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American opera singer
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- opera singer, music teacher
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[…] too rare opportunity to hear Ives’s orchestral music in the concert hall. I would not say the misty opening of ‘“The St Gaudens” in Boston Common’ sounded more ‘modern’, but rather differently modern, its known/found melodies notwithstanding. In highly atmospheric, expertly shaped performance, it sounded like music of the clouds and/or music emerging from the clouds. Ligeti was not far beyond—or should that be behind? At any rate, Ives’s pioneering spirit was unquestionably, poetically present. ‘Putnam’s Camp’ was admirably clear, the riot of tunes heard against each other and gaining from that experience without losing their own identity. There was a fine sense of what I thought of as the programmatically spatial: this was music in some sense ‘about’ space, temporal space included, irrespective of the space in which it was performed, or at least not confined by that latter space. Still more mysterious at its heart, the movement seemed […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2020-12-22 19:56:00
The Erasure of the Arts
To me the most salient feature of The Upswing, the important new book co-authored by the sociologist Robert Putnam (who also wrote Bowling Alone) on the disappearance of “social capital,” is incidental: the authors completely fail to consider the arts. In fact, I have the uncomfortable feeling that The Upswing may partly be a symptom […]
2020-11-02 00:47:00
DemocratandChronicle.com: Gateways Music Festival opens Nov. 9 with multiple nights of virtual events
Violinist Jessica "Lady Jess" McJunkins will participate in a Black Lives Matter and Classical Music panel discussion on Nov. 11 as part of the 2020 Gateways Music Festival (Zach Hyman) Lee Koonce, the new head of Gateways Music Festival Rochester Democrat & Chronicle Caurie Putnam Special to the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle USA TODAY NETWORK Oct 30, 2020 For Isrea Butler, the venerable Gateways Music Festival is like coming home. “I get to come back to my alma mater, see new friends, make new ones and perform music at a high level,” said Butler, a trombonist and chair of the department of music at North Carolina Central University. For two decades, Butler has participated in Gateways, which connects and supports professional classical musicians of African descent. Butler’s homecoming, however, will not be in person this year. In August, festival organizers made […]
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