Monday, June 6, 2016
In the program notes and in informal remarks to the audience, Ochsner encouraged the audience to listen to all the works as music inspired by nature; this theme proved to be a useful organiz…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:23PMTuesday, May 31, 2016
Such feast days deserve magnificent music; Bach and Handel created it. And the Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys, the first rate period-instruments Concert Royal, and five marvelous soloist…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:34AMWednesday, May 25, 2016
Price, Bottoms, Richardson and Courville are all strong, clear singers; they were well matched in this performance, alert to each other's pacing and responsive to each other's sensibilities.…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:27PMSunday, May 8, 2016
In the hands of less virtuosic musicians, Ligeti's material can spin out of control. Kigawa, Choi and Drehmann, however, from the very opening, invited the audience into an experience of lis…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:28PMWednesday, April 20, 2016
Since the 1670’s, the Choir has consisted of voices ranging from bass to treble, all students at St. John's College or the College School. There are currently six basses, five tenors, four…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:20PMSunday, April 10, 2016
The Douglas-Westerlies music, whether its subject is lament or celebration, protest or affirmation, is artistically coherent: testing and stretching traditional genres, the music is about fo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:46PMWednesday, April 6, 2016
And Ensemble Pamplemousse, an exciting and distinctive six-member “composer performer collective” founded in 2003, and performing at Miller Theatre for the first time, had all sorts of f…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:58PMTuesday, March 29, 2016
The last piece of the concert was James MacMillan's substantive and moving 1994 "Seven Last Words from the Cross," a 35 minute piece of seven different movements, varying in length from nine…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:42PMThursday, March 24, 2016
For the winter concert of their eleventh season, the twenty-three member C4: The Choral Composer Conductor Collective – elected to honor “Unusual - music of the strange, the absurd, the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:27PMFriday, March 18, 2016
The evening was less about contemporary Romanian composer Dumitrescu, born in 1944, than about the music for which he is, in some mysterious sense, a medium. Each work is unique, each a prem…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:32AMMonday, March 14, 2016
In the compositions of New York composer Alex Mincek (b. 1975), music is explored by means of separating out its constitutive elements: as indicated in Miller Theatre program notes for his C…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:25AMThursday, March 3, 2016
The most psychologically complex role is Silvia's. Over the course of the opera, she moves from childlike naïveté to loving generosity of heart. Energetic and intelligent, she unlearns he…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:36PMTuesday, December 29, 2015
The gifted puppeteer-dancers – Kristen Kammermeyer, Brendan McMahon, Justin Perkins, Rachael Shane – were barefoot and dressed in black; they moved with graceful economy of movement and …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:13AMTuesday, December 22, 2015
Mahanthappa's elegant and exciting compositional voice is well established. His jazz combines the full development of the genre since its inception with the idiom of South Indian classical m…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:26PMFriday, December 18, 2015
At the 10:00 show on Wednesday, December 9, Welch played bagpipes with Brendon Randall-Myers on electric guitar and Brian Chase on drums and electronics performing "The Library of Babel," a …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:25PMMonday, December 14, 2015
The program itself was a masterpiece of artistic and theological integrity. Pieces by three composers – contemporary Estonian Arvo Part (b.1935), and Renaissance Englishmen John Sheppard (…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:37AMSunday, November 29, 2015
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Calling their 2015-2016 season “Cornerstones,” C4 is exploring musical and artistic themes that have established the group's identity and excellence …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:23PMSaturday, November 21, 2015
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Launching its twelfth season with a revival of its 2010 production of Tom Cipullo's widely acclaimed "Glory Denied," Chelsea Opera made clear once again …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:27AMWednesday, November 18, 2015
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Nethsingha's reading of Mozart's Requiem was richly nuanced and widely expressive, and the success of his reading was established within the first three …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:36PMThis post is by Jean Ballard Terepka
Founded in 2005 and led by Kornel Fekete-Kovacs, trumpeter and composer, the Budapest-based Modern Art Orchestra is a marvel. Its twenty musicians – fi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:59AMTuesday, November 10, 2015
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Tenor Rufus Muller with American Classical Orchestra and Chorus (Photo credit: Arlette Landestoy) The November 2015 presentation by the American Classi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:20PMMonday, October 26, 2015
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The evening consisted of two sets; the first six pieces lasted from 8:00 to 9:05 PM, were then followed by a between-set break of almost an hour for last…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:22PMTuesday, October 20, 2015
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The American Classical Orchestra and Chorus' recent performance of Georg Philipp Telemann's "Der Tag des Gerichts" (Day of Judgment) realized the very be…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:15PMTuesday, September 29, 2015
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"Run Time Error," an evening of recent and new works, including both New York and United States premieres composed by Simon Steen-Andersen, who performed…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:40PMFriday, September 11, 2015
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With considerable fanfare and extensive advance publicity, Chinese opera singer Zhang Juoding made her American debut at Lincoln Center's David H. Koch T…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:03AMSunday, July 5, 2015
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Neglected, ignored and then forgotten, Harry Lawrence Freeman's opera "Voodoo" was brought back to the stage in a compelling production in June, 2015. Th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:39AMSaturday, June 27, 2015
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Over a period of six hours, on an early summer afternoon and evening at Symphony Space, twelve choruses gave “mini-concerts” of 15 – 25 minutes, fo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:24AMMonday, June 15, 2015
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St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Chelsea was used to near perfect effect as the setting for all three acts of the opera. "Tosca"'s first act, which does, …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:14PMThis post is by Jean Ballard Terepka
Now in its fourteenth year, the remarkable Ensemble for the Romantic Century, founded by Eve Wolf, has been presenting musical programs of intellectual c…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:24AMSaturday, May 30, 2015
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On May 6 and May 7, 2015 at Carnegie Hall, presenting a concert version of Franz Werfel and Kurt Weill's 1937 The Road of Promise, (Der Weg der Verheissu…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:51PMWednesday, May 13, 2015
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In both concerts, eight artists played and performed together in the sort of flexible, happy collaboration which is possible only among colleagues of eq…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:44PM 
