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ArtsJournal: music
2017-02-26 21:45:37
Top AJBlogs From The Weekend Of 02.26.17
WHAT’S GOING ON IN OPERA? The news that Darren Keith Woods was summarily fired after a sixteen-year extraordinarily successful career as General Director of Fort Worth Opera added to some odd news from Vienna a short time ago seems inexplicable. ... read more AJBlog: OperaSleuth Published 2017-02-23 The stories we weave are incomplete… It’s Black History Month again, and though I haven’t blogged about it, it’s been on my mind. I’ve thought of it when I’ve gone to the Kennedy Center, and seen that their most visible gift ... read more AJBlog: Sandow Published 2017-02-23 Music and Design WHY do we talk about “seeing” bands or orchestral groups? How did album jackets and photography of musicians — whether Francis Wolff’s shadowy shots of jazz musicians smoking in the shadows or Astrid Kirchherr’s ... read more AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2017-02-23 […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2017-02-24 09:03:31
Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.23.17
Music and Design Why do we talk about “seeing” bands or orchestral groups? How did album jackets and photography of musicians ... become important parts of music’s aura? Is a rock video a betrayal of what music is really about? ... read more AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2017-02-23 The stories we weave are incomplete… It’s Black History Month again, and though I haven’t blogged about it, it’s been on my mind. I’ve thought of it when I’ve gone to the Kennedy Center, and seen that their most visible gift shop this month features Chinese New Year. ... read more AJBlog: Sandow Published 2017-02-23 What's Going On in Opera? The news that Darren Keith Woods was summarily fired after a sixteen-year extraordinarily successful career as General Director of Fort Worth Opera added to some odd news from […]
2013-05-13 02:00:00
The Haushofmeister’s Diary, Part 22: In Conclusion
[…] me as an adolescent, opera was linked to the isolation I felt, tied up with my uncertain sexuality and with my intellectual snobbery, all of which made me a target for taunts and blows. These in turn made me feel even more isolated, and persuaded me that, whatever I did with my life, I would have to get out of Texas altogether and find or create my own community someplace else. It was Darren Keith Woods who brought me to Fort Worth Opera, first by producing work that was exciting enough to lure in this jaded critic from New York — namely, Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, in 2003. The doorway to Darren’s Fort Worth community began to creak open, since for that production he hired my friend Joyce Castle, as well as Janice Hall, who would become a dear friend, too, as the years went on. […]
2013-04-27 00:24:00
The Haushofmeister’s Diary, Part 11: Listening to ‘Glory Denied’
[…] moods: I found especially tender and meaningful the delicate duet for piano and cello near the opera’s conclusion. And all the singers and players respect Cipullo’s immense gift for prosody. (It’s almost impossible now for me to imagine any other setting of the phrase “After you hear me out.”) In talking with me on WRR-FM last weekend about the role that contemporary works play in his company, Fort Worth Opera general director Darren Keith Woods explained that it’s not enough for a piece to be new: he wants “to start conversations within the community,” as he’s done with works including last season’s Hydrogen Jukebox, for example, and perhaps most memorably with Angels in America in 2008, when Darren formed an ad hoc consortium of arts groups, educators, and medical professionals to discuss the impact of AIDS on American society. Thus, aiming toward the goal of stimulating […]
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