(Vocal/instrumental group, 1997–present) Embrace – Danny McNamara (vocals), Richard McNamara (guitar), Steven Firth (bass), Mike Heaton (drums) and Mickey Dale (keyboards) – have had numerous career resuscitations in their decade-long existence. But the band started life as press-darlings after a number of singles on the fiercely independent Fierce Panda label. It was these early, near-demo quality recordings that caught ...
In 1905, and probably for several decades before that, there were more pianos in the United States than there were bathtubs. In Europe, throughout the nineteenth century, piano sales increased at a greater rate than the population. English, French and German makers dispatched veritable armies of pianos to every corner of the Earth. It was the ...
is as broad a term as rock. Still fuelled by technological advances – the sophisticated software programmes and the MP3 and web possibilities which electronic artists were the first to embrace – this music keeps morphing, challenging the listener to guess what the next chapter will be. ‘I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of ...
‘Rustic Chivalry’ Composed: 1888 Premiered: 1890, Rome Libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci after Giovanni Verga’s play Early on Easter Day, Turiddu is heard offstage serenading Lola. The villagers start arriving for church. Santuzza stops Mamma Lucia, Turiddu’s mother, and asks where she may find him. He is supposed to have gone to another village to ...
in the country, but Giorgetta shares with Luigi a love of Paris since they both come from Belleville. She is unhappy cooped up on a barge. Luigi tries to embrace Giorgetta, but she pushes him away, worried that Michele will find them together. They recall last night’s kisses. Luigi asks Michele to put him ashore at Rouen, ...
Tichon to leave. Kabanicha makes him repeat strict instructions that Kátya must observe. She orders Tichon to kneel and kiss her, but turns on Kátya when she tries to embrace him. Act II Kabanicha tells Kátya that if she really loved Tichon she would display more grief. The garden is usually locked, but Varvara has found the key. Kátya ...
avoid marrying Marcellina by protesting that his parents are not present, it transpires that he is the son of Marcellina and Bartolo. Susanna enters and misconstrues Figaro and Marcellina’s embrace, but all is explained. Susanna, with the help of the Countess, composes a note inviting the Count to meet her. The wedding ceremony begins and Susanna slips ...
on fire. Zurga frees the captives and tells them that he was the fugitive she had saved, and has done this to give them a chance to escape. They embrace and then Nadir and Leïla run off together. Personalities | Georges Bizet | High Romantic | Opera ...
The mid-1730s operas Orlando, Ariodante and Alcina represent the artistic peak of Handel’s operatic career. Their stories all originate in the epic poem Orlando Furioso by the playwright and poet Ariosto, who was born and bred at the Ferrara court in the late fifteenth century. Orlando portrays the destructive insanity of its title-hero, who ignores his destiny by ...
is increasingly interested in the foreign princess, who taunts Rusalka. In despair she calls on Vodník, who urges her to try to win him back. Seeing the prince embrace the foreign princess, she breaks in but is thrust away. Vodník drags Rusalka back to the water and the princess rejects the prince. Act III Even Rusalka’s sisters reject ...
, Juno assures her, Semele will become immortal. Semele thanks Juno, who retires. Jupiter, inflamed by desire following his dream, enters Semele’s chamber and goes to embrace her. Semele hesitates, so Jupiter swears to give her anything she desires. She asks to see him in his godlike form. Jupiter, knowing that the force of this ...
together, but Isolde insists that Love herself was responsible. She puts out the torch, signalling to Tristan that it is safe to approach. He arrives and the lovers embrace, claiming the protective night as their friend. Brangäne warns that day will soon reveal them and they equate the safety of night to the eternal comfort of death. Kurwenal ...
wider audience with his Song for Athene (1993), sung at the funeral of Princess Diana in 1997. While remaining in the Orthodox church, he seemed in later life to embrace a more pluralistic religious outlook: both the The Veil of the Temple, a vigil-inspired work lasting seven hours, and the Requiem (2007) use elements of Catholic and Orthodox ...
Christian and Cootie Williams, innovative new charts by Eddie Sauter and Mel Powell, and the late-wartime sextet with Red Norvo. After the Second World War Goodman attempted to embrace bebop and performed a clarinet concerto written for him by Aaron Copeland, before wisely returning to the style in which he was most comfortable. From the 1950s into the ...
a more electronic edge. Their debut album Movement (1981) saw Sumner emerge as lead singer and lyricist. New Order gradually freed themselves from the shadow of their previous incarnation to embrace the influence of the New York dance scene. Power, Corruption And Lies (1982) first showcased the pioneering crossover between dance, electronic music and rock which was to be ...
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