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Majel Connery
With past lives as an actor, opera singer, and academic, Connery approaches songwriting with an open embrace of diverse influences. Most recently, she wrote songs about porn, periods, and sad fish for 5 episodes of Radiolab’s “Gonads” series, including a Radiolab Live performance at NYU Skirball Center. While Connery holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and a composition degree from Princeton, her writing is deeply influenced by her parents' eclectic cassette tape collection circa 1984, which explains a compositional style part Schubert and part Elvis Costello (that’s a mangled quote from the Wall Street Journal). Former New York Times critic Steve Smith favorably compared her voice to Shara Nova/My Brightest Diamond and Joanna Newsom, while Peter Margasak, writing for Bandcamp Daily, describes her vocals as “expertly drawing upon a wide swath of approaches—British folk, madrigal, art rock.” In opera circles, Connery is best known as co-founder and director of Chicago-based opera company, Opera Cabal (2007-2018), whose premiere of G.F
Majel Connery e il Questionario di Proust
by Paolo Peviani
Si definisce artista inclassificabile che non dice quasi mai di no a qualcosa. Cantante, compositrice, musicologa, conduttrice di podcast radiofonici, direttrice di Opera Cabal, un think tank rivolto all'unione tra lavoro creativo ed accademico nell'opera, Majel Connery ama mescolare le influenze classiche e dell'opera con una mentalità elettronica. Il tratto principale della mia ...
Majel Connery & Felix Fan al Carambolage di Bolzano
by Giuseppe Segala
The Rivers Are our Brothers Majel Connery & Felix Fan Carambolage Bolzano 13.11.2023 La vocalist, compositrice e tastierista Majel Connery ha portato il proprio lavoro The Rivers Are our Brothers in un circuito italiano prevalentemente volto alla programmazione jazz, tra cui la Casa del Jazz di Roma e ...
2020's Travel Songs - Part 1
by Ludovico Granvassu
In this year of painful confinement music has been a much needed source of solace, with its capacity to take us beyond our times and across space. Here some of the best travel songs" that we've been digging this year, while planning on taking them on a real road-trip as soon as possible. Happy ...
Majel Connery Live from Berkeley
Featuring the music of Majel Connery
Duration: 17:30
Majel Connery, Omer Avital, Nick Cave, Vijay Iyer and More New Releases
by Ludovico Granvassu
This week we go through another delicious stash of new and upcoming releases, many of them launched on Bandcamp on 1 May for the 'waived fee' events the website is promoting every first Friday of the month to support musicians in the time of Covid19. The cherry on top? The much anticipated first single, sung by ...
Majel Connery, un talento da seguire
by Vic Albani
Allora, andiamo calmi per ordine e con calma perché questa signora merita davvero attenzione e quindi anche più spazio del solito. Di sicuro pochissimi ne hanno già sentito parlare. Si chiama Majel Connery e la sua vita è divisa da tempo fra la bay-area in California e New York. Delle due realtà respira da ...