The reverberating drumbeats of a variety of drums dominate the accompanying music ensemble.
Mr. Davis's New-Age-meets-classical Christmas-music ensemble, now made up of two large bands who crisscross the country during the holidays, has sold more than 28 million Christmas records.
Since its founding in 1980, the festival has been expanding its offerings such that in recent years, the highly anticipated centerpiece is an eye-popping, lavishly staged Baroque opera, supported by the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, an ensemble of internationally acclaimed Early Music specialists.
In 1973, Aimard won first prize at the Messiaen Competition, and at age 19 he was chosen by Pierre Boulez to become the first solo pianist for the influential new music group, Ensemble InterContemporain.
Another interesting addition to the festival is the usage of The Great Synagogue, a majestic space where the instrumental Apollo Ensemble will perform Baroque chamber music that was originally composed for Jewish liturgical services.
The soprano soloist is Claron McFadden, and the players are those masters of contemporary music, the Arditti Quartet and the Nash Ensemble, conducted by Reinbert de Leeuw.
Ensemble ACJW is also performing in a chamber music concert on October 25 that will include works by Tchaikovsky, Glinka and Arensky.
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And at 18, he became the music director of the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra the top ensemble in Venezuela's "El Sistema" network of more than 125 youth orchestras.
Our ensemble approaches the ongoing struggle for equality through the lens of music, and we use the interconnectivity of art to explore the intimacy of the human condition itself.
Music's potential to surmount individual differences is reason enough for our ensemble to continue to enact social compassion and our proud belief in equality to our audiences, onstage and off.
"Wind ensemble is a medium that has a long, long history of patriotic and marching-band music, " Mr. Fairouz said.
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