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This weekend, the Fellows will sing a number of madrigals in both English and Italian, taken from the Fellows’s usual repertoire. The canticles of Ned Rorem, a composer who has set much poetry and literature to music, will round out the performance...
...late May and early June, the Choral Fellows will sing at the Spoleto festival in Charleston for their annual tour. Their program then will include these pieces by Rorem...
...YING QUARTET. Chosen as the Blodgett Artists-in-Residence for 2001-3, the quartet will play a diverse set of works by Brahms, Barber, Rorem and Yi. Three brothers and a sister, they began playing chamber music in the rural town of Jesup, Iowa in 1992, and since then have won the Naumberg Chamber Music Award and with it international fame. Friday, April 11 at 8 p. m. Free and open to the public with passes available at the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. Tickets expire at 7:45 p.m. Limit two per person. For tickets...
DIED. LOU HARRISON, 85, influential innovator of classical music, characterized by what composer Ned Rorem called "infectiously beautiful" melody; of an apparent heart attack, while traveling to a festival of his music; in Lafayette, Ind. Celebrated for promoting the gamelan--an Indonesian percussion orchestra--in the U.S., Harrison relied on everything from Korean court music to medieval dance melodies in composing symphonies, operas, choral pieces and instrumental suites...
...Renee Fleming of mezzo-sopranos. Her starring role in the San Francisco Opera's upcoming premiere of Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking will probably do the trick. So why not board the bandwagon early? Her new CD, a collection of 32 well-chosen art songs by Ned Rorem, is already a prime candidate for Best-of-2000 status. Graham's singing is smart and sumptuous, while Rorem's French-flavored songs--bittersweet, transparent, unsentimentally lyrical--are the best that any American classical composer has given...