Back to the Met: I’ll let Mr. Tommasini describe the singing (splendid – no disagreement there!). I’ll share my thoughts about several wonderful highlights, including Nico Muhly’s “Two Boys,” a fresh and very modern spooky story set to a lovely score. Muhly writes in a wide-variety of “styles” and I’m especially taken with his choral …
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Opera: Risë Stevens – June 11, 1913-March 20, 2013
Ah yes. Dear Risë Stevens. While she had retired from the Metropolitan Opera long before I moved to New York, she was nevertheless part of my music education. Have no idea where the recording might be now, but when I was the sweetest boy soprano in town, Mrs. Nell Perry – my voice teacher …
Life in New York: Our Recent Cultural Marathon
Photo: New York City Ballet New Yorkers like to joke about having the luxury of being able to handle the many cultural offerings available to them by spreading them out over a period of time. Not for us those cultural marathons out-of-town visitors undertake, those too many events crammed into too few days. (Still, truth …
New York Music – Gerre Hancock
This is being written on Saturday morning, February 4, as I listen to the Solemn Requiem for Gerre Hancock, Organist and Choirmaster as St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, a musical establishment that played a long and important role in my avocational life. Slightly indisposed, I cannot attend the service, so I am extremely grateful to …
Ten Years Later
The New York Philharmonic seemed to set the stage for me. Like most New Yorkers, I was approaching this anniversary with a slight sense of trepidation. After 9/11, people throughout the world had been greatly sympathetic and supportive to the citizens of New York, Washington, and that tiny community in Pennsylvania where the fourth airplane …
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