Willis Patterson News
American opera singer
- bass-baritone
- opera singer, music teacher
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2024-03-29
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-17 13:50:36
[…] was one of these, as were Harold Farberman of the BSO’s percussion section (30 years later I had very good lessons from him at the Conductors Institute in South Carolina), and a very able Norwegian, Sverre Bruland; the younger conducting students, not “actives,” included John Harbison. Charles Munch was on campus, of course, directing BSO concerts. Berlioz’s Grande messe des morts, the Requiem, was on the menu, and Lorna Cooke de Varon and Alfred Nash Patterson took turns rehearsing every available choral voice, including all the composers’, for the eventual performance, and so it was that I sang as an anonymous chorister under Munch’s direction, just that one time. Munch took no part in running the BMC, which was overseen that summer by Aaron Copland, Ralph Berkowitz, and a few others. Weekly concerts by the BMC Orchestra were mostly directed by the “actives” and by de Carvalho and Seymour Lipkin; […]
2024-02-05 19:37:54
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2023-11-17 05:25:42
Guest cellists thrive, while Sphere does “90s Retro” By Peter Alexander November 16 at 10:25 p.m. Erin Patterson, principal cellist of the Boulder Symphony will step forward as soloist with the orchestra Friday evening for a concert under director Devin Patrick Hughes. Patterson will play Dance for cello and orchestra by English composer Anna Clyne. […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-10-21 17:47:05
Judging from the large student presence in the Recital Hall at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, David Patterson’s choral and instrumental works on “caring, acceptance, and decorum,” generated enthusiasm for the music of this popular professor. [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
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