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Lawrence Cherney & Composer Tarik O’Regan Discuss About The Subsequent Live performance That includes The Vancouver Chamber Choir
On February 27, Toronto’s Soundstreams performs host to the Vancouver Chamber Choir and music director Kari Turunen in a live performance of works by visiting composer Tarik O’Regan, and 6 model new works...
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Composer Profile: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
By Barry Lenson
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was born on September 25, 1906, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He entered the Saint Petersburg Conservatory at 13, the place he studied composition with Alexander Glazunov.
Shostakovich spent his...
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Composer Elizabeth Raum: A Groundbreaking Profession, The Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra, And Her eightieth Birthday Celebration
Composer Elizabeth Raum started her musical life as an oboist — though to listen to her inform the story, the transition took place by the way moderately than deliberately.
“It’s form of attention-grabbing how...
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Composer Profile . . . Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805-1847): Felix Mendelssohn’s Sister and A lot, A lot Extra
By Barry Lenson
We not too long ago profiled Clara Schumann, a supremely gifted composer who was married to Robert Schumann. At this time, we wish to flip our consideration to Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, one...
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Clara Schumann (1819-1896): A Composer of the Highest Degree
By Barry Lenson
Clara Schumann, as you virtually actually know, was the spouse of the composer Robert Schumann, who lived from 1810 till 1856. You in all probability additionally know that Clara was one...
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Composer Bernard Foccroulle Talks About The Journal of Hélène Berr — On Stage At Koerner Corridor January 21 – 23
The 21C Music Pageant presents The Journal of Hélène Berr, a piece for soprano, piano and string quartet in its North American premiere.
Soprano Elena Howard-Scott, who lately took the stage in Stephen Sondheim’s...
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Composer Profile: Jennifer Higdon, American Composer of Stunning Music
By Barry Lenson
We discover it reassuring that younger People are nonetheless deciding to turn out to be composers. It's extra fantastic nonetheless that no less than one among these youthful People, Jennifer Higdon,...
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Pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico Talks About Making Extra Rivers With Composer Frank Horvat (And Extra…)
Pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico’s Extra Rivers, performing the composition by Frank Horvat, shall be launched on Navona Information on January 24. It’s a type of comply with as much as her seminal recording...