This post is by Jean Ballard Terepka 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 10:44PMThis post is by Jean Ballard Terepka The program consisted of three fairly short works, an intermission, and then the complete, relatively unknown Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo by Venetian Ba…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:08AMThis post is by Jean Ballard Terepka Clyne's music is a combination of electronic and recorded material on the one hand and live performance on the other. In both process and product, Clyne …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:07PMThis post is by Jean Ballard Terepka The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc consists of Olav Luksengard Mjelva from Norway (hardanger and octave fiddles), Kevin Henderson from Shetland (fiddle) and Anders…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:13AMThis post is by Jean Ballard Terepka Shahid Parvez Khan comes from a long line – seven generations – of musicians and sitar masters. This fact is emphasized in both the musician's own an…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:37PMThis post is by Jean Ballard Terepka The Hindemith was beautifully performed and the second half of the concert was successful. But the first half, the Adams, was not a success. It was not a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:10PMThis post is by Jean Ballard Terepka The Handel and Haydn Society – sometimes called the H + H Society, for contemporaneity's sake – is celebrating its Bicentennial with a number of spec…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:08AMThis post is by Jean Ballard Terepka As part of their splendid yearlong Bicentennial Celebrations, the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston have been presenting major choral works that have fi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:08PMThis post is by Jean Ballard Terepka Eleonor Sandresky is not the first composer to be attracted to Parthenia's affinity for collaboration with contemporary music-writers. Her new piece, “…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:24PMThis post is by Jean Ballard Terepka The pieces chosen by Crawford for this concert represented the very best of the Viennese Classical period: each piece in the evening's repertoire was a u…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:11PMThis post is by Jean Ballard Terepka The memory of a remarkable organist and sacred music choral conductor continues to inspire. The post Remembering and Honoring Charles Dodsley Walker (19…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:20AMThis post is by Jean Ballard Terepka Recently, as part of the Miller Theatre at Columbia University's Composer Portrait series, Augusta Read Thomas was briefly interviewed between performanc…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:34AMThis post is by Jean Ballard Terepka Stile Antico's February 28 concert, part of the Miller Theatre at Columbia University's Early Music series, at the Times Square Episcopal Church of St. M…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:38AMThis post is by Jean Ballard Terepka The structure of the early evening concert was simple, sensible, intimate … and exhilarating. The JACK Quartet was seated on the stage, as were several…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:11PMThis post is by Jean Ballard Terepka Leading The New York Virtuoso Singers with characteristic wit, panache and artistic integrity, Harold Rosenbaum presented an a cappella evening of a song…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:01AMThis post is by Jean Ballard Terepka The second half of the concert consisted of Fauré's Requiem. This familiar, deeply loved work – an examination of requiem themes that is more about in…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:38PMThis post is by Jean Ballard Terepka Though Lhamo has absorbed all sorts of Western musical idioms and made them her own, her voice is distinct in its range of octaves and volumes and in its…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:42AMThis post is by Jean Ballard Terepka Led by David Hayes, Music Director, the New York Choral Society and Orchestra, together with first rate soloists and the Princeton Girlchoir, presented a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:19PMThis post is by Jean Ballard Terepka Singing to a happily packed Carnegie Hall, the Cecilia Chorus of New York, led by music director and conductor Mark Shapiro, presented two masterpieces o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:54PMThis post is by Jean Ballard Terepka The enduring power of the Harlem Renaissance songs comes from their truth telling and historical testimony. Their accessibility and quality of invitation…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:39PMThis post is by Jean Ballard Terepka The Merkin Concert Hall of the Kaufman Music Center was packed on a recent cold December evening; the audience, happily anticipating two hours of fabulou…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:43PMThis post is by Jean Ballard Terepka One of the strengths of this performance was in fact the clarity with which the many elements of Bach's music could be heard: without any compromise to t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:35AMThis post is by Jean Ballard Terepka This season's over-arching theme, as explained in the always helpful program notes, is music that reflect(s) the idea of number in some way." In this fir…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:49AMThis post is by Jean Ballard Terepka Since its composition and premiere in 1978, "The Face on the Barroom Floor" has been a familiar piece in the repertoire of small American and European op…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:48PMThis post is by Jean Ballard Terepka Acclaimed playwright Xiu Fen – one of China's most influential contemporary women writers – takes Eugene O'Neill's setting and opening plot elements,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:24PMThis post is by Jean Ballard Terepka Choosing National Domestic Violence Awareness Month as the time to premiere her Voices of the Tarantate, internationally acclaimed Italian singer and dan…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:51PMThis post is by Jean Ballard Terepka Since 2001, Gotham Chamber Opera has specialized in the production of major operas – well known, not known, new, traditional, experimental – and has …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:33AMThis post is by Jean Ballard Terepka English baroque court music is steeped in contradictions. It is both intimate and public; it is conventional and playful; it is topical and occasional on…
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