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...Kronos’s concerts over the years have featured almost exclusively music by living composers — which is certainly not the case with most string quartets....
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...On these intensive courses, students learn musical notation, enabling them to compose a piece for a string quartet which is performed by professional musicians at the Grand Canyon Music Festival....
...It was Lotus who originally persuaded Thundercat to start singing in his music....
...He decided to persevere: “I thought the shop was providing a benefit to the music community,” he explains....
...But now the music is more assured. The album begins with pianist Moran introducing “End of Innocence” with a sequence of moody chords and Shabaka pensive on clarinet....
...Two contrasting interludes focus on rhythm and strings and deliver textural detail with minimal fuss....
...Ullmann also composed his Third String Quartet. While Der Kaiser was born of the situation in Terezín, the quartet is a piece of pure music, very much in the Viennese tradition where he was trained....
...Expertly marshalled by the players, the music swelled and ebbed and surged, staking out a space between folk, US roots music and hard rock....
...Each summer, the Louth Contemporary Music Society hosts a festival devoted to new music....
...After the intermission it was Bartók, orchestra violist Stanley Konopka’s arrangement of the String Quartet No 3 for double string orchestra, and The Miraculous Mandarin Suite....
...“But I want my music to reach more than just bass players. That’s why I’ve been getting into these larger ensembles.”...
...After 47 seasons, the Emerson String Quartet played their final concerts this past weekend for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center....
...Tōru Takemitsu’s well-known Requiem for String Orchestra (1957), an essay in spare threnody, was paired with the first UK performance of Prayer (2021-22) by Toshio Hosokawa....
...stage, the screams that greeted her would do justice to the word hysteria, yet what followed was not an evening of Taylor Swift pop or Ariana Grande R&B, but a set of bossa novas, piano ballads and gentle strings...
...The playing here is first-rate, strings impeccably rehearsed, wind tuning spot on. Over the years countless recordings of Má Vlast have come onto the market....
...The BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra let rip in the Monteverdi-inspired fanfares of joy, and Wigglesworth completed the programme with his own arrangement of Monteverdi’s Lamento d’Arianna for string orchestra...
...It’s not the first time Jlin has challenged the string quartet: when she composed a piece for them in 2018, she gave their cellist a kick drum to play....
...As the narrative twisted this way and that, indigenous rhythms were mixed with the blues and Patitucci, now on six-string bass guitar, delivered a soaring solo laden with dexterity and singing tones....
...It is scored for chorus and string quartet, the only solo performances coming from two dancers....
...After the famine of the pandemic, a feast of new music is now coming to market....
...To this day he cannot read music but did his best to imitate his idols, flamenco legends Ramón Montoya and Niño Ricardo, hearing them on the radio....
...There is nothing you can’t express with music. Everyone speaks music.”...
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