Debuting orchestrations for Caribbean song cycle
COREY MCMAKEN | The Journal Gazette
When the Manchester Symphony Orchestra performs “Songs of the Islands” this weekend, the audience will immediately note that the song cycle isn t like any classical work they have heard before.
With its Caribbean sound, “this ain t Beethoven, baby!” conductor Debra J. Lynn says with a laugh.
“Songs of the Islands” was originally written for voice and piano by composer Dominique Le Gendre, a native of Trinidad and Tobago. It starts with six Caribbean folk songs that were arranged by Le Gendre and includes six Caribbean poems set to music she composed. Sunday s performance is the premiere of orchestrations by Le Gendre and Lynn.
LA Opera Launches Signature Recital Series Showcasing Opera s Brightest Stars
Featuring mezzo-soprano J nai Bridges, soprano Christine Goerke, soprano Julia Bullock and mezzo-soprano Susan Graham.by BWW News Desk
LA Opera is launching a new Signature Recital Series to showcase world-class artists in intimate online performances. Tenor Russell Thomas launches the series on April 9, with subsequent recitals featuring mezzo-soprano J nai Bridges, soprano Christine Goerke, soprano Julia Bullock and mezzo-soprano Susan Graham.
Filmed in performance venues across the country and in Europe, the five full-length recitals will be available for on-demand viewing for several weeks after their initial streaming dates, through July 1. Access to the complete series is $30 for LA Opera subscribers and $45 for the general public. For access, visit LAOpera.org/signature. The Signature Recital Series is part of LA Opera sOn Now platform of digital programming.
Five Rediscovered Musical Gems … and One Fake
A fresco at Puebla Cathedral by Mexican painter Cristóbal de Villalpando (Image: Devon Van Houten Maldonado)
On Friday 7 May the BBC Singers perform a newly discovered work by an anonymous late-Renaissance composer, found in the library of Mexico s Puebla Cathedral. Ahead of the broadcast, we recount the stories of five musical gems nearly lost to history – and one that never existed in the first place Musical Chars
In the months before his death, so the story goes, Johannes Brahms sat in front of his stove tossing old, unwanted manuscripts into the fire. Although probably apocryphal, the tale contains at least one nugget of truth: Brahms – like Duruflé, Tchaikovsky, Varèse and many others – was careful not to leave any music he considered second-rate to posterity.
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Friday, April 30
12 pm ET: Princeton Symphony presents
Buskaid: Curious Creatures & a Heavenly Harp. Rosemary Nalden, Music conducts the Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble with Jude Harpstar, guest harpist and Mzwandile Twala, violin in Carlo Farina’s
Capriccio Stravagante, Debussy’s
Reverie, and Kreisler’s
1 pm ET: Wiener Staatsoper presents
Mozart’s
Die Zauberflöte. Conductor: Adam Fischer, directors: Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier. With Jörg Schneider, Olga Bezsmertna, Hila Fahima, Thomas Tatzl, and René Pape. Production from December 2017. Register for free and view here.
2 pm ET: Concertgebouworkest presents
Daniel Harding Conducts. Daniel Harding conducts the Concertgebouworkest in Stravinsky’s