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2021-12-08 09:19:39
Thomas Isherwood A tradition since 1948, the free Friday lunchtime concerts have returned to the Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London, EC2M 4QH, in September 2021, with each week, performers responding to a theme suggested by the collections in the Library and curating their programme around it. The final concert for this year, on Friday 10 December 2021, features baritone Thomas Isherwood (who has been performing the role of Escamillo in Bizet's Carmen with Opera Loki) and pianist Erika Gundesen in Songs of Faith, Nature & Fellowship including RVW's Songs of Travel, Finzi's Let us garlands bring, plus Britten folksong arrangements and three songs from musicals. Full details from the Bishopsgate Institute website.
2021-01-11 08:26:33
Re-inventing Kurt Weill: How Lotte Lenya's performances of her husband's music in the 1950s, born of expediency, came to define how the songs were performed
[…] Terribili-Gonzales in José Quintero's 1961 film, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (based on the Tenessee Williams novel), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award and perhaps most memorably was Rosa Kleb in the 1963 Bond film From Russia with Love. Her re-creation of the Weimar Berlin cabaret style was brought full circle when she created the role of Fräulein Schneider in John Kander and Fredd Ebb's 1966 musical Cabaret. Based on Christopher Isherwood's Berlin stories, this was a recreation of 1920s Berlin for 1960s America, and made significant changes to the characters of Isherwood's novel. If Kurt Weill had not died so suddenly and so young, our view of his Berlin works might be radically different. There would have been no 1950s revivals with Lenya, and in fact Weill himself was focused on his American career. Perhaps the revival the Berlin works might have then been closer […]
2019-08-16 09:23:00
That creative force which dances through all of life
[…] a boy from the East End of London' with them to Cornwall. Ben was apparently horrified on the first night when the boy took the pyjamas he had supplied and put them on over his underclothes.If there had been a reason for Harry's alarm and lifelong distaste, it perhaps marked a unique moment in Britten's journey of self-discovery. The liberation he was experiencing in the wake of his parents' death, with the active encouragement of Isherwood and Auden, had given him both a knowledge of, and a taste for 'the wider world of man'.Circumstantial the evidence of a threat, if not of actual abuse, may be. But it is given credence by the authoritative John Bridcut. So is the evidence for Britten's alleged misdemeanor any less reliable than that used to taint, and sometimes even destroy, the reputations of contemporary musician's? Let me state quite clearly that the purpose of […]
2019-02-09 17:47:00
Different trains for different brains
[…] released in 2000 on the Celestial Harmonies label; a biography of the labels's visionary founder Eckart Rahn can be read via this link. An earlier post quoted Steve Roach as explaining that the essence of music is what is felt when it ends and returns to silence. Which is appropriate, as On An Overgrown Path now returns to silence as I am travelling to the East again. * The quotation, which was translated by Christopher Isherwood, is "The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus the wise say the path to 'enlightenment' is hard". Comment moderation will now be delayed. New Overgrown Path posts are available via RSS/email by entering your email address in the right-hand sidebar. Any copyrighted material is included for critical analysis, and will be removed at the request of copyright owner(s).
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