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Lesley Malin wearing many hats at Chesapeake Shakespeare
Founding Chesapeake Shakespeare Company member and Producing Executive Director, Lesley Malin, plays Gertrude in the current production of Hamlet, and she has devised a 2023-2024 season of RULE-BREAKERS, a celebration of mavericks. She came in to talk to me about all of it.
Music From Movies 5-14-22
7:00 PM Michael Gore- Theme from Terms of Endearment Telarc 80168 COND Erich Kunzel ORCH Cincinnati Pops Orchestra 7:05 PM Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky- The Nutcracker: Waltz of the Flowers Pro Arte 121 COND Leonard Slatkin ORCH Minnesota Orchestra 7:13 PM Rachel Portman- The Joy Luck Club: Selections Hollywood 61561 COND J.A.C. Redford ORCH Studio […]
5-13-23. Music in Maryland. Candlelight Concerts Presents The Knights Who Say….Beethoven!
This week we present the Knights in a concert from the Candlelight Concert Society’s 50th Anniversary Season which took place on September 11, 2022. The program focused on arrangements of Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata and Janacek’s Kreutzer Quartet for chamber orchestra. Also on the program music by Viet Cuong, and Anna Clyne.
Vocalise 5-13-23
8:00 PM Georges Bizet- Carmen: Habanera Angel/EMI 65986 COND Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos ORCH Paris Opera Orchestra SOLO Grace Bumbry, mezzo-soprano 8:06 PM Manuel de Falla- El Amor Brujo DG/Archiv 447414 COND Lorin Maazel ORCH Berlin Radio Symphony Orch. SOLO Grace Bumbry, mezzo-soprano 8:26 PM Sir Arthur Sullivan- Te Deum (1872) […]
Toccata listings for 5/14/23
On tonight’s program, music by Maurice Durufle that he dedicated to Paul Dukas, and a harpsichord concerto by the student of J.S. Bach who has a connection to the famous Goldberg Variations. Thanks so much for your fabulous support during our recently completed Spring fundraiser. We couldn’t do it without you! thanks so much for […]
The art of leadership
Paul Jan Zdunek is a conductor turned CEO who has co-authored a book that pulls together the seemingly disparate strands of conducting, horsemanship, and leadership.
It’s GOOD to be back!
Let me start by thanking everyone for the many cards, emails, and phone calls received during my absence. You have no idea how much that meant to me.Even my fabulous neighbors were there offering to help. Olivia, who lives down the street saw my wife on one of her morning walks and offered to come […]
Music From Movies 5-07-22
7:00 PM John Barry The Lion in Winter: Main Title Silva 5006 COND Nic Raine ORCH City of Prague Philharmonic 7:04 PM Patrick Doyle Henry V: Film Music (Exerpts) Angel/EMI 49919 COND Sir Simon Rattle ORCH City of Birmingham Symph Orch SOLO Steven Hill Singers 7:20 PM Andrew Lloyd […]
BSO Music Director Designate is the real deal
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Vocalise 5-06-23
8:00 PM 8:05 PM George Frederich Handel Zadok the Priest London 466075 COND Sir David Willcocks ORCH English Chamber Orchestra SOLO Choir Kings College, Cambridge 8:07 PM Sir Hubert Parry I Was Glad Chesky Rec 83 COND Josef Flummerfelt SOLO Choir of Westminster Abbey SOLO Nancianne Parrella, organ 8:13 PM Sir Edward Elgar Coronation Ode […]
