On this week’s episode of GAMEPLAY, we’ll explore three different soundtracks scored by composer Jessica Curry: one of today’s great game music storytellers.
No matter the setting or story of a particular game, she is able to adapt her style while maintaining her unique, gorgeously lyrical voice.
We’ll look for the secrets held by an island in the Scottish Hebrides, go on a walk through the beautiful but mysteriously empty English countryside, and experience the life cycle of a planet.
This week, it's Round Two of "Old American Songs" by Aaron Copland. We'll hear composer Aaron Copland at the piano along with bass-baritone William Warfield. We also have a new Quizlet for you this week!
This week on Classical IPR in Concert, we feature the Northwestern Michigan College Concert Band and Choir concert from earlier this year, prior to pandemic-related closures.
The program will feature music for band, selections for vocal ensembles, and works for the groups together.
Patricia Brumbaugh conducts the band. Jeffrey Cobb conducts choral ensembles and is the director of the Music Department at NMC. The concert also includes compositions by Jeffrey Cobb.
This weekend, the five members of Canadian Brass will perform in person together for the first time since COVID-19 halted their touring schedule this past March.
They'll be following strict safety protocols, trumpeter Caleb Hudson told Classical IPR.
For example, he joked, each member will play inside their own separate bubble on stage.
Each week, campus safety officer Kevin LaRose plays a different instrument in a specific location at Interlochen Center for the Arts.
Watch his video of the week below. Do you know where he is or what instrument he's playing? Email your answer to classicalipr@interlochen.org, and we'll send you a CD!
Last week, Kevin was playing the bass clarinet outside the Transportation Hut.
Antonio Vivaldi wrote the Concerto for Flute in D in 1729. This work, known as "the Goldfinch," includes a birdlike cadenza and is filled with twittering passages.
I've heard recordings of European goldfinches. Vivaldi did a bit of embellishing of the bird's trills and warbles.
In my opinion, the name "goldfinch" for the European species is a stretch. The bird is sort of brown, with yellow and black wings.
On Tuesday, the New York Philharmonic announced that it has canceled all of its scheduled concerts through June 13, 2021. It is the first time in the orchestra's 178-year history that it has canceled an entire season.
Featured on today's program was Bright Blue Music from Michael Torke's Color Music Suite for Orchestra. The composition is associated withe Torke's synethesia which is a the perceptual phenomenon when one sensory or cognitive perception leads to another sensory or cognitive perception or simply said, a mingling of the senses. A synesthete hears color, feels sounds, and tastes shapes.
1. Chen Gang and He Zhan Hoa, Butterfly Lovers Concerto, Gil Shaham, Singapoe Symphony Orchestra, Lan Shui
There will be no shows on Broadway until May 30 at least.
The news comes from the Broadway League, the trade association representing theater producers and owners. According to a press release, the specific dates for returning and new shows will be announced individually, depending on the production schedule for each show.
This is, of course, yet another economic blow from COVID-19.
This week on Kids Commute, it's "Old American Songs Week."
Composer Aaron Copland went digging through libraries and found a bunch of classic American folk tunes and arranged them into two sets. This week, we'll hear the first set, sung by legendary bass-baritone William Warfield with the composer at the piano.
We'll have a U.S.A.-themed Quizlet this week, too!
On Friday, October 9, the nationally syndicated program Performance Today will feature music performed and recorded at Interlochen Center for the Arts.
Listen to Classical IPR during the 11 a.m. hour to hear the Goldstein-Peled-Fiterstein trio perform music of Ernest Bloch from a recent recital at the Dendrinos Chapel and Recital Hall.
During his third shift rounds at Interlochen Center for the Arts, campus safety officer Kevin LaRose makes a video of himself playing a different instrument in a different location.
Watch this week's video below. Do you know where Kevin is or what instrument he's playing? Email us at classicalipr@interlochen.org and we'll send you a CD!
Congrats to David, Jan and Denver, all of whom correctly identified Kevin's location (Bus Barn) and instrument (oval euphonium) last week!
This week on GAMEPLAY, we’ll dive deep into the BAFTA-award winning soundtrack for 2018’s God of War!
Composer Bear McCreary’s epic, layered score for the visceral action title uses huge orchestral forces along with Nordic folk instruments and voices to bring vivid emotional life to the deities, giants, and beasts of Norse mythology.
Eddie Van Halen, who has died from cancer at 65, blazed trails with his band Van Halen as one of the greatest guitarists in rock history. But he never forgot his classical past, and it started with his name and upbringing.
Why is it that when men speak derogatorily of women, they refer to them as animals?
This beastly name-calling dates back at least to Shakespeare's time. The Bard referred to Kate as a shrew in the play "The Taming of the Shrew."
Admittedly, to describe a vicious, aggressive individual, the type who, whenever she opens her mouth, poison seems to flow out, that name might have been apt.
