Archive for January 12th, 2013
01-12-13 Face The Music Listings!
This week…our first new show of the year… we had some nice winners…Manuel Barrueco’s new Bach Album…the new Dvorak Symphony # 3 and the Rozsa were all winners…We were less enthusiastic about the Beethoven with Lars Vogt. Our panel was made up of John Bowen from Emanuel Episcopal, Jed Gaylin of the Hopkins and Bay […]
01/19/13 – Maria Stuarda – 1pm
Metropolitan Opera Maria Stuarda by Gaetano Donizetti Libretto by Giuseppe Bardari Sung in Italian Approximate running time: 2 hrs. 46 min., including 1 intermission Joyce DiDonato’s performance in the title role of Mary, Queen of Scots, “will be pointed to as a model of singing,” full of “plush richness and aching beauty,” in David McVicar’s Met premiere […]
ZERO DARK THIRTY, DJANGO UNCHAINED, PROMISED LAND, NOT FADE AWAY
ZERO DARK THIRTY gathers the facts from 9/11 to the killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011. Kathryn Bigelow has worked with primary material to create a time-line ellipsis from the point of the terrorism, to U.S. troop anger, to a standstill and eventual information from a luckily found source leading to bin Laden. The […]
Playlist: Jan/12/13
8:13 PM Gerald Finzi — Intimations of Immortality Opus: 29Conductor: Matthew BestEnsemble: Corydon Orchestraand ChorusJohn Mark Ainsley, tenorHyperion, 66876 8:11 PM Francis Poulenc — Exultate Deo (1941) Conductor: John RutterEnsemble: City of London SinfoniaCambridge SingersCollegium, 108 8:04 PM Ludwig van Beethoven — The Consecration of the House: Chorus Conductor: Stanislaw SkrowaczewskiEnsemble: Minnesota OrchestraPhyllis Bryn-Julson, sopranoBach […]
