Have critics become softer with time?
Undeniably if reviews from @TheStradMag in the 90’s are anything to go by!
The reviews are fierce, big names regularly taken down with no holding back!!!
Anna Dowsley singing Bolcom? It might just be the perfect combination. Catch the national tour between February 20 and March 10. Book today: https://t.co/A7WMLuWGgl
📹 Anna Dowsley and Michael Curtain performing 'Amor' by William Bolcom
What an amazing experience to play the awesome, bonkers, 70-minute Everest of a piece that is the Busoni Concerto for the first time and to be presented with this autograph by the composer by the American Busoni Society (my thanks to James Colias!)
On yer bike in the Playlister @BBCRadio3 today. It's by the Canadian composer Jean Coulthard, from her ballet Excursion. Where to from Bicycle Parade - which is about a bunch of disaffected youths careering around on a quayside?
@MannGeorgia@BBCRadio3 The quayside was on one of British Columbia’s Gulf Islands; the bicycle interlude happens in the midst of a wartime romance…
The first ballet music written in this part of the world, it seems
@aliner A few weeks later I received a post card from TG professing to be charmed that his words had been set to music. Such generosity, indeed such class.
@aliner When I was a foolish young composer, I set this for tenor and piano — without thinking about copyright. Years later, it turned out a colleague had a nodding acquaintance with the poet and I asked him to bring up the awkward situation…