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ArtsJournal: music
2019-08-02 15:02:18
Corbin Gwaltney, Co-Founder Of Chronicle Of Higher Education, Dead At 97
The Chronicle struggled in the first few years after Gwaltney and John A. Crowl established it in 1966, but became widely-read and influential for its coverage of unrest and social issues on college campuses in the weeks and years following the Kent State shootings in 1970. And in 1988, Gwaltney and Crowl founded The Chronicle […]
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2016-07-26 16:59:56
How many operas do you have to sing to earn a living?
Jeff Gwaltney is an operatic tenor who lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. A Domingo protégé at Washington National Opera, he gets roles all over the US and frequently in the UK. At 33 people ask him: is this a living? Read on here. h/t: SexiSoprano.
2015-02-05 04:43:20
A behind-the-scenes rehearsal video has been released for MADAM BUTTERFLY, Giacomo Puccini's masterpiece of doomed love and tragic passion, which will play a limited run at the Royal Albert Hall, beginning on 26 February 2015. The video features rehearsal footage as well as interviews with director David Freeman, and performers Hyeseoung Kwon and Jeffrey Gwaltney No opera can match the tragedy and sorrow of MADAM BUTTERFLY.
2013-04-14 01:07:47
[…] Ring Cycle, to which she returns this summer – seems more unhinged and alone than ever. The Latvian Peteris Eglitis, making his company debut, was singing his first Dutchman. Despite already being an experienced Wotan, he sounded underpowered and only towards the end really cut through with those long, scorching vocal lines the role demands. The chorus, as in Belfast and Birmingham, shone. The UK has impressive opera choruses and choral directors right now. Jeff Gwaltney's George/Erik, Scott Wilde's Donald, Sarah Pring's Mary and, especially, Nicky Spence's Steersman made up the expert cast. Spence's rumbustious yet delicate ceilidh display, with his troosers slipping down, could go viral if someone puts it on YouTube.Without electronic assistance, music scarcely comes louder or more thrilling than in the last act of Dutchman, as Wagner cranks up volume and tension towards the final cataclysm. In contrast, his fellow anniversary composer, the English lutenist John […]
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