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American dramatic soprano singer
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2024-03-28 18:06:57
INTERVIEW | Choreographers Sophie Dow And Malgorzata Nowacka-May Talk About Chimera Project Dance Theatre’s Unclearing Double Bill
In Unclearing, a double bill, the Chimera Project Dance Theatre offers audience two world premieres that revolve around overlapping themes.
2023-07-12 16:24:00
San Francisco Symphony Contract
[…] out flyers in the Davies lobby before a concert, politely chatted up curious audience members, then, after intermission, held up their information flyers from the stage.A few odd ends didn't make it into the story, but they might be relevant.The orchestra has alleged $40 million in losses. This tracks with the drop in the enDowment from fiscal year ending August, 2021 to fiscal year ending August, 2022, and corresponds to a big drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the same period. The DJIA has gone up a lot in the last year, but the audited financials for FY ending August, 2023, won't be out until next year. It's possible that the enDowment has recovered; it's possible that the $40 million comes from somewhere else.The late Robin Sutherland, principal keyboard for more than 45 years, retired in 2018. Five years later, his position has not been filled, although he occupied […]
2022-04-21 07:05:19
Pärt and White from SANSARA and Fretwork
[…] Pärt’s Stabat Mater (1985) for three voices and three viols. The performers lifted the music off the page, combining glass-like fragility with warmth and precision. Singers Fiona Fraser, Amy Blythe and Jonathan Hanley were well-matched, seemingly effortless in vocal range and dexterity, the performers' interaction on stage creating an entirely intimate account of the 13th century text.After a long reflective silence from the audience, all performers combined in Robert White’s sonorous five-part Lamentations (from the Dow Partbooks of 1580). A marked difference to the Pärt, here the combined sound was richer, the connection between each voice and viol precise. Intelligent programming linked this to the final work, Pärt’s Da pacem Domine (2004), the phrases of which end with Renaissance-like cadences. Ultimately this was less a concert performance of curated works of sound, but something more immersive, cohesive, and intimate. The synergy between each voice and viol made this possibly the […]
2021-12-10 00:07:30
BY STEPHANIE ESLAKE Jannie Brown’s family has long been connected to music. Her great-great uncle was William Henry Dow, one of Australia’s leading instrument makers The post first appeared on CutCommon.
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