LONDON, UK
CELEBRATING 100 YEARS SINCE REBECCA CLARKE'S SOLD-OUT RECITAL AT WIGMORE HALL IN 1925
WASHINGTON, DC
FELLOW CITIZENS – Songs by Irving BERLIN, Leonard BERNSTEIN, Rebecca CLARKE, Antonin DVORAK, Mohammed FAIROUZ, Jake HEGGIE, Steven Mark KOHN, Eric MALMQUIST, Robert OWENS, Florence PRICE, Franz SCHUBERT, Ruth CRAWFORD SEEGER, Errollyn WALLEN, Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
I send you greetings from Rome, where we are in the midst of preparations for the opening of Kaija Saariaho’s Adriana Mater at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma next week. It’s a joy to reunite with my Grammy-winning colleagues from San Francisco and to have another chance at this extraordinary opera we all worked so hard to learn a few years ago in the Bay. The sweltering summer temperatures lingered on…
I’m thrilled to share that five volumes of new editions of Rebecca Clarke’s early songs are now available from ClarNan Editions. I had the privilege of co-editing these scores with Christopher Johnson—Clarke’s great-nephew by marriage—who worked closely with…
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Episode 12 of #BACH52 is now live! This episode features an interview with Dr . Reginald Sanders, Professor of Music at Kenyon College, who chats about leaving the Tech Industry to devote his life to the study of Bach’s music, and how he feels there really are no barriers to enjoy it.
Episode 11 of #BACH52 is now live! This episode is the final installment of a mini series about Boston’s Emmanuel Music and Emmanuel Church - a very special place for the music of #Bach.
Episode 10 of #BACH52 is now live! This episode is the second of a mini series about Boston’s Emmanuel Music and Emmanuel Church - a very special place for the music of #Bach.
This November, the music of the trailblazing yet long-neglected British composer Rebecca Clarke takes centre stage with the release of a landmark recording and a dedicated Focus Day at Wigmore Hall. Internationally-acclaimed British mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately, Grammy Award-winning American tenor Nicholas Phan, and distinguished British pianist Anna Tilbrook have joined forces to record Rebecca Clarke – The Complete Songs, the first album to encompass Clarke’s entire song output, many of which are world premiere recordings….
“…Phan was the program’s anchor, shining each time he took the stage. Even some of the greatest opera singers have had limited success in the art-song repertoire…To be successful, a singer does not so much perform art songs as enter into and inhabit these miniature worlds, serving more as a musical storyteller than an actor. Phan is the epitome of such an interpreter…”
Grammy Award-winning tenor Nicholas Phan joins WFMT to share selections from his acclaimed discography of lieder and art song including the Grammy nominated A Change is Gonna Come, a collection of American protest songs. Co-founder and artistic director of Art Song Chicago, Phan also previews the organization’s upcoming Collaborative Works Festival and Lieder Lounge series.
GRAMMY® winning tenor Nicholas Phan releases Joel Puckett: Short Stories in London on 22 August on Avie. The album features Puckett’s orchestral song cycle, There Was as Child Went Forth, which was created for Phan and was recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Joseph Young….
ROME, ITALY
Kaija SAARIAHO: Adriana Mater