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Voisey allows users to choose from a library of beats from around the world, submitted to the Voisey website by producers, and sing their own lyrics and melodies over them. Their vocals are run through in-app vocal effects including...Tuesday, March 31, 2020 from Classical Voice North America
By Anne E. Johnson DIGITAL REVIEW – In a 1954 cantata with text by Langston Hughes, composer Margaret Bonds mined many colors of the black experience. Why isn’t she better known, and what other treasures would we find if we bothered to...Tuesday, March 31, 2020 from ArtsJournal
“The Aldeburgh Festival is the latest cultural casualty of the coronavirus pandemic. The classical music event founded in 1948 by Benjamin Britten will not go ahead, it has been announced.” – The GuardianTuesday, March 31, 2020 from Music and Vision
Giuseppe Pennisi wonders whether the 2020 Salzburg Summer Festival will take placeTuesday, March 31, 2020 from Classical-Music.com
Rating: 0 Dear reader, In just a few short weeks, Coronavirus has delivered a blow to all aspects of our lives. Schools closed, hospitals overwhelmed, lockdowns imposed and, at the time of writing, cases on the rise. Our...Tuesday, March 31, 2020 from Classical-Music.com
‘Hill and Frith have done us a service’ This week’s free download is the first movement of Beethoven ’s Sonata for Piano Hands, performed by pianists Peter Hill and Benjamin Frith and recorded by Delphian. The...Tuesday, March 31, 2020 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Here’s a one-word review of Jennifer Curtis and Tyshawn Sorey’s collaborative album Invisible Ritual: finally. Alternatively, epic. Try for three,.. The post “Unseen Acts of Magic:” Jennifer Curtis and Tyshawn Sorey’s...Tuesday, March 31, 2020 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Julian Perkins (Photo: Benjamin Harte) Like many musicians, Julian Perkins from Sounds Baroque is finding creative ways to cope with the necessary isolation. He is introducing a regular Bach at 9 recital series, starting at 9.00pm...Tuesday, March 31, 2020 from Classical-Music.com
Rating: 0 We are here for you. If you're used to buying our magazine from the shops, you can order by 27 April and receive our next 3 issues delivered to your home. This offer is risk-free, doesn’t require starting a...Tuesday, March 31, 2020 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Katherine Spencer (Photo Suzi Corker) The musicians of the City of London Sinfonia's response to self-isolation has been to set up a regular streamed event, Comfortably Classical at Home on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11.30am when one of...Tuesday, March 31, 2020 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Sullivan Haddon Hall , Ford Mr Jericho , Cellier Captain Billy ; Ed Lyon, Henry Waddington, Adrian Thompson, Ben McAteer, Donald Maxwell, Sarah Tynan, Fiona Kimm, Angela Simkin, BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra, John Andrews; Dutton...Tuesday, March 31, 2020 from Adaptistration
As coronavirus shutdowns continue, we’re seeing some genuinely positive interaction between employers and musician employees working toward mutually agreeable solutions to the sensitive issue of payroll. Outside of those scenarios,...Tuesday, March 31, 2020 from British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content
Continuing my exploration of works first heard at the 1970 Cheltenham Festival of Music... Although there are plenty of adverts on the internet for the score of Robin Holloway’s Scenes from Schumann , op.13, I could not locate a...Monday, March 30, 2020 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
Midnight Trains. The New Yorker, April 6, 2020. Go here to watch the video of Sweet Land. Photos above and below by Casey Kringlen.Monday, March 30, 2020 from ArtsJournal
Thursday’s settlement deal in a case brought by a onetime Philadelphia area saxophonist against a $2 billion musicians’ pension fund shows that the trustees who ratify advisers’ and outside managers’ investment picks can be held...Monday, March 30, 2020 from Music Genre: Classical
Domingo's reported hospitalization comes days after he posted a message on Facebook saying it was his "moral obligation" to reveal he tested positive for the disease caused by the coronavirus.Monday, March 30, 2020 from The Classical Review
All live performances across the country have necessarily come to a […]Monday, March 30, 2020 from ArtsJournal
Matthew Walther: “If it is worth bailing out restaurants and bars and other places where people congregate together for merriment and diversion, we must not neglect those institutions in which men and women come together for...Monday, March 30, 2020 from ArtsJournal
Sixty singers showed up in early March for a 2.5-hour choir practice. Now, three weeks later, “45 have been diagnosed with COVID-19 or ill with the symptoms, at least three have been hospitalized, and two are dead.” –...Monday, March 30, 2020 from Classical music | The Guardian
Classical music festival founded by Benjamin Britten will not go ahead for the first time in its 73-year history • Coronavirus and culture – a list of major cancellations The Aldeburgh festival is the latest cultural casualty of the...Monday, March 30, 2020 from Classical-Music.com
Rating: 0 The Polish composer and conductor Krzysztof Penderecki has died aged 86. Penderecki was a revered avant-garde composer, who, as well as writing operas, symphonies and concertos, was committed to sacred music,...Monday, March 30, 2020 from Music and Vision
Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020)Monday, March 30, 2020 from Classical-Music.com
Rating: 0 St Luke Passion (1962-66) Penderecki’s epic work for three solo voices, narrator, three choirs, boys’ choir and orchestra is undeniably dramatic. Its power comes partly from a bold mix of styles,...Monday, March 30, 2020 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
New Music Virtual Town Hall Meeting: State of the Field The new music community has taken a huge financial and.. The post This week: live streamed concerts (March 30, 2020 – April 5, 2020) appeared first on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN .Monday, March 30, 2020 from Classical-Music.com
Rating: 0 1) For the symphonies, go for Karajan’s refined 1962 version with the Berlin Phil (DG). 2) Otherwise, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe offer freshness (Warner). 10 of the best...Monday, March 30, 2020 from The Classical Piano and Music Education Blog
Many of us have been practising ‘social-distancing’ for a week or two already, and whilst not an especially enjoyable or uplifting experience, for me it has provided some much needed respite from the weekly lessons (although...Monday, March 30, 2020 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Handel's Heroines - Mary Bevan, Jennifer France, Laurence Cummings, Academy of Ancient Music For the duration of the current crisis, the Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) has launched its new digital offering Streaming Sunday Series , with...Monday, March 30, 2020 from Classical-Music.com
Rating: 0 Ongoing Budapest Festival Orchestra In response to the worldwide restrictions on public concerts, the Budapest Festival Orchestra will now host chamber music concerts, which will be available to view online for free. The...Monday, March 30, 2020 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Erkki-Sven Tüür Symphony No. 9 Mythos' , Sow the Wind... ; Estonian Festival Orchestra, Paavo Järvi; ALPHA CLASSICS Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 27 March 2020 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) The centenary of the Republic of Estonia celebrated...Monday, March 30, 2020 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Jonathan Dove: The Monster in the Maze - Simon Rattle, Andrew Rees, Yvonne Howard - Barbican 2015 (Photo: Alastair Muir/PR ) The director Thomas Guthrie 's name is one that has cropped up over the years, often attached to performances in...Monday, March 30, 2020 from Classics Today
My colleague David Hurwitz has covered Hyperion’s ongoing Haydn cycle, disparaging The London Haydn Quartet’s ugly tone, lifeless phrasing, poor intonation, and annoying “period performance” mannerisms by citing chapter and verse with...Monday, March 30, 2020 from Adaptistration
If you manage your organization’s Google Analytics account, there’s a critical task you need to complete in order to filter out all of the incoming web traffic from remote working locations. Good news is you can leave all of...Monday, March 30, 2020 from Classics Today
Czech conductor Tomáš Netopil paces this performance very effectively. He observes the first movement exposition repeat, places the scherzo where it belongs as the second movement, and knows how to deal with Mahler’s special...Monday, March 30, 2020 from Violinist.com
By Laurie Niles: Violinist and producer Johnny Gandelsman will perform Bachs Complete Cello Suites on the violin, in a free Facebook Live event from his East Coast home at 3 p.m. PST (6 pm ET) on Tuesday. We had talked to him about his...Sunday, March 29, 2020 from Music Genre: Classical
Known early on for his avant-garde works, the composer's challenging music nevertheless found fans far beyond traditional classical music circles.Sunday, March 29, 2020 from Violinist.com
By Laurie Niles: "May you live in interesting times..." At this point, I think we can all say that we do. We find ourselves in the midst of a pandemic, with much of the world's human population isolating in order to slow the spread of...Sunday, March 29, 2020 from ArtsJournal
The classical music critic got to watch a rapper marched offstage after verbally assaulting a host and throwing a drink at the crowd. She said, “I was surprised he had his shirt off and trousers down so quickly. It takes a bit...Sunday, March 29, 2020 from Classical music | The Guardian
From Kubrick to Aphex Twin, Lynch to Radiohead, the Polish composer’s otherworldly sounds have inspired musicians and soundtracked some of cinema’s most haunting moments When I unearthed a score of Krzysztof Penderecki’s Symphony No 1 in...Sunday, March 29, 2020 from Sequenza21/
La Passione La Passione Barbara Hannigan, soprano and conductor; Ludwig Orchestra Alpha Classics La Passione is soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan’s second CD with Ludwig Orchestra. Their first collaboration, Girl Crazy, won a 2018...Sunday, March 29, 2020 from Music and Vision
Music by José Serebrier, heard by Gerald Fenech. '... I was very much taken by the imagination, colour, rhythm and neo-classical expressiveness of the music, particularly in the "tango" pieces ...'Sunday, March 29, 2020 from ArtsJournal
Despite a $25 million stimulus package for the Kennedy Center, the musicians of the NSO were told late Friday night that their April 3 paycheck would be their last, and their health care would end at the end of May if concerts have not...Sunday, March 29, 2020 from JDCMB
A green parrot in the park, wondering why it's so quiet It is a sign of our digital obsessions that I accidentally wrote that title as "A change of click" first. Ticking off the tock, "British summertime" begins today, so everything is...Sunday, March 29, 2020 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
This was supposed to be Oxford Lieder Festival's Spring Song weekend, and instead of live concerts the festival has developed Social DistanSong , an on-line festival. The first, impromptu, event took place yesterday and can still...Sunday, March 29, 2020 from Classics Today
Born in Spain, pianist Eduardo del Pueyo (1905-1986) based his career in Brussels, where he taught for many years at the Royal Conservatory. Australian Eloquence brought out a 5-CD set containing his complete recordings for the Philips...Saturday, March 28, 2020 from Violinist.com
By Desirée Ruhstrat: Hard to believe the last time I saw Ida Kavafian was about three weeks ago at the Curtis Institute, for a memorial for my teacher Aaron Rosand ... A lot has changed since then! When thinking of who to ask for...Saturday, March 28, 2020 from Music and Vision
Callisto, Christopher Montgomery's opera-oratorio based on Ovid's Metamorphoses, by Endre AnaruSaturday, March 28, 2020 from Classical-Music.com
Rating: 0 Family concerts Turner Sims concert hall in Southampton is hosting a free online family concert at 3pm. Pianist and composer Sarah Nicholls plays the Inside-Out Piano , a grand piano opened up so the audience can...Saturday, March 28, 2020 from British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content
I thought I would have a look at the works given their ‘premieres’ at the 1970 Cheltenham Festival held between 3 and 12 July. It is interesting to see how half a century has dealt with these compositions. In most cases the works have...Saturday, March 28, 2020 from Classics Today
Brilliant Classics must love Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s two early piano trios. Within a year of releasing the Trio Archè’s CD, the label brings out these works again, this time with the Trio Mezzena, Patria, Ballario. This particular...Saturday, March 28, 2020 from Classics Today
It would be rash, and indeed irresponsible, to claim this recording as the best that Stephen Hough has ever made, or the best version of Brahms’ late piano pieces ever released. Yet Hough’s complete technical mastery, fresh musical...