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By all appearances the Hollywood Bowl is big-time back. The first official night of the Los Angeles Philharmonic summer season Thursday was, in nearly all respects, a typical first night of the L.A Phil Bowl season.
Gustavo Dudamel conducted. A large crowd attended. The orchestra no longer provides an audience count (it never could be believed, anyway), but I’d make it easily more than 10,000. There were no requirements for masks, distancing, vaccinations or tests. Picnicking was nearly ubiquitous.
The program was meant to please widely. Viola Davis splendidly narrated “Peter and the Wolf.” Stirring pieces by the neglected composer Margaret Bonds and the great Duke Ellington paid tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.
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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.
By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky ( bio - articles - email ) | Apr 01, 2021
Holy Thursday and the Last Supper provide us with a tender and complicated scene of personal relationships: an admixture of joy, melancholy, and disturbing prospects of denial and betrayal. The Sacred three days the Triduum conclude with the glorious Resurrection. The grand finale of the Easter Season includes the Ascension and Pentecost. But we may wonder why the Ascension of Jesus His departure from the friends He loves and His return to the Father is a glorious mystery of the Rosary rather than one of the most sorrowful mysteries.
Imagine a world without the Ascension, where Jesus continues to walk among us. Immediately after the Resurrection, the Apostles did not
The Night Job Trio a school administrator, MD and attorney and Oakland’s Bethlehem Lutheran Choir performed with stunning clarinet improvisations.
A remarkable circa 1990 recording of Martin Luther King’s favorite gospel hymn, “Precious Lord,” has been posted on YouTube, accompanied with visuals and quotations from the Civil Rights Era. It has been added to a YouTube playlist of jazzy interpretations of African-American spirituals and gospel hymns featuring the “Night Job Trio,” multiple percussionists and Oakland’s Bethlehem Lutheran Choir.
The music on the playlist, directed from the piano by Alice Wildermuth O’Sullivan, includes stunning improvisations by virtuoso clarinetist Clarence Warren on “Just a Closer Walk,” “Motherless Child,” “I Want Jesus to Walk with Me,” “His Eye is on the Sparrow,” “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” “Angels Watching over Me,” and “Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho.” They can all be found on the “Night Job Trio�
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