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Commemorations 2024 (Death: Robert Ashley)
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- composer, university teacher, film producer
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2024-04-11 11:32:44
BLACK & WHITE Ashley Wass, piano This new release from British pianist Ashley Wass celebrates a
2024-03-22 12:00:00
Organ Reborn! Norwich Cathedral Organ Festival: A new music festival for Norwich
Norwich Cathedral Organ (Photo: Bill Smith/Norwich Cathedral)From an epic concert featuring three Cathedral Choirs to the ‘Battle of the Organs’, audiences will be able to enjoy a whole week of musical festivities at Norwich Cathedral in July marking the return of the Cathedral’s historic pipe organ as part of the first Norwich Cathedral Organ Festival. Norwich Cathedral Organists (Photo: Bill Smith/Norwich Cathedral)In fact, this special summer festival (generously underwritten by the Statham Society which supports the musical life of Norwich Cathedral) has been carefully planned to coincide with the first anniversary of the organ’s return following its ambitious rebuild by Harrison & Harrison. Therefore, Organ Reborn! Norwich Cathedral Organ Festival, runs from Saturday 6th to Sunday 14th July featuring three headline concerts, six organ recitals, a couple of talks and so much more! ‘We are really excited to be celebrating the return of Norwich Cathedral’s historic pipe organ,’ said Ashley Grote, the […]
2024-03-19 10:00:00
The music of Daniel Temkin is a reminder that aural and visual expressivity are a powerful combination. This is clear.. The post appeared first on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN.
2024-03-12 08:35:00
Lovely Music: Louth CMS annual June celebration features operas by Robert Ashley, Stockhausen’s Stimmung, Linda Catlin Smith & more
Robert Ashley photographed by Mimi Johnson in 1975Louth Contemporary Music Society will be presenting its annual mid-June festival, Lovely Music, in Co Louth, Ireland on 14 and 15 June 2024. The title, Lovely Music, originated as the ironic, combative title that Mimi Johnson, a New York agent, chose in 1978 for a record label she founded to feature composers she represented, including her husband, the American composer Robert Ashley (1930-2014) and this year, the festival will be featuring two of Ashby's operas. Crash is Ashley's final work, an opera for six singers but as Ashley explained, "All of the singing is very soft vocally, but amplified, and all of the singing of the words is very fast. This is a special kind of vocal sound that the audience will have rarely experienced." Crash is being presented by Varispeed Collective and they join forces with Irish colleagues at the Spirit Store: Sean Carpio, Caoimhe Hopkinson and Steve Welsh […]
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