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A Little Inspiration Perhaps

May 22, 2020 By Guy St. Clair Leave a Comment

As we struggle with what’s happening all around us, from time to time we need a little inspiration. I recommend listening to two choral pieces. Both are pretty remarkable and speak to us – it seems to me – in our current situation. In the first, the Met Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, …

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Filed Under: Current Events, Music, Personal History, Uncategorized Tagged With: COVID-19, Metropolitan Opera Association, Nabucco (opera), Nézet-Séguin (Yannick), Verdi (Giuseppe)

The Most Beautiful Art Nouveau Concert Hall in the World

April 27, 2020 By Guy St. Clair Leave a Comment

[Author’s Note: Written with Andrew Berner, a true Barcelona aficionado whose assistance is much appreciated.] This is a post about the Palau de la Música Catalana (the Palace of Catalan Music) in Barcelona. And right off, let’s get past this “most beautiful” business. These posts would be very boring and predictable if every time you opened one …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, History, Music, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: art nouveau, Barcelona, Clavé (Anselm), Domènech i Montaner (Lluis), Guastavino (Rafael), Guastavino tile, Millet (Lluis), Modernism, Orfeó Català, Palace of Catalan Music, Palau de la Música Catalana

Met Opera’s Akhnaten comes to PBS

March 27, 2020 By Guy St. Clair Leave a Comment

There were far too many highlights of the Met’s recently truncated season – performed and planned – to write about here. And all my readers know that I’m a committed opera fan, so I was sorry not to be able to share my thoughts about one of the most important productions I’ve ever experienced at …

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Filed Under: Music, Personal History Tagged With: Akhnaten (opera), Bridges (J'nai), Costanzo (Anthony Roth), Egypt, Gandini (Sean), Glass (Philip), Jugglers (in opera), Kamensek (Karen), McDermott (Phelim), Metropolitan Opera Organization

The Met’s Porgy and Bess Revisited

January 14, 2020 By Guy St. Clair Leave a Comment

In October, when I wrote about the Met’s new production of The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, I was pretty sure I would be writing about it again. There was more I wanted to say about this important New York event, and now that it is into its second set of performances this season, this seems …

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Filed Under: Music, Personal History Tagged With: Boito (Arrigo), Freed, Gershwin (George), Gershwin (Ira), Mahler (Gustav), Mefistofele (opera), Metropolitan Opera Association, National Symphony Orchestra, Noble (T. Tertius), Porgy and Bess (Opera), Richard, St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue (New York)

Remembering Jessye Norman

December 23, 2019 By Guy St. Clair Leave a Comment

It seems appropriate, at this special time of year, to remember Jessye Norman. The great opera singer died on September 30. The news – including many fine obituaries – has been almost overwhelming in conveying the admiration so many felt for this lady and her special talent. Yet some of us found ourselves delaying our …

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Filed Under: Music, Personal History Tagged With: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Berlioz (Hector), Christmastide, Confrérie des chevaliers du Tastevin, Cooper (Michael), Diva (film), Ely Cathedral, Ford Foundation, Fraser (Donald), Girl Scouts, Jessye Norman School of the Arts, McCulloch (Jane), Metropolitan Opera Association, Norman (Jessye), Paris 200th Anniversary Celebration, Rose (Michael), Smith (Anna Deavere), The Met on Demand

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