8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Michael Collins & Michael McHale. The clarinetist and pianist’s program includes Joseph Horovitz’s Sonatina which premièred at Wigmore Hall in 1981. Widor’s
Introduction et rondo was composed in 1898. At its première in 1935, Bax’s clarinet sonata was actually played twice; it was repeated in the program when the sheet music for a work by Lennox Berkeley was lost in the post. Each of the four
Time Pieces by Robert Muczynski highlights a characteristic of the clarinet in terms of range, technical prowess, tone color, and expressiveness. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE
Jeremy Kreamer assumes directing duties for Orpheus West
VACAVILLE There is a new face manning the baton with the Orpheus West choir. A familiar one.
Jeremy Kreamer is taking over the group for the retiring David Barthelmess, who is heading to Montana.
Kreamer grew up in local theater and still remains involved at J&S Center for the Performing Arts, teaching while working alongside his mother, Serena Kreamer.
Barthelmess approached Kreamer about taking over as the choir director.
“I was immediately humbled and honored. I have been a member of Orpheus West since the beginning and have acted as assistant director for the group,” Kreamer shared in an email.
Asian Pacific America: The suburban town of Fremont, California, has recently found itself in the center of Black Lives Matter protests, art collectives and local elections. This “Rising With the Tides” story by grant winner and filmmaker Kitty Hu follows four young people who are challenging the town’s normalized complacency by calling for social change in their communities.
Verdi’s
Nabucco. Conductor: Marco Armiliato, director: Günter Krämer. With Plácido Domingo, Freddie De Tommaso, Riccardo Zanellato, Anna Pirozzi. Production from January 2021. Register for free and view here. 8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Timothy Ridout & Tom Poster. 2019 New Generation Artist Timothy Ridout joins Tom Poster from Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, to bring the world première of Kurt Schwertsik’s
Haydn lived in Eisenstadt, written especially for this concert. This will be performed between two Brahms viola sonatas which were originally written for clarinet. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE
Music from fiddles fit for an emperor By Chen Nan | China Daily | Updated: 2021-05-08 08:36 Share CLOSE MILA String Quartet performs at the concert hall of Tianjin Juilliard School on Dec 16, 2020.[Photo provided to China Daily]
Li began playing the violin when he was 5 and went on to attend the Shanghai Conservatory Middle School when he was 14, in 1979. Three years later he was selected through the first cultural exchange program between Shanghai and San Francisco to study for one year at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. With economic development and the rise of the middle class in China, many new concert halls have sprung up and many children study classical music, which has made China an exciting country for classical music, he says.