I was at the first concert of the Barbican's Total Immersion day today. Not my sort of music. There was a long piece for violin and piano which I didn't enjoy one bit, a piece for solo cello which was pleasant enough but seemed to be a Scelsi rip off, a setting of the Jewish prayer book for soprano and flute which I found painful (painful music and painful lyrics, it was about how man is the best thing in creation next to the angels), and a setting of Miranda berating Prospero for having made a nasty tempest -- the latter rather nice in fact, for harp, double bass, clarinet, something else and soprano.
She is ill, unfortunately. And has been for a while -- there was an interview scheduled but she pulled out about three weeks ago.
She is ill, unfortunately. And has been for a while -- there was an interview scheduled but she pulled out about three weeks ago.
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