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2019-09-15 01:16:00
ClintonNC.com: Daryl Duff & Bridget Capparuccia in Negro Spirituals Sept. 15, 4 PM
The Sampson IndependentClinton, North CarolinaSeptember 13, 2019This Sunday afternoon, Graves Memorial Presbyterian Church in downtown Clinton is pleased to welcome Mr. Daryl Duff and Miss Bridget Capparuccia for its final summer concert in the series. The theme of this concert will be Negro Spirituals, a genre of music that is both distinctly American and influenced most other American music. In the late 1800’s, H. T. Burleigh began collecting and arranging the Negro Spirituals in order to preserve them for posterity. Famed Hungarian composer Antonin Dvorak met Burleigh, and they struck up a close friendship. So-taken with the beauty of the Negro Spiritual, he commented, “I am satisfied that the future of music in this country must be founded on what are called the Negro melodies.” Before sailing back to Hungary, Dvorak told Burleigh, “God has called you to take the […]
2017-09-28 23:24:49
Coliseum, LondonPhelim McDermott’s new production for ENO features some virtuoso turns and preserves the tragedy’s air of mystery, but at times lacks cohesion English National Opera’s new production of Aida is the work of Phelim McDermott, whose previous stagings for the company include Philip Glass’s operas Satyagraha and Akhnaten, the latter, like Aida, set in ancient Egypt. McDermott’s intention is to preserve the essential air of mystery or otherness that surrounds Verdi’s tragedy while examining its seriousness of purpose and darker implications: the nature of theocracy; the relationship between desire and obsession; and the inevitability of betrayal when war forces its casualties to choose between lovers and family. He does so, however, in ways that don’t always ideally cohere. His Egypt is a decadent place that half hides its violence behind a veneer of civilised glamour. The columns and monoliths of Tom Pye’s set derive from hieroglyphs from the Egyptian […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2016-11-23 21:03:59
What Mark Rylance, Anne-Marie Duff, Simon Russell Beale, And Michael C. Hall Really Do Backstage
Rylance plays ping-pong; Beale runs through his entire part; Dominic Cooper east lots of cheese; Duff is too superstitious (and embarrassed) to tell us what she does.
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