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Reviews of Sirens of the Salish Sea:1. Soundness of the Sea for Violin and Orchestra

2023 Radio Airplay~ Sirens of the Salish Sea!

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~SOTSS!~ Spotify and Radio Airplay

I am so excited that this  new release aired on Spotify’s Classical New Releases and ASCAP New Releases the first week of our album release along with several Radio shows that showcase Classical Music.

Radio airplay continues to be revealed and these are a few that I am sharing.

 

 

Many thanks to the generous airplay from Marvin Rosen’s ” Classical Discoveries” Princeton Radio, Liz Clark ( who interviewed me last year on her radio program)  Celtic Music Radio, Travels With Auntie Liz in Glasgow, Scotland and Alley Stoughton’s ” Not Brahms and Liszt” program, MIT, Cambridge Radio WMBR.

MIT Cambridge MA. Radio aired Sirens of the Salish Sea 1. Soundness of the Sea for Violin and Orchestra Thank you!

@wmbr Not Brahms and Liszt with Alley Stoughton  Classical music of the 20th and 21st centuries, from Reich to Nyman to Wolfe to Higdon and onward.

Alley Stoughton’s episode of “Not Brahms and Liszt” aired  Monday July 10 2023 from  4:00 to 5:30 pm ET on WMBR 88.1 FM Orchestral music by Nan Avant, Samuel Barber, Stanley Grill and Edward Hart 

Listen: wmbr.org

Celtic Music Radio program TWAL aired Sirens  in Glasgow June 23, 2023. Listen at 22:28 on the link below to hear SOTSS from the album Symphonic Chronicles v1. Thank you Liz!

Marvin Rosen Classical Discoveries! On The Air @WPRB -103.3 FM Princeton NJ wprb.com weekly Classical Discoveries

Sirens aired Thank you Marvin for including SOTSS on your program! Listen @ link below

 

Review by Sonograma Mag. May 29, 2023

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“.in the symphonic work Sirens of the Salish Sea: I. Soundness of the Sea (‘Sirenes del mar dels Salish: I. La solidesa del mar’), for violin and orchestra, the composer Nan Avant — about whom we have published a magnificent article— seeks to reflect the most difficult moments of the year 2020 through music and the essence of the sea. In love with natural landscapes, Avant exhibits her symphonic lyricism reaching grandeur and emotion, two qualities of her music.”

Carme Miró, Sonograma Magazine

May 29, 2023

 

 

 

I am so thankful for this outstanding review of our latest album, Symphonic Chronicles V.1. The original language is in Catalan and I used Google translate.

Títol: Symphonic Chronicles Vol. 1
Autors: Deborah Kavasch, Steve Law, John Wineglass, Barbara Jazwinski, Nan Avant, Simon Andrews
Intèrprets: Joseph Havlat, piano; Yumi Hwang-Williams, violí
London Symphony Orchestra
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Direcció: Miran Vaupotić, David Watkin
Segell discogràfic: Navona Records

Complete Review of Symphonic Chronicles v.1

“The London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Miran Vaupotić, and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by David Watkin, have come together and combined experiences to perform this new album, the first volume of the Symphonic Chronicles (‘Chronicles symphonic’), with works by contemporary composers of a wide variety of styles according to origin and influences. A good example of this is Steve Law’s Piano Concerto, which is inspired by Gershwin, Rachmaninov and Prokofiev, and at the same time conveys influences from jazz, pop and minimalism. In this sense, the Australian pianist Joseph Havlat reinforces these thematic connections, of great lyricism, and accentuates the rhythmic intensity of the jazz elements.
Desert Storm, by Deborah Kavasch, a composer specializing in extended vocal techniques, is a martial work (heavy on brass and percussion) written to celebrate the American victory in the war’s Operation Desert Storm of the Persian Gulf.
John Wineglass composed #elijah for solo violin and orchestra, a piece to honor a young African-American violinist who died in a violent confrontation with police in 2019. Yumi Hwang’s violin solos- Williams unfold in the middle of intense percussion that dramatizes the two movements, entitled “Tragic Innocence” and “Transcendence”.
Fantasy on Jazz (‘Fantasia en jazz’), by the composer Barbara Jazwinski, is a tribute to the music of New Orleans and the clarinet, which unfolds very wide and free melodic solos.
On the other hand, in the symphonic work Sirens of the Salish Sea: I. Soundness of the Sea (‘Sirenes del mar dels Salish: I. La solidesa del mar’), for violin and orchestra, the composer Nan Avant — about whom we have published a magnificent article— seeks to reflect the most difficult moments of the year 2020 through music and the essence of the sea. In love with natural landscapes, Avant exhibits her symphonic lyricism reaching grandeur and emotion, two qualities of her music.
The album ends with the “Interlude no. 3″ from the opera The Scars on his Back (‘The Scars on his Back’), by Simon Andrews, dedicated to the revolt that took place in Santa Fe in 1680 under the leadership of a legendary fighter named Po’ pay, who managed to bring down Spanish rule in New Mexico for twelve years. This interlude is notable for a large percussion section and complex textures for full orchestra.
The first volume of Symphonic Chronicles integrates all six compositions from a plural and organic perspective.”

Carme Miró, Sonograma Magazine

Here is the original review in Catalan. Symphonic Chronicles V.1