Release of Award-winning Documentary Feature Los Hermanos/The Brothers
NEW YORK – First Run Features has acquired the award-winning documentary feature
Los Hermanos / The Brothers and will release it in theaters nationwide (via a mix of in-person and virtual cinema runs) starting Friday, May 14 in dozens of cities including Chicago, Los Angeles (Laemmle Theaters), Miami, New York (at Symphony Space), Washington, DC, as well as Akron, Buffalo, Kansas City, Sarasota, Winston-Salem, and many others.
Directed by Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider, the film follows virtuoso Cuban-born brothers Ilmar the violinist, and Aldo the pianist who live on opposite sides of a geopolitical chasm a half century wide. Linked by music and dreams, their unfolding story offers a nuanced, often startling view of nations long estranged, and a vision of what can happen when borders can be crossed.
Mississippi musicians discuss their careers in classical music
Mississippi musicians discuss their careers in classical music
Adrian Walker
Although Mississippi is known as the “Birthplace of America’s Music,” its contributions are generally tied to blues, jazz, rock, country and gospel. However, there are five Mississippi musicians breaking the mold and excelling in the classical music genre.
Robert Fisher, after a successful career in classical music, returned to Mississippi where he now teaches string music at Jackson State University. As part of his teaching, Fisher decided to introduce his students to musicians who had their start in Mississippi and branched out throughout the country and beyond. He did so via ZOOM, April 16.
Tanja Tetzlaff. Photo: Giorgia Bertazzi
The cellist Tanja Tetzlaff has been named as the recipient of the 2021 Glenn Gould Bach Fellowship. Worth €100,000, the award is designed to offer musicians ’the chance to realise ambitious and innovative musical media projects on the music of Bach or on music from the Baroque period’.
Tetzlaff will use the fellowship to create, over two years, a film project relating the Bach Cello Suites to the themes of nature and climate change. Her proposal was selected last December by a selection panel including Weimar cultural director Julia Miehe; pianist and conductor Lars Vogt; impresario Sonia Simmenauer; Colin Lawson, director of London’s Royal College of Music; and patron Michael Loubser, representing the Philip Loubser Foundation. The fellowship is made possible by the Philip Loubser Foundation and managed by the Thuringia Bach Festival.
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Kilkenny s Ali Comerford releases debut single
Reporter:
‘He Knows’ is the debut single from Kilkenny based singer and multi-instrumentalist Ali Comerford.
Having toured the world performing viola in classical ensembles for 14 years, Ali moved back to Kilkenny in 2020 and has recorded her debut album of original folk based but classical influenced songs.
The first release is the song ‘He Knows’ and is a swaying acoustic folk lament that also showcases Comerford’s proficiency of playing stringed instruments with a chorus filled with meandering, luscious strings that weave a beautiful melodic tapestry against her dulcet guitar.
About the song Ali says “He Knows is a lilting song about leaving an unfulfilling relationship, the ups and downs of seeking support elsewhere and the resignation that the truth will always come out.”