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2022-06-02 22:50:11
Mikayla Hartfield performs "Summertime" from "Porgy and Bess" during an Opera in the Rock “Let’s Talk Opera” discussion at The Hall in Little Rock on Wednesday, June 1, 2022. Hartfield was part of the discussion with Marcia Sells, chief diversity officer for the Metropolitan Opera, and Victoria Ramirez, executive director of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Stephen Swofford) Only U.S. opera company to focus entire season on 'building the Black experience,' CEO says by Eric E. Harrison| June 1, 2022 Opera in the Rock, Little Rock’s reconstituted professional opera company, will be “the only opera company in the United States dedicating its entire season to build the Black experience," said Fred Owens, the company's president and chief executive officer, during Wednesday's announcement of the 2022-23 season. The season will offer one fully staged […]
2022-05-24 03:12:15
Concerts June 3–5 feature new work by Theofanidis and Pizzetti’s 1922 Requiem By Peter Alexander May 23 at 9:12 p.m. Guitarist and CU music professor Nicolò Spera was shocked by things going on the U.S. after the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He wanted to respond in the best way he knew—with […]
2022-05-15 23:56:00
When There Are No Words... (CD review)
Revolutionary Works for Oboe and Piano by Hindemith, Haas, Bolcom, Britten, Siqueira, and Slavicky. Alex Klein, oboe; Phillip Bush, piano. Cedille CDR 90000 208.By John J. PuccioAre we experiencing an oboe renaissance? Seems that way, given the number of new, classical oboe recordings I’m seeing: concertos, sonatas, solos, you name it. I’m not complaining, mind you. The oboe will never compete with the violin or piano in terms of featured musical instruments, but the oboe deserves its place in the sun. Power to the oboe!More important, the works on the present album express the musical views of five composers who faced the realities of war, hate, and exile. The music represents their frustrations and grievances towards a world gone mad. They attempted to express in music what words alone could not.On this Cedille disc, oboist Alex Klein and pianist Phillip Bush provide us with six oboe and piano compositions, and […]
2022-05-13 16:52:32
A sale of the estate of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has resulted in the generous sum of $803,650 being raised for the Washington National Opera. The auction house that tendered the sales, The Potomack Company, had originally estimated that the total yield would be somewhere between $50,000 and $80,000. "We were just […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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