Suzanne Adams News
American lyric soprano (1872–1953)
- soprano
- United States of America
- actor, opera singer, stage actor
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2024-03-29
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2024-03-28 16:22:06
Andres/Segev/Metropolis Ensemble/Cyr(Nonesuch)These three works showcase the US composer’s distinctive and accomplished musical languageLike a number of US composers of the thirtysomething generation, Timo Andres takes the minimalism of John Adams and Philip Glass as the starting point for his eclectic musical language. But as shown by the solo piano Colorful History, which Andres himself plays as the centrepiece to this collection, his music explores a much broader musical landscape.The solo piece, a chaconne of increasing complexity, is framed by two concertos: The Blind Banister for piano from 2017 (composed for Jonathan Biss, but with Andres as the soloist here) and Upstate Obscura for cello. The piano concerto (Andres’s third for the instrument) was commissioned as part of a series inspired by Beethoven’s five examples: for Andres, the pairing was with the second piano concerto, but there’s no hint of Beethovenian pastiche or allusion in his music. Instead the work begins almost […]
2024-03-16 09:57:00
From Early Music to contemporary: the Royal Festival Hall organ is 70 and organist James McVinnie is celebrating with a Southbank Centre residency
[…] James premiered the work and has given eight or nine performances of it since and is pleased to be bringing it to London. He thinks that both hall and organ will be ideal for the work, the speakers will look amazing.On 29 June, James is back at the Southbank Centre, at the Purcell Room this time, with the James McVinnie Ensemble in a programme entitled American Minimalism, with music by Gabriella Smith, Philip Glass, John Adams and inti figgis-vizueta. The ensemble features four keyboard players, James himself plus Eliza McCarthy, Siwan Rhys, and Hugh Rowlands. The ensemble has its origins in 2017 when Philip Glass was turning 80. James has always been a big fan of Glass's music, particularly that from the 1960s and 1970s. He is one of those who saw Einstein on the Beach in London in 2021 and it changed his life. Another work that he found […]
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2024-03-09 13:00:31
The week in classical: LSO/ Rattle; The Rake’s Progress; The Flying Dutchman; Elena Urioste and Tom Poster – review
Barbican; Hackney Empire; Royal Opera House; St Mark’s church, LondonDread runs through John Adams’s pulsating new short symphony; Stravinsky’s Rake has plenty of company at ETO; Bryn Terfel returns as the mythical Dutchman; and two lockdown favourites bring the house downIf you feel helpless in the face of world events and battered by 24-hour news, you are in good company: America’s greatest living composer,
2024-03-04 15:56:07
Barbican, LondonIn an all-American programme works by composers from Gershwin to an Adams world premiere were superbly presented by Rattle and LSO, with Harris’s 1939 symphony a revelationS
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