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2020-11-09 06:29:00
Bernstein: Songfest (CD review)
[…] of booklet notes and song lyrics complement an excellent presentation of the music. Oh, and in case you’re wondering about the National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, it’s a group formed each June by the musicians of the National Orchestral Institute, “chosen through rigorous international auditions” and focused “on creating future musicians and leaders in the world of orchestras.”Producer, engineer, and editor Phil Rowlands recorded the music at the Elsie & Marvin Dekelboum Concert Hall at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park, Maryland in June 2018. The orchestral sound is uniformly excellent, among the best I’ve heard from Naxos. It has clarity, width, depth, air, dynamics, frequency range, the works. It may not be as transparent as some audiophile recordings, but it’s close. I enjoyed it immensely. The vocal music, too, is clearly presented, although it betrays minor traces of edginess in the upper registers. Not enough to spoil the […]
2020-02-24 06:11:00
Truman Harris: A Warm Day in Winter (CD review)
[…] Flute and Chamber Orchestra (2003), which contains elements of lyricism, nostalgia, jazz, and march in a mostly playful display. It has the distinctions of incorporating the best of Harris's playful, upbeat style with maybe the best sound on the disc. Producers James Ross, Laurel Bennert Ohlson, Elizabeth Schulze, and Steven Honigberg and engineers Antonio D'Urzo and Paul Blakemore recorded the music at the George Washington Masonic National Memorial, Alexandria, Virginia and the Dekelboum Concert hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland in 2007, 2009, and 2016. As one might expect from the several recording dates and venues, the sound varies a bit from selection to selection. Nevertheless, it is mostly good, the little chamber pieces sounding fresh and alive. Overall, I didn't notice any particular instances of brightness in the treble or boominess in the bass, just some minor veiling in occasional areas. The sound […]
2019-10-03 23:29:00
WashingtonPost.com: Imani Winds: “A Woman’s Perspective” College Park Oct. 4
[…] riding a lonely path as one of the few ensembles made up of musicians of color in a very white field. But in the classical music world, being a woman is even harder than being black — so, at least, thought Florence Price and Margaret Bonds, two major 20th-century composers who happened to be both. “A Woman’s Perspective” is the title of Imani Winds’s program at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center on Friday. It features pieces by composers you should have heard of — including Ruth Crawford Seeger, a major voice of American modernism who after her marriage saw her work fall into neglect, and Coleman herself. *** Oct. 4 at 8 p.m. at Gildenhorn Recital Hall of the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, 8270 Alumni Dr., College Park. theclariceumd.edu. $25; $10 for students.
2018-12-01 01:23:00
Morgan Choir sings Antigone in Ferguson on University of MD - College Park campus
Dr. Eric Conway writes:Hello everyone, Last night, the Morgan State University Choir performed Phil Woodmore's Antigone in Ferguson at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park. This performance was under the direction of the composer with musicians and chorus members from Ferguson, MO who premiered this piece over two years ago. Woodmore adapted Sophocles' Greek tragedy Antigone to highlight the civil turmoil after the killing of Michael Brown. The Morgan choir learned this piece at the beginning of this semester for our Performing Arts Convocation on October 4, 2018. The group from Ferguson, MO has performed this piece all over the country since the premiere. The company just returned from a five-week run in Harlem, New York. This performance was very different from our Morgan performance. The composer has since decided to have […]
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