Lee Hoiby News
American composer (1926-2011)
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2022-09-28 01:57:00
I was recently researching various musical settings of William Blake's poem The Lamb. One of my favorites is by the great American song composer Lee Hoiby, and I came across this recording of Hoiby himself accompanying the song. It's a fine recording of a song which is successful in part because of its simplicity and directness, but there's something un-simple right at the start. Having accompanied and coached this song many times, I know well that Hoiby has laid a subtle trap for the singer (and pianist) in the one-bar piano introduction. As you can see below in bar 2, the left hand is syncopated one sixteenth note off from the right hand melody and vocal line, but Hoiby chose to begin the song with that left hand figure syncopated against...well, against nothing. Or, more specifically, against some unheard downbeat felt by the pianist and perhaps by the singer - […]
2021-01-17 10:27:27
A Life On-Line: Julia Child and Little Tich in music, Rossini's Armida at the Met
Lee Hoiby: Bon Appetit! - Jamie Barton as Julia Child This week's listening has been quite varied, with Brahms, Mozart and Beethoven alongside 17th century music, 20th century Spanish and Latin American songs, and an operatic rendition of the television cook, Julia Child. We also managed to catch up with a 2010 performance of Rossini's (seriously rare) opera Armida at the Met, and ended the week with an intense pairing of Tippett and Shostakovich. On Sunday, the Phacelia Ensemble (artistic director Elisabeth Streichert) gave an intriguing programme at Conway Hall, beginning with Stravinsky's Three Pieces for String Quartet and ending with Brahms' Piano Quintet in F minor, with Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 (in Streichert's own arrangement) in the middle. Stravinsky's piece (written 1914-1918) represents a distillation of his own ideas, with little reflection of the tradition of writing for string quartet. The players were hardly in dialogue, instead we […]
2020-04-25 04:58:00
Classical Music News of the Week, April 25, 2020
[…] to Opera Maine, transfer their tickets to next summer's performances on July 28 or July 30, 2021, or request a refund. Opera Maine will be directing the proceeds from donated tickets to the performers and theater professionals who had committed to the 2020 season. Opera Maine continues to evaluate the possibility of maintaining other events on its 2020 calendar, including an outdoor concert at Lincoln Park on July 14, 2020 and a production of Lee Hoiby's hilarious short opera, Bon Appétit!, on September 13 and 15, 2020. Opera Maine recently launched a virtual program called Opera in ME, a weekly web series that takes audiences behind the scenes through interviews with singers and designers. Opera in ME is available on YouTube Opera Maine, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. --Kristen Levesque PRHAUSER Shares New "Caruso" Video HAUSER debuts a new stunningly original music video for his version of Lucio Dalla's classic operatic […]
2019-10-18 08:07:49
The Outsiders Fight Back: London Song Festival's imaginative commemoration of the 1969 Stonewall riots
The Stonewall Inn, site of the 1969 Stonewall riots The Outsiders Fight Back - Margaret Bonds, Leslie Adams, Christopher Berg, Ben Moore, Mischa Spoliansky, William Bolcom, Chris DeBlasio, Lee Hoiby, Jerry Herman; Lotte Betts-Dean, Felix Kemp, Nigel Foster, Michael Harper, Peter Tatchell; London Song Festival at Hinde Street Methodist Church Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 5 July 2019 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) A brilliant evocation, in words and music, of the Stonewall Riots and gay life in New York in 19692019 is the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, which happened in New York in 1969 and are regarded as the most important event leading to the gay liberation movement. To open London Song Festival's 2019 Outsiders season at Hinde Street Methodist Church on 17 October 2019, artistic director Nigel Foster commemorated the anniversary with a programme entitled The Outsiders Fight Back. Foster was joined […]
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