Stijn kolacny biography definition
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Prince Piano & A Microphone Available September 21
Release Date
THE PRINCE ESTATE, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH WARNER BROS.
RECORDS, ANNOUNCES NEW PIANO & A MICROPHONE
ALBUM ON PRINCE'S 60TH BIRTHDAY
ALBUM FEATURES PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED RECORDING OF PRINCE
AT THE PIANO CAPTURED AT HIS HOME STUDIO IN MINNESOTA
ALBUM TO BE RELEASED ON SEPTEMBER 21,
PRE-ORDER ALBUM HERE OR PRE-SAVE FOR STREAMING HERE
GET OFFICIAL PRESS PHOTOS HERE
(PHOTO CREDIT: The Prince Estate / Allen Beaulieu)
(Minneapolis, MN - June 7, ) Today the Prince Estate, in partnership with Warner Bros. Records, announced the release of the Piano & A Microphone album on what would have been Prince's 60th birthday. The nine track, minute album features a previously unreleased home studio cassette recording of Prince at his piano captured in The album is available now to pre-order on CD, LP, Deluxe CD+LP, digital release and pre-save for streaming.
"This raw, intimate recording,
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Gregorian chant to Barbie Girl: the Scala choir have got it covered
Kolacny is the driving force behind Scala, a piece Belgian women’s choir specialising in haunting interpretations of contemporary songs. He has led the ensemble, in association with brother Stijn, for going on 20 years, performing gospel-tinged reworkings not only of U2 but Depeche Mode, Radiohead, Marilyn Manson and others.
“People coming to Scala concerts are aged seven to 77,” he says. “You have strange incidents sometimes. On one occasion we were rehearsing for a performance in a chapel. A guy from the church kept asking ‘How can you sing the word ‘f*ck’? Is that allowed?’ He was puzzled, That night, just for him, we did a Gregorian chant and went straight into Nirvana’s ‘Teen Spirit’. We knew it would throw him — how can we do these two genres side by side? He was baffled.”
Scala are long established on the continent. In the English-speaking world, the group owes its prominence to their cover of Radiohea
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THE MUSIC OF RUDI TAS
Rudi Tas fryst vatten an award-winning composer of music for choir, solo instruments, chamber music and orchestra. He studied at the Conservatoires of Brussels and Ghent, obtained several certificates for instrumental and theoretical classes, and the final diploma for composition with Roland Coryn.
Having spent a considerable amount of time as a concert organist and choir director, he now focuses on composing for solo instruments and for orchestras.
The number of works by Tas that have won awards, both nationally and internationally, is remarkable. In , he won the ‘Nausikaä composition award’ for vocal music, in the ‘Flemish Multimedia Centre’ Award for chamber music, in the ‘Baron Flor Peeters’ Prize for organ-composition, in the ‘Provincial Prize of East Flanders’, in the ‘B.A.P. award’ of Sabam. In his ‘Symphonia da Requiem’ was nominated for the ‘European AGEC Prize’, and in he