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American composer
- United States of America
- composer, university teacher
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2024-01-22 15:45:25
Mozart, 2024
[…] allows the performer to reach lower notes, and that was the instrument for which Mozart wrote the concerto. We’ll hear it performed by a talented German clarinetist Sabine Meyer with the Staatskapelle Dresden under the direction of Hans Vonk. Muzio Clementi, who competed as a keyboard player and composer with Mozart at the court of Emperor Josef II, was born on January 23rd of 1752. He, Henri Dutilleux, Witold Lutoslawski, the pianists Josef Hofmann, John Ogdon and Arthur Rubinstein, the cellist Jacqueline du Pré and Wilhelm Furtwängler, a great conductor, all of whom were born this week, will have to wait for another time.
2022-04-07 13:01:07
The Manchester Guitar Festival at Stoller Hall, 20-22 May 2022 is a celebration of all things guitar from classical and jazz, acoustic, electric and flamenco. Opening the festival will be guitarist Sean Shibe, who will be pairing music for classical guitar by Bach and Mompou with two works for electric guitar, Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint and Julia Wolfe’s LAD, originally composed for nine bagpipes and arranged by Shibe for the electric guitar. Other performers over the weekend include the Daniel Martinez Flamenco Company, and the Spanish theme continues throughout the festival with Spanish food and drink available. The Northern Chamber Orchestra is joined by Australian guitarist, Craig Ogden, as well as students from Chetham's School of Music for Malcolm Arnold's Guitar Concerto and music by RVW, Grainger, Sculthorpe and Elgar. There will also be performances from two guitarists who are former Chetham’s School of Music students Whitford Rees and Alexandra […]
2022-03-24 18:24:00
Alexander Goehr 90th Birthday Concert – Goehr, Richards, and Anderson, Nash Ensemble et al., 22 March 2022
Wigmore HallGoehr-Stravinsky: ….around Stravinsky, op.72, for violin, oboe, cor anglais, clarinet, and bassoon Emma-Ruth Richards: de Stâmparare, for solo oboe Goehr: Largo siciliano, op.91, for piano, horn, and violin Goehr: The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, op.102, for voice, clarinet, and piano (world premiere) Julian Anderson: Ring Dance, for two violins Goehr: Combat of Joseph della Reina and the Devil, for two sopranos, mezzo-soprano, tenor, piano, and viola (world premiere) Héloïse Werner, Emilia Bertolini (sopranos)Clare Presland (mezzo-soprano) Joshua Ellicott (tenor) Nash Ensemble Alasdair Beatson (piano/director) Alexander Goehr will be 90 in August; here the Nash Ensemble, longstanding Goehr champions, got in a little early with a celebratory concert including no fewer than two Goehr premieres and three other of his works. Compared to his two ‘Manchester School’ colleagues, Harrison Birtwistle and Peter Maxwell Davies—John Ogdon and Elgar Howarth being very different cases—Goehr has latterly, perhaps always, had a raw […]
2021-10-04 06:28:19
First the good news: all proceeds from this release go to Shelter, a UK-based charity for the homeless. Now the bad news: Brenda Lucas Ogdon is no longer the virtuoso she was during her heyday as duo piano partner with her late husband John Ogdon. Indeed, there’s little to love about her labored, enervated, and […]
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