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2022-06-14 12:09:49
On this day the revue New Faces of 1956 opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, featuring an eclectic collection of talent including Maggie Smith, Jane Connell, Tiger Haynes, John Reardon, Bill McCutcheon and Inga Swenson.
2022-04-12 07:08:30
Historical stagecraft & modern sensibilities: a powerful Tamerlano from Cambridge Handel Opera Company
[…] for more modern figures like King William III and King Louis XIV. In fact, continuing popularity of Nicholas Rowe's play Tamburlaine made you wonder about the choice of the subject for Handel's opera, even though his treatment of the characters is very different. Handel's extensive revisions to the opera before the first performance led to cuts and deletions, and we heard three excised numbers; two of which were probably the first UK performances! Mezzo-soprano Lydia Haynes (doing double duty as Irene and Andronico) and counter-tenor Eliran Kadussi (as Tamerlano) sang two duets from Handel's original ending, whilst soprano Avalon Summerfield gave us Asteria's lovely Cor di Padre, all three accompanied by Julian Perkins (piano). And having interviewed Dionysios Kyropoulos recently, it was lovely to hear him talk of his approach to historical stagecraft and actually demonstrate the techniques he was talking about. […]
2021-11-08 09:58:10
No interpretation is the correct one. At the same time, with the resources that we have in front of us, it would seem churlish not to make the effort to try to understand what the composer meant
[…] integrated into the conservatoires, where musicians are encouraged to modify their playing style according to repertoire even if they don’t go so far as to change what they’re playing on. The legacy of the earlier generations of historical performers – Hindemith, Harnoncourt – is to introduce historicity to music, the idea that composers of different eras wrote music with different instruments and performing conventions in mind. This comes with profound musical implications – as Bruce Haynes writes, “when you say something differently, you say something different”. On the other hand, the legacy of musicologists Richard Taruskin and John Butt is to undermine this historicity, to demonstrate that authenticity as an end in itself is unreachable. We reconstruct lost performance practices from unreliable sources and a few surviving original instruments, and we are forced to fill in the gaps in our findings with our own intuitions of what the music ought […]
2021-11-08 09:58:10
No interpretation is the correct one. At the same time, with the resources that we have in front of us, it would seem churlish not to make the effort to try to understand what the composer meant
[…] integrated into the conservatoires, where musicians are encouraged to modify their playing style according to repertoire even if they don’t go so far as to change what they’re playing on. The legacy of the earlier generations of historical performers – Hindemith, Harnoncourt – is to introduce historicity to music, the idea that composers of different eras wrote music with different instruments and performing conventions in mind. This comes with profound musical implications – as Bruce Haynes writes, “when you say something differently, you say something different”. On the other hand, the legacy of musicologists Richard Taruskin and John Butt is to undermine this historicity, to demonstrate that authenticity as an end in itself is unreachable. We reconstruct lost performance practices from unreliable sources and a few surviving original instruments, and we are forced to fill in the gaps in our findings with our own intuitions of what the music ought […]
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