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Congregation Solel pianist uses poetry of Wendell Berry and Langston Hughes as inspiration
Port Royal :: SC :: USA | 15 days ago
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That composition will have its world premiere at Solel in Highland Park on May 13 at 7:30 p.m. "An Evening of American Song," which is free and open to the public, will feature the Berry song cycle as well as the premiere performance of a song cycle
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Music Review: ‘Gabriel's Guide to the 48 States,' at Carnegie Hall
New York City :: NY :: USA | 23 days ago
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April 28, 2013 During one section of Gabriel's Guide to the 48 States, which received its New York premiere at Carnegie Hall on Saturday evening, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra stood and sang a sacred harp hymn , a genre of a cappella choral music
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Songwriter Jason Robert Brown revisits tough times
New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 month ago
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Inspiration can often come if you look up at the sky or the twinkling stars. For Jason Robert Brown, such a moment came when he was deep underground. The songwriter was in the subway a dozen years ago on his way to a meeting at Lincoln Center with
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Song cycle steals show in Cleveland Orchestra performance at Arsht Center
Santiago :: Chile | 2 months ago
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Thursday night's final season program of the Cleveland Orchestra's Miami residency at the Arsht Center, but it was a striking song cycle by Peter Lieberson that proved the concert's memorable event. Lieberson's Neruda Songs , a setting of five poems
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Bostridge/Drake – review
London :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
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Andrew Clements A Boy was Born, Birmingham's own celebration of the Britten centenary, is already in full swing, and Ian Bostridge 's recital with pianist Julius Drake fitted into it nicely. They paired songs from Schubert's Die Winterreise with
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Jocelyn Pook: inspired by mental illness
London :: United Kingdom | 6 months ago
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Jocelyn Pook, whose song cycle Hearing Voices reflects the sadness of incarceration. Photograph: Garry Weaser for the Guardian In the Prinzhorn collection at Heidelberg psychiatric university hospital is a jacket that was made, and worn, by a
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Schumann: Liederkreis Op 24 and 39, etc – review
London :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
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The two Liederkreis, the sets of songs Schumann actually called song-cycles, are not narrative sequences in the way Dichterliebe and Frauenliebe und Leben are. Instead, each set is connected more loosely by a shared mood or themes: the nine poems of
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Britten: On This Island; Michelangelo Sonnets etc – review
Rome :: Italy | 10 months ago
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Erich Auerbach/Getty Images James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook have already recorded one of Britten's tenor song cycles, the Hardy settings of Winter Words, on a previous disc for Linn , and they continue their series with four more. Strictly speaking,
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Van Dyke Parks: First three solo albums reissued
Ho Chi Minh City :: Vietnam | 10 months ago
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July 20, 2012 Songwriter, singer and pianist Van Dyke Parks has so many claims to fame that together they would form the basis of an excellent "true or false" quiz. Consider the following: as a child actor, he appeared with such legendary figures as
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Schoenberg: Complete Songs – review
Vienna :: Austria | 10 months ago
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Melanie Diener There are over 90 songs here, all but seven dating from the first 15 years of Schoenberg's composing life. Seven of the first 15 works to which he gave opus numbers were collections of songs with piano, and the greatest of them, the 15
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