This 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…
This 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…
This 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…
This 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…
This 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…
This 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 inte…
This 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…
This 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…
This 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…
This 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…
This 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…
This 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…
This 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…
This 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…
This 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, tra…
This 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…
This 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 deve…
This 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…