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2024-04-06 08:42:00
Spell Book, Witch & Stone Fruit: composer Freya Waley-Cohen on the power of ritual and spells
Freya Waley-Cohen: Spell Book - Héloïse Werner, Manchester Collective - Barbican (Photo: César Vásquez Altamirano)On 1 February 2024, Manchester Collective, Héloïse Werner (soprano), Fleur Barron (mezzo-soprano), Katie Bray (mezzo-soprano) and Céline Saout (harp) presented the world premiere of Freya Waley-Cohen's complete Spell Book at the Barbican in advance of the song cycle's release on NMC Recordings in October 2024. Setting feminist spell-poems from Rebecca Tamás' 2019 collection WITCH, the cycle mines a vein that Freya Waley-Cohen also explored in her 2020 opera WITCH. In a totally different vein, February 2024 also saw the premiere of Freya's Stone Fruit at Wigmore Hall performed by the Colin Currie Quartet.Freya Waley-Cohen (Photo: Patrick Allen)When Freya first read Rebecca Tamás' poetry, it caught her imagination and expanded her way of looking at the world. Freya loved the idea of witches and spells, the poetry was fantastical, playful and powerful. She also felt that the […]
2023-08-26 12:00:00
John Dante Prevedini listens to piano music by Mexican composer José F Vásquez. '... we are urged by releases like this to rethink our approach to composers like Vásquez ...'
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2021-03-07 18:24:22
Covid toll of musician deaths is slightly lower
This week’s fatalities: 225 Punjabi singer Sardool Sikander, 60 226 Met Opera chorus singer Antoine Hodge, 38 227 Gospellettes bassist Victoria Dillard, 64 228 Concertmaster Yuval Waldman, 74 229 Brazil flute professor Josimara Alves de Souza 230 Italian musician Danilo Rustici, 72 231 Early musician José Vasquez 232 South Africa broadcasting chief Peter Matlare […]
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2021-03-07 12:24:24
Leading gambist dies of Covid
The distinguished Cuban-American early musician Jose Vasquez, viol player and curator of the Orpheon Foundation instrument collection, has died of the pandemic, the foundation has announced. Raised in Chicago, Vasquez taught performance practice in Switerland and was professor for viola da gamba at the University of Music in Vienna.
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