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Turkey's leading orchestra, the German national youth orchestra plus ensembles from Tokyo, Prague, Vienna, Buenos Aires: 2024/25 Zurich International Orchestra Series at Cadogan Hall
[…] of the Seven Veils' from the ballet, Salome by Japanese composer Akira Ifukube (1914-2006), known also for his film scores including the 1954 Godzilla; Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra with its British chief conductor Jonathan Darlington; Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Rachmaninov, Beethoven and Liszt.Moving to 2025, however, and we get some real highlights. First off, the German National Orchestra which, rather confusingly, is actually a youth orchestra, founded in 1969 and with players aged 14 to 19. Wayne Marshall conducts and plays the piano in Gershwin, Britten and Holst. The Prague Symphony Orchestra is next. The orchestra was founded in 1934 and originally played for Czech films but Václav Smetáček was chief conductor for 30 years, and later Jiří Bělohlávek was. Now that role is taken by Tomáš Brauner and he conducts a programme of Dvorak and Prokofiev. The visit from Turkey's leading the orchestra, the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra must be regarded as […]
2024-02-03 08:50:00
What about blowing the box to pieces: composer Eímear Noone on writing for video games, films and TV
[…] an orchestral score then she composes directly into the notation programme because she needs to see the notes, she needs every detail there, to see and feel the orchestra. She has spent so much time conducting orchestras that she sees and hears the orchestra. When mixing the soundtrack, she wants the orchestra to sound big, spatially the same as the conductor hears. This is the sound that she is trying to recreate.Eimear Noone (Photo: Frances Marshall)Video Games in Concert UK Tour with Eímear Noone will run throughout May, featuring scores from classics such as The Last of Us, Uncharted, and World of Warcraft as well as new arrangements from recent hit games including God of War: Ragnarök, Starfield, and more. Details on Eímear Noone's website, tickets available at ticketmaster.co.uk Never miss out on future posts by following usThe blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me […]
2024-01-29 10:42:00
Stanford, Holst and an RVW premiere: the 17th English Music Festival at Dorchester Abbey
Caricature of Stanford by Spy in Vanity Fair, from 1905, three years after the Clarinet ConcertoThe seventeenth English Music Festival returns to Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire from Friday 24 May until Monday 27 May 2024. The festival's opening concert features Martin Yates conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra in a programme which includes Stanford's Clarinet Concerto with soloist Michael Collins, Doreen Carwithen's Cotswold Suite, Holst's early Cotswold Symphony and the premiere of a new suite from the music RVW wrote for performances of Shakespeare's Richard II in Stratford in 1912-13.Other events during the weekend include violinist Rupert Marshall-Luck and pianist Peter Cartwright in Holst, Bliss, Howells, Farrar and Stanford's Violin Sonata, tenor Brian Thorsett and pianist Richard Masters in Finzi, Ireland, USA-based English composer Frank E Tours (1877-1963) and Arthur Somervell's Maud, the Godwine Choir in a mixed programme including Howells, Havergal Brian and Holst's Hymns from the Rig Veda, plus concerts from the Flutes and Frets Duo, pianists […]
2024-01-26 08:08:00
Dame Evelyn Glennie and the City Lit Percussion Orchestra
Dame Evelyn Glennie at the City Lit Percussion Orchestra's workshop (Photo: Frances Marshall)Solo percussionist and alumna of the Royal Academy of Music, Dame Evelyn Glennie has become Patron of the City Lit Percussion Orchestra (CLPO). The Percussion Orchestra is part of City Lit’s Centre for Learning Disability Education, in partnership with the Royal Academy of Music. Students with an ear for instruments can learn to play percussion and compose music as a group. To mark the occasion, Dame Evelyn visited a workshop at City Lit, where she is also a Fellow. She collaborated with the Percussion Orchestra, performing and improvising alongside the participants and passing on her expert insights. Current Academy percussion student Zach Mitchell, who has worked with the CLPO for over a year, took part in this session along with Academy harpist Bonnie Scott and Adam Collins, a recent graduate and tuba player, who is a long-standing volunteer musician with the orchestra.The […]
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