Archive for April 29th, 2024
A swansong for Mark Cudek
Having founded the Peabody Renaissance Ensemble thirty-six years ago in 1988, Mark Cudek will conduct the group for the last time in a concert called “Music for Joan the Mad,” inspired by Marjorie Sandor’s book “The Secret Music at Tordesillas,” at Peabody and St. David’s Roland Park. Please click on the link below […]
Crossing borders and breaking boundaries with Spooky Action Theater
Spooky Action Theater’s artistic director, Elizabeth Dinkova, joined me by phone to unpack some of the humor, humanity, and heart at play in the latest production from this inventive DC-based theater compnay. She spoke with extra authority and insight having known the playwright, Philip Howze, since overlapping at drama school; having selected and programmed the […]
Monday 4/29/24 New York Philharmonic
11:00 PM Conductor: Alan Gilbert Soloists: Christine Brewer, soprano Jane Henschel, soprano Anthony Dean Griffey, tenor Eric Owens, bass-baritone New York Choral Artists/ Joseph Flummerfelt, director* Ludwig van Beethoven: Overture to Egmont Paul Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber Ludwig van Beethoven: Missa solemnis, Op. 123*
Playlist: Apr/29/24
10:14 PM Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — Scheherazade Opus: 35Conductor: Myung-Whun ChungEnsemble: Orchestre de la BastilleFrederic Laroque,violinDG/Archiv, 437818 10:04 PM Giuseppe Verdi — La Forza del Destino: Overture Conductor: Herbert von KarajanDG/Archiv, 419622 9:49 PM Johann Sebastian Bach — Flute Sonata Key: E minor Irena Grafenauer, fluteBrigitte Engelhard, harpsichorJorg Baumann, celloPhilips, 434996 9:20 PM Edgar Meyer — […]
