WSU String Ensemble to perform Sunday Nov 21, 2008
Repertoire for the concert includes works by Alexander Borodin, Frank Bridge, Felix Mendelssohn and Mozart. Admission is 5, 3 for students. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Showcase in the city for fine instrumentalists Oct 28, 2008
It was over to the engine room of the orchestra, the strings, for Benjamin Britten's Variations On A Theme By Frank Bridge. In spite of a rival Sydney Symphony concert taking place at the same time in the Opera House, Dene Olding led a very classy line-up of players who made this horribly tricky work sound convincing. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
* [ EVENTS & ENTERTAINMENT ] May 2, 2008
The program features Peng Chings (^t) suite The Lost Kingdom (), Leonard Bernsteins Serenade for Solo Violin, Strings, Harp and Percussion and Benjamin Brittens Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Op. 10. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Review: British music played sans a stiff upper lip Dec 3, 2007
Saturday night, the Montclaire String Quartets richly detailed concert of music by the English composers Ralph Vaughan Williams, Frank Bridge and William Walton (plus one of Haydns late quartets) swept those notions aside, revealing three strikingly different works. Well, Vaughan Williams Phantasy Quintet (1912) began with a viola solo, played tenderly by Sandra Armstrong Groce, that sounded unmistakably modal, folklike and rustic, and those qualities connected its four movements. (Charleston Gazette, WV -- News)
Christmas One-Act Operas Oct 29, 2007
Composer: Frank Bridge (February 26, 1879 January 10, 1941). Libretto: Frank Bridge. (Suite101.com)
Elgar Variations: Summerscape focuses on the virtuosity of Edward Elgar Aug 11, 2007
Over the course of two weekends, beginning today, August 10, and continuing through Sunday, August 19, a total of 11 concerts/programs will be devoted to Elgar's music as well as to the music of his contemporaries, composers such as Holst, Delius, John Ireland, Ethel Smyth, Arthur Sullivan, Frank Bridge, William Walton, Arthur Bliss and Ralph Vaughn Williams. The series ends with Elgar's piano quintet in A minor and the monumental masterwork, the vastly popular oratorio, The Dream of Gerontius,... (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
The Air This Week May 25, 2007
9 a.m.-noon Frank Bridge Three Lyrics and Three Pieces, Faure String Quartet, etc. (WGBH). (Boston Globe -- Living)
In the footsteps of Rostropovich May 9, 2007
Making a rare and welcome appearance was the Oration: Concerto Elegiaco by Britten's teacher, Frank Bridge, eloquently delivered by Colin Carr. This is a work strong on atmosphere and harmonic invention, and only lacking the kind of a sharp thematic profile that might persuade more soloists to adopt it and push for repertoire status. (Telegraph.co.uk)
'Call me Slava'The unrivalled talents of the Russian cellist Rostropovich Apr 29, 2007
Thankfully, there are recordings of this inspiring partnership - not least of which are glorious accounts of cello sonatas by Debussy and Frank Bridge, works by Schubert and Schumann, as well as pieces by Britten himself. Emotional charge. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Radio review Jan 17, 2007
That's how far we have forgotten Frank Bridge, the British composer who was great friends with Benjamin Britten (and immortalised in his work, Variations of a Theme of Frank Bridge). I warmed to Bridge, who kept himself busy, working as a jobbing musician, teacher, composer and conductor, but still found time to also be "a wild and unconventional tennis player". (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
