Tag: Helen Grime
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Celebrating 75 Years at Tanglewood
The annual Tanglewood Festival hosts thousands of concert goers each year, drawn to the beautiful scenery and amazing music at the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home. Over the past 75 years, the Tanglewood Music Center has also drawn devotees annually – but as students and faculty, eager to learn, engage, and explore a range of established classics…
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Women at the 2015 Proms
The 2015 Proms kicked off on Friday, July 17 with another full lineup of fabulous and engaging concerts ahead. The role of women in music has been a hot topic in the London music scene this year, stemming largely from the popularity and publicity of BBC Radio 3’s women-only programming surrounding International Women’s Day.…
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Grime and Hensel at the Library of Congress
The next free concert hosted in the Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress is this Friday, February 20. The Claremont Trio will perform Helen Grime’s Three Whistler Miniatures, which the ensemble commissioned in 2012, as well as Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s Piano Trio in D minor. There will be a pre-concert lecture by the artists, which I…
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New CD by Helen Grime
Fiona Maddocks of The Guardian has a review up of a new CD of Helen Grime’s works. The recording, titled Night Songs, features the Clarinet concerto, Into the Faded Air, A Cold Spring, Everyone Sang, and Near Midnight – all works that make references to poems. You can read the review here, and listen below to the premiere performance of Night Songs…