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American opera singer
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2023-12-20 21:12:00
[…] Gold Baton of the American Symphony Orchestra League, honored as an Outstanding American Composer at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, received the European Culture Prize and was Legacy Honoree and Artist in Residence of the Young People’s Chorus of New York City. In 2020, he was named by OPERA America as one of the ten inaugural inductees for the Opera Hall of Fame, joining Dawn Upshaw, Grace Bumbry, David Gockley, Simon Estes and other luminaries. Getty’s life in music is the subject of the 2015 documentary There Will Be Music. Scenes from Getty’s first opera, Plump Jack, had their 1984 premiere with the San Francisco Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas. In December 2015, San Francisco Opera presented his opera Usher House as part of a double bill with the American premiere of Debussy’s La Chute de la Maison Usher (reconstructed and orchestrated by Robert Orledge), as both stage works were inspired by Edgar […]
2022-05-06 12:35:31
The Juilliard School will award five honorary doctorates at its 117th commencement ceremony on May 20, 2022. Three of the recipients are musicians: conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, bass-baritone Simon Estes, and trumpeter and music educator Ahmad Naser Sarmast. In addition, the school will honor playwright Suzan-Lori Parks and ballet dancer Masazumi Chaya. As well […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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2021-10-27 07:59:29
dream.risk.sing: Samantha Crawford and Lana Bode explore women's lives in song at Oxford Lieder Festival
dream.risk.sing - Lana Bode, Samantha Crawford - Oxford Lieder Festival dream.risk.sing - Dvorak, Judith Weir, Charlotte, Bray, Carson Cooman, Ricky Ian Gordon, Helen Grime, Florence Price, Michele Brourman; Samantha Crawford, Lana Bode; Oxford Lieder Festival (on-line) Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 26 October 2021 Two young performers in a personal project to explore women's lives in the concert hall, using song to look at topics as various as motherhood, discrimination and loss, complex and striking subjects with some powerful contemporary responsesSoprano Samantha Crawford and pianist Lana Bode's dream.risk.sing is very much a personal project, aimed at creating a song recital which explored women's experiences. Predominantly, though not necessarily women composers, but music which takes women's lives as its subject matter rather than the purely masculine gaze of much of the classic repertoire. Crawford and Bode developed the programme during 2020 and will be recording it for Delphian […]
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