Archive for June 7th, 2024
WBJC Operafest 6/15/24 – 9/07/24
Vienna State Opera (Austria) JUNE 15 Guillaume Tell / Gioachino Rossini JUNE 22 Die Frau ohne Schatten / Richard Strauss Utrecht Early Music Festival (Netherlands) JUNE 29 The Fairy Queen / Henry Purcell Opéra de Lille (France) JULY 6 Don Giovanni / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Royal Opera House (London) JULY 13 Das […]
A Point of Beauty on BookNotes
A Point of Beauty: TRUE STORIES OF HOLDING ON AND LETTING GO is the 5th book from The Moth, which is dedicated to the art and craft of unscripted, first-person storytelling. Their latest iteration includes a story from the violinist, Frank Almond, who is perhaps more famous than he would like for having had his […]
Mary Zimmerman’s Matchbox Magic Flute
Mary Zimmerman’s Matchbox Magic Flute, a collaboration between The Goodman Theatre and The Shakespeare Theatre Company, reimagines Mozart’s final opera as “a hybrid, a playful variation, more a creature of the theatre [than of] opera.” I spoke to Mary about her concept.
Toccata listings for 6/9/24
On to night’s program, A Capriccio by Bach, Evocations by Richard Strauss, and a concerto for Pedal Piano. Thanks for listening, and enjoy! 6:01 PM 403 Johann Sebastian Bach Capriccio in B-Flat BWV 992 Philips 416141 SOLO Gustav Leonhardt, harpsichord 12:39 C 1 12-17 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:16 PM 2809 Richard Strauss Stimmungsbilder (Evocations) Op 9 […]
Playlist: Jun/07/24
11:39 PM Sir Edward Elgar — Enigma Variations Opus: 36Conductor: Sir Adrian BoultAngel/EMI, 64748 11:15 PM Karen Amrhein — The Book of Jonah , 2013 10:31 PM Sergei Rachmaninoff — Piano Concerto No. 3 Key: D minor Opus: 30Conductor: Kirill KondrashinEnsemble: Symphony of the AirVan Cliburn, pianoRCA/BMG, 6209 10:20 PM Nikolay Tcherepnin — The Distant […]
