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English composer, organist, and singer
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- opera singer, composer
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-31 16:37:32
“What’s Going On” at Trinity
Can you believe it? Berklee College musicians and the choir of Trinity Church, Boston, perform Motown hits, Sunday, April 7th at 5pm, free and open to all. Marvin Gaye’s groundbreaking 1971 album, What’s Going On? is full of loving outrage, asking questions—about injustice, poverty, drugs, violence, the environment, and war—that are every bit as timely now as they were a half century ago. The incomparable jazz singer Gabrielle Goodman, joined by a cadre of virtuoso Berklee colleagues and the Trinity Choir will perform works by Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, and other Motown stars. Featured Berklee artists include longtime Nashville recording artist Donna McElroy, Berklee’s executive dean the drummer Ron Savage, renowned musicologist Emmet Price, and vocalist Larry Watson, who imparts to his ensembles the African axiom of Ubuntu, “I am because we are.” As early as four years old, Marvin Gaye began singing in his Washington, DC, Pentecostal […]
2024-01-23 11:00:08
On this day in 1964 the American premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Last Savage took place at the Metropolitan Opera.
2023-12-04 10:41:00
Total immersion: the Glasshouse's Big Bruckner Weekend features his final three symphonies, a mass, motets & more
Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia (Photo: Mark Savage)Next year is the 200th anniversary of Bruckner's birth, so expect plenty of celebrations of the composer's music, though the sheer scale of his symphonies makes anything like completeness difficult. The Glasshouse in Gateshead is having a Big Bruckner Weekend from 1 to 3 March 2024 offering audiences the opportunity to immerse themselves in final three symphonies, his motets, one of his masses and even his String Quintet.Across the weekend, Domingo Hindoyan conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in Bruckner’s Symphony No.7, Sir Mark Elder and The Hallé perform Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8 and Alpesh Chauhan conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Bruckner's unfinished Symphony No. 9. Thomas Zehetmair conducts the Royal Northern Sinfonia & chorus in Bruckner's Mass No. 3 with soloists Elizabeth Watts, Hannah Hipp, Thomas Atkins and Mark Stone, whilst throughout the weekend the chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia will be performing Bruckner's motets, […]
2023-11-13 04:30:00
Tubin: Kratt - Suite from the Ballet; Bacewicz: Concerto for String Orchestra; Tubin; Music for Strings; Lutoslawski: Musique Funèbre (CD Review)
by Karl NehringEstonian Festival Orchestra; Paavo Järvi, conductor. Alpha Classics ALPHA 1006With apologies to Alpha Classics, I still can’t help but think of this as a Telarc release; it just looks, feels, and sounds like the kind of the kind of recording that the Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi (b. 1962) used to release on the late, lamented Cleveland-based audiophile label back when he was at the helm of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra from 2001-2011. He released a boatload of recordings with the CSO on Telarc, and most of them were excellent. Since then, he has made a number of fine recordings with other orchestras for other labels, including a number of notable recordings of symphonies by Beethoven and Bruckner for RCA. But here we have him presenting some music by some lesser-known composers: two pieces by the Estonian composer Eduard Tubin (1905-1982) along with one each by the Polish composers […]
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