets”
It alleges that Bona Yoo, a former director who is now working at Lévy Gorvy gallery as a sales director, “surreptitiously copied valuable trade secrets” from Lehmann Maupin’s computer systems before she left and “maliciously corrupted” or deleted important information from the gallery’s database. Yoo’s plan, according to the lawsuit, was designed to impede the […]
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2018-06-19 18:40:15
LGBT Artists Through the Ages
As June is LGBT-Pride Month , we here at WXXI 91.5 Classical Radio have been reflecting on how many LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) artists have rocked the classical music scene throughout the ages. From composers, to performers, to conductors, so many LGBT people (Here’s a short list: Benjamin Britten, Samuel Barber, Ethyl Smyth, Arnold Schoenberg) have shaped and innovated classical music for the better. Let’s press pause for a second to celebrate classical composers and artists that have and continue to blaze a trail for acceptance not only for their sexuality, but for the integrity of their art and the progress of classical music as a whole. As early as 1670, Julie d’Aubigny , mostly known as La Maupin, made her living as both opera singer and skilled swordswoman. La Maupin was a tour de force, take-no-prisoners artist and a resident singer at the Paris Opera and the Opéra du […]
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2018-06-19 18:40:15
LGBT Artists Through the Ages
As June is LGBT-Pride Month , we here at WXXI 91.5 Classical Radio have been reflecting on how many LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) artists have rocked the classical music scene throughout the ages. From composers, to performers, to conductors, so many LGBT people (Here’s a short list: Benjamin Britten, Samuel Barber, Ethyl Smyth, Arnold Schoenberg) have shaped and innovated classical music for the better. Let’s press pause for a second to celebrate classical composers and artists that have and continue to blaze a trail for acceptance not only for their sexuality, but for the integrity of their art and the progress of classical music as a whole. As early as 1670, Julie d’Aubigny , mostly known as La Maupin, made her living as both opera singer and skilled swordswoman. La Maupin was a tour de force, take-no-prisoners artist and a resident singer at the Paris Opera and the Opéra du […]
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