On May 28, Elaine Comparone & The Queen's Chamber Band will go into the recording studio to begin a two-pronged project: to record J. S. Bach's two greatest harpsichord concertos: Concerto in D minor (this spring) and Brandenburg #5 (next spring). We've enlisted the help of Kickstarter, an online project-funding outfit. As thank-you gifts, we'll send CDs and DVDs to contributors.
Please click here and help us make this happen!
Shirley Kirsten and Elaine Comparone met when Shirley encountered a "Comparone Plays Scarlatti" video on Youtube. Her comments on that video and Elaine's response led to a lively correspondence, and ultimately, a friendship between the two keyboard artists who met in person this past autumn (2011). Shirley, a "red diaper baby" born in NYC, lives in Fresno, California where she plays, records, teaches, composes, blogs and inspires. When Elaine sent Shirley the latest CD release from Lyrichord (The Queen's Chamber Band Plays Mozart), Shirley responded with this current installment of the Kirsten blog. Click here to read the article.
Out of more than 4,300 international category entries in WorldFest-Houston's 10 major Remi Award Competitions, Harpsichord Unlimited won a Silver Award (Into the Light) and a Bronze Award (Concertino Cubano). The Remi takes its name from artist Frederick Remington, who captured the spirit of Texas and the West with his paintings and sculptures.
A Note from Artistic Director Elaine Comparone:
Warm greetings to website visitors! This season, the best place to catch the work of the QCB is on our YouTube videos: enter ecomparone into the search engine! Since our first concerts in 1995, the Queen's Chamber Band has offered New York City audiences an annual concert series that included well-known and obscure Baroque music, as well as world premieres of commissioned works by distinguished composers. Now is the time to sort out this tremendous backlog of concert videos and audio tapes and to share them with our wide international audience on YouTube. More than a million and a half viewers have watched, listened and commented on our 40-plus videos, and we'd like to give them and others more to enjoy. So we invite you to support us in this "archiving" and dissemination project and to tell us what you think of our offerings. You can find our CDs and DVDs on Lyrichord.com as well as Digital Downloads from Arabesque Records on sites such as iTunes and Amazon.
See you on YouTube!!
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