BACKViolinist Randall Goosby: ‘It’s incredibly humbling for me to share these Black composers’ music’
The rising star violinist speaks to Classic FM about his debut album, ‘Roots’, and what it means to be a Black artist championing works by diverse voices today.
“There really is no limit to the number of voices, and the number of stories and cultures, that can be part of the classical music canon,” violinist Randall Goosby tells Classic FM. Speaking about his debut album, Roots, out this month on Decca Classics, the American violinist describes it as “humbling” to have the chance to champion diverse voices on his first-ever release.
Goosby adds that he hopes to challenge the traditionally Euro-centric classical music canon.
Knapp 600 Nominierungen für Opus Klassik 2021
Für den Opus Klassik 2021 sind fast 600 Künstler und Produktionen nominiert. Das seien rund 25 Prozent mehr als im Vorjahr, teilte der Verein zur Förderung der Klassischen Musik in Berlin mit. Die Rekordzahl und Qualität der Einreichungen illustriere, wie leidenschaftlich und kreativ die Künstler „in einem Jahr voller Entbehrungen und Herausforderungen“ waren, erklärte der Vorstandsvorsitzende Clemens Trautmann.
Über ihre Projekte hätten die Künstler den Kontakt zu ihrem Publikum nie abreißen lassen. Zum „Wiederbeginn des kulturellen Lebens“ gebe es in diesem Jahr eine Sonderkategorie für Publikums- und Partizipationsinitiativen.
600 nominations for Opus Klassik 2021
Almost 600 artists and productions have been nominated for the Opus Klassik 2021. This is about 25 per cent more than last year, according to the Association for the Promotion of Classical Music in Berlin. The record number and quality of the submissions illustrate how passionate and creative the artists were “in a year full of hardships and challenges”, explained Clemens Trautmann, chairman of the board.
Through their projects, the artists had never lost touch with their audience. For the “restart of cultural life”, a special category for audience and participation initiatives will be introduced this year.
2021-2022 au Grand Théâtre de Genève : faites l’amour !
C’est la devise qu’a choisie Aviel Cahn, le patron de l’institution, pour cette nouvelle saison qui affiche neuf productions lyriques. « Le sujet est au cœur de l’actualité, avec ces gestes barrière qui aseptisent nos rapports », constate Aviel Cahn pour expliquer la devise de sa prochaine saison à la tête du Grand Théâtre Genève. « Mais ce thème se veut bien plus large, plus ample, avec une grande marge d’interprétation pour le public. »
Comme pour conjurer la crise sanitaire, la saison ouvrira en septembre avec le rare et monumental Guerre et paix de Prokofiev, mis en scène par Calixto Bieito et dirigé par Alejo Pérez. Ce sera, indique Aviel Cahn, le début d’un cycle d’opéras russes avec Bieito.
New theme for the 2021-2022 season at the Grand Théâtre de Genève
This is the theme chosen by Aviel Cahn, the institution’s director, for this new season, which includes nine opera productions. “The subject is at the heart of current events, with these barrier gestures that are sanitising our interactions”, says Aviel Cahn to explain the slogan of his next season at the head of the Grand Théâtre Genève. “But this theme is meant to be much broader, with a lot of room for interpretation by the audience. ”
The season will begin in September, with the rare and monumental War and Peace by Prokofiev, directed by Calixto Bieito and conducted by Alejo Pérez. This, says Aviel Cahn, will be the beginning of a cycle of Russian operas with Bieito.