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Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2023-09-20 18:09:58
‘The “fright” look is all naturally mine,’ riposted Rose Knox-Peebles after FT reviewer assumed she had makeup on in Das RheingoldRose Knox-Peebles was on a high after the opening night of Das Rheingold at the Royal Opera House earlier this week.It was the first time the 82-year-old model, who plays Erda, the weary, gnarled earth mother who has seen it all, who knows what has been, what is and will be, had performed in an opera. In quite the baptism of all sorts of fire, the director, Barrie Kosky, decided to keep her character on stage, naked, for the entire two-and-a-half-hour performance – with no interval.
2019-12-25 16:46:20
Merry Christmas to all. Here’s a bit of annual listening for me, not Christmas music per se, but certainly in the right mood. One of the best orchestral trombone sections in the history of the universe — Byron Peebles (my teacher), Ralph Sauer, Herbert Ausman and Jeff Reynolds — performs music by Pergolesi (or perhaps […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2018-06-08 16:32:33
A Solution For Underfunded Libraries? Staff 'Em With Students
The Scottish Borders council is implementing a trial in three schools – in Galashiels, Hawick and Peebles – that will see secondary school pupils and other volunteers taking on roles in school libraries. The pilot initiative follows the loss of several librarian jobs last year, according to reports in the Scottish press, and has been attacked […]
2017-01-17 21:36:23
Bryon Peebles, the longtime co-principal trombonist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, passed away Monday a few days shy of his 86th birthday. Byron was a wonderful trombonist, teacher and human being. He had a great career. After studying with Robert Marsteller at USC, he joined the Indianapolis Symphony, and then the Chicago Symphony under Fritz Reiner. (While in Chicago, he performed on several recordings with the group, including, if memory serves, Reiner’s Also Sprach Zarathustra and the classic account of Franck’s D-minor Symphony led by Pierre Monteux.) He joined the LA Phil in 1962, working for music directors Zubin Mehta, Carlo Maria Giulini, Andre Previn and Esa-Pekka Salonen. I had the good fortune to study privately with Byron in the mid-1980s. By then, I had graduated from USC and was commenced on a career as a professional trombonist. But at the time I went to study with Byron, on the recommendation […]
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