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Classical Music News of the Week, April 3, 2022
American Composers Orchestra Supports Nineteen Emerging ComposersAmerican Composers Orchestra (ACO) continues its commitment to the creation and development of new orchestra music, and to the next generation of composers, through its 2022 ACO EarShot Readings program. This year, nineteen composers will participate in EarShot Readings with ACO, the Houston Symphony, Oregon Symphony, and Tucson Symphony Orchestra. EarShot is a nationwide network of new music readings and composer development programs that provide professional level working experience with orchestras from every region of the country.For over a generation, EarShot Readings, and their predecessor ACO’s New Music Readings, have provided all-important career development and public exposure to the country’s most promising emerging composers, with over 250 composers participating. Readings alumni have won every major composition award, including the Pulitzer, Grammy, Grawemeyer, American Academy of Arts & Letters, and Rome Prizes. Orchestras around the globe have commissioned EarShot alumni.Each EarShot Readings installment includes a […]
2021-06-10 07:59:09
More than just a festival: MusicFest Aberystwyth returns with live and streamed events, and an on-line Summer school
[…] festival's annual Summer school. As last year, this is running on-line but they hope to return to a live experience in 2022. The Summer school presents 'A selection of specially designed online courses for you to collaborate and learn with one of our internationally renowned tutors and likeminded musicians', and tutors include the festival's artistic director, David Campbell, clarinettist Robert Plane, speech-therapist and counter-tenor Dr Ron Morris, flautist Karen Jones, fiddle and pipes player Patrick Rimes, conductor James Henshaw, saxophonists Kyle Horch and Lars Lien, and composer Nico Muhly. The festival also has a range of bursaries to help students, graduates and young musicians attend the courses. The festival has a history stretching back to 1986 and earlier. The Department of Music at the then University College Wales was one of Britain's first music departments with guest lecturers and visitors including Bartók, Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Holst. When the department […]
2020-11-26 00:11:00
The Fisk Jubilee Singers’® Album, Celebrating Fisk! (The 150th Anniversary Album), Nominated for GRAMMY® Award in Best Roots Gospel Album Category
[…] is one of the world’s leading independent music companies. Owned and operated by Mike Curb since 1964, Curb Records has achieved 435 number one records, over 1,500 hundred Top Ten records and charted over 4,500 total records. With over a half century in operation, Curb Records has been influential in the careers of some of the biggest names in music, including: Tim McGraw, Hank Williams, Jr., Rodney Atkins, Lee Brice, LeAnn Rimes, The Judds, Dylan Scott, Sawyer Brown, Wynonna, Lyle Lovett, JoDee Messina, Hal Ketchum and Desert Rose Band, among many others. Today’s roster includes some of the top names across multiple genres of music. For more information, visit www.curb.com.
2020-07-20 23:00:00
Prophets of the New - Maderna - Lucier - Boulez - Berio - Carter - Crumb - Xenakis
Bruno Maderna 1920-1973 (100 years of his birthday)Prophets of the NewKarlheinz Stockhausen: KontrapunkteKrzysztof Penderecki: Threnody for the Victims of HiroshimaEarle Brown: Availables Forms IHenri Pousseur: Rimes pour differentes sources sonoresFrederic Rzewski pianoRoma Symphony OrchestraRecorded 1967Luciano Berio Sinfonia Allelujah II Nones Concerto for two pianos and orchestra New York Philharmonic London SO BBC SO The Swingle Singers Bruno Canino piano Antonio Ballista piano Luciano Berio Pierre Boulez Recorded 1968 Igor StravinskyLe Sacre du PrintempsClaude DebussyJeuxThe Cleveland OrchestraNew Philñharmonia OrchestraRecorded 1970Bülent Arel: Stereo Electronic Music No. 1 Halim El-Dabh: Leiyla And The Poet Vladimir Ussachevsky: Creation - Prologue Milton Babbitt: Composition For Synthesizer Mario Davidovsky: Electronic Study No. 1 Otto Luening: Gargoyles Milton Babbitt: Ensembles For Synthesizer The Little Chorus Of Macalester College Max Pollikoff violin Recorded 1964 Elliott CarterVariations for OrchestraDouble Concerto for harpischord and pianoPiano ConcertoCharles Rosen pianoPaul Jacobs harpischordJacob Lateiner pianoNew Philharmonia OrchestraEnglish Chamber OrchestraBoston SSymphony OrchestraFrederik PrausnitzErich […]