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A Nice Tender Land (plus some fresh local talent)
April 28, 2008 – 8:34 pm
Friday evening was one of those impossible evenings, if you happen to be a critic – I struggled to juggle two overlapping events, and one of them (next post) gets short shrift as a result.
Hey, I couldn’t just walk out of the Charleston Symphony’s semi-staged concert performance of The Tender Land, Aaron Copland’s only […]
College’s Vocal/Choral Program Struts its Stuff
October 27, 2007 – 2:17 pm
Just a few blogs back I told you that the choral arts are alive and well in Charleston – make that WORLD-CLASS well. And that’s just part of the vital and rapidly growing vocal music scene at the College of Charleston’s School of the Arts (SOTA). The quality and diversity of the Vocal/Choral Program have […]
Impending Eargasms: Vocal, Chamber and Symphonic happenings
October 25, 2007 – 5:26 pm
A busy musical weekend looms, beginning tomorrow evening (8:00 p.m., Friday, Oct 26th) with a gala vocal scholarship benefit concert at the College of Charleston’s Simons Center Recital Hall. The College’s vocal/choral programs have never been better – and your support will help keep their efforts on an upward curve. Featured will be the College’s […]
R.I.P. Bubbles
July 12, 2007 – 12:23 pm
We lost one of America’s greatest-ever musicians and arts champions last week. Yup, “Bubbles” is what they called her, from infancy … ’cause Beverly Sills was one of the most relentlessly cheerful folks out there. She was also a spectacular coloratura soprano, and America’s pioneering home-grown operatic diva: one of the first to buck the […]
Mahagonny? We Still Live There
June 10, 2007 – 9:44 pm
– The final installment of my promised opera overview.
Kurt Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny was Spoleto’s magnum operatic opus this time ‘round. Just about everybody around here who’s written about it has also raved about it. I don’t need to go into great detail here – just take a look at […]
Faustus: Sharing the Nightmare
June 7, 2007 – 2:23 pm
Before I experienced Pascal Dusapin’s Faustus, the Last Night in the flesh, I suppose I knew what to expect better than most – as I’d already seen a DVD of the opera (more about that one later). Having found the recording rather disturbing, I approached the real thing with a mixed sense of foreboding and […]
Opera Overview
June 7, 2007 – 1:55 pm
Well, I managed to get to all the operas this time – and in the first week, too. But other blogging priorities kept me from getting to them here in “Eargasms.” It’s just as well; I’ve had time to stew about them and discuss them with others (not that what anybody told me changed my […]
Amahl, Great Joy with a Little Frustration
May 31, 2007 – 12:43 am
Gian Carlo Menotti’s classic Christmas tale, Amahl and the Night Visitors, captured the hearts of Americans in the 1950’s and sent thousands of television viewers on their first foray into the seemingly erudite realm of opera. Indeed, it can claim the distinction of being the first work of this nature specifically composed for the small […]
L’Ile de Merlin, reviewed
May 27, 2007 – 11:42 pm
Well, it looks like I get off easy — cause all you have to do to get to my full review of that frothy confection is to click here. I hope to blog about it later, in Spoleto’s broader operatic context. But for now, enjoy!
One Last Spoletogasp
It’s hard to believe it’s over — that it’s been over, for more than a week. It seems like a rich, juicy dream of musical gluttony. But it must’ve happened: I emerged from my usual semi-comatose post-Spoleto state this morning to find my own festival music overview on the streets in today’s City Paper (and […]