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American composer (1881-1935)
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2023-01-27 10:58:37
So, Yuja Wang, what do you think of conductors?
From an interview with David Patrick Stearns in... The post So, Yuja Wang, what do you think of conductors? appeared first on Slippedisc.
2022-01-22 23:59:03
Inquirer.com: Bass-baritone Mark S. Doss is Créon and the Messenger in Opera Philadelphia's production of "Oedipus Rex" by Stravinsky; Livestream thru Feb. 20
Bass-baritone Mark S. Doss (center) as Créon and the Messenger, with (left) William Burden as Oedipus and Ethan Burck as the Shepherd in Opera Philadelphia's production of Oedipus Rex Friday in Verizon Hall. Corrado Rovaris conducts. (Dominic M. Mercier) The Philadelphia Inquirer by David Patrick Stearns, For The Inquirer January 22, 2022 Exactly 720 days had passed since Opera Philadelphia last performed for a live public — indoors — when the public filled 1,100 seats this frigid Friday for a double bill of less-than-familiar works in concert performances at the Kimmel Center. Listeners must’ve been hungry for it. Both the elegiac George Walker song cycle Lilacs (which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize, a first for a Black composer) and Stravinsky’s opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex are more known about than heard, but were given full-tilt resources with an orchestra of 93 (far larger than what could fit in any local […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2021-02-05 18:01:00
Video Opera And ‘Relevance’: Where They Meet And Where They Miss
“Recent case histories are alternately breakthroughs and models of artistic self-defeat. Which was which?” asks David Patrick Stearns. “The reverse of what I expected.” The key: the message and the material have to fit each other. – Classical Voice North America
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ArtsJournal: music
2020-12-03 20:03:29
Maybe The Right Concert Piece For The Age Of COVID Is Cage’s 4’33”
When Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic learned, on short notice, that their Oct. 31 concert would be the last for some time with a live audience, they chose Cage’s score-without-notes as their encore — and their rendition has racked up more than 50,000 views on YouTube so far. David Patrick Stearns considers the meaning […]
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