Our team of excellent volunteer writers are joined today by two or three of our invisible angels, those ghosts between the lines, who offer us spiritual, spatial and temporal context. These complement a reader´s perspective as provided in a linear narrative by the caring, sharing and often daring Peter Pearson
Eva Cassidy is a phenomenon
Walkin’ After Midnight, a new collection of twelve previously unreleased Eva Cassidy live tracks, will be released digitally (September 6) and on physical media (November 8) via Blix Street Records. Recorded on November 2, 1995, at the King of France Tavern in Annapolis, Walkin’ After Midnight documents the much-missed vocalist alongside an unusual lineup, accompanied only by Chris Biondo on bass, Keith Grimes on electric guitar, and guest violinist Bruno Nasta, adding a fresh dynamic to the performance.
as well as the music in this woinderful package, Joni Mitchell shares candid conversation, Each version includes a book with never-before-seen photos and liner notes comprising a deep dive discussion between Mitchell and longtime friend Cameron Crowe. As part of their candid conversation, she shares intimate anecdotes, memories, and stories from the five-year creative run.covered by these recordings.
Norman Warwick checks out
London Sinfonettia SUMMER SURVEY
We have featured London Sinfonettia in a couple of articles really. One of the articles focussed quite narrowly on the minimalist music they are currently rsearching, adapting and playing and the other more weidely on what seems to be a particularly energetic contributions of art in the community. It has been good to learn this week that they also take great notice of feedback for those engaging wih them, as either audience or players or volunteers or clients.
I have no great understanding yet of minimalism as a genre and I haen´t yet heard London Sinfonettia play, but I am nevertheless of the depth and range of their survey qustions which can be found on their website.
As another incredible London Sinfonietta season comes to a close, the ensemble is taking advantage of the summer to check in with its audience ! They want to hear your opinions on their work and to know whether your impressions of then match their own assumptions. By filling out this survey you are helping them provide an even better concert experience for you.
Their questions ask about your opinions on the ensemble´s standard of performances and productions; the balance of their programming; the outreach work in schools, in the community, and with emerging talent; their digital work; and your attitudes to societal issues such as equality and the environment.
There are a couple of questions which are simply to collate statistical data, like how many Sinfonettia concerts you might have seen, that check out brand awareness etc.
A more searching question with multiple response options asks what you might associate with London Sinfonettia and offers choices such as London Symphony Orchestrea and Manchester Collective, with even the options shown revealing the kind of stellar company kept by Sinfonettia.
We learn from another question that London Sinfonietta deliver participation and learning events (eg Sound Out or a schools concert or workshop) and a subsequent question refers to their PIONEERS membership scheme.
There ia a question in this survey that states boldly that London Sinfonettia hold aspirations of world class performances We are also able to gauge from the survey the diversity of work they undertake that might attract new members, These diverse strategies include performing 20th and 21st century contemporary music, commissioning new works and projects and collaborations with other art forms and genres.
The survey also asks ´Are you aware of the work the London Sinfonietta does in schools and communities, and supporting early-career composers, players and conductors?´
The survey also states that over the past year or so London Sinfonettia has hugely developed its digital service and asks how often their followers use that service.
As well as on line, London Sinfonettia can be found at Facebook, Instagram, X, Linkedin and Tik Tok and others. If you are familiar with their work then your opinions would be invaluable to London Sinfonewttia, and, if you are not familiar with the ensemble then their own survey, available on line, might be a great way of learning more about them !
Just tap their name, London Sinfonettia into your search engine of cjoice.
t seems to me that those who are ordained as ¨Jazz Legend´ have often been so titled by a less than unanimous vote.
Tommy Smith realises a long-held ambition when he plays a solo saxophone concert in Glasgow Cathedral on Friday 20th. Familiar tunes and melodic improvisations that make the most of the Cathedral’s natural acoustics will showcase Tommy’s magnificent tone production in a space that boasts wonderful gothic architecture and eight hundred years of history. More details here.
In searching on line for a book that might illuminate the current state of theatre in Britain, I was drawn to a book thatmight address the the topic from an informed perspective.
Actor Suranne Jones has said she wants to “promote small theatres and small stories” as part of her role as president of a small seaside venue.
Soren is for me a new name but has already found a unique space amongst the other great Scandinavian piano players like Esbjörn Svensson, Tord Gustavsen etc.”
