At the other end of the musical spectrum is a must-see series for anyone curious about classical music: violinist and conductor Scott Yoo's four-partNow Hear This, presented under the PBS Great Performances banner. Each one-hour episode covers a single composer: Vivaldi, Bach, and Scarlatti s...
You don’t come across solo cello recitals that often, unless somebody wants to work through several or all of the Bach suites.Gemma Knealeis treading a new path here by playing eight works, all of them by women composers, three of them undergoing their Australian premieres. More to the po...
Simone’s clear-eyed intellect and classical training mixed with anger at racial injustice to create many of soul music’s most potent statements; she also drew from deep wells of tenderness for intense love songs. “Wow… You can see colours through music,” Simone said in that same 1968 i...
” Morrow adds that both Lavanne and Bryn-Julson had no problem getting into a jazz groove. “We collectively went for aSwingle Singersapproach,” he recalls, referencing a popular 60s vocal ensemble from France known for their jazzified renderings of Bach cantatas and other classical ...
It took around 200 years to get from J.S. Bach’s Baroque stylings to the modernism of Stravinsky, with the Baroque period lasting a century and a half on its own. Meanwhile, only a little over 40 years separate the very first jazz recording andOrnette Coleman’s free jazz revolution, ...
He began his music life as a drummer before quickly converting to guitar. Duane first joined the Allman Brothers Band on stage at just 16 years of age during a 1994 performance. His career has only taken off since then, with stints in the groups Whitestarr, Brethren of the Coast, Dawes ...
Music is his journal. "I’ve never been a person to write down an idea and then work on that idea," the songwriter explains. "I always write the same way: I sit down at a piano, with a guitar or at a computer with no theme in mind and create a soundscape that is an honest ...