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2022-07-30 06:07:00
Classical Music News of the Week, July 30, 2022
[…] Fest--the only performing arts organization in the Mid-Atlantic region with a primary focus on song in all its varied expressions--announces their 2022-2023 season, which coincides with the organization’s 20th Anniversary. Highlights include the world premiere of COTTON, composed by Damien Geter, inspired by the cotton photography of acclaimed artist John Dowell, starring Denyce Graves and Justin Austin; celebrations of Lyric Fest’s beginnings and of Earth Day; a biography in music about Winnaretta Singer, American-born Singer Sewing Machine heiress and influential music patroness; and works by Arne Dørumsgaard, and Rodgers and Hart.The season kicks off with Elysian Fields, a celebration of Lyric Fest's beginnings. Concerts will be held on Sunday, September 18, 2022 at 3:00pm at the Academy of Vocal Arts and Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 7:30pm at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church.Lyric Fest then presents two performances of A Singer’s Singer – A Biography in Music of Winnaretta Singer, An […]
2022-07-22 14:07:15
Banned in Berlin and exiled in March 1933, Kurt Weill stayed for a while in Paris where he wrote a symphonic work to a commission from the Singer Sewing machine heiress, Princesse de Polignac. The symphony was taken up by his fellow-exile Bruno Walter and performed three times in the Netherlands, but apparently nowhere else. [...]
2022-02-05 11:03:14
Not an additional ornament: as he prepares to direct Handel's 'Tamerlano', Dionysios Kyropoulos discusses bringing historical stagecraft to the modern stage
Costume design for Asteria in Handel's Tamerlano by Rachel Szmukler When Cambridge Handel Opera Company's production of Handel's Tamerlano, originally planned for 2020, finally opens in April 2022, the director will be Dionysios Kyropoulos, with James Laing as Tamerlano, Christopher Turner as Bajazet, Thalie Knights as Andronico, Leila Zanette as Irene and Caroline Taylor as Asteria, and Sounds Baroque, conducted by Julian Perkins, artistic director of Cambridge Handel Opera Company [see my interview with Julian]. Dionysios is Professor of Historical Stagecraft at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the idea behind the production is to integrate the stagecraft of Handel’s time with the music of his opera, supported by leading period instrumentalists. Dionysios Kyropoulos Dionysios trained as a singer and I first came across him singing in Danyal Dhondy's Secretary turned CEO, a radical re-working of Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona [see my review] whilst he was […]
2021-02-22 00:37:00
KnoxPages.com: Thomas Wiggins (1849-1908), an autistic savant, "played the Woodward Opera House in 1869"
Thomas Wiggins (Robert A. Larson) Knox PagesMount Vernon, OhioBy Mark Sebastian Jordan, Knox Pages CorrespondentFeb 20, 2021 The Woodward Opera House is located in Mount Vernon It seemed too fantastic to believe. Yet it was said that Blind Tom had performed in the White House at the request of President James Buchanan. And he had certainly performed all over the United States and even in Europe. Now it was time for Mount Vernon to hear Blind Tom. The date was Dec. 4, 1869. The curtain raised and a southern gentleman walked to the lip of the stage. A few seconds later, a Black man about the age of 20 wandered out onto stage behind the master of ceremonies. As the host began explaining to the audience that 'Thomas Bethune' was an idiot, a blind, almost […]
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