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  • #ClassicsaDay #BlackHistoryMonth Week 4

    Feb 26th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #BlackHistoryMonth, #ClassicsaDay, Alvin Singelton, Clarence Cameron White, Michael Abels, Twitter, Ulysses Kay, Zenobia Powell Perry

    The Classics a Day team has celebrated Black composers before. This time around, I tried to avoid duplication with previous posts. It was easy to do. There is a lot of classical music by persons of color, both in the past as well as the present. A lot. Here are my posts for the fourth […]

  • Jeff Picker goes track by track “With the Bass in Mind”, March 4

    Feb 26th, 2021 | By WTJU
    Tags: Folk & Beyond WTJU Folk, Jeff Picker, Track By Track, Upright Bass, With the Bass in Mind, WTJU

    Jeff Picker will stop by WTJU Thursday afternoon, March 4, at 4:30 (est) to go track by track through his album, With the Bass in MindWTJU, during Folk & Beyond. You can listen at 91.1 FM, streaming at wtju.net, or by asking your smart speaker to “Play WTJU.”

  • Airat Ichmouratov Symphony a tonal masterwork

    Feb 25th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Airat Ichmouratov, CD Review, Chandos, Classical music, contemporary classical music, Jean-Philippe Tremblay, Orchestral music, Orchestre de la Francophonie

    Some of my classical music friends are convinced that the art form died in the 1920s — and Schoenberg killed it. Contemporary music is uniformly academic, difficult to perform, and even harder to listen to. Airat Ichmouratov is but one of several contemporary composers who refute those stereotypes time and again. Ichmouratov is a true […]

  • Weber Piano and Orchestral Music in Good Hands

    Feb 24th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Classical music, Concerto, Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens, Romantic period, Ronald Brautigam

    In a way, I suppose, this release was the next logical step. Pianist Ronald Brautigam and the Kölner Akademie have already recorded the complete piano concertos of Mozart, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn. Presenting those of Carl Maria von Weber helps fill out that timeline. Von Weber was a younger contemporary of Ludwig van Beethoven, and his music […]

  • Classical Interviews – I-Jen Fang

    Feb 23rd, 2021 | By WTJU

    Principal Timpanist and Percussionist of the Charlottesville Symphony, I-Jen Fang, spoke with WTJU about how they got started, playing Bach pieces on marimba, and how social distancing has affected their life. For more on I-Jen Fang, visit:cvillesymphony.org/i-jen-fang For more on the Charlottesville Symphony, visit:cvillesymphony.org These interviews air as part of WTJU’s Classical Sunrise, weekday mornings […]

  • Dreams of a New Day – Songs of the Black Experience

    Feb 23rd, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Cedille Records, Chamber music, contemporary classical music, Paul Sanchez, Will Liverman

    This is an important album. Its concept and execution make it so. Baritone Will Liverman has assembled a program of art songs by Black composers spanning over a hundred years. Each composer used the foundation of the classical art song. And each created something different that enriches the genre. Liverman commissioned Shawn E. Okpebholo’s “Two […]

  • 29 Tributes to Monk, Part 1

    Feb 23rd, 2021 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Billy Drummond, Bobby Broom, Eddie Henderson, Eric Reed, Frank Kimbrough, Joey Alexander, Leon Lee Dorsey, Miles Okazaki, Orrin Evans, Rufus Reid, Scott Colley, Scott Robinson, Tim Warfield, Willie Jones III

    Frank Kimbrough Although he has been gone now 39 years, and it has been much longer since he stopped writing, no composer of modern jazz has garnered more attention from his fellow musicians than Thelonious Monk, whose work is the subject of a continuous stream of tribute recordings. Groups as diverse as the Bobby Broom […]

  • New Jazz Adds – 2/23/2021

    Feb 22nd, 2021 | By Dave Rogers

    New Jazz Adds – 2/23/2021 Joe Chambers – Samba de Maracatu (Blue Note): “On Samba de Maracatu, Chambers asserts himself more as a mallet player, particularly on the vibraphone.  Throughout the album, he uses the vibraphone as the lead melodic and improvisational voice that often converses with Merritt’s piano accompaniments and solos. While Samba de […]

  • New Blues News – 2/16/2021

    Feb 22nd, 2021 | By Dave Rogers

    New Blues News – 2/16/2021 Alabama Slim – The Parlor (Cornelius Chapel): “The story of a bluesman getting discovered late in life is one that has repeated itself a handful of times over the last few decades. There is a sadness to this story in the fact that talented musicians can toil away most of […]

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