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Clearfield: Europe meets Tibet.

Mendelssohn Club sings Clearfield and Fauré

The sum of Andrea Clearfield's parts

Andrea Clearfield's ambitiously sprawling Tse Go La is the latest fruit of the composer's musical field trips to Tibet and by far the most substantial: a fantastic amalgam of cross-cultural influences.

Articles 3 minute read
Johnson: The price of narcissism.

Opera Company's "Manon Lescaut'

A vocal and visual knockout

The title role of Puccini's Manon Lescaut taxes even seasoned professionals. With just three weeks' rehearsal, the student Michelle Johnson carried it off with aplomb. Sumptuous costumes helped, too.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

Articles 3 minute read
Mancasola and Mason: Marian the Librarian, but with character flaws.

Donizetti's "L'Elisir d'Amore' by AVA

Donizetti meets Mussolini

Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore is a melodramatic comedy about love. Nic Muni's current production sets the story in Mussolini's Fascist Italy, where the stakes are life and death, not to mention damnation.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

Articles 3 minute read
Beam: Practice, practice!

Lyric Fest: Three operas for children

Opera for kids meets
‘Anxious Parent Syndrome'

Lyric Fest, run by three mothers, opted for a riskier format for its annual children's concert, introducing its young audience to three famous but abridged operas.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 4 minute read
Gamelan dancers: It's all in the arms, hands and fingers.

Orchestra 2001 considers Bali (2nd review)

Flash and substance, by way of Bali

Orchestra 2001's recent Balinese music and dance program combined flash with substance, and crowd appeal with enlightenment— a rare achievement.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

Articles 3 minute read
Higdon: Right time for a populist.

Curtis Orchestra plays Higdon, BartÓ³k and Brahms

The kids are all right

Jennifer Higdon, as much as any composer of her generation, has solidified the permanent significance of the American populist school, once led by Aaron Copland. Even from this youthful ensemble, her blue cathedral was rich and satisfying.

Articles 3 minute read
Dessay: No escaping that clock.

Met's "Traviata' in HD Live

One woman's race against time

Willi Decker's radical production isn't the only way to do Verdi's La Traviata, but it's a convincing alternative, especially with the inimitably vulnerable Natalie Dessay in the title role.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

Articles 3 minute read
Rattle: Was Brahms an introvert?

Rattle, the Orchestra and death

Rattle confronts the Grim Reaper

In its latter stages, Austro-German Romanticism mostly concerned the beauty of death. Simon Rattle demonstrated that he's learned something in Berlin about the subtle German approach to emotion.
Victor L. Schermer

Victor L. Schermer

Articles 3 minute read

Orchestra 2001 considers Bali (1st review)

What Boulez could learn from the Balinese

Orchestra 2001 spotlighted the relationship between Western music and Bali, in a concert that resembles a journey through exotic, sometimes rough terrain.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 4 minute read
Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor, was executed by Hitler for equating Jews with God.

Bach, Christians and anti-Semitism: A reply

Fixing blame for anti-Semitism: A Christian perspective

Bach wasn't anti-Semitic, and neither is his St. John Passion. Neither was St. John himself. True Christians understand that Christianity is Jewish through and through.
Kile Smith

Kile Smith

Articles 5 minute read