Louise Homer News
American opera singer (1871-1947)
- mezzo-soprano
- classical music
- United States of America
- actor, opera singer, stage actor
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2023-07-28 16:00:07
Take the long way Homer
Anticipating John Eliot Gardiner’s epic tour next month, Chris’s Cache savors several versions of Berlioz’s Les Troyens.
All the conducting master class
2022-07-31 11:59:00
APPLY NOW Details Posted: 24-Jun-22 Location: Homer, Alaska Type: Full Time Salary: DOE Categories: Orchestra Sector: Elementary Homer OPUS is a nonprofit organization that delivers school and community-based string programs to individuals aged kindergarten through adult. Our kindergarten through second grade program takes place in local elementary schools and focuses on using the power of music instruction to build […]
2022-05-11 06:36:37
Samuel Barber: The Complete Songs, Dylan Perez & friends survey nearly 50 years of the composer's songs including those unpublished during his lifetime
[…] opus numbers) and those only published posthumously. We also get Dover Beach, for baritone and string quartet, and the premiere recording of Knoxville: Summer of 1915 in the composer's own piano version. That is a lot of songs (67 in fact) for a composer whose most famous work, by a long chalk, is a string piece adapted from a string quartet. But singing and song was threaded through Barber's early life. His mother's sister was the contralto Louise Homer, who was member of the Metropolitan Opera from 1900 to 1929. Her husband was the composer Sidney Homer, a composer who concentrated on song and who wrote extensively for his wife. Sidney Homer would mentor Samuel Barber and many of the early songs (on the second disc) were performed by Louise Homer. Barber's own studies at the Curtis Institute including voice and for a short period he had a career as a professional baritone, […]
2021-08-11 19:36:18
My good friend the philosopher Richard Fleming has written a wonderful, long essay called “Want of Sense” – or, alternatively, “Homerjoycecage” – and I return to the blog after a long absence to draw some attention to it. In it, he draws an epic historical thread from the Iliad and the Odyssey to Joyce’s complex […]
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