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2021-10-15 10:49:10
Barbican, LondonSebastião Salgado’s photographs of the rainforest combined with music with Amazonian connections in this powerful and moving concert featuring the Britten Sinfonia under Simon Menezes Combining projections with a live performance is hardly a new idea. But the images involved rarely have the power and vividness of the monochrome photographs of the Amazonian rainforest and its indigenous peoples by Sebastião Salgado that were coupled with a suite from Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Floresta do Amazonas in the Britten Sinfonia’s concert with conductor Simone Menezes. Villa-Lobos’s score is a curious hybrid, part symphony, part cantata. It had been salvaged from the music Villa-Lobos wrote in 1959 for the movie Green Mansions, which was based on the “romance of the tropical forest” by the naturalist
2021-09-17 17:50:37
In its 32nd year, the Japan Art Association’s Praemium Imperiale awarded four recipients for their exceptional achievements, impact, and enrichment to the arts globally. Each recipient receives an honorarium of $136,000, a medal, and a testimonial letter. Yo-Yo Ma’s fellow laureates in their respective categories comprise Brazilian-French painter Sebastião Salgado, American sculptor James Turrell, […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2021-01-26 08:26:56
K: Brazilian conductor Simone Menezes and her new ensemble in Borodin, Debussy, Copland, Villa-Lobos and Lacaze
Accents - Borodin, Debussy, Copland, Villa-Lobos, Lacaze; Ensemble K, Simone Menezes; Aparté, Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 25 January 2021 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) A new chamber ensemble brings a fresh approach and a seductive sound to music from Caucasus, Paris, Pennsylvania, Brazil and indigenous AustraliaI have been in contact with the Brazilian conductor Simone Menezes several times over the last few years, usually in connection with the music of Villa Lobos, including reviving his film score A Floresta do Amazonas in a project at the Philarmonie de Paris (10 April 2021) alongside photographs by Sebastiao Salgado.In 2020, Menezes founded Ensemble K, a flexible ensemble specialising in the larger chamber repertoire of the 20th century. On this new disc from Aparté, Accents, Simone Menezes conducts Ensemble K in Copland's Appalachian Spring, and Sophie Lacaze's Histoire sans paroles, alongside chamber arrangements of Borodin's Polovtsian Dances, Debussy's Prélude à l’Après-midi d’un faune, […]
2020-05-25 22:57:00
Decade of Building to Continue at Chicago Sinfonietta: Board Announces Unanimous Three-Year Extension to Music Director Mei-Ann Chen's Contract
[…] Clarice Assad, Reena Esmail, Jessie Montgomery, and William Grant Still's orchestral arrangement of Florence Price's Dances in the Canebrakes; and "Delights and Dances" (June 2013) featuring the Harlem Quartet. During Maestra Chen's tenure, such eclectic guest artists as the Marcus Roberts Trio, Chicago-based performance art marching band Mucca Pazza, NIU Steelband directed by Liam Teague, astronomer/visual artist José Francisco Salgado, tap master Cartier Williams, Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre, the Mandala Arts Dance Ensemble, Maxwell Street Klezmer Band, renowned painters the Zhou Brothers, NewMoon Chicago, Cuerdas Clasicas, hip-hop dancers FootworKINGz & Kuuba Lynx, to name a few, have graced the Sinfonietta concert stage in enthusiastically received electric collaborations. Chicago Sinfonietta Board of Directors Chair Scott Hoesman stated, […]
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