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2022-06-18 16:04:30
Comments on the resignation of artistic director Pelham (Pat) Pearce By Peter Alexander June 18 at 10:05 a.m. Pelham (Pat) Pearce, the longtime artistic director of Central City Opera, announced his resignation from the company yesterday (June 17). His departure, after more than 26 years with Central City Opera, appears to have been unexpected, as […]
2022-06-17 21:17:32
Surprise announcement made this morning (June 17) By Peter Alexander June 17 at 3:15 p.m. Pelham (Pat) Pearce, the general/artistic director of Central City Opera who has been with the company since 1996, today announced his resignation from the company. The announcement was made by Pearce on his facebook page early this morning. The company […]
2022-02-12 06:32:00
[…] Choir and StringsThe Music Institute of Chicago Chorale, conducted by Daniel Wallenberg with Gregory Shifrin on piano, continues its 2021–22 season with “I Was Glad,” a free concert featuring music for choir and strings, Sunday, March 27 at 3 p.m. at Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, Illinois. The performance also will be available via livestream.The program includes “I Was Glad” by Henry Purcell, “Domine ad adjuvandum me” by Giovanni B. Martini, “Magnificat” by Pelham Humfrey, “Laetatus Sum” by Antonio Vivaldi, “Misericordias Domini” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Johann Sebastian Bach’s popular cantata “Christ lag in Todesbanden.”Soloists include voice faculty Angela De Venuto, soprano and Leo Radosavljevic, baritone, as well as guest alto Anna VanDeKerchove and guest tenor Maximiliano Illanes Campetella.For more information, visit https://www.musicinst.org/chorale--Jill Chukerman, JAC CommunicationsSkip Sempé Leads Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in French & English ProgramPhilharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale (PBO) presents “From Versailles to the English […]
2021-12-29 11:02:24
[…] well this year, with Bridget Cunningham exploring the great harpsichord suites and La Nuova Musica focusing on Handel's virtuoso instrumentalists (and giving us some terrific singing too). Other Early Music highlights include Soleil Noir, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro's voyage around the art of Monteverdi's first Orfeo, Tara Erraught, Irish Baroque Orchestra and Peter Whelan recaptured some of the magic of superstar castrato Tenducci, and the choir of Her Majesty's Chapel Royal brought late 17th century English composer Pelham Humfrey into focus. Les Talens Lyriques continued their exploration of Salieri's operas with his first, Armida, and another particular highlight has to be the first fully professional recording of the unaccountably neglected John Eccles' Semele. The Pelleas Ensemble's debut disc gave us a series of unexpected juxtapositions in music for flute, viola and harp, whilst the string quintet Wooden Elephant returned to the music of Radiohead with unexpected results. Anneke Scott and Steven Devine […]
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