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20:00 | Silver Apples (USA) |
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 Decades after their influential career first ground to a sudden and mysterious halt, the Silver Apples remain one of pop music's true enigmas. A surreal, almost unprecedented duo, their music explored interstellar drones and hums, pulsing rhythms, and electronically generated melodies years before similar ideas were adopted in the work of acolytes ranging from Suicide to Spacemen 3 to Laika and Beak. Prior to forming the Silver Apples, vocalist Simeon Coxe and percussionist Danny Taylor played in a more traditional-sounding '60s rock group, the Overland Stage Electric Band. However, Coxe's addition of a 1940s audio oscillator to the band alienated the other members so much that ultimately he and Taylor were the only ones left, and they began making music as the Silver Apples in New York City in 1967. Coxe added more and more oscillators, incorporating them into an instrument also called the Simeon that (according to notes on the duo's self-titled 1968 debut LP) consisted of "nine audio oscillators and eighty-six manual controls...The lead and rhythm oscillators are played with the hands, elbows and knees and the bass oscillators are played with the feet." Coxe and Taylor also connected with budding poet Stanley Warren, who wrote lyrics for many of their early songs, including their signature track, "Oscillations." Though Taylor died from cancer in 2005, Coxe had enough recordings of his drumming to sample them for live performances and new music. The project's first album in nearly 20 years, 2016's Clinging to a Dream, featured songs from an opera Coxe wrote about a society of invisible vegetarian vampires as well as production by Bark Psychosis' Graham Sutton. The Silver Apples also appeared on the Dymaxion Groove compilation I Said No Doctors, which included tracks from Dan Deacon, Jad Fair, and David Grubbs.
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19:00 | VIII RNO Grand Festival. J. Haydn Oratorio, "Die Schöpfung" |
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 Russian National Orchestra. Intrada Vocal Ensemble. Conductor – Mikhail Pletnev. Sophie Junker (soprano, Belgium), Margarita Kalinina (mezzo-soprano), Roman Shulakov (tenor), Morgan Pearse (baritone, Australia). Russian National Orchestra has been in demand throughout the music world ever since its 1990 Moscow premiere. Of the orchestra's 1996 debut at the BBC Proms in London, the Evening Standard wrote, "They played with such captivating beauty that the audience gave an involuntary sigh of pleasure." More recently, they were described as "a living symbol of the best in Russian art" (Miami Herald) and "as close to perfect as one could hope for" (Trinity Mirror). Belgian soprano Sophie Junker studied at the IMEP (Institut Supérieur de Musique et de Pédagogie) in Namur, and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Sophie is a Samling Scholar and winner of the first prize in the 2010 London Handel Competition and the 2012 International Cesti Competition. Sophie’s operatic repertoire includes SusannaLe Nozze di Figaro, OlympiaLes Contes d’Hoffmann, MarzellineFidelio, SerpettaLa Finta Giardiniera, DespinaCosi fan tutte, AtalantaXerxes, AdinaL’Elisir d’Amore, ZdenkaArabellaand SophieWertherin scenes, she has also sung the role of Maria in Bernstein’sWest Side Storyunder the conductor David Miller. In her final year at the Guildhall she sang the role of Constance inDialogues des Carmélitesand the title role in Donizetti’sRita.
Tchaikovsky Concert Hall |
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