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2019-11-22 01:06:00
Adler Fellows Concert, December 6, 2019
2019 San Francisco Opera Adler Fellows (Photo: Cheshire Isaacs/San Francisco Opera) The annual year-end Adler Fellows concert is coming up in about two weeks, and as always it's varied and interesting. Eun Sun Kim conducts; she was fabulous in June's Rusalka, so it's likely to be very well conducted.Here's the program; the missing detail is that tickets will cost $30-65. This concert does tend to sell out, so buy soon.(I will admit it: I am faintly dubious at a countertenor in Berlioz, as wonderful as Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen is. I once heard a countertenor in the Brahms Four Serious Songs, and that did not work at all.)THE FUTURE IS NOW: ADLER FELLOWS CONCERT Friday, December 6, 2019 at 7:30 P.M. Herbst Theatre, Veterans Building, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco Featuring the 2019 Adler Fellows: Mary Evelyn Hangley and Natalie Image, sopranos Ashley Dixon and Simone McIntosh, mezzo-sopranos Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, countertenor SeokJong Baek, Zhengyi Bai, Christopher […]
2017-07-08 15:18:48
Ffolkes, “Life is shot at us point-blank.” ~~ Ortega y Gasset ~~ Alcatraz Island…. Hajime…. Though it probably doesn’t look like it, today’s Pearl involved a LOT of effort; I’ve spent as much time at the computer as I could tolerate since Arthur’s return, piecing together what you will see below. I also spent a long time considering how to approach this introductory section, without coming up with any particularly compelling ideas (go figure, eh?….). So, I’m going to spend this time filling in this space with nothing much, to go with most of what has come before. I decided to NOT burden y’all with anything new or unexpected, to forgo any possible stress, for me, or for y’all. No, I’m not generally this polite, but, what the hell…. That said, to the standard little purpose, I’ll go even further, & end this before it has a chance to […]
2017-04-13 15:09:59
Ffolkes, “The Journey is the Reward, Not the Destination.” ~~ Zen Koan ~~ Idyllic solitude…. Hajime…. Though I fully agree with our opening lines, I can’t say today’s journey to our destination has provided me with much reward, beyond the most basic, that of being, finally, done. SB went on semi-strike this morning, forcing me to practically bludgeon it to pull out seven pearls for the old-school section; even those I found were somewhat of an obscure grouping, even for me. Hence, the title chosen to direct your thoughts as you read them; it will take some rather extensive flexibility to ‘get it’ today, but, that’s okay by me. The harder the better, as Murphy so often reiterates for us….. Naturally, having to take so long to put this together, I am left short on the time available to compose this intro, or the closing section…. & I […]
2017-03-23 17:14:36
Only connect…
In have a special admiration for singers who can perform well in French. The reasons include both a personal bugaboo (I can remember almost choking over the word gloire the first time I ran across it in a choral piece), and the technical difficulties that the language imposes on any singer. Executing the complex range of dark vowel sounds and schwas requires near perfect control over vowel shape and inflection, even as the high dramatic content of so much of the French repertoire gives a singer plenty of other things to think about. When it comes to this sort of virtuosic mastery of the language and its music, few do it better than Italian soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci. In her recent half-recital-half-opera performance at San Francisco Opera Lab featuring Francis Poulenc’s monodrama La Voix Humaine, she delivered a tour de force of French diction, subtlety of phrasing, variation of […]
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