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2021-09-18 00:12:53
OperaWire.com: The Metropolitan Opera announced its free simulcast of the opening night and season-launching performance of Terence Blanchard’s "Fire"
OperaWire.com Sep 15, 2021by Afton Wooten The Metropolitan Opera announced its free simulcast of the opening night and season-launching performance of Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones.” The simulcast will take place Monday, Sept. 27 at 6:30 p.m. ET in Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park. There will be nearly 1,700 seats available at Marcus Garvey Park with approximately 2,000 seats also available in Times Square. Additional seating will be available in Duffy Square and the Broadway Plazas between 43rd and 44th Streets and 46th and 47th Streets in Times Square. All seats are on a first-come, first-serve basis. Marcus Garvey Park attendees must show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test. Masks are recommended. Masks are also recommended at the other participating venues.
2021-09-18 00:12:00
OperaWire.com: The Metropolitan Opera announced its free simulcast of the opening night and season-launching performance of Terence Blanchard’s “Fire"
OperaWire.com Sep 15, 2021by Afton Wooten The Metropolitan Opera announced its free simulcast of the opening night and season-launching performance of Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones.” The simulcast will take place Monday, Sept. 27 at 6:30 p.m. ET in Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park. There will be nearly 1,700 seats available at Marcus Garvey Park with approximately 2,000 seats also available in Times Square. Additional seating will be available in Duffy Square and the Broadway Plazas between 43rd and 44th Streets and 46th and 47th Streets in Times Square. All seats are on a first-come, first-serve basis. Marcus Garvey Park attendees must show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test. Masks are recommended. Masks are also recommended at the other participating venues.
2021-03-26 07:48:09
The New York-based ensemble The Knights, artistic directors Colin and Eric Jacobsen, have just released a new video, Keeping On but in fact the ensemble has released two videos, you can watch the video of the orchestra members performing [on YouTube[ but for those interested in the musical nitty-gritty there is also a video [above and on YouTube] of the annotated score. The project was a group one, with a group of the members of the ensemble being responsible for developing the piece, Michael P. Atkinson, Logan Coale, Zachary Cohen, Christina Courtin, Colin Jacobsen, Dave Nelson, Yaira Matyakubova, Alex Sopp, plus Christina Courtin and Alex Sopp contributing the song, and Michael P. Atkinson doing the arrangement and orchestrations. And the annotated score highlights the various contributions, you can read more about the project in Colin Jacobsen's post on The Knights' website. The Knights evolved from late-night chamber music reading parties […]
2020-11-28 09:09:27
From Handel's contemporaries to a forgotten Malcolm Arnold opera: I chat to conductor John Andrews about reviving neglected music
[…] such pieces always comes with an element of challenge. For English Touring Opera (ETO), John has conducted stagings of Donizetti's Pia de'Tolomei [see my review] and Rossini's Elisabetta Regina d'Inghilterra [see my review] and he comments he and James Conway (artistic director of ETO) have a similar mindset, just because a work might be hard is not a reason to grab it by the throat. Rossini: Elisabetta Regina d'Inghilterra - John-Colyn Gyeantey, Mary Plazas, Luciano Botelho - English Touring Opera (Photo Richard Hubert Smith) This leads him on to a more general point, that with our modern striving for perfection we often neglect works which are good but not perfect. John feels that this is not helpful, either to the music or to ourselves, and only looking for perfect pieces puts pressure on ourselves. In Mozart's time, it was accepted that new pieces could be good […]
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