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2021-08-13 18:26:00
The chamber music series Music at Kohl Mansion returns to live programming for 2021-22. Sunday, October 31: Harlem Quartet with pianist-composer Aldo López-Gavilán Program of Schumann and works to be announced in early October. Noted for its “fresh, bracing, and intelligent” attitude towards classical music, vibrant programming, collaborations across genres, and fundamental commitment to outreach and education, the Grammy Award-winning Harlem Quartet returns for its third visit to Music at Kohl. Cuban pianist and composer Aldo López-Gavilán, brother of the Quartet’s first violinist, Ilmar López-Gavilán, joins the ensemble (with Melissa White; violin, Jaime Amador; viola; and Felix Umansky, cello) for a program full of exuberance, color, and spirit in a happy marriage of classical mastery and virtuoso jazz. The Harlem Quartet was founded in 2006 by the Sphinx Organization, and has played the world’s leading concert venues – including Carnegie Hall and The White House across North and South America, and Europe. The musicians are currently Quartet-in-Residence […]
2021-05-19 22:21:54
Symphony Expresses Gratitude to Philanthropists Jerry And Terri Kohl, Who Generously Donated New Musical Stage On Wheels Coming soon to a city near you: Symphony on the Go! is a mobile community concert experience that will tour throughout Orange County. …
2021-04-20 09:09:59
Flight at the museum: Seattle Opera's new film imaginatively re-locates Jonathan Dove's opera
Jonathan Dove: Flight - Damien Geter, Randall Scotting - Seattle Opera (Photo Philip Newton) Jonathan Dove Flight; Randall Scotting, Sharleen Joynt, Joshua Kohl, Karen Vuong, Margaret Gawrysiak, Sarah Larsen, Joseph Lattanzi, Aubrey Allicock, Karin Mushegain, Damien Gieter, Brian Staufenbiel, Viswa Subbaraman; Seattle Opera Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 20 April 2021 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Still contemporary and still engaging, this new film of Dove's opera from Seattle neatly relocates the production to The Museum of Flight Jonathan Dove and April de Angelis' opera Flight might be well on its way to its 25th birthday (it premiered in 1998) but its themes remain those which trouble us today. Most of the stories told in the opera revolve around looking for love and negotiating the complexities of relationships, and for all the dated elements in De Angelis' text, she and Dove brilliantly sketch in the characters, mixing poignancy […]
2021-04-16 06:29:29
A name to watch: American counter-tenor Randall Scotting sings the Refugee in Jonathan Dove's Flight in Seattle (and on-line)
[…] of the Refugee in Jonathan Dove's Flight in a production from Seattle Opera which will be available on-line from 23 to 25 April 2021. Rather appropriately the production, directed by Brian Staufenbiel and conducted by Viswa Subbaraman, will be filmed at Seattle Museum of Flight, the largest air and space museum in the world. The full cast for the production is Randall Scotting (Refugee), Sharleen Joynt (Controller), Joshua Kohl (Bill), Karen Vuong (Tina), Margaret Gawrysiak (Older Woman), Sarah Larsen (Stewardess), Joseph Lattanzi (Minskman), Karen Mushegain (Minskwoman) and Damien Geter (Immigration Officer). Scotting will be back in London this year, but for recording sessions as he is recording a programme of Italian castrato arias with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment which will be issued on Signum Classics next year. Scotting has made something of a speciality of […]
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