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Jamaican-born British operatic bass-baritone
- bass-baritone
- Jamaica
- opera singer, musician, performing artist
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2024-04-22 19:01:00
Sound Tracks
I was flying back to Boston from Atlanta Friday night, and by good fortune had a port side window seat in front of the wing. I hadn't thought much of the view I might get on this budget Spirit Airlines flight, but as we descended from clouds into the Greater Boston area, I started noticing I could see a lot of detail out the side, although honestly the window looked too small and smudgey to think I could do any worthwhile photography. I took a few phone photos that looked pretty bad and kind of put the idea way. Then as I started seeing the Boston skyline way in the distance, I thought this might be a nice approach and started video-ing. In this way, I captured the last two minutes of the flight in gorgeous, dusky skylight, with clear views of the South Boston waterfront all the way to the […]
2024-04-22 14:50:18
Prkofiev, Menuhin, Pamphili 2024
[…] first name differs in different sources: with an “i” at the end in Wiki, but a “y” in Grove and Britannica. None of which matters much; what is important is his undeniable talent as a composer and pianist. Prokofiev left Russia after the Revolution of 1917 but then returned, unexplainably in retrospect, to the Soviet Union in 1936. He wasn’t the only one: dozens of Russian emigres, writers, artists, composers, even the members of the White Guard, returned to their land of birth, driven by nostalgia and Soviet propaganda, many of them to be arrested and killed. Prokofiev was spared, even if for some years his position was tenuous. We’ve written about Prokofiev many times, you can read more, for example, here and here. Yehudi Menuhin, one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century, was born in New York on this day in 1916. And we want to remember […]
2024-04-17 06:39:00
Southbank Centre's new season: Schoenberg's 150th, the OAE in Bruckner, Joyce Didonato in Berlioz, The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with Daniel Barenboim
[…] Schoenberg's 150th anniversary, with Jonathan Berman conducting the Ode to Napoleon (no, I've never heard that live either) and Chamber Symphony. They will be joined by the Royal Academy of Music's Manson Ensemble for a performance of Morton Feldman's For Samuel Beckett. The Philharmonia Orchestra's Music of Today will feature conductor Chloe Rooke and soprano Ella Taylor in Saariaho’s Semafor and Hans Abrahmsen’s Two Inger Christensen Songs. The London Philharmonic Orchestra's season will include Evan Williams’ Dead White Man Music (Concerto for Harpsichord and Chamber Ensemble), and Sarod player Amjad Ali Khan performs his own concerto Samaagam alongside a new overture by Reena Esmail and selections from film soundtracks by AR Rahman.The full season is available via the Southbank Centre website.
2024-04-11 11:32:44
BLACK & White Ashley Wass, piano This new release from British pianist Ashley Wass celebrates a
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