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Stories for April 21, 2019

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    Who's afraid of the big bad wolf? Not Montrealers / CBC
     
    Posted At : April 21, 2019 12:00 AM

    CBC/QWF writer-in-residence Emira Tufo meets the yellow-eyed wolf who serenades Metro commuters. The masked violinist who plays in the Montreal Metro was inspired by the French-Belgian-German film, Le joueur de violon - the story of a concert musician who abandons the spotlight to play for passersby in the Paris Metro. The old proverb says; the Wolf is always bad, regardless of the colour of his pelt, and taken to its logical conclusion, wolf neither sings nor harbours good intentions. And yet, there is a yellow-eyed wolf who makes the rounds of the Montreal Metro, violin in hand, offering the comfort of music to the crowds of humans, mingling the melodies of Bach and Chopin with the roar of the passing trains and the familiar voice of Michèle Deslauriers: Attention à tous les passagers. Il y a un ralentissement de service sur la ligne … (and you pause, frozen in suspense, hoping not to learn, as you invariably will, that it is, indeed, your line. Again.)
    PHOTO:  (Emira Tufo/CBC) READ THE FULL CBC ARTICLE & WATCH THE VIDEO

  • Christina Pluhar, L'Arpeggiata will present baroque jazz on Istanbul stage / DAILY SABAH
     
    Posted At : April 20, 2019 12:00 AM

    Sanat Concert Hall will host prominent music group, L'Arpeggiata on Thursday, April 25. The night, which will witness a combination of Baroque music and jazz, is expected to be one of the most unforgettable concerts ever held on Sanat stage. Founded in 2000 by Christina Pluhar, L'Arpeggiata consists of classical and jazz musicians. Following the success of their debut album "Improvisations on Henry Purcell," L'Arpeggiata worked on a project consisting of G. Frideric Handel's pieces and released the album "Handel Goes Wild." Standing as harmonization of jazz and baroque music, the album arouses both curiosity and amazement. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #4d4d4d} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #4d4d4d; min-height: 14.0px} READ THE FULL DAILY SABAH ARTICLE

  • Frou Frou shares first new song in over 15 years / Pitchfork
     
    Posted At : April 20, 2019 12:00 AM

    Frou Frou, the duo of Imogen Heap and Guy Sigsworth, are back with their first new song in 15 years. "Guitar Song (Live)" is an acoustic offering, released via Linda Perry and Kerry Brown's label We Are Hear. Check it out below. Heap and Sigsworth formed Frou Frou in London back in 1999. After amicably disbanding in 2004, Heap and Sigsworth reunited in 2018 for the Mycelia World Tour. "So happy to be releasing dear ‘Guitar Song' with Guy, as Frou Frou," Imogen Heap said in a press release. "We never really got to tour as Frou Frou that much but we are making up for it and opening every show on this World Tour we are on with this song." LISTEN

  • Terence Blanchard's 'Fire Shut Up in My Bones' to premiere at The Opera Theatre of Saint Louis / JAZZIZ
     
    Posted At : April 20, 2019 12:00 AM

    The Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (OTSL) announced the world premiere of trumpeter-composer Terence Blanchard and librettist Kasi Lemmons' Fire Shut Up in My Bones, based on the memoir of celebrated writer Charles Blow. This opera is part of OTSL's series New Works, Bold Voices, which is committed to commissioning new operas that reflect the diversity of modern American experience. Fire Shut Up in My Bones is Blanchard's second opera and has been co-commissioned with Jazz St. Louis. It will open on June 15 and run for six performances directed by OTSL artistic director James Robinson, conducted by William Long and featuring an acclaimed cast including sopranos Julia Bullock and Karen Slack, and bass-baritone Davóne Tines. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #4d4d4d} SEE ALL JAZZIZ ITEMS

  • Angelique Kidjo - Celia is a magnificent African reinvention of salsa / The Guardian
     
    Posted At : April 20, 2019 12:00 AM

    Angélique Kidjo is on a roll. For years, she has been an entertaining, reliable fixture on the world-music scene, a powerful singer famed for mixing African material, including songs by her heroine Miriam Makeba, with old favourites by anyone from Bob Marley to Sam Cooke. But it's her most recent albums that have demonstrated the scope of her ambition. First came her original reinterpretation of Talking Heads' 1980 album Remain in Light, in which she advanced the African influences in their music. Now she applies the same technique to the songs of Celia Cruz, the queen of salsa. This is not just an album of covers but an inventive reinterpretation.    Photograph: Laurent Seroussi p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #4d4d4d} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #4d4d4d; min-height: 14.0px} READ THE FULL Guardian REVIEW

  • The Des Moines Symphony presents Peter Boyer's Suite from Ellis Island: The Dream of America on Iowa Public Radio
     
    Posted At : April 19, 2019 12:00 AM

    The program highlights an immigrant's journey to America, featuring Peter Boyer's Suite from Ellis Island: The Dream of America. The Ellis Island Honors Society recently announced that Peter Boyer is among the recipients of the 2019 Ellis Island Medal of Honor. This award is "highly prestigious" and is officially recognized by the United States Congress. Boyer's Grammy-nominated 2001 composition "brings elements of the theatre and multimedia into the concert hall, employing actors and projected historical images from the Ellis Island archives." Spoken texts are taken from the Ellis Island Oral History Project, a "historic collection of interviews from actual immigrants." Boyer chose "stories of seven immigrants who came to America through Ellis Island from disparate nations between 1910-1940." The Des Moines Symphony will be performing the Suite, which incorporates five of the seven. Using the actual words of these immigrants, he "wove them into an orchestral tapestry which frames and comments on their stories." The work is "poignant, humorous, moving, and inspiring."  Celebrate the journey to the New World with the Des Moines Symphony on IPR Classical's Symphonies of Iowa on Sunday, April 21st at 4 p.m. and Monday, April 22nd at 7 p.m. Listen below to hear exclusive Iowa Public Radio interviews with composer Peter Boyer, pianist Aaron Diehl and Maestro Joseph Giunta.

  • Watch Ron Carter play and discuss new memoir on WGBH: 'Eric in the Afternoon'
     
    Posted At : April 19, 2019 12:00 AM

    Ron Carter is among the most original, prolific, and influential bassists in jazz history, with more than 2,200 albums to his credit, an accomplishment honored in the 2015 Guinness Book of World Records. He has recorded with greats including: Tommy Flanagan, Gil Evans, Lena Horne, Bill Evans, B.B. King, the Kronos Quartet, Dexter Gordon, Wes Montgomery, and Bobby Timmons, Jaki Byard, Eric Dolphy and Cannonball Adderley. Author and Bassist Ron Carter joins WGBH: Boston - Eric Jackson for the Wednesday April 17, 2019 edition on 'Eric in the Afternoon to play in studio and discuss his new memoir; 'Finding the Right Notes'  WATCH

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Ludovico Einaudi adds dates to London Barbican residency / stereoboard

Posted: April 11, 2019 12:00 AM | By: Admin
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Due to high demand for tickets, the composer and pianist - Ludovico Einaudi has extended his residency at London's Barbican Centre to now take place from Wednesday July 31 to August 6. Tickets for the two new shows, on August 5 and 6, will go on sale at 10am on April 12. Einaudi will then head around the rest of the UK, stopping in Birmingham, Brighton, Liverpool, Edinburgh. Glasgow and Nottingham throughout autumn. The tour is in support of his latest project, ‘Seven Days Walking': seven bodies of work to be released over seven consecutive months. The first dropped in March.

Signing a new worldwide contract with Decca Records, under Universal Music Group, after nearly 15 years and six album releases together, Decca – the renewed working relationship marks the first time Einaudi's music will be released via Universal Music Group in the United States. 

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    Seven Days Walking - Day 1

    Ludovico Einaudi has played piano on an Arctic glacier, performed at huge pop music festivals, and become the most-streamed classical artist in the world, but the composer and pianist's new album may be his most ambitious project yet. On March 15 2019, he released the first episode of a seven-part new album called Seven Days Walking (Decca Records/Universal), before embarking on a North American tour at the end of May. 

    Einaudi also announces today his signing of a new worldwide contract with Decca Records, under Universal Music Group. After nearly 15 years and six album releases together, Decca – the world's No.1 classical music label – is thrilled to renew its working relationship with Einaudi and be the home to his music globally. This is the first time Einaudi's music will be released via Universal Music Group in the United States. 

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    Stanze

    "The seemingly simple but strangely affecting music of Ludovico Einaudi defies pigeonholing…expect to feel transported and mesmerized by (his) artfully wrought compositions." - Daily Telegraph

    Stanze (rooms) is a cycle of 16 pieces, and each is a musical space separated from the others like the rooms of a house. It's the diary of a journey, with the aim to achieve the maximum expression using the least possible. This is how award-winning composer Ludovico Einaudi describes Stanze, his first cycle of ballads for solo instrument originally composed for piano over the course of three years. After having listened to the performance of some songs performed on electric harp by Cecilia Chailly (the sister of conductor Riccardo Chailly), Einaudi decided to entrust the playing of the whole project to her, privileging her instrument for the entire album.

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