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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-14 15:45:32
A Long Road of Remembrance and Hope
The oratorio O Lungo Drom (The Long Road) is an authentic testimony of the Sinti and Roma people, whose journey since time immemorial has been shrouded by poetic and popular imagination. It finds its voice for the first time here directly through the words of Sinti/Roma poets and writers, set to music by Roma composer Ralf Yusuf Gawlick. This oratorio will receive its joint U.S. premières on April 5th at College of the Holy Cross and the 6th at Boston College, with soprano Clara Meloni, baritone Christoph Filler, cimbalomist László Rácz and the Alban Berg Ensemble Wien, the same cast performing on the world première recording recently released on Decca Eloquence Australia. Harpsichordist Peter Watchorn, a professor at Boston College and co-founder, executive producer and CEO of the record label Musica Omnia (which hosts seven Gawlick recordings), recently spoke with the composer. PW: In the past decade, you have shared your […]
2024-02-22 11:46:15
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2024-02-09 11:14:00
Why do we always forget the Roma?
In his absorbing and sometimes outrageous memoir The Way to to the Labyrinth: Memories of East and West the authority on Hinduism and Indian music Alain Daniélou makes the following thoughtful comment: I often wonder at the way people who speak of genocide always seems to forget the Gypsies, the homosexuals, and the German dissidents who died at the hands of the Nazis; by limiting their condemnations, they only weaken their argument. It is not just because the victims were Jewish that extermination camps were abominable. I never quite trust the sincerity of people who openly condemn anti-Semitism but conveniently forget the many other victims of Nazism. Back in 2006 in my post Roma - the forgotten Holocaust victims I explained how the fate of the millions of Jews murdered in Hitler's death camps is well documented and remembered, but less is known about the 500,000 Gypsies who also died. There are not […]
2023-11-20 00:56:00
San Francisco Opera 2024 Adler Fellows; Adler Concert
[…] "I knew them when," and the annual Alder concert is a great opportunity to hear these talented singers. Here are the details for the concert, which has a very interesting program:THE FUTURE IS NOW: ADLERS IN CONCERTSaturday, December 2, 2023, at 7:30 p.m.Herbst Theatre, Veterans Building, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco San Francisco Opera Adler FellowsSan Francisco Opera OrchestraRamón Tebar, conductor Tickets for The Future Is Now range from $34–$69. PROGRAM (subject to change) Overture from Norma (Vincenzo Bellini)San Francisco Opera Orchestra "Va, crudele … Vieni in Roma!" from Norma (Vincenzo Bellini)Gabrielle Beteag, Adalgisa • Moisés Salazar, Pollione "Che più t'arresti … Tacea la notte ... Di tale amor" from Il Trovatore (Giuseppe Verdi)Nikola Printz, Inez • Mikayla Sager, Leonora "Amor ti vieta" from Fedora (Umberto Giordano)Edward Graves, Count Loris "Ch'il bel sogno di Doretta" from La Rondine (Giacomo Puccini)Olivia Smith, Magda "Riez, allez" from Don Quichotte (Jules Massenet)Jongwon Han, Sancho "Sull'aria" from Le Nozze di Figaro (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)Olivia Smith, Countess Almaviva • Arianna Rodriguez, Susanna "I was a woman" from prisoner of the state (David Lang)Nikola Printz, the Assistant "Sometimes th’ pain of missin' […]
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