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Japanese soprano singer and singer (1958-2019)
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2023-08-31 06:29:00
The Canada-based Azrieli Foundation presents the London debut of the Azrieli Music Prizes at Cadogan Hall
The Azrieli Music Prizes (AMP) were created by the Azrieli Foundation in 2014 to 'offer opportunities for the discovery, creation, performance and celebration of excellence in music composition'. The foundation is a Canadian non-profit organisation whose mission is to improve lives through Education, Research, Healthcare and the Arts mainly in Canada and Israel. There are three main prizes:The Azrieli Prize for Jewish Music - awarded to a composer who has written the best new undiscovered work of Jewish musicThe Azrieli Commission for Jewish Music - awarded to encourage composers to creatively and critically engage with the question "What is Jewish music?"The Azrieli Commission for Canadian Music - offered to a Canadian composer to create a new musical work that creatively and critically engages with the complexities of composing concert music in Canada todayOn 15 October 2023, the foundation is presenting […]
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2022-08-02 10:05:59
Death of a Japanese soloist, 72
The violinist Sato Yoko has died of liver... The post Death of a Japanese soloist, 72 appeared first on Slippedisc.
2022-03-19 04:18:00
JoAnn Falletta to Conduct Three World Premiere PerformancesThe Buffalo Philharmonic led by JoAnn Falletta will perform three world premieres commissioned by the orchestra this Spring at Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo, New York: Kenneth Fuchs’s Point of Tranquility (Sat. Mar. 19 & Sun. Mar. 20), inspired by abstract expressionism; Russell Platt’s Symphony in Three Movements (For Clyfford Still), (Sat. Apr. 23 & Sun. Apr. 24), a musical interpretation of abstract impressionist works by Still that hang in Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Art Gallery; and Wang Jie’s The Winter that United Us (Sat. June 11), celebrating the City of Buffalo. The BPO opened the season in September with the world premiere of Daren Hagen’s Bandana Overture.Falletta, who has garnered international praise as an advocate of new and lesser-known music, has introduced over five hundred works by American composers, including well over 100 world premieres. She remarks “Orchestral music is a beautiful continuum, stretching back over three […]
2021-11-10 09:26:00
Recycle, re-use, re-think: Dai Fujikura's latest disc Glorious Clouds
Dai Fujikura Glorious Clouds; Minabel Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 10 November 2021 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) From microorganisms to the philosophy of Kierkegaard, from a concerto for a traditional Japanese instrument to a contrabass clarinet solo, the inspirations of Japanese-born, UK-based composer Dai Fujikura are fascinating and dazzlingDai Fujikura's latest album, Glorious Clouds might almost have the subtitle, 'recycle, re-use, re-think', as many of the works on the disc seem to evolve from Fujikura's other pieces. The disc also represents the composer's continuing engagement with Japanese traditional instruments, instruments that he didn't really listen to or know much about when growing up in Japan. Glorious Clouds from Minabel / New Focus Recordings features Fujikura's Shamisen Concerto from Hidejiro Honjoh (shamisen), Ensemble Nomad, Norio Sato, new orchestral pieces from Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins, and Chubu Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuko Tanaka, as well as solo and chamber pieces for a wide […]
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