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...An anniversary can put a figure in the spotlight – the shop’s collection of works by William Byrd was snapped up last year, 400 years after the madrigal composer’s death....
...June 1 to 16; further information here July Performance ‘Dido and Aeneas’, Melba Hall A new production of Purcell’s Baroque opera by VOYCE (Victorian Opera Youth Chorus Ensemble) in a grand Melbourne...
...Other parts of the palace are used for performances too, not least the Hall of Mirrors, where Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas can be heard on April 20, and the Chapelle Royale, where Bach’s B Minor Mass and Mozart...
...Dated 1920, it actually depicts a structure for outdoor sleeping erected 10 years earlier by President William Howard Taft....
...John Eccles was a contemporary of Purcell and his Semele may have been planned for the opening of the Queen’s Theatre in the Haymarket, London, in 1705....
...First-rate voices are onboard, including Anna Dennis, Mhairi Lawson, Jeremy Budd, Roderick Williams and Ashley Riches....
...French company, William Christie’s Les Arts Florissants....
...Pianist/composer Kate Williams and vocalist/lyricist Georgia Mancio’s Finding Home album also has a chamber-jazz vibe....
...The independent investor Adam Parr, 54, is a former Williams F1 chief executive who is now an angel investor in early-stage companies who regards finding solutions to climate change as a priority....
...The book belonged to William John Chute, who lived in the house between 1757 and 1824; here under my finger are his schoolboy doodlings from nearly 250 years ago....
...William Towers heads the cast as a countertenor Radamisto with a soft-edged, warmly expressive voice....
...What was to be done with the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room? Widely derided as architecture, they were looking ever more shabby and unloved....
...He doesn’t even get to appear in Daisy Evans’s take on Purcell’s 17th-century semi-opera....
...We’ll walk up the aisle to Purcell and back down to Arthur Russell. There’ll be cod roe and radishes, quail eggs and rare roast beef, late-night cheese and limitless champagne....
...Photo Dean Purcell/New Zealand Herald via AP)...
...Purcell’s Fairy Queen and Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto were interspersed with other offerings in ways that harnessed opportunities for contrast: Purcell’s sublime “Sweeter than roses”, for example, pitched...
...Purcell’s semi-operas, half play and half music, are notoriously difficult to bring off, though not impossible (William Christie’s Les Arts Florissants put on a modest but effective Fairy Queen in this same...
...But two of the judges – Michelle Friedland, appointed by a Democrat, Barack Obama, and William Canby, appointed by another Democrat, Jimmy Carter – seemed unclear whether there was really any pressing national...
...A riff on a classic poem by William Carlos Williams produces this startling exchange: “When I first moved in with him, he said, ‘Will you still goose me while you’re changing my Depends?’...
...The cold might have made life harder for the musicians of the Kammerorchester Basel, whose account of Purcell’s Fairy Queen suite under Trevor Pinnock’s direction sounded scrappy and unfocused....
...In 1999, the year of The Matrix, a documentary was made about William Gibson, cult novelist and inventor of the term “cyberspace”....
...The reign of William and Mary was not a musical golden era comparable to some in continental Europe, but with Purcell at its height it had a glorious champion....
...Purcell’s semi-opera, dating from 90 years later, is a typical post-Restoration entertainment that runs together music and drama in a Shakespearean mish-mash....
...In between, countertenor Tim Travers-Brown and lutenist David Miller offered vocal pieces by Henry Purcell and Pelham Humfrey (good to hear so many of the words)....
...We meet the young Duke of Gloucester (Joshua James), sickly nephew to William and Mary....
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