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2024-03-12 09:19:00
It's back: Classical Pride returns to the Barbican with a five celebration of LGBTQ+ composers and artists
[…] with Pavel Kolesnikov and music by Tchaikovsky and Copland.At Milton Court Concert Hall, the Fourth Choir, conductor Nicholas Chalmers will be focusing on the relationship between Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears in My Beloved Man featuring music by Britten, Barber, Imogen Holst, Barber and more.There is a free performance of Julius Eastman’s Gay Guerilla, in the Barbican’s foyer performed by the Julius Eastman Ensemble assembled by Stephen Upshaw in an arrangement by US composer Jessie Montgomery.A Proud Future features performers and composers from the LGBTQ+ student bodies of the Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music, Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in a series of concerts of LGBTQ+ music that has personal meaning for them. The festival opens with something a bit different, Classical Drag at Outernet in Soho, to showcase some of the biggest names in drag and classical music.Classical […]
2023-12-04 19:37:35
Geter’s passionate song cycle stands out amid tepid MusicNOW opener
“We’re in for a really big ride,” an enthusiastic Jessie Montgomery, […]
2023-10-26 15:25:00
New Jersey Symphony. Joseph Young, conductor; Sterling Elliott, cello. October 21, 2023.
Count Basie Center, Red Bank, NJ. Orchestra Center (Seat G101, $55).Soloist Elliott acknowledging the orchestra, with conductor Young looking on.ProgramSnapshots by Jessie Montgomery.Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129 by R. Schumann.Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36, "Enigma" by Elgar.The draw of the concert, for me, is the Schumann Cello concerto. About ten days prior we heard the piano concerto performed by Trifonov. Today's Program Notes isn't as "educational" as the writeup in NY Phil's Playbill, but the music is equally fascinating. Instead of taking years to write the piano concerto, Schumann took all of two weeks to do it for the cello; it was written in 1850, a few years later.It's a lovely concerto. Again I am more familiar with it than I thought. The young soloist is a recent Avery Fisher Prize winner. He is from a musical family, and was brought up with a jazz and blue-grass […]
2023-10-12 03:30:00
Stillpoint (CD Review)
by Karl NehringJessie Montgomery: Rounds; Paolo Prestini: Code; Alvin Singleton: Time Past, Time Future; Pēteris Vasks: Castillo Interior; Tyshawn Sorey: Untitled Composition for Piano and Eight Voices; Judd Greenstein: Still Point. Awadagin Pratt, piano; Roomful of Teeth, voices; A Far Cry, strings. New Amsterdam NWAM177-CD Way back in 1994 I reviewed a solo piano recording titled A Long Way from Normal by a young African-American pianist by the name of Awadagin Pratt. Born in Pittsburgh, Pratt began studying piano at the age of six. By age nine, having moved to Normal, Illinois thus the title of his first album) with his family, he also began studying violin. At age 16 he entered the University of Illinois where he studied piano, violin, and conducting. He subsequently enrolled at the Peabody Conservatory of Music where he became the first student in the school’s history to receive diplomas in three performance areas – piano, violin and conducting. In 1992 he won the Naumburg […]
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