Leonard Kastle News
American composer, librettist and director
- piano
- opera
- United States of America
- composer, film director, pianist, screenwriter
Last update
2024-04-24
Refresh
2015-03-17 21:48:42
[…] and it has run rampant in all fields, with too little concern for culture workers. I recall an episode of NPR’s Fron the Top in which the host asks the director of the Curtis School of Music in Philadelphia, one of the most prestigious private music schools in the world (some of its best known alumni include conductors Alan Gilbert and Thomas Schippers, violinists Hilary Hahn, Leila Josefowicz, and Jaime Laredo, composers Jennifer Higdon, Leonard Kastle, Gian Carlo Menotti, Ned Rorem, Nino Rota, pianist Lang Lang, and singer Anna Moffo) what do graduates end up doing when they don’t fulfill their parents’ dream of performing before the greatest orchestras in the world, and he said that the others mostly perform in the greatest orchestras in the world, which he described as “not a bad life.” That was long before I became homeless and probably before the Great Recession. Curtis graduates […]
2013-05-13 07:00:21
Classical music: Candid Concert Opera brings a pared down performance of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” to Edgerton with enchanting results.
[…] (below), made a credible Mozartean sound, even when shorn of brass and timpani. Such restrictions meant some sacrifices, such as the symbolic three chords of Freemasonry . Indeed, much of Mozart’s Masonic imagery was bypassed for a simplified story of the main characters. In the inevitable cutting, we lost the Three Boys, and the two Armed Men, along with a few musical numbers. The spoken dialogue was gone also, with a narrator (Tom Kastle , below on the far right) filling in the context for the numbers. With all that, we were still left with a big bundle of Mozart’s wonderful music. And, marshaling his solo singers, Birsan was able to deliver some of the important choral work. Indeed, his clever trimming and adjusting resulted in a very enjoyable show. As usual, he could draw upon a lot of young vocal talent from the Chicago area. […]
2013-05-13 07:00:21
Classical music: Candid Concert Opera brings a pared down performance of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” to Edgerton with enchanting results.
[…] (below), made a credible Mozartean sound, even when shorn of brass and timpani. Such restrictions meant some sacrifices, such as the symbolic three chords of Freemasonry . Indeed, much of Mozart’s Masonic imagery was bypassed for a simplified story of the main characters. In the inevitable cutting, we lost the Three Boys, and the two Armed Men, along with a few musical numbers. The spoken dialogue was gone also, with a narrator (Tom Kastle , below on the far right) filling in the context for the numbers. With all that, we were still left with a big bundle of Mozart’s wonderful music. And, marshaling his solo singers, Birsan was able to deliver some of the important choral work. Indeed, his clever trimming and adjusting resulted in a very enjoyable show. As usual, he could draw upon a lot of young vocal talent from the Chicago area. […]
No more?
Every day soclassiq looks for new articles, videos, concerts and so on about classical music and opera, their artists, venues, orchestras...
Leonard Kastle ? We have not gathered a lot of content on this topic yet but we continue to search.
or
- timeline: Composers (North America). Performers (North America).
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): K...