Opera's "Tales of Hoffmann" Sparkles
Posted: Jul 17, 1992 - 12:52:54 PM in: archives
(first published in The Cincinnati Post July 17, 1992)
When the Cincinnati Opera cut back to four productions in 1987, managing director Gus Stuhlreyer stated that the company must put its "best four feet forward."
Most years, at least one foot has come up lame, but not this year. From last month's gorgeous new production of "Madame Butterfly" to Thursday's blockbuster opening of "The Tales of Hoffmann," the Opera has met its thoroughbred potential. - [Read more]
When the Cincinnati Opera cut back to four productions in 1987, managing director Gus Stuhlreyer stated that the company must put its "best four feet forward."
Most years, at least one foot has come up lame, but not this year. From last month's gorgeous new production of "Madame Butterfly" to Thursday's blockbuster opening of "The Tales of Hoffmann," the Opera has met its thoroughbred potential. - [Read more]
"Hoffmann" Puts Mezzo-Soprano in Dress, for Once
Posted: Jul 15, 1992 - 1:24:36 PM in: archives
(first published in The Cincinnati Post July 15, 1992)
Mezzo-soprano Susan Quittmeyer has spent much of her professional life in pants.
Singing male roles, that is.
But that's the lot of the lyric mezzo, whose low-lying voice composers have called upon to convey the essence of young manhood. - [Read more]
Mezzo-soprano Susan Quittmeyer has spent much of her professional life in pants.
Singing male roles, that is.
But that's the lot of the lyric mezzo, whose low-lying voice composers have called upon to convey the essence of young manhood. - [Read more]
McFerrin Conducts Himself Well in Pops Appearance
Posted: Jun 27, 1992 - 1:35:30 PM in: archives
(first published in The Cincinnati Post June 27, 1992)
"The problem with growing up," says Bobby McFerrin, "is you become adult."
Spelled "a-D-U-L-L-t," of course, which McFerrin's Cincinnati Pops appearance Friday night at Riverbend definitely was not. - [Read more]
"The problem with growing up," says Bobby McFerrin, "is you become adult."
Spelled "a-D-U-L-L-t," of course, which McFerrin's Cincinnati Pops appearance Friday night at Riverbend definitely was not. - [Read more]
Who Goes to the Opera?
Posted: Jun 23, 1992 - 1:45:18 PM in: archives
(first published in The Cincinnati Post June 23, 1992)
Is there a doctor in the house?
Ask that Wednesday night at Music Hall, when the Cincinnati Opera opens its summer festival with Puccini's "Madame Butterfly," and you'll surely bag an M.D. or two. - [Read more]
Is there a doctor in the house?
Ask that Wednesday night at Music Hall, when the Cincinnati Opera opens its summer festival with Puccini's "Madame Butterfly," and you'll surely bag an M.D. or two. - [Read more]
May Fest Masterful with Mahler
Posted: Jun 1, 1992 - 1:29:49 PM in: archives
(first published in The Cincinnati Post June 1, 1992)
Couch listeners take note: If you think a compact disc beats a live concert, you should have been at Saturday night's May Festival performance of Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony.
Masterfully conducted by music director James Conlon, it made grown men cry - as attested in the Music Hall foyer after a prolonged ovation. - [Read more]
Couch listeners take note: If you think a compact disc beats a live concert, you should have been at Saturday night's May Festival performance of Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony.
Masterfully conducted by music director James Conlon, it made grown men cry - as attested in the Music Hall foyer after a prolonged ovation. - [Read more]
Battle's Cincinnati Connections Run Deep
Posted: May 22, 1992 - 1:50:16 PM in: archives
(first published in The Cincinnati Post May 22, 1992)
Far from the madding crowd is a nice place to be, especially if you're as famous as soprano Kathleen Battle.
Hailed by the New York Times as one of the "singing elite of this century," the Portsmouth, Ohio, native came home recently to visit her family. - [Read more]
Far from the madding crowd is a nice place to be, especially if you're as famous as soprano Kathleen Battle.
Hailed by the New York Times as one of the "singing elite of this century," the Portsmouth, Ohio, native came home recently to visit her family. - [Read more]
Copland, Dvorak Performed on Grand Scale
Posted: Apr 4, 1992 - 1:56:56 PM in: archives
(first published in The Cincinnati Post April 4, 1992)
Aaron Copland's Third Symphony was born in Cincinnati. Well, part of it, anyway. The "Fanfare for the Common Man," which opens the finale, was premiered in 1942 by Eugene Goossens and the Cincinnati Symphony, two years before the symphony was begun.
Copland's "great American symphony," a big, brash score full of old- fashioned optimism, was the featured work in Friday night's CSO concert. On the podium was CSO assistant conductor Keith Lockhart, out of his "Casual Classics" sneakers and into tails for his CSO Music Hall debut.
- [Read more]
Aaron Copland's Third Symphony was born in Cincinnati. Well, part of it, anyway. The "Fanfare for the Common Man," which opens the finale, was premiered in 1942 by Eugene Goossens and the Cincinnati Symphony, two years before the symphony was begun.
Copland's "great American symphony," a big, brash score full of old- fashioned optimism, was the featured work in Friday night's CSO concert. On the podium was CSO assistant conductor Keith Lockhart, out of his "Casual Classics" sneakers and into tails for his CSO Music Hall debut.
- [Read more]
Harlem Boys Choir Energizes Crowd
Posted: Apr 1, 1992 - 2:32:04 PM in: archives
(first published in The Cincinnati Post April 1, 1992)
They're no angels, says founder/director Walter Turnbull of the Harlem Boys Choir, but, my, they sing like it.
An evening of such delights greeted 2,312 listeners at Music Hall Tuesday night. The concert, sponsored by Women's Alliance and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, had the crowd clapping and jumping to their feet before the evening was spent. - [Read more]
They're no angels, says founder/director Walter Turnbull of the Harlem Boys Choir, but, my, they sing like it.
An evening of such delights greeted 2,312 listeners at Music Hall Tuesday night. The concert, sponsored by Women's Alliance and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, had the crowd clapping and jumping to their feet before the evening was spent. - [Read more]
Symphony Audience Chimes in on Koplow's Tribute to Corbett
Posted: Mar 7, 1992 - 2:14:41 PM in: archives
(first published in The Cincinnati Post March 7, 1992)
Composer Philip Koplow is on to something. If you want to excite audiences about contemporary music, make them a part of it.
And he did just that at Friday night's Cincinnati Symphony concert at Music Hall. Near the end of his "Legacy: J. Ralph Corbett," which received its world premiere under Jesus Lopez-Cobos, more than 800 audience members chimed in on tone bars donated by NuTone (founded by Corbett in 1934). - [Read more]
Composer Philip Koplow is on to something. If you want to excite audiences about contemporary music, make them a part of it.
And he did just that at Friday night's Cincinnati Symphony concert at Music Hall. Near the end of his "Legacy: J. Ralph Corbett," which received its world premiere under Jesus Lopez-Cobos, more than 800 audience members chimed in on tone bars donated by NuTone (founded by Corbett in 1934). - [Read more]
Koplow Chimes in with Memorial to Ralph Corbett
Posted: Mar 4, 1992 - 2:22:12 PM in: archives
(first published in The Cincinnati Post March 4, 1992)
A sound and light show at Music Hall?
Not exactly, but composer Philip Koplow's "Legacy: J. Ralph Corbett," to be premiered by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra this weekend, promises to be a visual as well as an aural experience. - [Read more]
A sound and light show at Music Hall?
Not exactly, but composer Philip Koplow's "Legacy: J. Ralph Corbett," to be premiered by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra this weekend, promises to be a visual as well as an aural experience. - [Read more]
"La Vida Breve" Earns Bravos
Posted: Feb 29, 1992 - 2:40:06 PM in: archives
(first published in The Cincinnati Post Feb. 29, 1992)
Spanish classical music may be terra incognita to most Cincinnatians, but thanks to Cincinnati Symphony music director Jesús López-Cobos, that course is getting a welcome correction. A big, bright case in point was Friday night's concert performance of Manuel de Falla's opera "La Vida Breve" ("A Short Life"). - [Read more]
Spanish classical music may be terra incognita to most Cincinnatians, but thanks to Cincinnati Symphony music director Jesús López-Cobos, that course is getting a welcome correction. A big, bright case in point was Friday night's concert performance of Manuel de Falla's opera "La Vida Breve" ("A Short Life"). - [Read more]
Chamber Jazz: Cubist But Not Square
Posted: Feb 17, 1992 - 3:14:04 PM in: archives
(first published in The Cincinnati Post Feb. 17, 1992)
The Cincinnati Chamber Music Society, which brought you bluegrass last fall with the Modern Mandolin Quartet, dips into jazz tonight with the world premiere of Joel Hoffman's "Cubist Blues."
The 8 p.m. concert at Corbett Auditorium features the Golub-Kaplan-Carr Trio - pianist David Golub, violinist Mark Kaplan and cellist Colin Carr. Not your usual jazz combo, but all the more reason to take notice.
- [Read more]
The Cincinnati Chamber Music Society, which brought you bluegrass last fall with the Modern Mandolin Quartet, dips into jazz tonight with the world premiere of Joel Hoffman's "Cubist Blues."
The 8 p.m. concert at Corbett Auditorium features the Golub-Kaplan-Carr Trio - pianist David Golub, violinist Mark Kaplan and cellist Colin Carr. Not your usual jazz combo, but all the more reason to take notice.
- [Read more]
"Zaide" Gets a New Twist, But Questions Persist
Posted: Feb 14, 1992 - 4:10:51 PM in: archives
(first published in The Cincinnati Post Feb. 14, 1992)
Mozart's unfinished opera "Zaide" poses a dilemma for its interpreters.
How to end it, primarily, since Mozart left Zaide and her lover begging for mercy at the sultan's feet. There are also the spoken dialogues (missing) and a lack of dramatic development in the music itself.
The opera department of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music has come up with some ingenious solutions to these problems in its new production of "Zaide," which opened Thursday at Patricia Corbett Theater. - [Read more]
Mozart's unfinished opera "Zaide" poses a dilemma for its interpreters.
How to end it, primarily, since Mozart left Zaide and her lover begging for mercy at the sultan's feet. There are also the spoken dialogues (missing) and a lack of dramatic development in the music itself.
The opera department of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music has come up with some ingenious solutions to these problems in its new production of "Zaide," which opened Thursday at Patricia Corbett Theater. - [Read more]
"Zaide" Mixes Mozart With Dialogue
Posted: Feb 13, 1992 - 4:06:01 PM in: archives
(first published in The Cincinnati Post Feb. 13, 1992)
Talk about a cliff-hanger.
During the final bars of Mozart's unfinished opera "Zaide," the harem girl Zaide and her lover are on their knees begging the sultan for mercy. They've been there more than 200 years. Do they live or die?
Come to the first University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music's performance of "Zaide" Thursday at Patricia Corbett Theater and find out - or go to New York next month to see CCM's cast perform it in Lincoln Center. - [Read more]
Talk about a cliff-hanger.
During the final bars of Mozart's unfinished opera "Zaide," the harem girl Zaide and her lover are on their knees begging the sultan for mercy. They've been there more than 200 years. Do they live or die?
Come to the first University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music's performance of "Zaide" Thursday at Patricia Corbett Theater and find out - or go to New York next month to see CCM's cast perform it in Lincoln Center. - [Read more]
Bronfman Puts Energy on the Keys
Posted: Feb 8, 1992 - 2:57:09 PM in: archives
(first published in The Cincinnati Post Feb. 8, 1992)
Friday's Cincinnati Symphony concert at Music Hall opened with the aptly- named "Short Ride in a Fast Machine" by American composer John Adams.
It was a pulsating, exhilarating trip that had one feeling "Stop, I want to get off," before it roared to a halt.
But the excitement didn't stop there. It was back into the seat belt when pianist Yefim Bronfman came on for Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3.
- [Read more]
Friday's Cincinnati Symphony concert at Music Hall opened with the aptly- named "Short Ride in a Fast Machine" by American composer John Adams.
It was a pulsating, exhilarating trip that had one feeling "Stop, I want to get off," before it roared to a halt.
But the excitement didn't stop there. It was back into the seat belt when pianist Yefim Bronfman came on for Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3.
- [Read more]
