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[…] and Gretel and Verdi’s La Traviata, seasonal music from Howard Blake's The Snowman and the musical Meet me in St. Louis, as well as Christmas songs and carols. In addition to Into Opera’s launch of the successful Norfolk Into Opera Festival, the charity has also built a reputation for its transformative education work in local schools. As part of Opera Unwrapped for Christmas children from the choirs of the Bawburgh School, Barford Primary and St Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary will have the chance to share the stage and perform alongside Into Opera and Britten Sinfonia’s professional musicians. "The cut to funding of classical music and opera this year has been devastating in its impact. It has put organisations like Into Opera and Britten Sinfonia under huge risk and financial pressure. Norfolk is one of the places to have really experienced those cuts. Regardless, Into Opera and Britten Sinfonia were determined to join […]
2022-07-03 08:18:01
Arun Ghosh's The Canticle of the Sun at the Spitalfields Music Festival
Arun Ghosh: The Canticle of the Sun - Arun Ghosh & ensemble - Spitalfields Festival at St John on Bethnal GreenArun Ghosh: The Canticle of the Sun; Arun Shosh, Irini Arabatzi, Seaming To, Camilla George, Sarathy Korwar, Ruth Goller, Davide Mantovani; Spitalfields Music at St John on Bethnal GreenEclectic and powerful, Ghosh's style of composed jazz fused many different elements in his setting of St Francis' original Umbrian dialect textClarinettist and composer Arun Ghosh's spiritual jazz reimagining of St Francis of Assisi's The Canticle of the Sun premiered at this year's Norfolk & Norwich Festival, when Tony heard it and reviewed it for us [link]. Produced by Sound UK, the work was a co-commission between the Norfolk & Norwich Festival and Spitalfields Music. On Friday 1 July 2022, we caught Arun Ghosh and his ensemble giving the London premiere of The Canticle of the Sun at St John on Bethnal Green as part […]
2022-06-07 09:54:32
i bērzs, i smilgas... (and a birch and grasses...) - Latvian song across the generations from Emils Melngailis & Kristaps Pētersons
[…] in Bach's Ascension Oratorio at Wigmore Hall - concert review Adventurous and exciting: So Percussion and Caroline Shaw at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival - concert review Time corkscrews inwards: Tom Coult on clocks, time & humanity in Alice Birch & his new opera Violet - interview Musical treats: Richard Jones' production of Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila fails to convince, but there is much to listen to - opera review Intensely evocative: Arun Ghosh's spiritual jazz re-imagining of St Francis of Assisi's The Canticle of the Sun premieres in Norwich - concert review Home
2022-06-06 06:38:32
Precious Things: a lovely survey of Bernard Hughes' recent choral music from Epiphoni Consort on Delphian
[…] in Bach's Ascension Oratorio at Wigmore Hall - concert review Adventurous and exciting: So Percussion and Caroline Shaw at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival - concert review Time corkscrews inwards: Tom Coult on clocks, time & humanity in Alice Birch & his new opera Violet - interview Musical treats: Richard Jones' production of Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila fails to convince, but there is much to listen to - opera review Intensely evocative: Arun Ghosh's spiritual jazz re-imagining of St Francis of Assisi's The Canticle of the Sun premieres in Norwich - concert review Striking music, terrific performances: the modern day premiere of Handel's pasticcio Caio Fabbricio based on music by Hasse - opera review Home
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