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Various composers, Lucas Meachem (baritone) and Irina Meachem (piano): Merola Opera Program Virtual Recital series, streaming from Mill City Museum, Minneapolis. 25.9.2020. (HS) A live recital Sunday afternoon presented by Merola Opera,...Tuesday, September 29, 2020 from ArtsJournal
Called stream-ripping, it accounts for 80% of copyright infringement among the biggest piracy sites, according to a recent report by the PRS. Stream-ripping websites make money from advertisers, touting a mix of legitimate products,...Tuesday, September 29, 2020 from ArtsJournal
“If this devastating shutdown forces the Met to grapple with its role in American society and to shift the overwhelmingly traditional template of its programming, then there will have been an important upside to the crisis. The...Tuesday, September 29, 2020 from ArtsJournal
“You’ve probably never heard of them, but Relaxing Music Therapy has had a pretty damn successful music career. At least, on Spotify. This ‘artist’ has more than 500,000 monthly listeners on the platform, all...Tuesday, September 29, 2020 from Classical Life
Review: Pacific Chorale Dips Its Toe Back into Performing with a Soothing Psalm for COVID Times. Voice of OC, Sept. 29, 2020.Tuesday, September 29, 2020 from ArtsJournal
“In a deal announced Monday, the orchestra’s board and union musicians ratified [a two-year contract extension] outlining work rules and compensation cuts during a pandemic that has taken a financial toll, nixing live...Tuesday, September 29, 2020 from Music and Vision
Gerald Fenech listens to piano music by the twentieth century English composer Herbert Howells. 'Deeply attractive music, sensitively played and sumptuously recorded.'Tuesday, September 29, 2020 from Seen and Heard International
Live Opera Returns to London with Star-studded Cast PAGLIACCI by Ruggero Leoncavallo Saturday 3rd October 8pm, St James’ Church, Islington, N1 8PH Tickets available if you click here Cast: Peter Auty, Elin Pritchard, Robert Hayward,...Tuesday, September 29, 2020 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
A true sound alchemist, Queen Drea uses no recipe. A Twin Cities-based vocalist, electronic artist, and recipient of a 2017.. The post 5 Questions to Queen Drea (interdisciplinary sound alchemist) appeared first on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN .Tuesday, September 29, 2020 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Helen Charlston and Toby Carr in rehearsal earlier this year (Photo Toby Carr) Abandonnata - Purcell, Monteverdi, Strozzi, Park; Helen Charlston, Toby Carr; London Sound Gallery at the Grosvenor Chapel Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 29...Tuesday, September 29, 2020 from Adaptistration
Who says COVID shutdowns mean you can’t have a new music workshop? Nonsense! Necessity is the mother of invention and in this installment of Shop Talk we sit down with the trio of big musical brains responsible for putting together...Tuesday, September 29, 2020 from Classical music | The Guardian
Perhaps we have all taken privilege of music for granted, writes the conductor. Only by taking it away do we realise how essential it is. After seven months of musical silence, I feel very fortunate to be giving a public concert this...Tuesday, September 29, 2020 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
On 5 June 2020, cellist Raphael Wallfisch and pianist Adrian Farmer performed at Wyastone Studios , home of Nimbus Records . It was the first time the two had been able to play together since lockdown. The work they were performing was...Monday, September 28, 2020 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
From her new album HĪBER, on dacapo.Monday, September 28, 2020 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
A comment on the New Yorker website.Monday, September 28, 2020 from ArtsJournal
Ross demonstrates how the city you live in, the government you live under, the culture you consume (high and low) and the way you consume it very likely has Wagner molecules in its DNA. – Los Angeles TimesMonday, September 28, 2020 from Classical Voice North America
By Patrick D. McCoy PROFILE – Valerie Coleman, whose Seven O’Clock Shout will be performed online by the Philadelphia Orchestra at its virtual season opener Sept. 30, makes a case for getting people to understand one another’s point of...Monday, September 28, 2020 from Classics Today
Please click below for the video review. The bottom line: The biggest difference between this Warner box and the competing Universal box (aside from the fact that this one has, on the whole, better performances of the major works), is...Monday, September 28, 2020 from ArtsJournal
There is something incongruous about the attendance of the lavishly dressed, moneyed elite at public concerts of Beethoven symphonies or concertos, given his music’s expression of such a revolutionary, democratic, humanitarian spirit....Monday, September 28, 2020 from Music Genre: Classical
When young composers explore old musical formulas, exciting things can happen. Mass for the Endangered is a contemporary twist on an ancient tradition.Monday, September 28, 2020 from ArtsJournal
“We listened on car radios. Mine conked out halfway through. Someone else got a flat battery. Hearing through the window was fine. I saw the admirable second cast led by Nardus Williams and David Junghoon Kim as sympathetic and...Monday, September 28, 2020 from Music and Vision
Hosted by the Italian cities of Milan and Turin, MITO SettembreMusica 2020 was different to all other previous editions of the festivalMonday, September 28, 2020 from Seen and Heard International
Live from London – Treasures of the English Renaissance: Stile Antico. Streamed as live from London’s VOCES8 Foundation, 26.9.2020. (CC) Tomkins – ‘Praise Ye the Lord’ Sheppard – ‘The Lord’s Prayer’ Gibbons...Monday, September 28, 2020 from Seen and Heard International
#OurHousetoYourHouse The Royal Opera House unveils programme of new work alongside much-loved classics for live audiences this Autumn The Royal Opera and The Royal Ballet present: 4/4 and New Dark Age –...Monday, September 28, 2020 from Seen and Heard International
Eternal gratitude is what I feel when my excellent ear training for the musicality of the spoken word is needed. Whatever the situation. It goes back to the time I was at London University’s Institute of Education, studying for the...Monday, September 28, 2020 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
How to Turn the Moon is a new collection of improvisations and cellular compositions by New York-based pianist, composer, and.. The post How to Turn the Moon: Sanchez and Crispell Converse in Sound and Texture appeared first on I CARE IF...Monday, September 28, 2020 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Anne Lovett, Romain Malan (Photo Phil Roulaud) The French pianist and composer Anne Lovett helped the Institut Francais in South Kensington to celebrate Bastille Day by live-streaming a recital on-line. She is returning to the Institut...Monday, September 28, 2020 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Olivier Messiaen's chamber masterpiece, Quatuor pour la fin du temps , will receive a live performance, with audience at St Paul's Cathedral on Friday 23 October 2020, performed by four City Music Foundation Artists, Emily Sun,...Monday, September 28, 2020 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Arvo Pärt Lamentate , Fratres , Pari intervallo , Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinuschka , Vater unser ; Onutė Gražinytė, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Modestas Pitrėnas; Accentus Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 28 September...Monday, September 28, 2020 from Adaptistration
There’s a fascinating interview in the 9/25/2020 edition of KUER.com, NPR Utah, where host Caroline Ballard examines a recently completed project by a team at the University of Utah led by scientists Tony Saad and James Sutherland...Monday, September 28, 2020 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
Monday, September 28, 2020 from Classics Today
Have you noticed the growing trend of pianists taking up 17th-century keyboard works on the modern concert grand? Perhaps it has to do with the desire to be rebellious, or to attain a certain level of intellectual caché. Yet pianists...Monday, September 28, 2020 from Classics Today
Martin Ivanov’s Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies are not very rhapsodic. To be sure, the pianist boasts a great technique and a beautiful sonority, and he’s uncommonly attentive to the composer’s seldom observed contrasts in articulation. Yet...Sunday, September 27, 2020 from Classics Today
You have to admit: releasing a complete set of Ives symphonies (even if it’s digital only) takes guts. It also highlights just how difficult it is for conductors to wrap their batons around all four works. Dudamel conducts the...Sunday, September 27, 2020 from Seen and Heard International
Rambert ’s Draw from Within: A live-streamed performance from Rambert’s London Southbank studios on 26.9.2020. (JO’D) Dance from Within Choreographer and Direction – Wim Wandekeybus Dancers: Alex Akapohi, Miguel Altunaga,...Sunday, September 27, 2020 from Seen and Heard International
Beethoven, Dvořák, Festival Jovens Músicos 2020: DSCH – Shostakovich Ensemble (Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro [piano], Tedi Papavrami [violin], Kyril Zlotnikov [cello]). Live streamed from the Grande Auditório, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian,...Sunday, September 27, 2020 from ArtsJournal
For those who never manage to create an iPhone playlist that delivers the right thing at the right time, Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Ellen Reid and the New York Philharmonic have created Soundwalk, a free app that plays music through...Sunday, September 27, 2020 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Janacek: Diary of One Who Disappeared - Ed Lyon, Lucy Schaufer - Scottish Opera (image take from live stream) As part of the Lammermuir Festival, Scottish Opera performed Janacek's dramatic song-cycle The Diary of One Who Disappeared...Sunday, September 27, 2020 from ArtsJournal
“The shuttering of performances as well as furloughs of performers and stagehands helped save the Met some money and stem losses, and a boosted digital presence in the form of nightly streams, virtual galas and pay-per-view...Sunday, September 27, 2020 from Music and Vision
Yo-Yo Ma, Mischa Maisky, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Alisa Weilerstein and Pieter Wispelwey will perform at the virtual CelloBello Gala on Sunday 11 October 2020Sunday, September 27, 2020 from The Classical Piano and Music Education Blog
Pianists From The Past continues today with a fascinating article featuring renowned American pianist and piano pedagogue Eleanor Sokoloff, who died in July 2020. The following tribute has been penned by her student, British...Sunday, September 27, 2020 from British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content
Berthold Goldschmidt was born in Hamburg on 18 January 1903. After harmony lessons from Ferruco Busoni and turning down the opportunity to attend Arnold Schoenberg’s classes, Goldschmidt studied in Berlin at the Hochschule für Musik with...Saturday, September 26, 2020 from Seen and Heard International
Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s streamed performances in October The Scottish Chamber Orchestra continues its commitment to bringing world-class music to audiences at home throughout October, with four evening chamber concerts filmed...Saturday, September 26, 2020 from Seen and Heard International
Kálmán, Die Csárdásfürstin: Soloists, Chorus of the Zurich Opera, Philharmonia Zurich / Lorenzo Viotti (conductor). Zurich Opera, Zurich, 25.9.2020. (JR) Production: Director – Jan Philipp Gloger Set – Franziska Bornkamm Costumes – Karin...Saturday, September 26, 2020 from Seen and Heard International
Milhaud, Ravel, Gershwin, Bloch, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Auerbach, Dorman, Robert and Clara Schumann, Brahms: Vadim Gluzman (violin), Ilya Shterenberg (clarinet]) Mark Kosower (cello), Angela Yoffe (piano), William Wolfram (piano). Streamed...Saturday, September 26, 2020 from Music and Vision
A young Neapolitan guitarist wins the 2020 Mottola Guitar Competition in south-east ItalySaturday, September 26, 2020 from Classical music | The Guardian
Alexandra Palace, London ENO’s bravura car park production overcame all kinds of logistical and artistic challenges, though couldn’t quite convey Puccini’s raw immediacy Mimi’s sickbed is the floor of her transit van. Rodolfo sits...Saturday, September 26, 2020 from Classical music | The Guardian
The German violist Tabea Zimmermann pairs Bach with Kurtág, while the ARC Ensemble showcase a forgotten émigré composer • If you’ve queried the point of listening to a Bach cello suite played on the viola, Tabea Zimmermann ’s Solo II...Saturday, September 26, 2020 from Seen and Heard International
Pärt, Beethoven: Andreas Janke (violin), Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich / Paavo Järvi (conductor), Tonhalle Maag, Zurich, 24.9.2020. (JR) Pärt – La Sindone for violin and orchestra (Swiss première) Beethoven – Symphony No.7, Op.92 The...Saturday, September 26, 2020 from Seen and Heard International
The King’s Singers partner with IDAGIO for a digital concert series and launch The King’s Singers New Music Prize The King’s Singers Digital Tour Following the success of ‘Back in Harmony in July 2020’, second only in popularity to Yo-Yo...