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Opera North's new production of Kurt Weill's Street Scene weaves the work's various stylistic strands into a compelling whole and showcases the superb talents of the chorus members
[…] Figaro). Amy Freston and Dean Robertson gave strongly etched accounts of Abraham and Shirley Kaplan, Sam's father and sister. Richard Mosely-Evans was the drunken George Jones, with Christopher Nairne as his slimy son Vincent. Kurt Weill: Street Scene - Gillene Butterfield, Alex BanfieldOpera North (Photo Clive Barda) The way Weill and his librettists (Elmer Rice and Langston Hughes) keep the tragic focus on the Maurrant family can be seen in their treatment of the Hildebrand family. Abandoned by Mr Hildebrand, mother and children are to be evicted and made homeless, but they were represented musically by the up beat, Broadway-type number 'Wrapped in a Ribbon and Tied in a Bow' sung by Laura Kelly-McInroy as a bright-eyed Jennie Hildebrand.Until the tragedy strikes we see nothing of the chorus, per se, focus is on the individual characters with a horde of children running around. Opera North fielded a superb cast […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2017-08-25 17:31:57
Bern Museum Starts Removing The Cobwebs Off The Gurlitt Art Horde
"The Kunstmuseum Bern has so far received 220 works from the hoard of more than 1,500 pieces that Gurlitt inherited from his father, Hildebrand, an art dealer who worked for the Nazis. Cornelius died in May 2014, unexpectedly bequeathing his collection to the Bern museum. The Swiss institution has said it will only accept works it knows are free from suspicion of Nazi looting, while the rest will remain in Germany until provenance research is complete."
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-06-12 20:10:32
Music to Charlemagne’s Ears
[…] name in the text, while the second is a bittersweet farewell song to a monastic cell. Clangam filii is a poignant and meditative sequentia with allegorical overtones and it rounded out the first grouping. We turned then to songs of strife: Aurora cum primo mane (by Angelbertus on the battle of Fontenoy), Ut quid iubes, pusiole? (the lament of an exile far from home), and Ik gihorta dat seggen (the surviving fragment of the epic Hildebrandslied). Hildebrand’s Song is especially moving, as it recounts a father and son meeting on a battlefield and fighting one another (and gains added poignancy as it recasts a famous scene from book VI of the Homeric Iliad). Bagby on harp and voice held us enthralled with this number. The set ended with an instrumental piece, Ardua spes mundi, based on a chant by Ratpert of St. Gall and performed by Rodenkirchen on flute; mournful […]
2014-07-24 07:00:45
Classical music: Guest music director Grant Harville talks about the Madison Savoyards productions of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Princess Ida.” The show opens this Friday night and runs for six more performances through Aug. 3.
[…] plot twists and the generous doses of humor sprinkled throughout Princess Ida will certainly keep audience members on their toes. The cast includes some veterans of the stage, with Milwaukee native Naiza Delica (below left in a photo by Jane Wegenke) as Princess Ida, Donald Dexter (middle) as King Gama and UW-Madison senior William Ottow (below right) as her romantic counterpart, Prince Hilarion. William Rosholt and Donald Dexter appear as the dueling kings Hildebrand and Gama, and Patrick Chounet and Steven Groth play Hilarion’s two loyal friends, Cyril and Florian. Gama’s three sons are played by Jim Chiolino, Alec Moeser and Matt White, and Rachel Bishop, Ann Baltes and Tiffany Orr appear as Lady Blanche, Lady Psyche and Melissa. The cast includes over 30 members from the Madison area, including four families. Music director Grant Harville (below) agreed to a Q&A with The Ear: Can you […]
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