b. 1959 English composer The UK’s most widely performed opera composer, Dove began his career working as an arranger, repetiteur and chorus master, including at Glyndebourne, which commissioned his first full-length opera, Flight (1998). The chamber opera Tobias and the Angel (1999), like many of his works, involves parts for children and amateurs, while ...
for the prince’s shooting contest. Meanwhile, Agathe is filled with a sense of foreboding. She has had a bad dream, in which she took the form of a dove and was shot by Max. Aennchen again seeks to comfort her. The bridesmaids then arrive with her bridal wreath in a box, but she opens it to reveal a ...
Composed: 1927–28 Premiered: 1934, Hartford, Connecticut Libretto by Gertrude Stein with scenario by Maurice Grosser Background The saints are introduced. Note that St Teresa of Avila is sung by two performers (soprano and contralto). Act I Seven tableaux involving St Teresa II, described as a ‘Pageant, or Sunday School Entertainment’, are revealed behind a curtain on the ...
‘The Marriage of Figaro’ The librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte wrote that Le nozze di Figaro offered ‘a new kind of spectacle … to a public of such assured taste and refined understanding’, and it would be fair to say that after Figaro’s premiere on 1 May 1786, opera buffa was never quite the same again. There were precedents, of ...
into Gottfried; Lohengrin crowns him leader of the Duchy. Ortrud’s powers are quenched and Elsa falls lifeless to the ground as Lohengrin’s boat departs, now drawn by the white dove of the Holy Grail. Recommended Recording: Lohengrin, Metropolitan Opera; James Levine, conductor; Pioneer Classics PC-11500D (DVD Region 1); Soloists: Eva Marton (Elsa), Leonie Rysanek (Ortrud), Peter Hofmann (Lohengrin), ...
this opera the dethroned King Bertarido, believed dead by his steadfast wife, laments his misfortune in an accompanied recitative and aria, ‘Pompe vane di morte! … Dove sei amato bene’, which shows Handel as a supreme master of his craft. Bertarido’s eventual confrontation with his usurper Grimoaldo, in ‘Vivi tiranno!’, is a thrilling example of ...
Symphony No. 6, Time and the Raven, An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise, Royal PO (cond) Peter Maxwell Davies (Naxos) Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Jonathan Dove | Contemporary | Classical ...
G (1889); Symphony No. 9 in e, ‘From the New World’ (1893) Symphonic poems: The Water Goblin (1896); The Noonday Witch (1896); The Golden Spinning Wheel (1896); The Wood Dove (1896); The Hero’s Song (1897) Concertos: Piano in g (1876); Violin in a (1880); Cello in b (1895) Orchestral works: Serenade in E (1875); Slavonic Dances I (1878); Serenade in ...
Country music gained a new face when the Garth Brooks phenomenon swept the stage in the 1990s. Such a huge marketing venture took place that his name virtually became synonymous with country music and the pop crossover style. Yet Brooks’ career had started in unspectacular style in 1989, when his Garth Brooks album shipped only 20,000 copies. Such was ...
as the most innovative of his time, his theoretical writings are very old fashioned and do not deal with polyphonic music at all. Recommended Recording: The Saracen and the Dove, Orlando Consort (Archiv) Introduction | Medieval Era | Classical Personalities | Guillaume Du Fay | Medieval Era | Classical ...
Stonehill released Mystery Highway. In the Eighties Keaggy signed a deal with contemporary Christian label Sparrow Records and recorded a string of albums. In 1988, he received his first Dove Award for his second instrumental release, The Wind And The Wheat. His second Dove Award came in 1992 for the Celtic-influenced Beyond Nature, an album recently placed at ...
Bill Monroe invented the ‘high, lonesome’ sound of bluegrass vocals, but The Stanley Brothers perfected it. Ralph and Carter Stanley refined those vocals into close, three-part harmonies that were unprecedented at the time and which have had a lasting influence ever since. If Bill Monroe And The Blue Grass Boys set the standard for bluegrass picking, The ...
with ‘Kiss Me’, it was hailed as a breakthrough for CCM as a whole. The Gospel Music Association, though, disqualified ‘Kiss Me’ from nomination for one of its Dove Awards (comparable to a Grammy) because of alleged lack of Christian content. This led such artists as singer/producer Charlie Peacock to suggest ending the awards entirely. A New Wave Of ...
The Nashville sound has been both praised and maligned. Occasionally called ‘crossover country’, ‘easy listening country’ or ‘countrypolitan’, it was a trend more than an innovation. As such, it arose as much from commercial considerations as it did from personal artistry. All through the decades there have been periodic cross-pollinations between the country world and the wider pop audience. From ...
notation. Plainchant Plainchant is the name given to the simple melodies used in church worship; it is frequently also called Gregorian chant. Legend has it that it originated when a dove dictated music to Pope Gregory the Great (r. AD 590–604) for the Roman Mass and Office, which he then wrote down. However, although ‘Gregorian’ is the name by ...
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