I missed Rachmaninoff’s birthday earlier this month. Here’s a video/audio tribute to Rachmaninoff from the recording that introduced me to the haunting brilliance of the composer.
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Music of Tim Knight by EMC
Dear friends, Edition Music Contact now offers choral music by the british composer TIM KNIGHT “A celtic Blessing of Light”. In case you enjoy some latin moves please listen to the audio sample of “O crux ave, spes unica” by Alberto Balzanelli. These new publications and many others you can […]
Music Returns To Port-au-Prince
Amid the desperation and despair in earthquake-ravaged Port-au-prince, musicians from Haiti’s national chorus, jazz band and philharmonic gave their first post-quake concert. The musicians were able to rescue some instruments from the rubble, and they held the concert in the devastated neighborhood of Bell Aire to bring hope to the displaced. Audio report on […]
Singing in Haiti brings relief
Tom Lloyd sent me a story about singing providing the Haitians some relief from the disaster. For more than a week, there have been stories about Haitians struggling to cope with the destruction of their country. But even amid the rubble, there are moments of reprieve. In this audio postcard, we hear how some women […]
Nice Voice. Is It Yours?
But the Harmonics, part of Stanford for almost two decades, are about as musically big as a small set of student voices could be. The group’s penchant for creative risk has been galvanized by departing music director Charlie Forkish, ’11, who over the last three years has driven the Harmonics into such technologically edgy territory […]