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2024-04-20 09:51:00
A Leeds Songbook and a showcase performance: Leeds Lieder Young Artists 2024
[…] Showcase at Leeds Minster on 17 April featured ten new songs by student composers collaborating with local poets to create ten further contributions to A Leeds Songbook. Each song was written for the Young Artist duo that performed it. Before each song, the poet read their words to give us more of an idea of content.City Turned Into a Song by Jan Pospisil (music) and Nigel Karl Stone (words), performed by Anton Kirchhoff (baritone) and Jou-an Chen (piano), was lyrical and tonal, beginning unaccompanied with Kirchhoff showing a fine lyric baritone. With a faint air of melancholy, it alternated between the more urgent and rather interior, all with a little hint of music theatre. The Poet by Kinna Whitehead (music) and Ian Parks (words), performed by Cerys MacAllister (soprano) and André Bertoncini (piano), featured MacAllister almost on a monotone, rather confiding, emotion recalled in quietness, with a rhythmic accompaniment that featured the pianist […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-04-04 19:21:12
BSO Announces Subscription Season
[…] Nelsons fill out his namesake cycle; some fine Haydn and Mozart to match Beethoven, one Schubert, the charming Rossinian Sixth Symphony; one Berlioz (Waverley); one Schumann (Piano Concerto with Jonathan Biss, welcome back!); and some lesser-known Russian works, including Rachmaninoff’s striking Symphony No. 3 (his best); and a lovely ancestor, The Enchanted Lake by Anatol Liadov. Among recently composed works, Tania León is back again with a new commission; Kevin Puts, Carlos Simon, Hannah Kendall, Chen Yi, Adolphus Hailstork, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Gabriela Ortíz likewise, mostly with topical or political pieces; and it’s good that there’s at least one Boston composer represented, Michael Gandolfi, with a work for organ and orchestra (heard here once before), paired with an old BSO favorite, the Saint-Saëns Third Symphony. And the roster of visiting conductors seems intriguing and even stimulating. And important soloists there are aplenty. We now defer to the BSO press […]
2024-03-29 16:37:28
While speculation swirls around who will be the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s […]
2024-03-19 22:07:10
Vadim Gluzman, Ray Chen and the Colorado Symphony in Boulder and Longmont By Peter Alexander March 19 at 4:06 p.m. The Boulder Bach Festival (BBF) will present the Ukrainian-Israeli violinist Vadim Guzman in a program that spans centuries, from J.S. Bach to Arvo Pärt. The final concert of BBF’s 2023–24 season, Gluzman’s performance occurs on […]
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