07.02.08
Hallelujah Chorus Nuns
University of Warwick Chamber Choir
University of Warwick Chamber Choir [c]
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Belgium Tour Sunday 6th July - Sunday 13th July 2008
Le Choeur de l’Université de Warwick chante trois concerts en Belgique.
Le premier concert est le 9 juillet à 20.00h à la Chapelle, Rue Grafé, Namur. Entrée gratuite.
Le deuxième est au Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles le 10 juillet à 20.00h. Entrée gratuite.
Le troisième est à l’église St Lambert, Jodoigne le 12 juillet à 20.00h avec le soprano Tinuke Olafimihan et l’organiste Michel Crevecoeur. Réservations 010/811515 Namur
Free festival
Tall Texan bass dude Carlton Meredith writes:
Saturday next, July 12, is the ***free!*** folk music festival in the “Théatre de la Verdure” (“Groentheater” in Dutch) at the foot of the Atomium, starting at about 3:00 PM, and lasting till midnight or thereabouts. On Sunday the 13th, the style switches and you have jazz groups playing (more or less same hours). Good food, good music… worth enjoying with good friends!
Website:
Program (Saturday):
Fanfara La Panika: Brass Band Tsigan
Ida e Volta: a Muziekpublique production
Chris Wood "multiple BBC Folk Awards winner"
Karim Baggili Quartet & Guests
Stimmhorn : Border crossers in the Helvetic landscape of sound
Markku Lepistö & Co: Finland’s top accordion player
Comas: Powerful Celtic Folk
Lo Cor de la Plana: "polyfonias ipnoticas de Marsella - hypnotic polyphonies from Marseilles"
Dites 34: BAL FOLK
Program (Sunday):
Les Doigts de l’Homme: "Les doigts dans la prise"
Maria Schneider Orchestra "Grammy award + Best Instrumental Composition: ‘Cerulean Skies’"
Mathilde Renault Trio & Jonas Knutsson
Rabih Abou Khalil: traversing cultural barriers
Ben Sluijs Quintet: "The Unplayables"
Paul Bley: solo
Frank Vaganée & Zapp String Quartet: New Chamber Grooves
Flat Earth Society "Expo’58" project together with VeeJay from Zumo del Scumos
There is also “Brosella for the Kids”, with special activities for the younger folk who may get bored with the regular program. So it is good for an outing for the whole family.
And best of all, it’s ***free***!!
Cheers, and maybe some folks would like to meet up there,
Carlton
Anyone interested? Contact me and I’ll put you in touch with each other.
Or just contact each other, of course.
07.01.08
Devo - Whip It (Dir. Gerald V. Casale)
If you don’t love Devo, I don’t love you.
Stay with this one to the end, the very end. The very last second. It’ll be worth it, I promise.
06.29.08
Narciso Yepes - Chacona de J.S.Bach (3)
For anyone who’s interested, I would nominate this movement of this work as my Desert Island disc, if I could take only one. It’s entirely representative of Bach, in my view, in its invention and complexity. It’s not only a magnificent composition, it’s also an occasion for the ultimate in human ingenuity: not only did one great man compose it in the first place, but since then very many great men and women have gone to the lengths of developing such talent and artistry as to be able to play it. In this one aspect, music transcends all other arts. The poet and the painter create their triumphs once. The composer creates his over and over again.
Narciso Yepes - Chacona de J.S.Bach
Narciso Yepes is the late father of Ignacio Yepes, the conductor with whom some of you will be performing in Madrid in March. The guitar you see him playing, a 10-string, was invented by him in collaboration with guitar-maker José Ramirez. The music is by JS Bach, the chaconne which concludes his Partita in d minor, usually played on the violin.
06.24.08
Opera kid
I think we should consider putting our sopranos in lederhosen for the Brahms, don’t you agree? It seems to work wonders.
This is film of me when I was younger. I was only about 32 or 33 in this clip. Ah, it seems so long ago.
