When NB interviewed Miguel Felipe, BCE’s music director, back in September, he told us about BCE’s East Coast premiere of Paul Crabtree’s Tenebræ Responsories slated for the Ensemble’s TENEBRÆ concert in March 2010.
BCE’s hardly the first, however, to program the music of the British-born composer Paul Crabtree. This San Francisco resident has appeared on the programs of numerous ensembles and, in many cases, choirs will perform a particular work: Five Romantic Miniatures From ‘The Simpsons.’
Although BCE won’t perform this work, it’s yet another example of the hybrid nature of Paul’s creations that defy traditional categorization. Crabtree cites his “exposure to the musically permissive culture in the Bay Area led him to integrate the various strands of his personal history.” And, in much of his music, this personal history leads him “to embrace and intermingle ideas as diverse as Latin poetry and 1960s girl groups.”
To read more about the concert and how the Tucson Chamber Artists have incorporated the work into their season, check out this article in the Arizona Daily Star published this morning.
To hear Paul Crabtree’s music, don’t miss TENEBRÆ in March 2010!
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