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2023-01-17 02:38:00
I reviewed this well-programmed concert by Dawn Upshaw and the Brentano String Quartet the other day. Here are links to my review and Patrick Vaz's blog post about it. The texts of the program are available at the web site of SF Performances.Lisa Hirsch, SFCVPatrick Vaz, The Reverberate Hills. I very much admire his long discussion of the text.
2022-09-06 00:08:00
[bit of meandering post here...I don't get to my main topic until the tenth paragraph]I've been thinking about music in movies recently on a variety of fronts. I recently re-watched the 2012 film A Late Quartet, which is a pretty rare example of a mainstream movie set almost entirely within the world of classical music.* Although Philip Seymour Hoffman is amazing as the insecure second violinist, Christopher Walken is fun to watch as a soft-spoken aging cellist, and the story explores some interesting themes (not just musical ones), my main issue here is with the music - not with the late Beethoven quartet which is a main "character," but with the soundtrack by Angelo Badalamenti.This is not intended as a slight against Badalamenti's skills, but his music has an overtly emotional "here's what you should be feeling" tone which, while suitably autumnal (since the film focuses on a character's journey […]
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2021-11-21 12:30:11
Royal Opera House; Wigmore Hall, LondonAnna Pirozzi, Simon Keenlyside and numerous witches jostle for power at Covent Garden. Plus, illuminating accounts of Beethoven and Mendelssohn’s final works Corruption leads to excess. Excess leads to downfall. Phyllida Lloyd’s production of Verdi’s Macbeth, currently revived at Covent Garden, feels like a cautionary tale for our times. When the Thane of Cawdor takes on a second job as assassin, he and his even more dangerous queen celebrate their coronation by dressing head to foot in vulgar gold: the ultimate in bad-taste bling. Such hubris never ends well. Gold is seen as the ultimate prize here. It glimmers in the darkness of Anthony Ward’s designs. Macbeth and his wife make their proclamations from a gilded cage; Duncan arrives on a golden horse, while later, Macbeth sees a spectacular vision of golden kings riding golden horses – Scotland’s future monarchs, but none of them his […]
2021-04-30 18:32:37
Comprising violinists Paul Aguilar and Rachel Stenzel, violist Eva Kennedy, and cellist Hannah Moses, the group will study with the school's faculty Ensemble in Residence, the Brentano String Quartet. They will also coach undergraduate chamber groups. Formed at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Callisto is a former top prize winner at the Fischoff and Banff International String Quartet Competition. The quartet […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..