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Vocalise 4-29-23
8:00 PM George Frederich Handel- Agrippina: Ogni vento PBO 1 COND Nicholas McGegan ORCH Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra SOLO Lorraine Hunt, soprano 8:07 PM Ralph Vaughan Williams- Flos Campi for Viola, Orchestra & WordleChandos 9 COND Norman Del Mar ORCH Bournemouth Sinfonietta SOLO and Choir SOLO Frederick Riddle, viola 8:29 PM Antonin Dvorak- Gypsy Melodies Op […]
The Kappa Guild’s In-Person Events Are Back!
The Kappa Guild of Baltimore’s fashion show is returning to the Zamoiski Auditorium at Sinai Hospital on Sunday, May 7 and they’ll be distributing funds to various agencies at their donor event, which will be held at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation on June 7. I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Sheila Mentz about both […]
Music From Movies 4-23-22
7:00 PM John Williams Raiders of the Lost Ark: March Silva 5006 COND Paul Bateman ORCH City of Prague Philharmonic 7:07 PM Nino Rota Felini Suite Da Vinci 98 ORCH Italian Saxophone Quartet 7:19 PM Stephen Warbeck Shakespeare in Love (Score) CBS/Sony 63387 COND Nick Ingman ORCH Studio Orchestra […]
Vocalise 4-22-23
8:00 PM George Frederich Handel- Rodelinda: Mio Caro bene DG/Archiv 4853569 COND Patrick Summers ORCH Metropolitan Opera Orchestra SOLO Renee Fleming, soprano 8:06 PM Vincenzo Bellini- Il Pirata: “…Col sorriso d’innocenza” DG/Archiv 4853569 COND Bruno Campanella ORCH Metropolitan Opera Orchestra SOLO Renee Fleming, soprano 8:12 PM Dmitri Shostakovich- From Jewish Folk Poetry Op 79 London […]
BookNotes Review April 2023
Romantic Comedy Curtis Sittenfeld Symphony of Secrets Brendan Slocumb Chita Chita Rivera with Patrick Pacheco You Could Make This Place Beautiful Maggie Smith
MY DEAREST JANE cabaret at Theatre Project
It was my pleasure to speak with writer/composer/performer Meg Huskin and stage director Elisheva Pront, who along with music director Ryo Hasegawa have conceived and created an original musical cabaret about, and in conversation with, beloved author Jane Austen. The new piece, entitled My Dearest Jane, draws on text and characters created by Austen, mixing these […]
Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski at Shriver Hall
Polish-born pianist Piotr Anderszewski returns to Baltimore for the first time in 10 years in a program of Bach, Szymanowski, Anton Webern, and Beethoven at Shriver Hall. I spoke to him in Paris.
Music From Movies 4-16-22
7:00 PM Henry Mancini The Pink Panther: Theme Silva 5006 COND Mike Townend ORCH Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 7:04 PM Henry Mancini Charade from the movie “Charade” RCA/BMG 60471 COND Henry Mancini ORCH Mancini Pops Orchestra 7:13 PM Henry Mancini Moon River “Breakfast at Tiffanys” Telarc 80183 COND Erich Kunzel ORCH Cincinnati Pops Orchestra 7:17 […]
Vocalise 4-15-23
8:00 PM Giacomo Puccini La Boheme: “Si, mi chiamano Mimi” Angel/EMI 67782 COND Sir Charles Mackerras ORCH London Symphony Orchestra SOLO Montserrat Caballe, soprano 8:07 PM Gioacchino Rossini Messa di Milano Philips 446097 COND Sir Neville Marriner ORCH Academy of St Martin in Fields SOLO Nuccia Focile,soprano SOLO Susanne Mentzer, mezzo-soprano SOLO Raul Gimenez, tenor […]
4-15-2023 Music in Maryland: Annapolis Symphony – Celebrating America!
This week the Annapolis Symphony is on Music in Maryland with a concert entitled Celebrating America that was recorded on September 30 and October 1, 2022. On the Program Copland’s El Salon Mexico, Barber’s Knoxville Summer 1915, The Walls of Zion from Copland’s Old American Songs, This Little Light of Mine from Hale Smith’s Four […]
