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2024-03-29
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-14 15:45:32
A Long Road of Remembrance and Hope
The oratorio O Lungo Drom (The Long Road) is an authentic testimony of the Sinti and Roma people, whose journey since time immemorial has been shrouded by poetic and popular imagination. It finds its voice for the first time here directly through the words of Sinti/Roma poets and writers, set to music by Roma composer Ralf Yusuf Gawlick. This oratorio will receive its joint U.S. premières on April 5th at College of the Holy Cross and the 6th at Boston College, with soprano Clara Meloni, baritone Christoph Filler, cimbalomist László Rácz and the Alban Berg Ensemble Wien, the same cast performing on the world première recording recently released on Decca Eloquence Australia. Harpsichordist Peter Watchorn, a professor at Boston College and co-founder, executive producer and CEO of the record label Musica Omnia (which hosts seven Gawlick recordings), recently spoke with the composer. PW: In the past decade, you have shared […]
2024-02-26 05:00:16
The ex-boss of Classic FM is rebooting the BBC’s venerable home of classical music, with new shows and presenters – including a special slot for ‘perfect fit’ Jools HollandThe office of the controller of Radio 3, in Old Broadcasting House in London, has one solitary wood-panelled wall, a remnant of a more stately era of the BBC, before the glassy, shimmering heights of New Broadcasting House rose up to overshadow its 1930s predecessor. The current incumbent is Sam Jackson. He is, perhaps, the least suited-and-booted of any of his forerunners – he is wearing jeans, sneakers and a printed blue shirt straight out of the wardrobe of
2024-02-25 05:00:38
His track for the 1973 film was unusually structured, including a section written by Linda McCartney, and gave rise to a memorable cover version
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2024-02-16 18:28:30
[…] He stretches his cast, quite literally: spines slink backwards, one dancer drapes over another’s shoulders, there are daring lifts with one hand in the small of the back. Unexpected pools of movement form in the sonar ping and warble of Nils Frahm’s electronic score, which gives way to surging piano and a fraught duet for Liam Boswell and Francisco Serrano. What will Junker do next? It should be special.Boundless was the evening’s stirring opener. Gemma Bond, in one of the filmed introductions to each piece, says it was prompted by watching her uninhibited young child at play. Joey Roukens’ live score comes out snarling and there’s a rambunctious energy to the ensemble, in smoky costumes by Charlotte MacMillan, who spin and whizz through ceaseless eddies and transitions. Whirling and elusive at the ballet’s centre, Yasmine Naghdi evokes ballet’s swan heritage – self-involved and determined, heedless of her partner, wonderfully unsupported.Mthuthuzeli […]
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