The Cleveland composer H. Leslie Adams who wrote songs and pianio suites with African-American themes, has died in his home town, aged 91.
His largest work is a m usic drama, Blake, on the lives of enslaved people in the mid-19th century.
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Greenwood, Britten, Beethoven Mary Bevan (soprano); 12 Ensemble. St Marin-in-the-Fields, London, 8.8.2024 Jonny Greenwood Three Miniatures from Water Britten Les Illuminations Beethoven String Quartet in A-Minor, Op. 132, Molto Adagio The 12 Ensemble is […]
Philip Ellis, conductor of Birmingham Royal Ballet, is stepping down in Marech after 35 years. He has conducted the Royal Ballet Sinfonia more than two thousand times. The post Conductor steps down in Birmingham appeared […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: The seventh was the least understood of Mahler’s symphonies and the last to get recorded. Bruno Walter, Mahler’s closest apostle, never performed it. Otto Klemperer, next in line, […]
