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reviewer Em Marshall has accepted Chairmanship
of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society
Lambeth Orchestra concert
on Dec 13th 2008 Premiere of Holbrooke: The
Pit and the Pendulum and performance of Hurlstone's
piano concerto
All the info and directions on the website
www.lambeth-orchestra.org.uk
Chris Fifield
Saturday 22nd November –
7.30pm St Martin’s Church, Hale Gardens,
Ealing. W3 Sir Arnold Bax: Symphony No. 4
Vaughan Williams: Overture ‘The Wasps’
Berlioz Harold in Italy
www.ealingso.org.uk
John Gibbons Conductor &
Composer Home Farm, 139 Buckingham Road, Bletchley.
MK3 5JD www.johnsgibbons.com
www.johnsgibbons.com01908 367748 07973 617064
Cadogan
Hall - Wednesday 25 February, 2009 7.30pm
The
London Chorus, Dame Felicity Lott soprano,
The New London Orchestra
Ronald Corp conductor
Ireland:
Like as the Hart - psalm 42, world premiere
Finzi: Dies Natalis
Haydn: St Theresa Mass
Tickets*:
£25, £22, £18 £10
Hear 100 British musicians
play the music of Israel and Britain
Sunday 30 November Southbank
Centre Eden Sinfonia Conducted by Daniel Cohen
Tzvi Avni If this is a Man
– Setting of Poems by Primo Levi - Soprano
Sharon Rostorf
Michael Wolpe Concerto for Oud and Orchestra
soloist Taiseer Elias
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Orkney Wedding with
Sunrise
Noam Sherriff’s Viola Concerto performed
by the Yehudi Menuhin School Orchestra with
soloist Rivka Golani
The Solomon Choir and
Orchestra is a NEW period-instrument ensemble
dedicated to the Baroque, founded by Jonathan
Sells and Julian Forbes.
We are two young musicians
(students at the R.A.M. and Guildhall respectively)
who have already gained considerable experience
in the Baroque through work with William Christie,
Peter Holman, John Eliot Gardiner, Jeffrey
Skidmore and others. We have realised that
it is the job of our generation of musicians
to add to the scene and not simply to subscribe
to existing activity. Specifically, we believe
that our particular task is to inherit the
work of the authentic movement and to bring
to it a new, youthful vigour:
We seek to create a new,
vibrant and directly communicative Baroque
sound with our singers and players that reasserts
the primacy of passion and drama.
Our first concert is in Cambridge
on December 12th in Trinity College Chapel,
with soloists Sadhbh Dennedy, Michal Czerniawski,
Andrew Kennedy and Giles Underwood. Ticket
details are available on request.
In the meantime, I would
like to invite you and any interested colleagues
to our LAUNCH EVENT at the Athenaeum Club
on Pall Mall on December 1st at 6.30pm. Full
details are on the attached invitation.
I look forward to your response.
With very best wishes,
Julian Forbes
--
Julian Forbes
07789 755 702 juliancforbes@googlemail.com
Solomon Choir & Orchestra
FORTHCOMING CONCERT
Cambridge 12/12/2008
Handel: Messiah
Sadhbh Dennedy, Michal Czerniawski, Andrew
Kennedy, Giles Underwood
Rob Barnett says What a magnificently
enterpising concert season
American
Symphony Orchestra: 2008-09 season at
Lincoln Center
Friday, October 3, 2008,
8PM
LE ROI D’YS
Edouard Lalo (1823-1892): Le roi d’Ys
(1875-88) Opera-in-concert
Sunday, December 7, 2008,
3PM
AGAINST THE AVANT-GARDE: Romanticisms of the
1920s
Walter Braunfels (1882-1954): Don Juan, Op.
34 (1923) U.S. Premiere
Hermann Suter (1870-1926): Violin Concerto,
Op. 23 (1924) U.S. Premiere
Josef Marx (1882-1964): Herbstsymphonie (1921)
U.S. Premiere
Sunday, January 25, 2009,
3PM
MUSIC IN EAST GERMANY
Hanns Eisler (1898-1962): Auferstanden aus
Ruinen, Hymne der DDR (1949)
Rudolf Wagner-Regeny (1903-1969): Mythological
Figures (1951)
Paul Dessau (1894-1979): In memoriam Bertolt
Brecht (1957)
Udo Zimmermann (1943-): Sinfonia come una
grande lamento,
in memory of F. Garcia Lorca (1977)
Hanns Eisler: Goethe Rhapsody (1949)
Siegfried Matthus (1934-): Responso (1977)
Friday, February 20, 2009,
8PM
PERSECUTION AND FREEDOM: Masterworks of Conscience
Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975): Volo di notte
(Night Flight, 1939)
Il Prigioniero (The Prisoner, 1948)
Sunday, March 22, 2009, 3PM
REVISITING WILLIAM GRANT
STILL
George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931): Tam
O’Shanter (1917)
William Grant Still (1895-1978): Darker America
(1924)
Edgard Varèse (1883-1965): Amériques
(1921/27)
William Grant Still: Suite for Violin and
Orchestra (1943)
William Grant Still: Africa (1930)
Sunday, May 31, 2009, 3PM
COMPOSING A NATION: Israel’s
Musical Patriarchs
Erich-Walter Sternberg (1891-1974):
The Twelve Tribes of Israel (1938) U.S. premiere
Mordecai Seter (1916-1994): Midnight Vigil,
Op. 39a (1958) U.S. premiere
Josef Tal (1910- ): Symphony No. 2 (1960)
U.S. premiere
Odeon Partos (1907-1977): Ein gev, Symphonic
Fantasy (1952) U.S. premiere
Paul Ben-Haim (1907-1984): Symphony No. 2
(1948) U.S. premiere
Classics Declassified at
Peter Norton Symphony Space
RICHARD STRAUSS Four Last Songs
Sunday, September 21, 2008, 4PM
SILVESTRE REVUELTAS La noche
de los mayas
Sunday, February 8, 2009, 4PM
JOHANNES BRAHMS Symphony
No. 3
Sunday, April 19, 2009, 4PM
In celebration of the bicentenary
of the Irish born 19th century composer, Michael
W. Balfe, Opera Ireland/RTE Ireland will be
mounting a concert performance of Balfe's,
Falstaff at the National Concert Hall in Dublin
on Thursday, September 25th 2008, with the
RTE Orchestra and an international cast.
The opera will also be recorded. This will
be a world premiere recording of this unique
work.
The following are the contact details for
ticketing: www.nch.ie
- Box offices opens Monday July 14th .
This remarkable Balfe opera had it premiere
at the Italian Opera in London in July 1838,
when it was sung by four of opera's immortals...
Luigi Lablache, Antonio Tamburini, Giulia
Grisi and Giovanni Battista Rubini. These
four singer had created Bellini's I Puritani
three years earlier in Paris.
The
Armstrong Gibbs Society is pleased
to present the first Gibbs Music Festival.
Featuring the music of C. Armstrong Gibbs
the three day festival starting Friday 12th
September 2008
NEW BOOK
ON YMA SUMAC PUBLISHED In April, 2008,
Yma Sumac - The Art Behind the Legend by Nicholas
E. Limansky was published by YBK Publishers
in New York City. Available internationally,
the book is considered to be the reference
on Yma Sumac. Profusely illustrated, it includes
a complete career overview, as well as an
indepth discussion of Yma Sumac's voice and
music.
In addition
to the book, there is also a CD-Rom which
is purchased separately, which reproduces
all the photographs in the book as well as
many that did not appear within the book and
numerous, unpublished, color photographs.
In addition, the CD-Rom also has over 150
pages of additional text - including a detailed
analysis of all of Yma Sumac's recordings,
a complete, international discography, range
sheets for 50 of her songs, a discussion of
the history of Peru, an analysis of the Exotica
movement in the United States, an indepth
discussion of the acuto sfogato (unlimited)
soprano from Mozart's time to our day and
the text for her 1955 Souvenir booklet.
The book
is available internationally from Amazon.com,
Barnes and Noble and Borders as well as many
other online sites.
article link:
http://www.musicweb.uk.net/classRev/2007/Aug07/Sumac.htm
THE HYMN TUNE
INDEX: A PLEA FOR VOLUNTEERS from Nicholas
Temperley
A plan is being formed to extend the online
Hymn Tune Index (HTI). The present index was
published in four volumes in 1998, and an
online version has existed since 2001 (please
see http://hymntune.music.uiuc.edu).
At present it covers over 2,000 printed sources
from the Reformation to the year 1820, and
lists over 18,000 tunes in some 160,000 printings.
The ultimate target is to reach 1900, while
still covering all printed psalm or hymn tunes
associated with English-language texts. But
the quantities become so vast as the 19th
century wears on that 1900 is a very distant
goal at this point. As well as the hundreds
of 'mainline' hymnals of the various denominations
within Britain, there are many books of the
'West Gallery' type for country choirs, and
others for domestic use. There are huge numbers
of American hymnals, covering whole new categories
such as folk hymns, shapenote music, Mormon
hymns, gospel hymns, and negro spirituals;
and there are a growing number of books printed
in British colonies and missions abroad. Of
course, many tunes crossed national and denominational
boundaries, or came from secular sources.
It seems that the only way we can hope to
make progress is by a collaborative effort.
Sally Drage has agreed to help me co-ordinate
work on English sources. We are looking for
volunteers from different parts of the English-speaking
world. Meanwhile, we are devising a web interface
that will allow people to index books directly
from any library or from their personal collections,
with the help of explicit guidelines that
we will supply.
Ideally, we would go methodically through
the years in chronological order, starting
in 1821. But we know that many people are
interested in particular types or groups of
sources, and we wouldn't want to discourage
them from indexing these books as soon as
they can, rather than waiting until we reach
a particular year. We will then have to find
ways of filling in the 'gaps' not covered
by any such offers. For North America, an
organizing committee is being formed. It will
meet in 2007 at the University of Illinois,
which will continue to be the headquarters
of the HTI. Perhaps a similar committee could
be brought together next summer for the UK.
It is also possible, though not certain, that
we will be able to raise some modest funds
to cover travel or photocopying expenses for
those who are helping.
So I am now asking for volunteers who would
like to take part in this project over the
next few years. Please reply directly to Sally
and me jointly (sally@drage.me.uk,
ntemp@uiuc.edu)
giving your name and contact details, and
stating what types of source you would be
willing to cover - e.g. ''parochial tunebooks
in Sussex', 'hymn books in Birmingham public
library', 'Methodist hymnals', 'books in my
own possession', etc. Or, if you have no special
preference, please tell us if you would be
willing to index a list of books that we will
provide. If you don't use e-mail please write
to Sally Drage, 2 Grasmere Avenue, Congleton,
Cheshire CW12 4LZ.
Nicholas Temperley, Professor of Music Emeritus,
The University of Illinois
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