tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3820883929207245282024-02-02T00:44:52.700-08:00News from KENNETH FRAZELLE, ComposerUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-382088392920724528.post-20984809682418645772016-04-30T13:07:00.000-07:002016-04-30T13:07:47.254-07:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUoRDL2aSGkDJ9B01ObILXSoIwn2m0JaqaXz6KQ7BtumWF_dlbLeWFkgK7AAQlZ3GdRP_3dd0VbQiAjbVSyQ4yawc-7sqC1-nsXOHcAfNActqEXD1P5IHLHo8EnNWLJpGkcMi1PsoQh5s/s1600/april.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUoRDL2aSGkDJ9B01ObILXSoIwn2m0JaqaXz6KQ7BtumWF_dlbLeWFkgK7AAQlZ3GdRP_3dd0VbQiAjbVSyQ4yawc-7sqC1-nsXOHcAfNActqEXD1P5IHLHo8EnNWLJpGkcMi1PsoQh5s/s320/april.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
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"April," a dance work choreographed by Brenda Daniels and set to Kenneth Frazelle's solo piano work, "Wildflowers," premiered at UNCSA's Spring Dance concert April 21-24 in Winston-Salem. Sets, designed by Elizbet Puksto, were inspired by Frazelle's watercolors. Pianist Owen Dodds provided live accompaniment. Choreographer Daniels said of her work: "'April’ is my own exploration of this
very special time of the year. . . its joy, beauty, mystery and power. The
dancers portray and embody exactly who they are — beautiful young people
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<a href="https://carolinarscm.org/2010/12/our-organist-matthew-brown/">Matthew Michael Brown</a> will premiere Kenneth Frazelle's work for organ, <i>Aria (with Diversions), </i>at his December 7 recital at Westminster Abbey. Yes, <i>that</i> Westminster Abbey, where all the kings and poets are buried. Matthew might not draw the kind of crowd that turns up for a royal funeral, but he is bringing with him a large contingent from First United Methodist Church in Salisbury, where he is music director, as well as the entire organ department of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where Matthew received his bachelor of music degree. He received his masters degree at Eastman School of Music and served on the music staff of Grace Church in New York City. <i>Aria (with Diversions)</i> was commissioned by UNCSA with funds from the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-382088392920724528.post-79027913103451877992014-07-30T18:00:00.001-07:002014-07-30T18:13:41.205-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Kenneth Frazelle's watercolor is the cover art for <a href="http://www.josephrobertmills.com/">Joseph Mills</a>'s fifth collection of poetry, <a href="http://www.press53.com/BioJosephMills.html">This Miraculous Turning,</a> to be published in September by <a href="http://www.press53.com/">Press 53</a>. (You can <a href="http://www.press53.com/BioJosephMills.html#anchor_369">pre-order</a> a signed copy now!) Joe teaches at the University of North Carolina School o the Arts, where he holds an endowed chair, the Susan Burress Wall Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-382088392920724528.post-72195505046846791882014-04-02T21:02:00.001-07:002014-07-30T18:45:39.883-07:00<div style="text-align: left;">
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Congratulations to soprano <a href="http://www.tamipetty.com/">Tami Petty</a>, 2014 Joy in Singing Award Artist Winner. At the prestigious competition's finals, held at the New York Performing Arts Library on April 2, Tami's program included selections from Kenneth Frazelle's <i>Appalachian Songbook</i>. Her awards from the competition include a recital at Merkin Concert Hall this fall. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-382088392920724528.post-72517380760457268242014-02-13T09:27:00.001-08:002014-02-13T12:19:04.277-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The first public exhibition of Kenneth Frazelle's watercolors is up through March 29 at Inter_Section Gallery, <span class="visible"><span class="fsm fwn fcg">629 N. Trade Street</span>, <span class="fsm fwn fcg">Winston-Salem, NC</span></span>. You can see images of some of the works in the show, along with Barbara Lister-Sink's pastels, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.692806087437103.1073741832.139280279456356&type=1">here</a>. Other Frazelle watercolors are <a href="http://frazellewatercolors.blogspot.com/">here.</a> (Click on the image here to enlarge.)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-382088392920724528.post-9465116993924385362013-08-13T07:20:00.002-07:002013-08-13T07:22:07.262-07:00<span style="color: #660000;"><br /></span>
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Concerto, commissioned by the renowned <a href="http://www.meadowmount.com/">Meadowmount School of Music</a>
in Westport, NY, was premiered by the Meadowmount String Orchestra
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4. Soloists were the esteemed Meadowmount alumni <a href="http://www.jamesehnes.com/">James Ehnes,</a> violin, and
<a href="http://www.robertdemaine.com/">Robert deMaine</a>, cello, along with Meadowmount director, <a href="http://www.uncsa.edu/music/facpianotwo.htm">Eric Larsen,</a>
piano.<a href="http://www.uncsa.edu/music/facvoiceone.htm">James Albritten</a> conducted.<br />
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20, 2013. In addition, Richard Masters performed the world premiere of Frazelle's <i>Book of Blue Flowers</i> for solo piano<i>. </i>Also on the program was <i>Hymn to the Night</i> by Robert Ward, the esteemed composer who was Frazelle's high school composition teacher at N.C. School of the Arts.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-382088392920724528.post-74178940798248382632013-03-23T11:26:00.002-07:002013-04-30T07:33:33.460-07:00<br />
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Kenneth Frazelle's <i>Psalm 18</i>, for men's chorus and organ, was commissioned by Home Moravian Church in Winston-Salem, NC. The Men's Chorus gave the piece its first performance in a special service celebrating the rich musical heritage of the Moravians. Glenn Siebert, the church's music director, conducted. Susan Foster was organist. Watch the performance <a href="http://youtu.be/Ia-nyamsOqo">here</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-382088392920724528.post-87575916478360084042013-03-23T06:50:00.006-07:002013-03-24T19:40:05.093-07:00<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>This music...was simply sublime, in the
deepest sense of the word, a sublimity that one rarely experiences in concert. Indeed, I think the word 'masterpiece' is not too strong for
this work. It was beautifully and sensitively rendered by Strata. I hope
they will soon record and release it on CD. It deserves to join the
core repertoire of the chamber literature.</i></span><br />
See the entire review <a href="http://cvnc.org/article.cfm?articleId=6110">here</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-382088392920724528.post-6910898628987859612012-09-16T08:51:00.001-07:002013-03-23T12:18:20.977-07:00<div style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Mezzo soprano Kathryn Findlen and pianist Richard Masters have booked seven performances of Kenneth Frazelle's <a href="http://kennethfrazelle.blogspot.com/2010/02/songs-in-rear-view-mirror.html"><i>Songs in the Rear View Mirror</i></a> for 2012-2013, including a recital at Weill Hall of Carnegie Hall on May 20, 2013. Other performances are in Texas, North Carolina and Washington, DC. Check out the tour <a href="http://www.songsintherearviewmirror.com/">here.</a> Listen to a performance <a href="http://soundcloud.com/richard-masters-2/kenfrazelle?utm_campaign=timeline&utm_content=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Frichard-masters-2%2Fkenfrazelle&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=soundcloud#_=_">here</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-382088392920724528.post-68343563210742121792012-03-09T18:11:00.005-08:002013-03-23T10:12:02.948-07:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizKunk26Uq_nPIb4QMieAb905q6cZwrsU_A1Y6jS2RK-DvBJq-FqYNAhUNYAK5mwEXblv4yKUjDUxLW55DNYy7KmRlmJi2r9BSQlH7Mq_rn8XA1a0nIY0u3WjayRR9pAx5Lt8M6bU5hVU/s1600/KF+watercolors+059.bmp"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5718087271383307154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizKunk26Uq_nPIb4QMieAb905q6cZwrsU_A1Y6jS2RK-DvBJq-FqYNAhUNYAK5mwEXblv4yKUjDUxLW55DNYy7KmRlmJi2r9BSQlH7Mq_rn8XA1a0nIY0u3WjayRR9pAx5Lt8M6bU5hVU/s200/KF+watercolors+059.bmp" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 146px; margin: 0 0 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /></a><br />
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The multi-talented Kenneth Frazelle's gorgeous watercolors are online at last. See them <a href="http://www.frazellewatercolors.blogspot.com/">he</a><a href="http://www.frazellewatercolors.blogspot.com/">r</a><a href="http://www.frazellewatercolors.blogspot.com/">e</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-382088392920724528.post-31817402749456658422011-08-23T17:35:00.000-07:002012-02-15T21:47:57.881-08:00<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"><br />'Year's Best Album'<br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>Kenneth Frazelle's</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> Worldly Hopes </span><span>is included on an album that </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;"><span>tops a short list of 2011's <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/music/ci_19632549">best classical recordings</a>:</span></strong></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><span>t</span><span>he Bridge Records release</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> Ja</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-style: italic;">n DeGaetani and Gilbert Kalish In Concert. </span><span> </span></strong></span>"Tellingly expressive, DeGaetani, the late mezzo-soprano, didn't perform music so much as experience it," writes reviewer Richard Scheinin in the San Jose Mercury News. "Her warm genius shines through this recording of a 1987 recital with pianist Kalish." Read on for more on the CD.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"><br /></span></span><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Opera News Likes It, Too<br /></span></span></p> <p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">From a review of the CD <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">Ja</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-style: italic;">n DeGaetani and Gilbert Kalish In Concert </span>in February's Opera News: "</strong></span>To Kenneth Frazelle's <em>Wordly Hopes</em>, a careful, atmospheric setting of poems by A. R. Ammons, DeGaetani brings such old-fashioned musical values as beauty of tone, cultivated legato and clarity of utterance to the difficult score. (Frazelle was a pupil of Roger Sessions.) The artists approach the work, written for DeGaetani and Kalish in 1985, as both logical and lyrical, and the mezzo-soprano manages some gorgeous high pianissimo effects. As elsewhere, tuning is impeccable."</p> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);"><br />'A Spectacular Major Piece'; 'Robust and Expansive'<br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >Revi</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >ewing <span style="font-style: italic;">Ja</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-style: italic;">n DeGaetani and Gilbert Kalish In Concer</span>t, Steven Ritter writes </strong></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">in the web magazine <a href="http://audaud.com/2011/11/jan-degaetani-and-gilbert-kalish-in-concert-beethoven-poulenc-kenneth-frazelle-debussy-strauss-gershwin-stanley-walden-haydn-%E2%80%93-bridge-records/">Audiophile Audition</a> </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;">that Kenneth Frazelle's <span style="font-style: italic;">Worldly Hopes</span> </strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">is "a real find, a spectacular major piece that needs to be heard by all lovers of art song."</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></span>On <a href="http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2012/Jan12/degaetani_9340.htm">MusicWeb International</a><a href="http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2012/Jan12/degaetani_9340.htm">,</a> Jonathan Woolf writes that the work is "a sensitive and successful set of five songs, robust and notably expansive in the last, long setting of <i>Rainy Morning."</i> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">See the article below for more on this wonderful Bridge Records release.</span></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >DeGaetani’s Performance of <span style="font-style: italic;">Worldly Hopes</span></span><br /><br />Bri<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2SQW-g3d_3dH1XMqVHgk3eFiVlongjeubAk4muCUYp3uJYuxSzPe8koLgh2EfEssBrOJJRtMDD1xOY2jkDTP0KIfbuGUP-mas5jXPgwnpUXgOeE75G7hr2IYTfvDr9OSLqG2sJL2knns/s1600/9340+%257E1.JPG"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2SQW-g3d_3dH1XMqVHgk3eFiVlongjeubAk4muCUYp3uJYuxSzPe8koLgh2EfEssBrOJJRtMDD1xOY2jkDTP0KIfbuGUP-mas5jXPgwnpUXgOeE75G7hr2IYTfvDr9OSLqG2sJL2knns/s200/9340+%257E1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597493912749455954" border="0" /></a>dge Records has released an archival recording of mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani’s world premiere performance of Kenneth Frazelle’s <span style="font-style: italic;">Worldy Hopes</span>. Recorded in 1987 from a live performance at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, NC, the concert also includes works by Crumb, Strauss, Debussy and Beethoven. DeGaetani is accompanied by the esteemed pianist Gilbert Kalish, who shepherded this release. DeGaetani, who died in 1989, is well remembered both for her mastery as a vocalist and her advocacy of new music. Available at<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><a href="http://www.bridgerecords.com/catpage.php?call=9340A/B">bridgerecords.com<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:100%;" >.</span></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Bennington Music Conference</span><br /><br />K<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ></span>enneth Frazelle was composer in residence at the Chamber Music Conference and Composers Forum of the East at Bennington College this summer. Frazelle's residency include the commission and premiere performance of a new work, <span style="font-style: italic;">Winter Turns</span>, for clarinet, viola and piano, by conference participants, as well as the performance of his Piano Trio by conference faculty. See cmceast.org for more information.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Griffey Sings Frazelle in San Francisco</span><br /><br />Anthony Dean Griffey’s concert on the prestigious San Francisco Performances series on May 4 included Kenneth Frazelle’s <span style="font-style: italic;">Songs in the Rear View Mirror</span>. Frazelle's work was favorably reviewed at <a href="http://www.sfcv.org/reviews/san-francisco-performances/griffeys-glorious-frazelle">San Francisco Classical Voice</a>. The program was a repeat of Griffey's successful recital at the Kennedy Center last May. He was accompanied by pianist Warren Jones and fiddler Paul Brown.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.bridgerecords.com/catpage.php?call=9340A/B"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ></span></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">Wildflowers </span>Hits YouTube</span><br /><br />Mikael Darmanie's performance of Kenneth Frazelle's solo piano work, "Wildflowers," can be viewed on YouTube <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbsDD4QXD7E.">here</a>. The video is of an April 17 performance at University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, as part of the "Piano Alive: Music of Living Composers Recital." Darmanie is a 2009 graduate of UNCSA now studying at Cincinatti Conservatory with pianist Awadagin Pratt. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Major Frazelle Work at UNCSA<br /><br /></span> <div> </div> <div>Kenneth Frazelle's "The Motion of Stone," for vocal soloists, chorus, and chamber orchestra, received its North Carolina premiere at UNCSA on April 9. James Allbritten conducted the UNCSA Orchestra and Cantata Singers. Frazelle's composition is based on the large-scale poem "Tombstones" by A. R. Ammons, one of America's most noted poets. Ammons was born in North Carolina and had a longstanding relationship with Wake Forest University. The poet died in 2001.<br /><br /></div> <div> </div> <div>"The Motion of Stone" is in seven movements, and is a meditation on memorials and the impermanent universe. The work begins with the sound and image of chisels chipping into stone, finding names "the wind can't blow away."<br /><br /></div> <div> </div> One of Frazelle's most ambitious works, it received its world premiere at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in 1998. The piece was also commissioned by the Gardner, in fulfillment of the composer's month-long residency living at the Museum. Frazelle also worked on the project at the American Academy in Rome. A review in the Boston Globe stated "the final movement swelled to a great dance of enlightenment and bliss, causing the audience to rise in a standing ovation." The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters presented the composer with an award in 2000 and spoke of the composition as "sweeping and powerful, invoking the grandeur of the past."<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Kennedy Center Honors</span><br /><br />The Kennedy Center Honors Gala, broadcast on December 28, included Kenneth Frazelle's music from <span style="font-style: italic;">Still/Here</span>, the acclaimed dance theater work for choreographer Bill T. Jones, who received one of the Honors. Awards were also given to Paul McCartney and Oprah Winfrey, with President and First Lady Obama in attendance.<br /><br />Kenneth Frazelle's music for Jones was also broadcast on the CBS Early Morning Show the same week.<br /><br />Frazelle's score for <span style="font-style: italic;">Still/Here</span> was written in 1994 for the folksinger Odetta. The controversial piece toured the world for two years, and was seen by several million viewers. The work was also the subject of a PBS documentary by Bill Moyers.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-382088392920724528.post-73617051669491332272010-02-01T06:42:00.001-08:002013-03-24T14:04:40.928-07:00<div style="color: #cc0000;">
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;">SONGS IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR</span><br />
Kenneth Frazelle's large-scale song cycle, SONGS IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR, for voice and piano, received two very different performances in the spring of 2010. On May 5, acclaimed tenor Anthony Dean Griffey performed the song cycle, with pianist Warren Jones, in a Vocal Arts Society recital at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. And on March 26, folksinger Laurelyn Dossett performed with the composer on piano at Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem, NC.<br />
Part road trip and part childhood reminiscence, SONGS IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR is an evocative and haunting musical portrait of Southern life and art. The work grew out of a fascination with the artistic progeny of humble Hale County, Alabama. That ragged land was home to the depression-era sharecroppers depicted by James Agee and Walker Evans in their classic book of prose and photographs, "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men." And beginning in the 1960s, Hale County’s decaying architecture and shifting landscape were captured in the celebrated photographs, sculpture and paintings of Alabama native William Christenberry. When Frazelle undertook his own journey in the artists’ footsteps he not only found new sources of inspiration but unexpectedly unearthed many poignant, nostalgic and often turbulent memories from his own Southern childhood. <br />
With Frazelle’s unique synthesis of folk song and art song, SONGS IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR takes listeners on a journey past abandoned barns, tangles of kudzu and evangelizing road signs. We enter the bleak farmhouses of the poor, and we peer into the troubled home of a sensitive young boy. The work’s ten songs are united by refreshing harmonies, coloristic piano writing, and the undulating rhythm of the highway.<br />
SONGS IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR is one of Kenneth Frazelle’s most ambitious works. His previous compositions for voice have reached international audiences through performances by Dawn Upshaw, Odetta, Jan DeGaetani and Cassandra Wilson.<br />
Grammy winner Anthony Dean Griffey won rave reviews for his portrayal of the title role in Britten's <span style="font-style: italic;">Peter Grimes</span> at the Metropolitan Opera in 2008. He sang the role of Mitch in the world premiere of Andre Previn's <span style="font-style: italic;">A Streetcar Named Desire</span> with the San Francisco Opera. Along with his frequent operatic roles, he is a regular guest with the world's leading orchestras. <br />
As a performer with her popular band Polecat Creek, Laurelyn Dossett has recorded three albums, toured extensively, and appeared on <span style="font-style: italic;">A Prairie Home Companion</span>. She has been a soloist with the North Carolina Symphony. Her own songs have been recorded by such esteemed musicians as Levon Helm.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-382088392920724528.post-33149400981826093672009-07-10T13:18:00.001-07:002011-08-23T18:07:43.634-07:00<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >
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<br />Praise for BLUE RIDGE AIRS II on Paula Live! </span>
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<br />Kenneth Frazelle's Blue Ridge Airs II is the standout track on this album. The structure is sometimes predictable, but the writing is always intelligent. It's hard to write a folk music-related piece that quotes hymn tunes and uses mild dissonance and open fifths without sounding like Copland or Ives, but Frazelle keeps it from being merely derivative. Some extended technique creates bird-call effect at one point, and he does not over-use it. He connects the hazier sections with the busier exceptionally well, and nothing sounds forced or contrived. The score calls for some playing inside the piano that imitates a hammered dulcimer. Airs II is one of the best mixes of classical disciplines, useful dissonances, and an Americana atmosphere that I've ever heard. Everything it thought out and necessary. <span style="font-weight: bold;">If the rest of Frazelle's music is as good as this more people need to hear it.</span>
<br /> --AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE
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<br />Blue Ridge Airs II , by Kenneth Frazelle, is probably the most spectacular...in terms of excitement and effect. With quotes from different sources, it explores the flute's ability to create explosive virtuostic passages, and is <span style="font-weight: bold;">the kind of piece that will make the audience cheer wildly at the end of the recital. </span>
<br /> --FANFAREUnknownnoreply@blogger.com