Archive for July 20th, 2016
Reimagining Stravinsky’s Firebird
Imagine A Midsummer Night’s Dream peopled by puppets that swoop around and amongst the actors as shadow characters! This was how I first came across the Handspring Puppet Company at Johannesburg’s Market Theatre. The company, established in Cape Town by Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones, draws its inspiration from the West African tradition of puppetry […]
Wednesday 7-20-16 San Francisco Symphony
11:00 PM Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt Soloist: Peter Serkin, piano Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 19 Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings, Opus 48
Playlist: Jul/20/16
10:44 PM Robert Schumann — Marchenbilder Opus: 113Karen Dreyfus, violaRobert McDonald, pianoBridge, 9016 10:27 PM Mikhail Glinka — Russlan and Ludmilla: Dances (Act 3) Conductor: Evgeny SvetlanovEnsemble: USSR Symphony OrchestraMelodiya, 1000166 10:02 PM Sergei Rachmaninoff — Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Opus: 43Conductor: Yuri TemirkanovEnsemble: Saint Petersburg PhilharmonicDmitri Alexeev, pianoRCA/BMG, 62710 9:58 PM Modest […]
