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2 days ago · Wong opens his inaugural programme with what might seem a rather unusual choice; a selection of music from Benjamin Britten’s only full-length ballet, The Prince of the Pagodas, newly arranged by Wong in collaboration with Britten collaborator and Hallé Composer Emeritus Colin Matthews.
2 days ago · He has an interest in Britten’s music, and already he and the Hallé have recorded the complete score of The Prince of the Pagodas (its composer’s only full-length ballet score, written for Covent Garden and John Cranko in the mid-1950s). Its rhythmic, colourful music marked a journey by Britten into the soundworld of Balinese gamelan, and there should be sales potential in the East (where Wong, himself from Singapore, is already chief conductor of the Japan Philharmonic).
2 days ago · The complete ballet lasts 100 minutes; Wong conducted a 25-minute suite of seven numbers, which he had assembled in collaboration with the composer Colin Matthews. The gamelan passages formed a glittering centrepiece, like a precious jewel among music that, some elegant oboe solos aside, otherwise never seems quite to represent Britten at his fluent best.
3 days ago · Mahler Symphony No.1. Kahchun Wong conductor. In his first concert in post as the Hallé's new Principal Conductor, Kahchun Wong conducts this powerful opening to the 2024-25 season.
Sep 4, 2024 · “Unlike general-purpose computing, AI and accelerated computing is a full-stack problem that requires reinventing how we look at software and computation from the ground up,” said Raymond Wong, director of GPU architecture at NVIDIA, in a Hot Chips 24 presentation.
1 day ago · Stephen Joshua Sondheim (/ ˈsɒndhaɪm /; March 22, 1930 – November 26, 2021) was an American composer and lyricist. Regarded as one of the most important figures in 20th-century musical theater, he is credited with reinventing the American musical. [1] .
2 days ago · A powerful story about the discovery of self, the bridge between technology and nature, and what it means to be alive and connected to all living things, The Wild Robot follows the journey of robot ROZZUM unit 7134, or “Roz” for short (Nyong’o), that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings.
