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2024-02-29 07:43:00
One of the oldest-established festivals in the UK, the Norfolk & Norwich comes round in the merry month of May.
[…] and a healthy smattering of drum ‘n’ bass, delivered, of course, by the directness and pathos for which Luke is so well known for. Local poetry collective, Toast, will curate and host this year’s Speak Easy, a performance poetry tent pitched in Festival Gardens while Spill Festival director, Robin Deacon, will perform his own work Through the Round Window.Exploring issues surrounding the environment, A Greener World features the world première of three short plays by Steve Waters entitled Phoenix, Dodo and Butterfly while the installation, On Our Doorsteps, explores the relationships between urban communities and the green spaces in their neighbourhood. The work has been created by Zakiya Mackenzie and Tiitu Takalo in collaboration with local people and Norfolk Wildlife Trust. Over at west Norfolk in King’s Lynn, Art for the Environment, showing at the GroundWork Gallery (17 Purfleet Street, King's Lynn, PE30 1ER) features some of the most exciting artists to […]
2023-12-13 10:31:00
Repair Conway Hall's roof: crowd funder to help support the repairs to the historic structure, home to the Sunday Concerts
Conway HallConway Hall was completed in 1929 and since then has played host to all manner of events such as influential talks on the establishment of the NHS, the first national conference on AIDS with Gay & Lesbian Switchboard in 1983 and musicians such as Muddy Waters, Humphrey Lyttleton and The Cure, not mention the Sunday Concerts which have their origins in the 19th century and make them the longest running such concert series in Europe, presenting affordable classical music for all.Not surprisingly, with such an historic structure, things are beginning to show their age and the roof needs repairing. Conway Hall has started a crowd-funder to help raise some of the cost (nearly £250,000 over the next five years). Do please donate: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/repair-conway-halls-roof As the hall approaches its centenary, they have also started a separate crowd funder to held support the hall's core ethical work.
2023-11-23 04:30:00
Recent Releases No. 66 (CD Reviews)
by Karl Nehring Amazônia. Villa-Lobos: Suite Floresta de Amazonas; Glass: Metamorphosis I (from Aguas da Amazonia). Camila Provenzale, soprano; Philharmonia Zürich; Simone Menezes, conductor. Alpha Classics ALPHA 990This release pairs two works infused with the energy and exotic sounds and colors of the Amazonian jungle, brought to you courtesy of the creative imaginations of two composers of different times and hemispheres, the Brazilian Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) and the American Philip Glass (b. 1937). Villa-Lobos wrote this music in 1958, late in his career, originally conceiving it as “a symphonic poem, a long, abstract narration that nevertheless stimulates visual echoes,” according to the CD booklet essay, which goes on the explain that the music was intended to accompany a film titled Green Mansions. Not surprisingly, the film’s producers brought in a team of Hollywood arrangers who effectively destroyed Villa-Lobos’s music. As a result, “Villa-Lobos took back his music, and made an independent concert work […]
2023-10-29 18:26:00
New York Philharmonic. Jeannette Sorrell, conductor. October 28, 2023.
David Geffen Hall. Orchestra 3 (Seat AA118, $70).Photo taken after Act II, before the intermission. There were only 4 soloists at this point.ProgramIsrael in Egypt, Oratorio in Three Parts, HWV 54 (1739) by Handel (1685-1759). Adapted by Jeannette Sorrell.ArtistsSoloists: Amanda Forsythe, soprano; Sonya Headlam, soprano; Cody Bowers, countertenor; Jacob Perry, tenor; Edward Vogel, baritone.Apollo's Singers (Chorus of Apollo's Fire), Jeannette Sorrell, artistic director.Sheryl Staples, Lisa Eunsoo Kim, violins; Carter Brey, cello; Robert Botti, oboe; Christopher Martin, trumpet; Paolo Bordignon, harpsichord.This is an oratorio composed by Handel in the span of about a month. In its original form it lasts about 3 hours. Over the years different people have made various attempts to shorten it. Tonight's version, about 100 minutes in duration, was adapted by Sorrell in 2017. In the Program Notes she mentions her restoring some portions of Part I to make the storyline more complete. To keep the oratorio's […]
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