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San Francisco Chronicle
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Esa-Pekka Salonen and S.F. Symphony release new recordings on Apple Music
As Esa-Pekka Salonen reaches the beginning of the end of his tenure as music director of the San Francisco Symphony, his work with the institution is being further memorialized on Apple Music Classical. The music platform has released Salonen and the Symphony's performance of Jean Sibelius' ' Finlandia,' recorded live in concert March 14-16, for fans to stream. Three additional digital-only spatial audio recordings are set to release on the Apple Music Classical app in the coming months. Igor Stravinsky's ' Symphony in Three Movements ' will be made available on July 4, followed by Sibelius' Symphony No. 1 on Aug. 15, and Salonen's Cello Concerto featuring principal cello Rainer Eudeikis, which does not have a release date yet. They are all produced through SFS Media, the Symphony's audio-visual label. The Symphony began its partnership with Apple Music Classical upon its release in 2023, and Salonen and the orchestra have previously released 11 recordings through the platform, including compositions by composers Anders Hillborg, Elizabeth Ogonek and Ottorino Respighi. Apple Music Classical is available for free to most Apple Music subscribers and allows its users to make playlists, utilize optimal search features, and enjoy high-quality immersive audio. Salonen's final shows with the Symphony are nearing as the 2024-25 season draws to a close, but classical music fans have a few more opportunities to catch the conductor in person. He is scheduled to conduct Stravinsky's 'The Firebird' Friday, May 23, through Sunday, May 25, and his last scheduled performances will be of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2, 'Resurrection,' on June 12-14. The Finnish conductor and composer took over the music director position from Michael Tilson Thomas in 2020 and announced his departure from the Symphony last spring. He attributed his decision to differences with leadership, stating that he does 'not share the same goals for the future of the institution as the Board of Governors does.' Salonen currently has no plans to join the forthcoming season's lineup, not even to return for a guest appearance.
Yahoo
15-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Tickets on sale for Budleigh music festival's 20th anniversary
Tickets are now on sale for a music festival set to celebrate its 20th anniversary this summer. Budleigh Music Festival will return to East Devon from June 27 until July 5. The festival has become a key event in the classical music calendar, attracting internationally renowned musicians and enthusiastic audiences alike. This year's programme, under the artistic direction of Jason Thornton, features 20 concerts. The festival highlights include performances from celebrated pianist Sir Stephen Hough, the Band of HM Royal Marines Plymouth, and the London African Gospel Choir. The festival will also feature South American violin prodigy Guido Saint'Anna, the Armonico Consort, and a performance of Mahler's Symphony No.1 by One Piano Four Hands. The Bath Philharmonia will also perform with Zeynep Ozuska, and Sir Michael Morpurgo and cellist Clare O'Connell will present his version of The Carnival of the Animals. The festival will also showcase emerging talent, with performances from Lumas Winds, the Rhossili Duo, Bonnie Scott, and William Bracken. A choral workshop is planned for the opening day, culminating in a performance alongside the festival's children's choir. There will also be a day of family events, including a musical treasure hunt through the town, African drumming workshops, and sound bath and body percussion sessions. Kate Somerby, chair of Budleigh Music Festival, said: "We are incredibly proud to reach this significant milestone and to continue bringing outstanding classical music to Budleigh. "This year's programme features a spectacular mix of established international artists and rising stars, offering something truly special for our audiences. "As a charity, one of our aims is to make classical music accessible to young people who may not otherwise have opportunities to play and enjoy it. "Alongside our programme we will once again be offering those opportunities to young people, through our partnerships with local schools and groups like Future Talent, who nurture exceptional young musicians." For more details, visit the Budleigh Music Festival website.
New York Times
10-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Making Sparks Fly at the New York Philharmonic
To judge by its marketing materials, the New York Philharmonic is uncomfortable with its leaderless state, created by the gap between the departure last summer of the music director Jaap van Zweden and the arrival of Gustavo Dudamel, who takes over in 2026. Dudamel's likeness is already splashed all over Lincoln Center, as if the mere promise of him were the orchestra's best hope for selling tickets. But the parade of visiting conductors passing through Geffen Hall has had its own rewards, shaking the ensemble from its routine and injecting a vital note of unpredictability. Week by week, the orchestra sounds different. The energy in the hall fluctuates. And when a firebrand soloist joins a smoldering conductor, sparks fly. This was the case on Wednesday in an electrifying concert that drew tumultuous ovations. The Czech conductor Jakub Hrusa teamed up with the flamboyant violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, who shredded the Stravinsky Violin Concerto — and more than a few bow hairs — on a program that opened with the world premiere of Jessie Montgomery's sumptuous 'Chemiluminescence' and ended with a glowing reading of the Symphony No. 1 by Brahms. The previous week had featured another ferociously expressive soloist in another world premiere when the cellist Alisa Weilerstein performed a Thomas Larcher concerto, 'Returning Into Darkness,' on a program bookended by Mendelssohn and Schumann. There, it was Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider who conducted, drawing chiseled playing from the orchestra that brought out the wit in selections from Mendelssohn's 'Midsummer Night's Dream' and the intricate flow of Schumann's Second Symphony. Under Hrusa, the collective sound seethed and simmered. Larcher's one-movement concerto grows out of a single gesture, a swooping glissando across multiple octaves on the solo cello. On a string instrument, glissando results from the player's finger sliding up or down the fingerboard, drawing an elastic line through all available pitches. Because it blurs the distinction between individual notes, it evokes extra-musical sounds: sirens, moans, the lowing of a wounded animal. In 'Returning Into Darkness,' the swooping lines that recur in the solo cello part, interspersed with bouts of frenetic activity, convey a state of emotional emergency and a certain neurotic rootlessness, unmoored but also unwilling to commit. A similar fluidity governs the ensemble sound, which swells and tapers like a swarm of insects that can build to menacing proportions. Moment by moment, Larcher's command of color and Weilerstein's forceful performance were compelling, though over the course of 25 minutes, the constant slaloms induced little more than emotional whiplash. High glissandos also made an appearance in Montgomery's 'Chemiluminescence' for string orchestra, where they function like sonic will-o'-the-wisps glinting through the oceanic churn. This nine-minute piece wears its neo-Romantic heart on its sleeve from the first strains, reminiscent of Strauss's 'Metamorphosen,' that proceed in tender, halting motion. Ardent melodies in the violas, then cellos, are nearly submerged in the luscious ensemble. A choppy section whips up rhythmic excitement before leading into an ambiguous ending with gleaming violins undercut by a restive repeated figure in the lower strings. From Kopatchinskaja's first double-stopped notes on Wednesday, it was clear that glossy tone and full-bodied violin-ness would be a low priority in her reading of Stravinsky's neo-Classical Violin Concerto. And a good thing, too: The rough, scratchy sounds she drew from her instrument with punishing bow strokes suited the abrasive brilliance of the first movement, in which Stravinsky sets the soloist and individual wind players in gleeful competition against one another. In the inner two movements, Kopatchinskaja allowed brief glimpses of a more songful side, including a memorably tender duet with a solo bassoon. But her approach to the score is that of a character actor unconcerned with favorable optics. When the drama demands it, Kopatchinskaja is more than happy to dig for ugly sounds including squeals, rattles and the kind of fuzzy whistles called wolf tones that can result from competing sound oscillations inside a string instrument and which players usually work hard to avoid. The entire last movement, played with toneless fury at dizzying speed, might have been called 'Dances With Wolves.' Dressed in a gown that paid homage to the folklore-inspired costumes worn in Ballets Russes' 'The Rite of Spring,' Kopatchinskaja crouched, bobbed and weaved in what sometimes looked like a sacrificial dance of her own. At the final, explosive note the audience sprang to its feet. Kopatchinskaja's first encore lasted all of 90 seconds: a Dadaistic miniature, 'Crin' by Jorge Sánchez-Chiong, in which she vocalized a virtuosic stream of nonsense while performing acrobatics up and down the fingerboard. She followed it with a cadenza that she wrote, distilling themes from Stravinsky's concerto along with ghostly echoes of Bach; it ended in a vertiginous pas de deux with the orchestra's concertmaster, Frank Huang. In duet, their wildly different sounds — his impeccably polished, hers raspy and urgent — came together in an unexpectedly moving demonstration of how much diversity can fit into classical music and how much of it seems to be thriving at this institution, even, and perhaps especially, in this season's no-man's-land between leaders.
Yahoo
02-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Must-see concerts this week: Lazerbeak, Mahler, Morgan Wade
It's a week rich with local talent, from artists who were scene staples decades ago to brand new groups. Here are some of the best shows taking place around the Twin Cities this week. View the to see embedded media. Wednesday, March 5 at Berlin Hip-hop scene veteran Lazerbeak, aka Aaron Mader, is celebrating the February release of his A Bridge Under the Alley EP. The Minnesota native will be joined by percussionist Zack Baltich to celebrate his atmospheric, laid back release that, as the cover suggests, feels like a beautiful record to throw on during a lazy, snowy afternoon. In addition to his numerous Doomtree collaborations, the musician and producer has worked with Lizzo, Doja Cat, Trampled by Turtles, and the Minnesota Orchestra. His omnivorous influences are deeply apparent on the new EP, his first solo studio release since 2021's Cameron. Paul Hecht and The Nunnery will open the set. Friday, March 7 and Saturday, March 8 at Orchestra Hall The Minnesota Orchestra presents a program featuring Dorothy Howell's "Lamia," Benjamin Britten's Arthur Rimbaud-inspired "Les illuminations," and Mahler's "Symphony No. 1, Titan," a piece that was first recorded by the Minnesota Orchestra, which went by the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra at that time. The orchestra will be joined by Grammy-winning soprano Julia Bullock, who recently made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera. Friday, March 7 at Cloudland Theater Lawson was best known for her work with The Clams, the all-female rock group that played around the Twin Cities for four years in the late '80s. She played in other Twin Cities and New York-based bands for a span before stepping away from music in the late '90s. But she returned with a bang in 2021, releasing her first new music in decades the following year. Since then, she's released a few singles and an EP of old school bar rock with a punk attitude. She's joined by The Unnamed and the pyschedelic Muun Bato (who may hit the spot for fans of The Flaming Lips). Friday, March 7 at First Avenue The Virginia-born country artist is back at First Avenue following the release of last year's Obsessed, her fourth studio album. Wade's latest has a more confessional tone and a little more musical grit to it than her past releases, like her AMA-nominated "Wilder Days" from Reckless. Friday March 7—Sunday, March 9 at Pillar Forum The Pillar Forum is hosting three straight days of local punk music (to put a painfully broad label on it) during the second Rage & Reset. It's like a sampler platter of Twin Cities punk groups that dot the calendar every week. The lineup includes Anita Velveeta, Early Eyes, Valeska Suratt, Baumgardner, Haze Gazer, The Penny Peaches, and plenty more. Weekend passes are $50, while single-day tickets range from $15-$25. The full lineup can be found at the Pillar Forum on Monday, Mar. 3: The Belfast Cowboys at The Dakota BCE Trio (Emma Garau / Chris Bates / Bryan Nichols) at Berlin Nyttu Chongo at The White Squirrel Bar Phantom Sam at The White Squirrel Bar Roe Family Singers at 331 Club (free) Concerts on Tuesday, Mar. 4: March Conspiracy Series feat. Venus De Mars at 331 Club Dreamers' Circus at the Walker Bobby Commodore's 72nd Birthday and Retirement Jam at The Dakota Fat Tuesday with Jack Brass Band at Icehouse The Brass Messengers and Brasszilla's Mardi Gras 2025 Battle of the Brass at Palmer's Bar Mackenzy Mackay with Savanna Leigh at 7th St. Entry International Reggae Allstars at Bunker's YUHH Tuesday night residency with Jake Schultz & Francis Johnson and Neighbor Dog at The White Squirrel Bar The New Havoline Supremes at The White Squirrel Bar (free)Concerts on Wednesday, Mar. 5: Lazerbeak EP release show at Berlin An Evening with Eilen Jewell at the Parkway Theater Ana Popovic at The Dakota GUNNAR at 7th St. Entry Twain and Esther Rose at Turf Club Wednesdays with Marijuana Death Squads at Icehouse Sonic Sea Turtles, Fragged Out, Cavernous Maw, and more at Underground Music Venue Catch Your Breath at Varsity Theater Hunny Bear residency with Fuchsia and Emerson Island at The White Squirrel Bar (free) Kinda Fonda Wanda at 331 Club (free) Concerts on Thursday, Mar. 6: Nona Invie album release show at Berlin North Mississippi Allstars and Bobby Rush at The Dakota with Vienna Vienna at First Avenue Disturbed at Target Center Jack Kays with Remo Drive at the Fine Line Whores with Facet and Align at Zhora Darling Lighter Co. residency w/ Asparagus, Anna Devine, and Porch Knights at Icehouse Marcia Ball Band at The Parkway Theater This Wild Life with Belmont and Young Culture at Amsterdam Bar & Hall SaltyDog at Hook and Ladder Ian Tour pt. 2 at Varsity Theater Yesterday's Numbers, High Tiny Hairs, and Institutional Green at Cloudland Theater Bad Weather, Stone Ark, and Polivon at Underground Music Venue Suburban Muscle with Linus and Battery Eyes at The White Squirrel Bar Early Evening Jazz: Linz / Monaghan / Murray at Berlin (no cover) Artaria String Quartet: Mozart Quartet Cycle II at The Landmark Center (free) Concerts on Friday, Mar. 7: Søndergård Conducts Mahler Symphony No. 1 at Orhcestra Hall Morgan Wade at First Avenue Rage and Reset 2025: Valeska Suratt, Baumgardner, Haze Gazer, Mommy Log Balls, Whenthedustsettles, and New Confusion at Pillar Forum Cindy Lawson, The Unnamed, and Muun Bato at Cloudland Theater Gaelic Storm at Pantages Theatre North Mississippi Allstars and Bobby Rush at The Dakota Hazlett at Fine Line Wilder Woods at Uptown Theater Willis at Amsterdam Bar & Hall Kitty's Rave at Varsity Theater Tobias Meinhart Quartet at Berlin Afrobeats to the World at Green Room "Not Too Far Gone" Tour with The Color Fred & Holdfast. at Zhora Darling Embers Rise, Abbadon's End, and Sons of Bliss at Underground Music Venue The Vintagers and Cerulean City at Terminal Bar Citron Vision with Unfinished Products and Deer Skin at The White Squirrel Bar The Owl-Eyes, Dave's Manual, and Murder Curious at 331 Club Dan Israel at Steel Toe Brewing Early Evening Jazz: Dan Carpel / Joan Hutton / Mike Wolter at Berlin (no cover) Concerts on Saturday, Mar. 8: Søndergård Conducts Mahler Symphony No. 1 at Orhcestra Hall Rage and Reset 2025: Early Eyes, Anita Velveeta, Fend, 12th House Sun, Dad Bod, Malamiko, Jenny Matrix, and Thumper at Pillar Forum Josh Meloy w/ Kenny Fielder at First Avenue Kim Dracula and Hanabie. at The Fillmore Matt Nathanson at Uptown Theater Inflict, Evernorth, Chrome Coda, Den of Thieves, VIN, and Glad to be Dead at Amsterdam Bar and Hall ThoughtCast at Berlin Wanderer, Birth Order, Texture Freq, and Baumgardner at Zhora Darling Seyi Oyinloye: The "ON3" Tour at Icehouse D'Aydrian Harding at Varsity Theater Crush of Souls, Intercourse, Winkie, and DJ Dedicated Enemy at Cloudland Theater California Cover Cavalcade at Hook and Ladder Jeff Becker Band and Lexie Modica at Terminal Bar Jesus Son, Bunny Blood, and Garf at Palmer's Bar Chase and Ovation: The Music of Prince at Bunker's Lowboy with Lasalle, Tarias & The Sound, and Vinny Franco & The Love Channel at The White Squirrel Bar (free) Early Evening Jazz: Mary Petrich OpenHand Trio at Berlin (no cover) Concerts on Sunday, Mar. 9: Rage and Reset 2025: The Penny Peaches, Emma Jeanne, Finick, Sylvia Dieken, and Dawson Sabah Kimyon at Pillar Forum Matt Nathanson at Uptown Theater Mpls Dads Who Rock // Consolation Champ + Matt Herzog Band at The Parkway Theater Howie Day at The Dakota So True with Caleb Hearon at The Fillmore SahBabii at Amsterdam Bar & Hall Sam Graber Band brunch at Icehouse Mammoth Moth at The White Squirrel Bar Skull Sundays: BRAINGIVER & Trever Hagen at Berlin Emmy Woods and the Red Pine Ramblers at 331 Club Church of Cornbread with Cornbread Harris at Palmer's Bar (free)Just announced concerts: Mar. 10: Charmin and Shapira feat. Pete Whitman at The Dakota Mar. 18: Ginger Commodore: A Tribute to the Life and Music of Roberta Flack at The Dakota March 18: Lizzo at First Avenue Mar. 26: Infidels: A Bob Dylan Tribute feat. Terry Walsh, Dan Israel, and Steve Brantseg at The Dakota Mar. 27: Nato Coles & The Blue Diamond Band, Lutheran Heat, and The Dirty Pretty at Cloudland Theater April 4: Urban Classic: The First Night Soul Revue at The Dakota April 17: Ghost Wagon single release party w/ Pat Lenertz and Friends at Icehouse April 25: The Anti-Queens, The Venomous Pinks, and Tightwire at Cloudland Theater April 25: Zeppo: Stairway to Eleven w/ TH3 at Icehouse April 27: Pardyalone at Fine Line April 27: Room3 Family Function: Bill's Garden album release at The Dakota May 2: Caleb Gordon at Fine Line May 3: Stella Cole at The Dakota May 4: Nick Swardson - live taping at First Avenue May 8: Kevin Kaarl at The Fillmore May 20: Bartees Strange at Fine Line May 23: Coco Jones at The Fillmore May 24: 2Chainz at Orpheum Theatre May 27: John Mark McMillan and Citizens at Fine Line May 28: Sara Keys at 7th St. Entry June 4: Robyn Hitchcock at Turf Club June 5: Three Sacred Souls at Palace Theatre June 10–11: Judy Collins at The Dakota June 14: Watchhouse at Palace Theatre June 19: The Head and the Heart at Palace Theatre June 27: Banks at The Fillmore July 10: The Music of Prince feat. former members of the New Power Generation at First Avenue July 11: Heart Attack Man at Fine Line July 12: Roger Clyne and The Peacemakers at Fine Line July 17: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band at The Fitzgerald Theater Aug. 4: The Deslondes at 7th St. Entry Aug. 7: Pantera with Amon Amarth at Target Center Aug. 19: Simple Plan, Bowling for Soup, 3OH!3, and LØLØ at The Armory Aug. 25: The Turtles, Jay and the Americans, Little Anthony, Gary Puckett & the Union Gap, The Vogues, and more at The Minnesota State Fair Grandstand Sept. 16: Rilo Kiley at Palace Theatre Oct. 5: Autchre at Icehouse Oct. 7: elbow at First Avenue Oct. 11: Stereolab at First Avenue Oct. 13: Bambara at 7th St. Entry Oct. 16: Chaparelle at Fine Line Oct. 30: The Wombats at The Fillmore
