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2022-04-05 08:54:01
Six world premieres, celebrating RVW and Abba, a pop-up Handel opera: Ryedale Festival returns with 52 concerts
[…] focus on Ryedale Festival Young Artists. Violinist Roberts Balanas performs a late-night candlelit concert, while the Scottish accordionist Ryan Corbett sets out on a ‘troubadour trail’ bringing music, from Bach to Tchaikovsky, to beautiful and little-known churches across Ryedale. Siân Dicker, soprano, and Krystal Tunnicliffe, pianist, create a relaxed, informal and interactive concert for people living with dementia, their friends, family and carers – and anyone else who would like to attend. And bassoonist Ashby Mayes collaborates with Krystal Tunnicliffe in an enterprising programme performed at one of the festival’s many Coffee Concerts. A new partnership with the Richard Shephard Foundation is working in primary schools to is transform the festival’s engagement with children across Yorkshire and supports Seven Mercies, a new Community Song Cycle by Joseph Howard and Emma Harding, inspired by the famous murals of Pickering Church. A celebration of local heritage and talent, about countering difficult times […]
2021-01-18 04:08:18
In 1957, she became the first woman in the Boston Symphony's string section. She also performed as the principal cellist with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, and assistant principal cellist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Her husband, Samuel Mayes, was Philadelphia's principal cellist. According to the Boston Globe, Mrs. Mayes wore flat-heeled shoes to the Boston Symphony […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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2021-01-17 09:36:47
Boston’s first woman cellist dies at 101
Winifred Mayes became the first woman in the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s string section when she beat 14 men in an audition for a cello vacancy in 1957. She stayed in Boston for a dozen years before getting a better offer in 1970 from the Philadelphia Orchestra, where her husband Sameul Mayes was principal cellist. She […]
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2020-02-22 01:31:00
An Analysis of the 2020-2021 Metropolitan Opera Season
[…] upcoming season is very promising. Most operas are well-cast even in small roles, and I will detail some of the most interesting below. Of course, there are singers one would want to see at the Met who have major careers or have something special to offer artistically. Among those missing next season are Roberto Alagna, Daniela Barcellona, Leah Crocetto, Juan Diego Flórez, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Elīna Garanča, Jonas Kaufmann, Gregory Kunde, Ambrogio Maestri, Karita Mattila, Michael Mayes, René Pape, Marianna Pizzolato, Sondra Radvanovsky, Marina Rebeka, and Michael Spyres.I really wish the Met would find a way to cast the versatile and brilliant Anna Caterina Antonacci, who will make her debut at the Washington National Opera next season as Despina in Così fan tutte. Bryn Terfel, who has not sung at the Met since 2012, was supposed to star in the upcoming new production of Der fliegende Hölländer until he was recently […]
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