Jacilyn Music - Coming Home - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

There are masterpieces of music history that are simply forgotten for a while before they are rediscovered in a later era as a mirror of one's own sensitivities. The reasons for this forgetting are manifold - in the case of Paul Dessau's fairy-tale opera Lanzelot, they are probably clearly political. Which also has to do with the fact that Dessau (1894-1979), the son of a Jewish tobacconist from Hamburg, settled in the Soviet occupation zone after exile during the Second World War and lived until his death as a politically loyal but also thoroughly dissident contemporary of the GDR. Twice he set texts by Brecht to music, until in his third opera he turned to the fairy tale Der Drache by the Soviet author Yevgeny Schwarz, which the playwright Heiner Müller adapted for him together with Ginka Tscholakowa for the libretto of Lanzelot. The story is so explosive that even the original was banned under Stalin. Surprisingly, the material did not meet with resistance from the GDR authorities at the premiere at the (East) Berlin State Opera in December 1969. Yet Dessau's music was among the most modern and provocative that was permitted in the GDR at the time. The demands on the vocal ensemble, the chorus and the orchestra are colossal, a richly equipped percussion group provides punch, and the composer also provides for tape recordings that are played into the auditorium. Nowhere in his work does Dessau come up with a greater variety of musical styles; from baroque concerto grosso and romantic parodies to agitprop music and modern sounds, he pulls out all the stops. With it's plurality of musical levels and appeal to the courage of freedom, Lanzelot is the East German counterpart to the equally ambitious total theatre of Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Soldaten.

Gene Hoskins as an independent artist has been creating a serious buzz in the gospel world due to his magnificent singing, his appearances as featured vocalist on gospel singles by Jonathan Nelson (InchI AgreeInch) and Maranda Curtis (InchNobody Like You Lord Inchreprise), the Billboard chart success of his self- released The Undefeated EP (#7 on Billboard Gospel) and single InchJesus We Love You' (#24). He also appears in the upcoming feature film InchThe Lost SongInch written by John P. Kee and has worked as backing vocalist for Jonathan Nelson, Todd Dulaney and Micah Stampley. Now signed to Shanachie, Gene Hoskins is posed to jump to next level success! Homecoming is Gene's first full-length . As such it dis- plays exquisitely crafted sophisticated compositions filled with inspirational feeling. A notable duet features rising gospel star Maranda Curtis

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