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St Thomas’s Church, LeipzigBach: St John Passion, BWV 245 (first version, 1724) Elisabeth Breuer (soprano)Jakub Jósef Orliński (countertenor)Daniel Johannsen (tenor)Benjamin Appl (bass: Christus)Tomáš Král (bass: arias)Thomanerchor LeipzigLeipzig Gewandhaus OrchestraAndreas Reize (conductor) At Good Friday Vespers, 1724, in St Nicholas’s Church, Leipzig, the city’s new Thomaskantor, Johann Sebastian Bach, led the first performance of his St John Passion. Three hundred years later, on Good Friday, Bach’s masterwork will return to the same church, performed by the latest incarnation of the composer’s own choir and an orchestra closely related, conducted by the twelfth successor to Bach as Kantor, Andreas Reize. I attended not that performance, but one the previous evening of Maundy Thursday, at the more customary St Thomas’s; it is close enough, I think, to count, without troubling ourselves with complications of lunar versus solar calendars. (For what little it may be worth, the Gregorian calendar had been in use there for […]
2022-02-12 06:32:00
[…] the March schedule.With a score and libretto by Huang Ruo, “one of the world’s leading young composers” (The New Yorker), the production is directed and designed by the iconic Basil Twist, who “has broken new ground for musical puppetry with his imaginative, poetic designs” (The New York Times).Performing Book of Mountains & Seas at St. Ann’s Warehouse will be singers of The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; percussionists Michael Murphy and Ryan Scott; and puppeteers Lute Breuer, Ben Elling, Rosa Elling, Alexandra Goss, Rachel Schapira, and Ashley Winkfield.For details, visit https://stannswarehouse.org/show/book-of-mountains-seas/--Andrew Ousley, Unison MediaJames Conlon Celebrates 50th Anniversary of New York DebutThis month of February marks 50 years since James Conlon made his New York debut conducting The Juilliard School’s 1972 production of Puccini’s La Bohème. Thomas Schippers had been scheduled to lead the production, but he suddenly withdrew and a replacement was needed. Maria Callas, who had been at Juilliard giving […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2021-02-10 14:01:00
Frick Collection Set To Open At Old Whitney Museum Building
“The Frick Collection will open in the Breuer building as the Frick Madison on March 18, the museum announced on Tuesday, beginning a two-year stay in the Brutalist space while its 1914 Gilded Age mansion on Fifth Avenue undergoes renovation.” – The New York Times
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ArtsJournal: music
2021-01-05 14:03:00
Lee Breuer, Experimental Stage Director, Dead At 83
“A tenacious outsider who refused his sole Tony Award nomination — for his biggest hit and only Broadway show, the Sophocles adaptation The Gospel at Colonus — Mr. Breuer flourished in the scrappier realm of Off Off Broadway, even as the scale of his works and ambitions took him to larger stages, including the Brooklyn […]
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