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Workshops, Welsh song for families, Cleveland Watkiss, Mark Padmore, Hera Hyesang Park - the Manchester Song Festival 2024
Manchester Song FestivalThe 2024 Manchester Song Festival is at Stoller Hall from 1 to 3 March 2024 with a lively weekend of concerts, workshops and family events. Performances begin with jazz singer Cleveland Watkiss, with his distinctive blend of improvisation/counterpoint harmony, electronics, breakbeat loops and basslines (all live and from his mouth), in VocalSuite, described as 'elusive acapella vocal improvisation performance that uses the atmosphere of venue, mood and interactivity of audience to present a performance of the moment'.The following evening, tenor Mark Padmore will be performing Schumann, Frank Bridge, Michael Tippett, Rebecca Clarke and Tansy Davies, and the festival ends with a recital from Korean opera singer Hera Hyesang Park and pianist Bretton Brown in a mixture of Korean art songs and music by Samuel Barber, Alma Mahler, Respighi, Rossini, Schubert, Caplet, Cecilia Livingston, Thomas Dunhill and Errollyn Wallen.There is also a chance to catch vocal students from Chetham's School of Music […]
2021-06-08 07:25:01
Heart & Hereafter: Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper's exploration of the songs of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Heart & Hereafter: collected songs of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; Elizabeth Llewellyn, Simon Lepper; Orchid Classics Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 6 May 2021 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) A lovely discovery, the English soprano makes her recital debut with an exploration of the songs of Coleridge-Taylor which makes you keen to hear moreSir Charles Villiers Stanford's pupils were a varied group and whilst his own music was firmly in the tradition of Brahms, that written by his pupils moved in different directions. The English school of the 20th century as typified by RVW and Holst arose in part, perhaps, because the older composer's teaching gave them something to rebel against. However the list of his pupils is wider than this, including Edgar Bainton, Arthur Benjamin, Arthur Bliss, Rutland Boughton, Herbert Brewer, Frank Bridge, Rebecca Clarke, Walford Davies, Thomas Dunhill, George Dyson, Leslie Heward, Eugene Goosens, Ivor Gurney, Herbert Howells, William […]
2021-03-02 16:54:12
Winter into Spring: Oxford Lieder Festival's Spring weekend concludes
Shostakovich: Four Romances on Poems by Pushkin - Lada Valesova, James Platt - Oxford Lieder Festival (photo taken from live stream) Shostakovich, RVW, Schubert; James Platt, Lada Valesova, James Atkinson, Ailish Tynan, Iain Burnside, Julian Bliss; Oxford Lieder Festival at the Holywell Music Room Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 28 February 2021 The final two concerts of Oxford Lieder Festival's Spring weekend, ranging from Shostakovich and RVW to SchubertSunday's two evening concerts at Oxford Lieder Festival's weekend of song, Winter into Spring (broadcast live from the Holywell Music Room in Oxford), demonstrated the challenges of putting on concerts in the present climate. To add to the unfortunate but not unheard-of problem of a singer being ill, there was the added complication of another singer unable to travel due to the present restrictions. So this meant that both concerts were changed. Not that we noticed from the […]
2020-09-01 23:47:00
Sarasota: Harpist Ann Hobson Pilot on Overcoming Racism in Classical Music: Pilot was the first Black female principal player in a major symphony orchestra.
Ann Hobson Pilot (Michael Kinsey) Sarasota By Heather Dunhill 9/1/2020 Ann Hobson Pilot is a classical music legend. A veteran harpist, she was the first Black female principal player in a major symphony orchestra. She also boasts an extensive international solo career, with eight albums to her name. Pilot holds three honorary doctorates, as well as the Gold Baton from the League of American Orchestras, which puts her in the company of greats like Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and Yo-Yo Ma. She is the only harpist on the list. She has taught at the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston University, State College of Florida, Tanglewood Music Center and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. She also mentors musicians of color and those in underserved communities. In 2011, she was the subject of a documentary, A Harpist’s Legacy: […]
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