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2022-03-14 11:56:27
The Three Queens, closing scenes from Donizetti's Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, Roberto Devereux; Sondra Radvanovsky, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Riccardo Frizza; Pentatone Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 11 March 2022 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Pentatone's discs records a stupendous live event, Sondra Radvanovsky captured in terrific form in three major Donizetti roles This set preserves a particular occasion, and allows one of the great voices of modern bel canto singing to shine. Recorded live at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and issued on Pentatone, under the title of Three Queens, the disc features the final scenes of Donizetti's Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda and Roberto Devereux sung by Sondra Radvanovsky, conducted by Riccardo Frizza with Lauren Decker, Kathleen Felty, Eric Ferring, Christopher Kenney, Anthony Reed, Ricardo Jose Rivera, Mario Rojas, David Weigel. Now it has to be said that Three Queens is a misnomer as there are four Queens in the […]
2021-08-23 13:21:22
Stephen Weigel on Microtonal music of Blackwood
This Week in Classical Music: August 23, 2021. Microtonal Music and Easley Blackwood. When we listen to music, we rarely think about tuning: while dissonances abound, the basic scale sounds good to our ear. But in reality, this is not quite right: take two fifth from a C, and you’ll arrive at a B an octave above, B1. But two exact fifths are not the same as an octave B to B1. The frequency of B is 494, B1 has the frequency that is twice that, or 988. But two exact fifths from C would have the frequency of 987. It’s close enough, and a “well-tempered” (remember Bach?) scale sounds good to our ear. But what if we decided to use microtones intentionally, to create music? Stephen Weigel, a composer and performer, writes about Easley Blackwood, who did just that: he composed many pieces using microtonal scales. Here are two etudes […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2021-01-26 15:33:00
André Gregory: What I Learned From Brecht (And His Wife)
“As I was at the beginning of my education as a young director, as well as a nervous, nerdy intellectual, I asked Helene Weigel about the Verfremdungseffekt, Brecht’s famous ‘alienation effect’ theory. … Weigel laughed and said something like, ‘Don’t pay any attention to Bert’s bullshit and theoretical nonsense. Just look at the work. Look […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2017-07-20 19:33:00
Why Progressive Rock Gets No Respect (But It Should)
Pop culture at large has enjoyed mocking prog obsession via negative portrayals of prog-rock fans (see: the weird misfit characters of The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Buffalo '66, for example). But, David Weigel argues, the genre doesn't get enough credit for its dynamism and inventiveness.