Public booking is open for Longborough Festival Opera Hansel & Gretel this summer!
Hansel -me 🍭
Gretel -Rosalind Dobson
Witch/Mother -Lee Bisset
Father -Darren Jeffery
Dew Fairy -Kelli-Ann Masterson
Sandman -Laura Fleur
Conductor -Karen Kamensek
Director -Lucy Bailey
lfo.org.uk/opera/hansel...
Drool-inducing Faber Poetry book covers
These Faber Poetry book covers are so beautiful and I need all of them.
I fell in love with the original years ago so I had to own the Japanese version, even if I’ll never read all of it!
I love ダジャレ and 当て字 so I think I’ll enjoy that part 😅
I may have bought the Japanese translation of Finnegans Wake by James Joyce…
I made a bold purchase today…
I've finally finished the orchestration of the other song and have uploaded it to Soundcloud. I'll put the program notes below👇
(Likes/reposts are tantamount to thunderous applause)
'Two English Poems for Voice and Orchestra'
on.soundcloud.com/HwnrLqFLgHKx...
Meanwhile in American Ballet Theatre, another performance of ballet version of NEO. March 18th+21st
New York, New York
David H. Koch Theater
Christine Shevchenko
James Whiteside
www.abt.org/events/neo/?...
Austrian composer Alban Berg was born #OTD in 1885. In the Nazis eyes, his crime was to have studied with the Schoenberg and Berg subsequently found his music proscribed and placed on the list of degenerate music. He died aged 50 in Vienna, Dec 1935.
en.wikipedia.org/wik...
Another clip from our Korngold Symphony performance last May.
Season Tickets and Packages go on sale one week from today, Feb 16, 10AM. Single Tickets March 2.
mahlerfest.org/pages/mf39
Full Korngold performance at youtu.be/BP5N8_Ewj5Q
The Barbican Quartet return this morning with a programme placing two landmarks of 20th-century string quartet repertoire alongside Rebecca Clarke’s recently rediscovered elegiac Poem 💫
🕰️ 11.30am
🎶 Clarke, Ravel and Szymanowski
🎟️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202602081130
My album "The Mock Orchestra" is now available for streaming on Spotify, YouTube Music and other platforms!
Don't have a subscription or don't want to support streaming platforms? The album is also available on the MusiKolektibo Bandcamp page! musikolektibo.bandcamp.com/album/the-mo...
#newalbum
On Saturday we sing Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater under the baton of Ed Gardner.
Read to find out what members Mikolaj Walczak and Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg most about this piece.
lpc.org.uk/2026/02/01/s...
#MoreThanJustSinging #Choir #Singing #London #Szymanowski
Korngold refused to write concert music while Hitler was in power, later composed this celebration of peace after the war and dedicated it to FDR.
Don't forget, tickets for MF39 are on sale 2/16. mahlerfest.org/pages/mf39
Full recording @ youtu.be/BP5N8_Ewj5Q
Fascinating stuff here from @bachtrack.com, using its listings of more than 31K concert, opera and dance events to provide insight into what orchestras, opera houses and dance companies are offering worldwide.
Find the article here: bachtrack.com/classical-mu...
Burbank speaks, at the side of church pastor James Gordon
Fresno, Calif., Bee
Jan. 31, 1926: Invited to deliver a guest sermon at San Francisco’s First Congregational Church, the naturalist Luther Burbank defends his self-description as an “infidel.” “The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me,” he says.
German violinist and violin teacher Annemarie Klutmann suffered a professional ban and lost all opportunities to teach and perform but avoided deportation. She was born #OTD in 1898.
www.lexm.uni-hamburg...
My great uncle was one of the first to arrive at the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. He would never talk about it and if it was mentioned on TV or radio he would leave the room to be on his own somewhere to deal with his memory being refreshed of what he saw there.
#HolocaustMemorialDay
The score to my new work for solo cello "Tides" is distributed by Universal Edition and can be heard on my YouTube channel: youtu.be/EIoiXfcBpxg
Born #OTD in 1901, Hans Erich Apostel was a German-born Austrian composer whose music was proscribed as "degenerate". After #WWII, he was prominent in the Austrian branch of the Gesellschaft für Neue Musik, of which he was president from 1947 to 1950.
en.wikipedia.org/wik...
The composer Henri Dutilleux walking along the banks of the River Seine near his home
Remembering Henri #Dutilleux, born 22 January 1916. He was one of the nicest and most charming men I've ever met and has had an impact on my life in so many ways
#TheCompleteBritten #30
Quartettino (1930)
"I am getting very fond of Schönberg, especially with study" (Britten's diary, 14th April 1930)
This key work shows the student going beyond his models and his teachers to make his own, thoroughly modern music of real power and emotional depth.
I never expected to equate Britten with Zemlinsky but the harmonic language here reminds me so much of Zemlinsky’s 3rd string quartet!
Ben Glassberg © Caroline Doutre
This interview with conductor Ben Glassberg by my colleague Elisabeth Schwarz is well worth your time and a salutary reminder of the pressures performers face under the social media microscope: bachtrack.com/interview-be...
Composers: looking for calls for scores, funding & bursaries?
Find all of that, along with interviews & world premieres on our new Composers' Hub:
www.alternativeclassical.co.uk/composers-hub
Anne-Sophie Mutter marks her 50th year on the international stage by launching ASM Forte Forward, a new recording series devoted exclusively to contemporary music.
TRead the full story at moto-perpetuo.com/anne-sophie-...
Jobs in classical music and opera:
- Head of producing & participation at opera company
- Impact and evaluation manager at music college
- Young artists’ programme for 18-23 year old ensemble singers
www.alternativeclassical.co.uk/arts-jobs
I haven’t heard of him so I’ll have a listen! Thanks for the recommendation 🙇♂️
Who’s your favourite living composer? 🤔
Hopefully we’ll end up with a thread of composers for people to explore!
January 17 sees the UK premiere of Gustavo Díaz-Jerez’s piano concerto, ‘Tajogaite’, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Find out more in our recent interview
@vrpiano.bsky.social
whatsnew.composersedition.com/diaz-jerez-m...
'Adagio for Orchestra'
An orchestration of my piece for viola ensemble, full of passionate melody and crunchy suspensions.
Please listen, like and repost! (Headphones recommended)
soundcloud.com/jrc87/adagio...
If you have two minutes spare, feel free to give my ‘Japanese Miniature for Solo Flute’ a listen and a like!
(Also feel free to think how much better an actual recording with rubato would sound)
