Archive for January 6th, 2013
Our treasures
I have become an MFA hermit, added to which as soon as the fall semester was over I got sick (you may have noticed my inadvertent James Morris impersonations on the air!) but I finally got to the BMA on this lovely sunny Sunday to see the new contemporary wing. Full disclosure: I am not […]
01/12/13 – Il Trovatore – 1PM
Metropolitan Opera Il Trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano Sung in Italian Approximate running time: 2 hrs. 46 min., including 1 intermission Il Trovatore returns to the Met in a revival the New York Times calls “rousing, satisfying, truly fun.” David McVicar’s vivid production keeps the action moving in Verdi’s intense melodrama, which includes some of the composer’s most […]
Playlist: Jan/06/13
8:34 PM Modest Moussorgsky — Boris Godunov: Symphonic Synthesis Conductor: Jose SerebrierEnsemble: Bournemouth Symphony OrchestraNaxos, 8557645 8:00 PM Ludwig van Beethoven — Piano Concerto No. 1 Key: COpus: 15Conductor: Vladimir GolschmannEnsemble: Columbia Symphony OrchestraGlenn Gould, pianoCBS/Sony, 52632 6:35 PM Karol Szymanowski — Symphony No. 4, “Symphonie Concertante Opus: 60Conductor: Alfred WallensteinEnsemble: Los Angeles PhilharmonicArtur Rubinstein, […]