SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. â Today there is a trend towards immersive and interactive experiences in all forms of entertainment.
Actually, the ensemble chamber group Musicians of Maâalwyck have been ahead of the curve. For over 20 years, they have been performing music in historical buildings that were inhabited in the same era the music was created.
Tomorrow night they are doubling down on that formula.
- Advertisement -
They are offering a cd release party to celebrate their second album â âHyde Hall and the Silver Goddess: Operatic Brilliance of Auber, Bellini, Meyerbeer and Rossini.â The cd was recorded at Hyde Hall in Cooperstown. It is a space where the same music was performed when the house was inhabited by the Clarke Family in the 1830s and 40s.
Composer Nina Shekhar Receives The ASCAP Foundation Nissim Prize
Paul Williams, President of The ASCAP Foundation, announces that Nina Shekhar has been named the recipient of the 41st annual ASCAP Foundation Rudolf Nissim Prize. Selected by a panel of conductors, Shekhar was honored for Lumina, a c. 11-minute work for orchestra, and awarded a prize of $5,000.
Dr. Rudolf Nissim, former head of ASCAP s International Department and a devoted friend of contemporary composers, established this annual prize through a bequest to The ASCAP Foundation. The Prize is presented annually to an ASCAP concert composer for a work requiring a conductor that has not been performed professionally. A jury of three conductors selects the winning score.
7:56
The classical music world often focuses on long dead masters, who tend to be white and European. But one composer who is not even old enough to legally drink alcohol is trying to change that. He started over the weekend with the Albany Symphony.
20-year-old Tyson Davis, who composed this piece, is the only Black student in the composition department at Julliard. The sophomore’s work had its professional premiere at the Albany Symphony February 13. Davis says he’s hoping to push the bounds of classical music so that it attracts a younger, more racially diverse audience.
“The problem is, classical music, at least over the past century has been such an extreme ivory tower,” Davis said. “And it’s so annoying. It’s almost segregationist and classist classical music in general. There’s been this tradition of having the concert hall be peaceful and quiet and having the tickets be expensive and only being for old people and often times the music is very old. Funny e
For Albany Symphony concert, it s 20 going on 2021
Saturday evening Valentines event has a youth vibe
FacebookTwitterEmail
2of5
3of5
5of5
In honor of Valentine’s Day weekend, the Albany Symphony Orchestra on Saturday presents and premieres
“Distances,” the specifically commissioned work of Tyson Davis, a 20-year-old composer from the Juilliard School of Music. The evening will also include performances of Johannes Brahms’ Serenade No.1 in D Major, and William Walton’s Façade
, narrated by Lucy Fitz Gibbon.
“It s this idea of the fresh eyes of youth, of young artists,” said David Alan Miller, music director of the ASO. “Even though these pieces are very dissimilar from one another, which I think is part of the interesting aspects of the concert, it s this idea of young composers, trying to find their voices and sort of develop their mature voices.”