Podcasts about Gian Carlo Menotti

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2023 56:43

Today I revisit the artistry of the great Patricia Neway (1919-2012), a singer of extraordinary versatility, dramatic power, and musical sensibility. She is no doubt most famous for two of her Broadway creations: the role of the beleaguered Magda Sorel in Gian Carlo Menotti's tragic opera The Consul, first produced on Broadway in 1950, and of the Mother Abbess in Rodgers and Hammerstein's final musical, 1959's The Sound of Music. But the genesis for this episode was my recent discovery of her rare 1953 album of Italian art songs. Her voice was an unusual one, dusky yet capable of extraordinary colors, chiaroscuro, leggerezza, and agility, all of which are foregrounded in the aforementioned album of songs by Bellini, Verdi, and Mascagni. I also include a few brief excerpts of Neway singing material ranging from a sacred cantata by Buxtehude to settings of texts by James Joyce to a refined yet playful rendition of “My Favorite Things.” Of which she is definitely one! The episode opens with a tribute to James Jorden, who died on October 3. Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel's lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” At Countermelody's core is the celebration of great singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. By clicking on the following link (https://linktr.ee/CountermelodyPodcast) you can find the dedicated Countermelody website which contains additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. The link will also take you to Countermelody's Patreon page, where you can pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford. Bonus episodes available exclusively to Patreon supporters are currently available and further bonus content including interviews and livestreams is planned for the upcoming season.

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Un Día Como Hoy 7 de Julio

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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2023 14:45

Un Día Como hoy 7 de julio: Nace: 1859: Robert Demachy, fotógrafo francés (f. 1936). 1860: Gustav Mahler, compositor austríaco (f. 1911). 1887: Marc Chagall, pintor bielorruso (f. 1985). 1901: Vittorio De Sica, cineasta y actor italiano (f. 1974). 1911: Gian Carlo Menotti, compositor ítaloestadounidense (f. 2007). Fallece: 1930: Arthur Conan Doyle, novelista escocés (n. 1859). Conducido por Joel Almaguer. Una producción de Sala Prisma Podcast. 2023

Music by and about telephones

Composers Datebook

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2023 2:00

Synopsis On today's date in 1947, Gian Carlo Menotti's opera, The Telephone premiered at the Heckscher Theater in New York. The story involves a young man who keeps trying to propose to his girlfriend, but, well, she's always on the phone. So the young man, deciding "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em," goes to the corner and from a pay-phone calls in his marriage proposal! Now, these days, he would probably have just used his cell phone. A welcome convenience in most circumstances, cell-phones have become the bane of concert halls, interrupting musical performances with unwelcome beeps and those annoying little melodies. One young American composer, Golan Levin, has even composed a 30-minute work titled Dialtones: A Telesymphony, scored for 200 cell-phones. Levin spend nearly a year working out the technology that would download customized sounds to cell-phones placed in the audience and allow them be played on cue. 200 members of the audience for the premiere were asked to bring their phones and register their numbers before the performance of the 3-movement work. Some audience members reportedly felt guilty when their phones rang, even though they were supposed to, and one of the "performers" confessed that he was jealous that the woman seated next to him was called more frequently than he was! Hmmm... that might make a good storyline for a sequel to Menotti's opera! Music Played in Today's Program Gian Carlo Menotti (b. 1911) excerpt, from The Telephone New York Chamber Ensemble; Stephen Rogers Radcliffe, conductor. Albany 173

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Episode 184. Eugene Holmes (Black History Month 2023)

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2023 81:41

Eugene Holmes (1932 – 2007), baritone supreme, should be remembered as one of the most significant voices of the Twentieth Century and a Black singer on a par with the most revered and celebrated. Though he participated in the creation of some important work (including by Gian Carlo Menotti, Gunther Schuller, and Frederick Delius), and performed with San Francisco Opera, the Wiener Staatsoper, New York City Opera, and the Metropolitan Opera Regional Company, his career remained centered for more than thirty years at his home company, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. The rare recorded documents that we have of Eugene Holmes, including two self-produced LPs of spirituals and three different recordings of Delius's rare opera Koanga (two of them live), reveal a voice of rare magnitude, range, power, and sensitivity, qualities which made him one of the premier Verdi baritones of his day. But due to a number of factors, including his modesty and his unwillingness to travel far from home, he did not achieve the international recognition that he deserved. I have pulled together all of the recorded material of Eugene Holmes that I could find, and present excerpts from these varied sources. Guest vocalists appearing opposite Holmes include sopranos Claudia Lindsey, Gwyneth Jones, and Barbara Carter, and tenors János B. Nagy and Giorgio Aristo. In the production of this podcast, I was greatly aided by reminiscences provided by his colleagues Bonita Hyman, the German-based African American mezzo-soprano; Stephen Harrison, the retired musical director of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein; and Heribert Klein, member of the committee of UNICEF Deutschland, an organization to which Eugene Holmes was deeply committed. Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel's lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” At Countermelody's core is the celebration of great singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. By clicking on the following link (https://linktr.ee/CountermelodyPodcast) you can find the dedicated Countermelody website which contains additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. The link will also take you to Countermelody's Patreon page, where you can pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford. Bonus episodes available exclusively to Patreon supporters are currently available and further bonus content including interviews and livestreams is planned for the upcoming season.

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Un Día Como Hoy 1 de febrero

Seattle Mennonite Church Sermons

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2023 9:23

Un día como hoy, 1 de febrero: Nace: 1459: Conrad Celtis, poeta alemán. 1690: Francesco María Veracini, violinista y compositor italiano. 1801: Thomas Cole, pintor estadounidense de origen británico. 1874: Hugo von Hofmannsthal, escritor austríaco. 1894: John Ford, cineasta estadounidense. 1901: Clark Gable, actor estadounidense. 1922: Renata Tebaldi, soprano italiana. 1963: Takashi Murakami, artista japonés. Fallece: 1851: Mary Shelley, escritora británica. 1851: Mary Shelley, escritora británica. 1966: Buster Keaton, actor y cineasta cómico estadounidense. 2007: Gian Carlo Menotti, compositor ítalo-estadounidense. 2012: Wisława Szymborska, poetisa polaca, premio nobel de Literatura en 1996. Conducido por Joel Almaguer Una producción de Sala Prisma Podcast. 2023

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They Spoke Not a Word, but, Got Right to Work

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2023 32:48

Magi from the East, travel (for two years) guided by a significant astrological event. Along the way (in the opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors) they stop at the home of a poor widow and her son; before finding their way to the chaotic home of Mary, the harried mother of toddler Jesus in Dustin's dramatic interpretation of the familiar tale.Paralleling that energetic telling of the journey of the Magi with the somber story of the small French town of Dieulefit, who sheltered and saved its Jewish community from the Holocaust, Dustin calls on us to listen for the silent messengers.Sermon begins at minute marker 9:10Scripture: Isaiah 60.1-6, 11; Matthew 2.1-12Image: https://holymassimages.blogspot.com/Hymns: Voices Together 267 & 268, What Child is This, music, traditional English, words, William C. Dix Christmas Carols New and Old, 1871, and Child of the Poor, words and music - ©1994 OCP Contributors: Scott R Soper, Greensleeves, Scott Soper. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.ResourcesA Woman's Lectionary for the Whole Church (Year W): A Multi-Gospel Single-Year Lectionary, Wilda C. Gafney, Church Publishing Incorporated, 2021.Menotti, Gian Carlo, Frances Frost, and Roger Duvoisin. Gian-Carlo Menotti's Amahl and The Night Visitors. Andrew Dakers Ltd., 1953. Obituary: Gian Carlo Menotti, The Daily Telegraph, February 2, 2007.Barnes, Jennifer. Television Opera: The Fall of Opera Commissioned for Television. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 2015.

Bizet and Menotti on TV in the 1950s

Composers Datebook

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2022 2:00

Synopsis On this day in 1952, thirty-one theaters nationwide offered the first pay-per view Met opera telecast. This was a regularly-scheduled performance of Bizet's Carmen broadcast live from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, featuring Risë Stevens in the title role and Fritz Reiner conducting. The performance was relayed to the theaters by means of a closed TV circuit.* Beginning in 1948, the Metropolitan Opera had experimented with live telecasts of their opening night performances, but relatively few people in the U.S. owned TV sets at the time. By 1952, most American households had TVs, but the Met's manager, Rudolf Bing, was dead-set against any further FREE telecasts. The 1952 pay-per-view experiment was not successful, and it wasn't until 1976—after Bing had resigned—that live telecasts of Metropolitan Opera performances resumed on public television. The most successful of all commercial telecasts of a live opera performance occurred in 1951, when, on Christmas Eve that year, NBC-TV broadcast Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian-Carlo Menotti on Christmas. NBC's black and white kinescope recording of that premiere performance was broadcast annually for a number of years—until it was accidentally erased by a network employee.** Although Amahl is no longer an annual visitor to television, it is still staged this time of year by amateur and professional opera companies around the world. *Currently the Metropolitan Opera offers a series of live opera performances transmitted in high-definition video via satellite from Lincoln Center in New York City to select venues, primarily movie theaters, in the United States and other parts of the world. The first transmission was of a condensed English-language version of Mozart's The Magic Flute on December 30, 2006. **One surviving copy of the original kinescope did surface in a California archive, and was shown at broadcast museums on both coasts in 2001 to celebrate the work's 50th anniversary. Music Played in Today's Program Georges Bizet (1838-1875) Carmen Suite No. 1 Orchestre National de France; Seiji Ozawa, conductor. EMI 63898 Giancarlo Menotti (b. 1911) March, from Amahl and the Night Visitors New Zealand Symphony; Andrew Schenck, conductor. Koch 7005

Kennedy Center Honors

Words to Live By Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2022 24:20

Every December, Americans celebrate their memorable cultural icons when the Kennedy Center bestows its annual honors to those in the performing arts for their lifetime contributions. Since 1978, the Honors have been presented annually each December to five honorees followed by a gala celebration. The original strategy was that these unique individuals were people who have contributed to society, not someone who happens to have a pop record hit at the moment. The intention was not to do just another award show. Do you recall the first host? It was Leonard Bernstein in 1978. And the White House got involved by inviting the Honorees first to the White House for an initial presentation by the President. For 2022, who are the Honorees? Well, George Clooney, Amy Grant, Gladys Knight, Tania Leon and U2. In this podcast, we'll focus on two ceremonies held at the White House. The first, 40 years ago in 1982 honored George Abbott, Eugene Ormandy, Lillian Gish, Benny Goodman, and Gene Kelly. Then, in the second half of the podcast, the President honored in 1984, Lena Horne, Arthur Miller, Gian Carlo Menotti, Isaac Stern and Danny Kaye. And in the second half of the podcast, I'll share a bit about those who were offered the honor but declined.

Episode 168. The Haunted (Opera) House

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2022 69:02

This week's episode celebrates Halloween while at the same time initiating my new ongoing series on Twentieth Century Opera. From Dvořák's Rusalka, premiered in Prague in 1901, through Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles, premiered in New York in 1991, there is a wealth of operatic material, some barely remembered today, that touches upon various aspects of the occult, be that witches, devils, exorcisms, demonic possessions, or those that conjure the dead. Alongside the aforementioned works, this episode also features work by Benjamin Britten, Gian Carlo Menotti, Igor Stravinsky, Ferruccio Busoni, Franz Schreker, Serge Prokofiev, Ottorino Respighi, and Krzysztof Penderecki, performed by Teresa Stratas. Tatiana Troyanos, George Shirley, Anna Moffo, Mack Harrell, Maralin Niska, Gwendolyn Killebrew, Jane Rhodes, and others in performances recorded between 1949 and… nearly yesterday. Some of it is folksy, some humorous, some creepy, some horrific, but it is peopled by characters that either haunt or are haunted. Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel's lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” At Countermelody's core is the celebration of great singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. By clicking on the following link (https://linktr.ee/CountermelodyPodcast) you can find the dedicated Countermelody website which contains additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. The link will also take you to Countermelody's Patreon page, where you can pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford. Bonus episodes available exclusively to Patreon supporters are currently available and further bonus content including interviews and livestreams is planned for the upcoming season.

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Episode 152. Patricia Neway

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2022 76:07

Today begins a new summer series on Countermelody, celebrating mid-century music-making in New York City between the years 1950 and 1975. We begin with a celebration of Patricia Neway (1919-2012), one of the towering figures of the operatic – and Broadway – stages. Two of her greatest assumptions, in fact, took place on the Broadway stage: Magda Sorel in Gian Carlo Menotti's opera The Consul, which premiered on Broadway in 1950, and the Mother Abbess in Rodgers and Hammerstein's final stage music, The Sound of Music, for which Neway was awarded the 1960 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Neway combined an unusual voice of startling, sometimes raw, power, with an acting ability rarely seen, especially on the operatic stage. Neway's range easily encompassed contralto roles as well as dramatic soprano parts. This episode features audio excerpts from rare kinescopes of her performances of Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites as Menotti's Maria Golovin, as well as her galvanizing portrayal of Magda Sorel from a 1960 film. She also displays her stunning musical versatility in music by Buxtehude, Barber, Gluck, and the late Carlisle Floyd, as well as settings by Israel Citkowitz, John Gruen, and Thomas de Hartmann of texts by James Joyce from a rare 1959 recording. In addition, I dispel forever the fake news, all pervasive claims to the contrary, that Patricia Neway and someone named Frances Breeze, an exact contemporary of Neway's, are one and the same person. Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel's lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” At Countermelody's core is the celebration of great singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. By clicking on the following link (https://linktr.ee/CountermelodyPodcast) you can find the dedicated Countermelody website which contains additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. The link will also take you to Countermelody's Patreon page, where you can pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford. Bonus episodes available exclusively to Patreon supporters are currently available and further bonus content including interviews and livestreams is planned for the upcoming season.

Tobias Picker

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2022 57:49

In this eighth episode, composer Tobias Picker reflects on his affinity for Johannes Brahms, his childhood correspondence with Gian Carlo Menotti, and his body of work including Old and Lost Rivers. He also talks about his operatic adaptation of Oliver Sacks' Awakenings and its haunting resonance with the pandemic of our own time. This Capricorn Conversation is a companion to director H. Paul Moon's concert film that includes the composer himself on piano, as seen at: https://vimeo.com/hpmoon/tobiaspickerSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/capricorn/donations

Menotti's TV opera

Composers Datebook

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2021 2:00

Synopsis On Christmas Eve in 1951, NBC television broadcast live the world premiere performance of Gian Carlo Menotti's opera, “Amahl and the Night Visitors.” Now, for decades the kinescope recording of that original live transmission was thought to be lost, but miraculously, a copy resurfaced just in time for Amahl's 50th anniversary and was shown at the Museum of Television and Radio in Beverly Hills in December of 2001. On the broadcast, the dapper Mr. Menotti can be seen introducing the new work, confessing that NBC had commissioned the opera in 1950, but its wasn't until the Thanksgiving of 1951 that he actually began working on it, inspired by the painting “The Adoration of the Magi,” which he saw at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. In fact, Menotti was working on his new score right up to the last minute, delivering it bit by bit to the performers prior to its premiere. The opera proved a hit, and for the next five years became an annual live holiday broadcast on NBC. NBC continued to air “Amahl” occasionally through the 1970s, but by that time it had become an established seasonal tradition for both professional and amateur performers coast to coast. Music Played in Today's Program Gian Carlo Menotti (1911 - 2007) — Amahl and the Night Visitors Suite (The New Zealand Symphony; Andrew Schenck, cond.) Koch 7005

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Steven Mercurio

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2021 120:12

In this sixth episode, Maestro Steven Mercurio talks about his emergence as a composer and conductor, and his intersections with mid-20th century American composers including David Del Tredici, Lukas Foss, John Corigliano, and Gian Carlo Menotti leading to his tenure at the Spoleto Festival. Steven addresses the climate of music today, offering hope around politics and the pandemic.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/capricorn/donations

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Un Día Como Hoy 7 de Julio

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2021 14:45

Un Día Como Hoy 7 de Julio: Nace: 1859: Robert Demachy, fotógrafo francés (f. 1936). 1860: Gustav Mahler, compositor austríaco (f. 1911). 1887: Marc Chagall, pintor bielorruso (f. 1985). 1901: Vittorio De Sica, cineasta y actor italiano (f. 1974). 1911: Gian Carlo Menotti, compositor ítaloestadounidense (f. 2007). Fallece: 1930: Arthur Conan Doyle, novelista escocés (n. 1859). Una producción de Sala Prisma Podcast. 2021

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Episode 78. Twentieth Century Pioneers (Black History Month 2021 VI)

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2021 99:15

To round off #BlackHistoryMonth2021, I bring you an array of artists singing a wide range of 20th Century repertoire. Included are singers who have previously been featured in full episodes (including Lawrence Winters, Gloria Davy, Charles Holland, and Carol Brice), legendary favorites (including Leontyne Price, Martina Arroyo, Roberta Alexander, and Barbara Hendricks), important concert singers (including Adele Addison and Betty Allen), lesser-known artists (including Helen Thipgen, Martha Flowers, William Pearson, Mareda Gaither, and Olive Moorefield), and iconic singers (including Jessye Norman, Kathleen Battle, and Christiane Eda-Pierre) for whom important new work was created by Judith Weir, André Previn, and Charles Chaynes. The range of composers represented is equally vast and includes Leonard Bernstein, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Virgil Thomson, Michael Tippett, Lee Hoiby, Shulamit Ran, Gian Carlo Menotti, Judith Weir, Paul Bowles, Lukas Foss, and David Del Tredici. with special attention given to African American composers Margaret Bonds, Howard Swanson, William Grant Still, Hall Johnson, and Robert Nathaniel Dett. In other words: something for everyone and just a foretaste of future Countermelody programs that will continue to celebrate the contributions of African American singers. Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel’s lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” Occasional guests from the “business” (singers, conductors, composers, coaches, and teachers) lend their distinctive insights. At Countermelody’s core is the interaction between singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. At Countermelody’s core is the interaction between singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. Please visit the Countermelody website (www.countermelodypodcast.com) for additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. And please head to my Patreon page at www.patreon.com/countermelody to pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford. Bonus episodes available only to Patreon supporters are currently available.

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Un Día Como Hoy 1 de Febrero

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2021 9:23

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Episode 13 - 1955:Gian Carlo Menotti, The Saint of Bleecker Street

Hearing The Pulitzers

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2021 37:08

In this episode, Dave and Andrew explore the first repeat winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Music. We covered Gian Carlo Menotti's The Consul in Episode 8 and now he's back again with The Saint of Bleecker Street. We were generally favorable toward The Consul, finding it an effective, if derivative opera. Will Menotti score another hit with this story of a young woman who displays the stigmata? If you're interested in The Saint of Bleecker Street, we recommend: The original Broadway cast recording from 1954 The TV movie version of the opera, broadcast on NBC in 1955 We also recommend exploring the Spoleto festival a bit more, both the Festival of Two Worlds held in Spoleto, Italy and the Spoleto Festival hosted in Charleston, South Carolina, USA.

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MOZART P138 The music of GIAN CARLO MENOTTI

Society Bytes Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2020 28:26

MOZART, BEETHOVEN & MAS continues our series with USA composers in the 20th century, presenting the music of GIAN CARLO MENOTTI, the most important opera composer in the United States.

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2020 28:26

MOZART, BEETHOVEN & MAS continues our series with USA composers in the 20th century, presenting the music of GIAN CARLO MENOTTI, the most important opera composer in the United States.

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Mayflower Christmas Cantata - PDF

Mayflower Church

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2020

Sunday Morning Worship at 10:30am featuring Mayflower's Christmas Cantata presentation of Gian-Carlo Menotti's - Amahl and the Night Visitors. A virtual presentation during Sunday Morning Worship featuring Mayflower Chancel and Youth Choirs in collaboration with Grand Rapids Choir of Men and Boys and Grand Rapids Symphony musicians -- streaming online at MayflowerChurch.org Produced by Dr. Julia Brown, Mayflower Director of Music / Directed by Scott Bosscher, Mayflower Director of Chancel Choir Cast: Ben Zuzelski, Amahl; Emily Smith, Mother; William Potts, Kaspar; Bill Bokhout, Melchior; Joshua Ledesma, Balthazar; Ryan Potts, Page Supporting Cast:

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Phebe Berkowitz-Tanners grew up in the Central City Opera House. Her family made a second home in our magical, old western town during the summers of 1953-1963 when her father, Metropolitan Opera violist David Berkowitz, played the Festival season with the Central City Opera Orchestra. Now a dedicated supporter of the company, Phebe reminisces with CCO Director of Development Katie Nicholson about mounting backyard opera productions with other children of the Festival company (attended by famous singers and actors of the main stage!), experiencing the world premiere of The Ballad of Baby Doe from behind the scenes and the expansive and international Central City Opera community that she found throughout her career as an opera stage director and production professional. Guest host Katherine (Katie) Nicholson was recently featured on the Central City Opera blog, take a read get to know her better! Those of you watching the video version of this interview will notice the poster for Central City Opera’s Voice Your Dreams Endowment Campaign behind Katie. If you want to learn more and/or contribute to the Campaign to help our company endure long into the future, contact Katie at knicholson@centralcityopera.org or 303-331-7015! Special thanks to Central City Opera Office Administrator Wanda M. Larson who’s helped us keep in close contact with our guest, Phebe, throughout the years and continues to show her passion for unforgettable Central City Opera experiences and community. You’ll probably recognize her if you’ve been up to the summer Festival, she’s the Gift Shop Admin/Buyer, too! Historical preservation is a pillar of Central City Opera’s mission. Learn about the dozens of historic properties we own and maintain. Explore more Central City history, and even schedule a tour at www.gilpinhistory.org. “The famous ghost town” of Nevadaville is just up the street from Central City. Learn more about it at www.uncovercolorado.com. Like many patrons and visitors, Phebe mentions paranormal experiences in and around our properties. Have you encountered something ghostly in Central City? Phebe talks about many exciting moments and incredible figures from Central City Opera, including: Phebe spent her first summer at Central City Opera in 1953, the production was Bizet’s Carmen. She was 7 and her sister was 9. They fell in love with the music, sitting in on every rehearsal, and they began the tradition of performing their own versions of the season’s operas in their backyard with the other children of the Festival company. They’d string up a sheet to make a stage curtain, and star actors and singers would even come to see their shows! According to Phebe, these “parodies” and performances went on to inspire the tradition of our famous singing ushers. You’ll hear the famous Risë Stevens recording of Carmen that Phebe and her sister loved so much as background music during this podcast. Wonderful performers Phebe recalls knowing as a child—some of whom attended her backyard productions—were Julie Harris, Tammy Grimes, Shirley Booth, Arlene Saunders. One of Phebe’s favorite memories of Central City Opera was the world premiere of The Ballad of Baby Doe in 1956. She was 10 years old at the time, and she remembers all the excitement and artistry of composer Douglas Moore, librettist John La Touche, director and renowned choreographer Hanya Holm, director Edwin Levy and starring sopranos Dolores Wilson and Leyna Gabriele, all working together on this brand new opera. Read more about Baby Doe Tabor as a historical figure and the opera based on her life on the Central City Opera blog! Cyril Richard—perhaps best remembered as Captain Hook in the Mary Martin musical production of Peter Pan—played Don Andres in La Perichole at Central City Opera in 1958. Phebe talks about how he kindly reassured her little brother, who had made a loud mistake on stage while playing a non-singing role in the production. Over her summers at Central City Opera, Phebe memorized 17 operas along with the other children. “It was incredible musical education,” she says, “it was all about the music.” Phebe points out, “in those days all the operas [in Central City] were performed in English.” Throughout history it’s been common practice for operas to be adapted to the vernacular of the place they’re being performed. In recent years—especially in the United States—operas are more commonly performed in their original language. Wonder where the performance trends in this 400-year-old artform will take us next! Since various opera companies and orchestras perform during different times of the year, many musicians play in multiple ensembles like Phebe’s dad. For instance many orchestra members at Central City Opera also played with the Metropolitan Opera, and today our orchestra shares many musicians with the Colorado Symphony. The Berkowitz family stayed in a historic house that, during those years, was named after Gypsy Rose Lee (1911-1970). Famous for her burlesque act, Lee was also an actor, author, playwright and all-around fascinating figure that inspired and captured the kids’ imagination. As an adult, Phebe went on to build a career as an opera director and production professional, herself. Learn more about some of the figures and references she makes in this interview: She snagged a job as an intern in makeup and costumes with Hamburg State Opera as a young woman. As she was such a keen observer during rehearsals, Gian Carlo Menotti—the composer of the world-premiere production of Help, Help, the Globolinks! they were producing—asked her to call the light cues. Even with her very limited German vocabulary, she was up to the task! After that, Hamburg State Opera Artistic Director Rolf Liebermann hired her on as lighting stage manager. Later, he took Phebe with him as a stage director when he joined Paris Opera as Artistic Director. Phebe enjoyed many years as a part of the Metropolitan Opera Company, as an assistant stage director, director for revivals and Executive Stage Director (1974-2016). Her time with the Met Opera began when August Everding brought her along as his personal assistant for Tristan und Isolde (1971), which was Rudolf Bing’s last new production. Central City Opera Artistic Director Emeritus John Moriarty is also a close friend and mentor to Phebe. While they didn’t cross paths at CCO, he taught her to stage manage at Lake George Opera—now Opera Saratoga—where they worked together for three years. Read Phebe’s general bio at centralcityopera.org/opera-central Join Phebe in supporting the community and artistry of Central City Opera for many years to come. Find all kinds of ways to donate at centralcityopera.org/support-us Thanks for listening! Musical excerpts featured in this podcast: Carmen by Georges Bizet. Mezzo-soprano Risë Stevens (1913-2013) sings the Act 1 “Habanera.” Recording with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in approximately 1948 and conducted by Erich Leinsdorf. The Ballad of Baby Doe by Douglas Moore, Act 1, Scene 2 “Willow Song.” Recorded in 1959 at the New York City Opera Company with soprano Beverly Sills (1929 – 2007) as Baby Doe and Walter Cassel (1910-2000) as Horace Tabor. Conducted by Emerson Buckley (1916-1989). (Cassel and Buckley were part of the original 1956 production at Central City Opera in these same roles.) The Girl of the Golden West by Giacomo Puccini, Act 1 with soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek as Minnie and tenor Yusif Eyvazov as Dick Johnson. Recorded at the Metropolitan Opera and featured on PBS’s Great Performances.

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Episode 58: 14058 Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors

Classical Music Discoveries

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2020 57:15

Amahl and the Night Visitors is an opera in one act by Gian Carlo Menotti with an original English libretto by the composer. It was commissioned by NBC and first performed by the NBC Opera Theatre on December 24, 1951, in New York City at NBC studio 8H in Rockefeller Center, where it was broadcast live on television from that venue as the debut production of the Hallmark Hall of Fame. It was the first opera specifically composed for television in America. Purchase the music (without talk) for only $2.99 at: http://www.classicalsavings.com/store/p1050/14058_Menotti%3A_Amahl_and_the_Night_Visitors.html Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock #ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive #LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans #CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain #ClassicalMusicLivesOn #Uber Support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4186107 staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com

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Diane Wittry Interview

American Muse

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2020 46:31

Named one of the top 30 musicians worldwide by Musical America, conductor Diane Wittry joins us on this episode to discuss David Diamond, Gian Carlo Menotti, and Lowell Lieberman.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/american-muse-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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"S" is for Spoleto

South Carolina from A to Z

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2020 1:00

"S" is for Spoleto. In 1977, the composer Gian Carlo Menotti, backed by the National Endowment for the Arts, chose Charleston as the home for the American counterpart of his festival in Spoleto, Italy. He ran the festival himself. When he angrily pulled out in 1993, few thought that the festival would survive. It nearly did not. But by the turn of the twenty-first century, Spoleto was flourishing. It developed a substantial endowment and an even more substantial reputation for quality, variety, innovation, and, not least, for nurturing young artists. It offered more than 120 performances, and its companion festival Piccolo Spoleto, run by the city, added more than 700 events—most of them inexpensive or free. Annually, Spoleto attracts more than 150,000 visitors and generates millions of dollars in economic output in South Carolina.

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Episode 51. Legitimate Broadway (Crossover Classics VII)

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2020 114:09

Today’s topic is operetta and opera on Broadway. From the early days of the Great White Way, a large amount of the musical theatre repertoire was actually operetta. I begin with a discussion of the composers of such operettas (Victor Herbert, Rudolf Friml, and Sigmund Romberg, with a significant nod to Jerome Kern as well) and the singers who appeared in those works. Then I present an array of works adapted from the classical repertoire (primarily Wright and Forrest’s Song of Norway and Kismet), followed by examples of that curious hybrid, Broadway opera, including Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Medium and The Consul; Marc Blitzstein’s Regina; Frank Loesser’s The Most Happy Fella; Kurt Weill and Langston Hughes’s Street Scene; and Leonard Bernstein’s Candide. A wide range of singers is included, some celebrated (Lotte Lenya, Patricia Neway, Barbara Cook, Marta Eggerth, Lawrence Tibbett), some less so (Helena Scott, Lee Venora, Fritzi Scheff, Robert Rounseville), the careers of some of whom stretch back to the beginning of the century, but all singers which straddled the fence between musicals, operetta, and opera. But rest assured: this is no dry history lesson: it’s a fast-paced romp through a fun and fascinating topic! Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel’s lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” Occasional guests from the “business” (singers, conductors, composers, coaches, and teachers) lend their distinctive insights. At Countermelody’s core is the interaction between singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. Please visit the Countermelody website (www.countermelodypodcast.com) for additional content. And please head to our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/countermelody to pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford. Bonus episodes available only to Patreon supporters are currently available!

A Program for Gay Pride Weekend

Arias and Songs | WFMT

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2020 58:34

For a special one-hour program beginning at 4:30pm, Larry showcases the talents of gay composers Gian Carlo Menotti, Reynaldo Hahn, and Michael Tippett. Also featured are Peter Pears, Nathan Lane, Josephine Baker, Donald Gramm, and pianists, Earl Wild, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and more. The post A Program for Gay Pride Weekend appeared first on WFMT.

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Episode 8 - 1950: Gian Carlo Menotti, The Consul

Hearing The Pulitzers

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2020 34:32

In this episode, Dave and Andrew explore the winner of the eighth Pulitzer Prize in Music, Gian Carlo Menotti for his opera The Consul. In the middle part of the 20th century, Menotti was one of the most famous composers in America, particularly after his perennial Christmas favorite Amahl and the Night Visitors premiered on December 24, 1951, as the first opera composed for television. The Consul was one of his most celebrated operas during his lifetime and the first opera to receive the Pulitzer, but does it still resonate today? If you'd like to learn more about Menotti, we recommend: Donald Hixon's Bio-Bibliography on Menotti (Greenwood Press, 2000) A wonderful interview with Menotti from 1997 conducted by Gene Brooks The Youtube channel of the Gian Carlo Menotti Archive where you can discover historical recordings of Menotti's works and interviews from many connected to his life and work A performance of the opera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekrx98zKnk0

Premierenkritik: "Der Konsul" am Theater Augsburg

Klassik aktuell

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2020 4:50

Laut den Vereinten Nationen waren Ende 2018 über 70 Millionen Menschen auf der Flucht. Vor politischer Verfolgung zu fliehen ist kein neues Thema: Auch im Theater und der Oper gab es schon vor Jahrzehnten Stücke darüber. Eines davon ist "Der Konsul" von Gian Carlo Menotti, eine selten aufgeführte Oper aus dem Jahr 1950. Am 1. Februar hatte eine neue Inszenierung am Staatstheater Augsburg Premiere.

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The Morning Show - 1/10/20 Amahl & the Night Visitors

WGTD's The Morning Show with Greg Berg

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2020 22:59

Nick Barootian, artistic director of Racine's Belle Ensemble, talks about the group's production of Gian Carlo Menotti's beloved Christmas opera "Amahl and the Night Visitors," which will be performed tonight (Friday) at the DeKoven Center in their Great Hall. n

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047 James VanDemark: Technical Discipline & Interpretive Magic

The Mind Over Finger Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2019 55:08

047 James VanDemark: Technical Discipline & Interpretive Magic This episode is full of inspiration and extremely useful information! Eastman School of Music Bass Professor, James VanDemark, offers us tip after great tip to bring our practice and performance to the next level! Among many topics, James talks to us about creating a technical discipline that leads to interpretive magic, and about on how crucial it is to have clear goals and setting the intention to build up our entire identity as an artist whenever we enter the practice room. He elaborates on the importance of: using the bow in an imaginative way (having the bow be an extension of our imagination) while having a left hand that is as immaculate as can be acutely playing in the present moment establishing a great basic posture slow practice using the mirror having interpretation be at the center of the technical work create the concert experience in the practice room ear training - through listening to recording actively and with imagination, and through exercises having a schedule, have a clear intent, and be kind to others MORE ABOUT JAMES: Eastman School of Music: https://www.esm.rochester.edu/faculty/james-vandemark/ YouTube Videos: Here Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bassfilm1/ "Some people seemed destined to lead unconventional lives, and James VanDemark is certainly one of them," said the New York Times in the first of its three profiles on VanDemark. Performer, academic, boxer, producer, and entrepreneur - these are the principal roles VanDemark has successfully played in a highly diverse career spanning nearly four decades. VanDemark's arts and culture projects have been featured in the New York Times, Connoisseur Magazine, on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, the BBC, CBC, NPR, and in many other media outlets around the world. In considerable demand as a speaker on entrepreneurial skills at colleges across the United States and Canada, VanDemark has also received great acclaim for his frequent role as narrator with many prominent symphony orchestras, including more than 40 performances with the Rochester Philharmonic and 15 with the Texas Festival Orchestra. Appointed to the Eastman School of Music at the age of 23, VanDemark was the youngest faculty member ever appointed to a professorial position at a major American music school. His students perform in many of the world's great orchestras – the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic, Buffalo Philharmonic, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Tokyo Chamber Orchestra, Singapore Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic – and many more. His students have also been nominated for—and won—numerous Grammy awards in various categories, including classical, contemporary, jazz, and bluegrass. VanDemark's students have also held positions at major music schools, including Indiana University, Oberlin Conservatory, Eastman School of Music, Louisiana State University, Carnegie-Mellon, Peabody Conservatory, University of Delaware, NYU's Steinhardt School of Music, Michigan State University, University of Colorado, University of Alabama, University of Tennessee, and many others. VanDemark's performing career has included solo appearances with the New York Philharmonic, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, National Symphony of Mexico, Netherlands Radio Symphony, Symphony Nova Scotia, Minnesota Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, and many more. Chamber music appearances have included the Cleveland, Guarneri, Muir, Colorado and Ying Quartets, the Gryphon Trio, violinist Yehudi Menuhin, as well as legendary pianists Andre Watts, Alfred Brendel, and Gary Graffman. VanDemark has also been featured on Lincoln Center's “Great Performers Series” on three occasions, including in recital with Andre Watts. VanDemark is also the recipient of commissioned works by many composers, including three Pulitzer Prize winners: Gian-Carlo Menotti, Joseph Schwantner, and Christopher Rouse. As a founding member of Square Peg Entertainment, VanDemark developed and represented screenplays and properties of Oscar winners Ernest Thompson, Horton Foote, Eiko Ishioka, Ron Harwood, Oscar nominee Hesper Anderson, Stu Silver, Paul Theroux, and many others. VanDemark also developed the World War I story CODE BROTHERS for CTV (Toronto), THE WAYNE AND SUE SHOW for Tribune Entertainment, produced the album and music video THE GIFT with singer Linda Eder for Atlantic Records, and with television legend Sir David Frost, developed the Frederick Forsyth novella THE SHEPHERD in conjunction with Shaftesbury Films (Toronto). VanDemark also co-produced and cast SPEAK LOW, the highly successful Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Gala featuring Jerry Orbach, Donna Murphy, Duncan Sheik, and other stars of Broadway and the Metropolitan Opera in the music of Kurt Weill. VanDemark has also served as Music Supervisor for John Cougar Mellencamp's film, AFTER IMAGE. Acclaimed for his extensive work in the Native American community, VanDemark commissioned and developed the Native collaborative musical work CIRCLE OF FAITH, profiled in The New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Detroit Free Press, Minneapolis Star and Tribune, Denver Post, Lakota Times, and on NPR's Morning Edition. VanDemark has helped produce more than 40 performances of the work in the United States and Canada. As an accomplished amateur boxer, VanDemark was recently profiled on the front page of The Wall Street Journal, The Strad, on CBC's "Q," WNYC's "Soundcheck," and was featured at length on ESPN's E-60. VanDemark's conditioning and boxing program for students, musicians, and the general public has also brought him considerable worldwide acclaim. His recent boxing/ conditioning presentations include the University of Tennessee, the University of Alabama, Louisiana State University, Loyola University New Orleans, and the University of Santiago (Chile). VanDemark attributes the longevity and diversity of his career not only to his own athletic training, but also to his work in the the health care field in the 1970's, when he worked extensively under the renowned neurologist Dr. Howard S. Barrows at the McMaster University School of Medicine in Canada in developing the groundbreaking Simulated/Standardized Patient Program (SPP). As a result of these achievements, VanDemark was named to the Industry Board of the American Health Council in October 2017. If you enjoyed the show, please leave a review on iTunes! I truly appreciate your support! Visit www.mindoverfinger.com for information about past and future podcasts, and for more resources on mindful practice. Join the Mind Over Finger Tribe here! https://www.facebook.com/groups/mindoverfingertribe/ THANK YOU: Most sincere thank you to composer Jim Stephenson who graciously provided the show's musical theme! Concerto #1 for Trumpet and Chamber Orchestra – Movement 2: Allegro con Brio, performed by Jeffrey Work, trumpet, and the Lake Forest Symphony, conducted by Jim Stephenson. Also a HUGE thank you to my fantastic producer, Bella Kelly! MIND OVER FINGER: www.mindoverfinger.com https://www.facebook.com/mindoverfinger/ https://www.instagram.com/mindoverfinger/

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The First Opera Commissioned For Television

Remembering The Passed

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2019 14:56

Remembering Rosemary Kuhlmann, Robert Mugabe, Carol Lynley, Jimmy JohnsonRosemary Kuhlmann was the opera star who performed in Amahl and the Night Visitors, the Christmas opera written by Gian Carlo Menotti for NBC television in 1951. She played Amahl’s mother in the performance for 12 consecutive years. Robert Mugabe was the brutal socialist dictator of Zimbabwe for nearly forty years. Carol Lynley was the beautiful blonde actress best known for her role in The Poseidon Adventure (1972). Jimmy Johnson was a member of the Swampers, the session musicians who played at Muscle Shoals FAME studios.

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Episode 122- Thomas Fraschillo

Everything Band Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2019 64:42

Thomas Fraschillo was the longtime director of bands at the University of Southern Mississippi and is a past president of the American Bandmasters Association. Topics: Tom’s background growing in a small town in Northern Mississippi and the story of how he got a late start as a young musician. Some of the people who influenced his career and the wisdom he learned from those educators. The band programs at Meridien High School and the University of Southern Mississippi. Regionalism in school band programs and traditions around the country and the success of the major universities in the Southeast. Tom’s work with wind bands in Italy and the interviews in the ADA archives at the University of Maryland. Links: Thomas Fraschillo American Bandmasters Recordings Zaninelli: Roma Sacra Biography: Thomas V. Fraschillo, DMA, has served as a catalyst and mentor for members of the teaching profession. His high standards of performance have had a sustained influence on ensembles at every level, and his performances serve as models in both the professional or academic arena. Through his recordings, The Music of Luigi Zaninelli and The University of Southern Mississippi Wind Ensemble LIVE IN ITALY (recorded in Italy), and his publishing, conducting, and lecturing in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia, he is considered an international musician/scholar. His publications, translations from the original Italian of Alessandro Vessella’s Studi di strumentazione (Instrumentation Studies), and La Tecnica dell’orchestra contemporanea (The Technique of Contemporary Orchestration) by Alfredo Casella and Vittorio Mortari, both published by BMG Ricordi, Milan, have put his name in libraries of the entire English speaking world. As a writer/scholar Dr. Fraschillo is a contributing editor to the American Grove Dictionary, 2nd Edition and serves as a frequent conductor and lecturer in Italy. His most recent appearances in Italy have been with La Banda dell’esercito/The Italian Army Band in Rome. One of his most significant engagements with them signaled a very important milestone for the Italian Army in that Dr. Fraschillo was the first American-born conductor to have been invited to appear in a public performance by what is considered Italy’s most prestigious military concert band. The concert with Dr. Fraschillo conducting was the opening concert of the International Festival in Spoleto, “The Festival of Two Worlds, Festival dei due mondi.” His appearance was enormously significant for conductors of bands in that the opening performance featured such international artists as Gian Carlo Menotti, the renowned composer, the Orchestra and Giuseppe Verdi Chorus of Milan, and the Italian actress, Claudia Cardinale. Finally, in Italy Dr. Fraschillo often serves as a member of the judging panel for many international festivals, most notably the Concorso Internazionale di Composizione “R. Marenco” di Novi Ligure, and the Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Originale per Banda di Corciano. Aside from Dr. Fraschillo’s work in Europe, he is often engaged throughout the continents of Asia, and Australia. The Melbourne, Australia, Summer Youth Music Program has invited Dr. Fraschillo to be their guest conductor for their summer session for five years. In addition the Australian Band and Orchestra Directors Association has invited him to lecture and to adjudicate at their large ensemble festivals. Dr. Fraschillo’s other work in the Pacific Rim includes having served as clinician and guest conductor of the Central Armed Forces Band in Singapore and as conductor of the Singapore All-College Band sponsored by the Wind Band Association of Singapore. In 2009 and 2010 Dr. Fraschillo served as Artistic Director for the weeklong Winter Band Festival at Disney, Hong Kong. Dr. Fraschillo has recently been recognized by election to the National Band Association’s Hall of Fame of Distinguished Conductors, a distinct honor that recognizes his lengthy career as a public school, university, and professional conductor. Dr. Fraschillo devoted a significant amount of his career to the education of young people in Mississippi. For example his ten-year tenure at Meridian High School was highlighted by a performance at the Midwest Clinic in Chicago, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious music event for wind and string educators. The invitation was only the second to have been given to a band from Mississippi. Dr. Fraschillo’s Meridian students obtained successes not before reached, for he taught and helped place the first African-American students in the Mississippi All-State Band. Not only were they among the first minority members, but they were also the first African-Americans to attain the very highest positions in the group. Dr. Fraschillo has attained a significant level in the realm of international leadership in that he serves as a past president of the prestigious American Bandmasters Association, past president of the world’s largest organization for band directors, the National Band Association, and President of the CBDNA Southern Division.

Amor de la Vida: An Interview with Ramon Tebar

Inside Opera

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2019 75:22

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He is currently music director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) and Conductor Emeritus of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.Carlo Maria Giulini was an Italian conductor.The Symphony No. 5 is Beethoven’s 5th symphony and is one of the best-known compositions in classical music and one of the most frequently played symphonies.The Goldberg Variations is a musical composition for harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach, consisting of an aria and a set of 30 variations.La Traviata is an opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi.Roméo et Juliette (Romeo and Juliet) is an opera by Charles Gounod.Giacomo Puccini was an Italian opera composer who has been called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi."(Ravenni & Girardi n.d., Introduction.)Richard Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras.Johannes Brahms was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the Romantic period.Nikolaus Harnoncourt was an Austrian conductor, particularly known for his historically informed performances of music from the Classical era and earlier.Pablo Casals was a cellist, composer, and conductor from Catalonia.La 1 (La Uno, The One), is the flagship television channel of Spanish public broadcaster Radio televisión Española (RTVE).La 2 (La Dos, The Two) is Spain's second state-owned television channel for the public broadcasting service.Senegal is a country in West Africa.José Plácido Domingo is a Spanish opera, conductor, and arts administrator.Otello is an opera by Verdi.Franco Ferrara was an Italian conductor.Guido Cantelli was an Italian orchestral conductor."Fritz" Reiner was a prominent conductor of opera and symphonic music in the twentieth century.Alicia de Larrocha was a Spanish pianist and composer. 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David Charles Abell: Storytelling

Inside Opera

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2019 67:02

Abell was raised in the Philadelphia and Chicago areas.David sang in the 1971 world premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts with the Berkshire Boy Choir.Abell enrolled at Yale University, where his teachers included John Mauceri and Rob Kapilow. He studied with Nadia Boulanger and Robert D. Levin at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau before returning to Yale to complete his B.A. in 1981.Abell made his professional debut conducting Bernstein's Mass at Berlin's Deutschlandhalle in 1982.Abell mentions the following three operas by Gaetano Donizetti that were his introduction to opera: La Favorite, Lucia di Lammermoor, and Lucie de Lammermoor.Lyric Opera of ChicagoThe Makropulos Affair is a Czech opera with music and libretto by Leoš Janáček.Don Giovanni is an opera by Mozart.Mefistofele is the only completed opera with music by the Italian composer-librettist Arrigo BoitoThe Symphony No. 2 in D-flat major was written by Howard Hanson on commission from Serge Koussevitsky for the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1930.Interlochen Center for the ArtsThe Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. Members were: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.Abbey Road StudiosWashington National OperaGiacomo Puccini was an Italian opera composer who has been called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".Oscar Hammerstein was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and (usually uncredited) theatre director of musicals for almost 40 years.The Marriage of Figaro is an opera buffa (comic opera) composed in 1786 by Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte.Evans mentions the following schools as notable music schools: Juilliard School, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, University of Michigan School of Music.The American Bach SocietyYale WhiffenpoofsWashington National OperaAbell continued his postgraduate training from 1983 to 1985 at the Juilliard School, under Jorge Mester and Sixten Ehrling.Eroica Symphony, byname of Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, is a symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, known as the Eroica Symphony for its supposed heroic nature.Natalia Makarova is a Soviet-Russian-born prima ballerina and choreographer.Abell deputized at short notice for John Mauceri conducting Britten's The Turn of the Screw at Washington National Opera.On Your Toes is a musical with a book by Richard Rodgers, George Abbott, and Lorenz Hart.Gian Carlo Menotti gave David the advice to “never conduct Broadway. Never do it you will regret it.”Les Misérables, colloquially known in English-speaking countries as Les Mis is a musical adapted from French poet and novelist Victor Hugo's 1862 novel of the same name by Claude Schönberg.Porgy and Bess is an English-language opera by the American composer George Gershwin, with a libretto written by author DuBose Heyward and lyricist Ira Gershwin.Miss Saigon is a musical by Schönberg.Abell subsequently conducted the 25th anniversary concert of Les Misérables at the O2 Arena.The Philly PopsArturo Toscanini was an Italian conductor.Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later a conductor of his own and other American music.Rhapsody in Blue is a musical composed by George Gershwin.Trevor Nunn is an English theatre director.Harold Prince was an American theatrical producer and director associated with many of the best-known Broadway musical productions of the 20th century.Ariadne auf Naxos is an opera by Richard Strauss with a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.The Voice of Firestone is a long-running radio and television program of classical music.Leontyne Price is an American soprano.Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, model, and singer.Dorothy Kirsten was an American operatic soprano.Minnesota OperaBlind InjusticeJohn Williams is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. Williams has composed for many critically acclaimed and popular movies, including the Star Wars series, Jaws, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and the first three Harry Potter films.Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks is a tone poem written in 1894–95 by Strauss.Along with pianist and musicologist Seann Alderking, Abell edited a complete edition of Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate, published in 2014.Glimmerglass OperaThe Library of Congress is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.The New York Public Library is a public library system in New York City.Scott Davenport RichardsGioachino Rossini was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces, and some sacred music.Phillip Gossett was an American musicologist and historian, and Robert W. Reneker Distinguished Service Professor of Music at the University of Chicago.Tancredi is a melodramma eroico in two acts by composer Gioachino Rossini and librettist Gaetano RossiUn ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball) is an 1859 opera by Verdi.Powel Crosley Jr. was an American inventor, industrialist, and entrepreneur. He was also a pioneer in radio broadcasting, and a former owner of the Cincinnati Reds major league baseball team.Alfred Drake was an American actor and singer.Robert Russell Bennett was an American composer and arranger, best known for his orchestration of many well-known Broadway and Hollywood musicals by other composers such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers.Don Walker is an Australian musician, songwriter and author.Felix Mendelssohn was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period.Messiah is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Handel.Lemuel WadeFrancesca Zambello is an American opera and theatre director. She serves as director of Glimmerglass Festival and the Washington National Opera.Lyric Opera of Kansas CityHawaii Opera TheatreChandos Records is a British independent classical music recording company based in Colchester.Peter Morris is an American playwright, television writer and critic, best known for his work in British theatre."Something's Gotta Give" is a song that was written for and first performed by Fred Astaire in the 1955 musical film Daddy Long Legs."A Wonderful Guy" is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific.Abell cites Evans Mirageas as one of his greatest mentors.Abell cites his niece’s podcast, The Bright Sessions, as one of his current favorites.Abell mentions Dark Sky as one of his favorite appsTrio BistroCarousel is the second musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein.English National OperaAlfred “Alfie” Boe is an English tenor and actor, notably performing in musical theatre.

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A Program for Gay Pride Weekend

Arias and Songs | WFMT

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2019 58:34

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This Opera May Change the Way You Think About Immigration Forever

CultureShift

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2019

"The Consul" is Gian Carlo Menotti’s 1950 opera describing the heartbreaking frustration felt by many immigrants applying for asylum in the U.S.

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#84 Barber - Classicist in an Avant Garde World

Your Classical Coffee Break

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2018 28:24

This coffee break continues it exploration of Samuel Barber's music, beginning with his incomparable Violin Concerto. Although many of Barber’s works make literary allusions, his music is not programmatic in the strict sense. His range was impressive from composing solo piano pieces (in slow blues tempo)to opera to the nostalgic Knoxville:Summer of 1915, inspired by Pulitzer Prize winner James Agee's essay. His opera Vanessa, with libretto by longtime partner Gian Carlo Menotti was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Barber’s Piano Concerto brought him new international success and another Pulitzer Prize. Some critics, when comparing him to Copland or Leonard Bernstein, said of his classic style, "With audiences clamoring for novelty, all Barber could offer them was honesty." contact the show at yccb@mauriceriverpress.com

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EPISODE 156 – Waiting to Be Great

The Millionaire Woman Show

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2018 9:09

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzZb3rNtH64[/embedyt] “Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.” Robert Anthony Waiting…waiting is to pause or delay! Why would you want to wait for being great or step into your greatness? I have heard many reasons (actually, they are excuses and hiding place). They say, “I don't know enough.” Or “I need more education”. Depending on your expertise, if you are wanting to be an astronaut or a surgeon, I would say yes, you probably do. We want you to know what you are doing. For the most part as a business owner, entrepreneur, or a leader of an organization, you can learn as you go and grow! There are so many resources available literally at your fingertips such as online courses and academies. Coursera and Udemy are popular. Another reason I hear is that “I need more experience” or “They have more talent than I do.” You gain experience by doing so get out there and start doing. You may need to volunteer with a board or organization to get some of the experience you are looking for. Talent is great but unless you continue to work and grow your talent those who put the effort in and work hard – they will surpass the person with talent alone. Nothing beats grit! Other reasons include needing everything to be perfect, not enough money to get started, no time or resources, indecision – waiting for the timing to be just right and blaming others for failed expectations. The amount of time you have available to you is no different than the next person. People will say they have no money and some may not. If you pay attention or do a walk through their home, you will soon discover where they spend their money and what's important to them. It is not the person who has the most resources that succeed it is the person who is most resourceful who WINS! You may see more reasons than results when you hold yourself back from being vulnerable or hold yourself back from taking action for fear of being criticized by others. Greatness comes from courage. Courage comes when you step out of your comfort zone and take action. Courage over comfort! You need to start taking actions instead of rationalizing the way things are. Be practical can hold you back from visualizing your end goal and what you want. Being comfortable holds you back… you tell yourself…things are great why ruffle things up, however, there is a part of you that is ready to take a leap and stretch because you know if you don't there is a part of you dying inside. You may be waiting or postponing your greatness if you catch yourself saying, “after” or later”. You don't think you can really pull things off. How do you know 100% you can't? Here's the deal… When you make a decision to overcome self-doubt, fears, and adversity, that is when you become great. Guess what? You have already overcome some of those - traveling to a new place, asking a guy or girl on a date, getting a college or university education, starting a new business, or going to the bank to ask for a loan. You can either overwhelm yourself or you can overcome yourself and step into the skin you are meant to be in. Quit playing small it serves no one. You play small when you come up with excuses from taking action. Jim Carey famously said, “So many of us choose our paths in life out of fear disguised as practicality.” Practicality does not allow for dreaming of a bigger future! One of the most interesting reasons I heard is that people wait to be great because once they achieve the dream or goal there will be nothing more to long for as it has been achieved so they delay it. Gian Carlo Menotti's quote resonates with this, “Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.” My question for you is, “Why not set a new dream or goal?” Chances are you have not fulfilled your full poten...

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5.xii.16 | Show No. 51 | Holiday Special! [Part 1 of 3]

Opera Box Score

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2016 59:44

The holidays have arrived, and here on the OBS we’re ready to celebrate. How? With a three-part series examining holiday operas, of course. Tonight, we take a closer look at Gian Carlo Menotti’s Christmas opera “Amahl and the Night Visitors”. Tender feel-good show or cheap sentimentality? We’ll tell you what we think... But first, we discuss the Metropolitan Opera’s struggle to program new commissions. We’ll let you know what the problems are and how they might be solved... Also, you get all your opera headlines and our hot takes on them in ‘The Two Minute Drill’... @operaboxscore #operaballs

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Dominic Cossa

handelmania's Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2016 27:37

Born in Jessup, Pennsylvania, Cossa studied with Anthony Marlowe in Detroit, Michigan, Robert Weede in Concord, California, and Armen Boyajian in New York City. He made his debut at the New York City Opera as Morales in 1961, and a week later sang Sharpless with the company. He won the American Opera Auditions in 1964 and was sent to Italy for debuts at the Teatro Nuovo in Milan and Teatro della Pergola in Florence.[2] He made his debut at the San Francisco Opera in 1967 as Zurga in Les pêcheurs de perles. His Metropolitan Opera debut took place on January 30, 1970 as Silvio in Pagliacci. Other roles there were Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Lescaut in Manon Lescaut, Marcello in La bohème, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliette, Masetto in Don Giovanni, Valentin in Faust, Yeletsky in Pique Dame, Germont in La traviata, and Albert in Werther. In 1976 he created the role of David Murphy in the world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's The Hero with the Opera Company of Philadelphia.[3] Cossa's left a few notable recordings of his best roles such as Belcore in L'elisir d'amore opposite Dame Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti, Achillas in Handel's Giulio Cesare opposite Norman Treigle and Beverly Sills, Nevers in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots, again opposite Sutherland, Martina Arroyo and Huguette Tourangeau, and the baritone solo part in Roger Sessions' When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd. He can also be heard on the Classical Record Library's A Celebration of Schumann and Schubert with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He has sung as soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, the Israel Philharmonic, and the National Symphony. He was chosen by Licia Albanese to be the recipient of the Puccini Foundation's Bacccarat Award in 2004, and in 1993 was inducted into the Hall of Fame for Great American Singers at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia. Cossa taught at the Manhattan School of Music and in 1988 he accepted a position as Professor of Music at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he became chair of Voice/Opera. Also, a SWEET GUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Det osynligas piano del 3: Take the A Train to the West Side 1

Tollans musikaliska

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2016 37:53

Vi reder ut erotiska och musikaliska trådar mellan manliga tonsättare och deras musik i 1900-talets USA: Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, David Diamond och grekiske dirigenten Dimitri Mitropoulos. I USA finns det antihomosex-lagar ända fram till 1975. Henry Cowell kallas Kaliforniens Oscar Wilde och sitter fem år i San Quentin-fängelset dömd för sodomi, vilket fortfarande är olagligt i ett tiotal amerikanska stater. Mellan 1947 och 1957 jagar senator McCarthy kommunister och homosexuella. Tonsättaren och accordeonisten Pauline Oliveros är 15 år när McCarthys jakt på icke önskvärda amerikaner inleds. Ur hennes rädsla för hatbrott utvecklar hon det djupa lyssnandet, Deep Listening. Det är på liv och död. - Det gäller att överleva när man tillhör en utrotningsshotad art, säger Oliveros i programmet Det osynligas piano. Vi reder ut hur erotiska och musikaliska trådar löper samman bland manliga tonsättare och deras musik i 1900-talets USA. De inblandade är tonsättarna Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, David Diamond och grekiske dirigenten Dimitri Mitropoulos. Bl a hade tonsättarna Leonard Bernstein och Aaron Copland en kärleksrelation. Dimitri Mitropoulos hade erotiska relationer med Leonard Bernstein och David Diamond. Geniet och innovatören Harry Partch är en outsider. Här finns ingen gemensam gay estetik utan musiken spänner över neoklassisism, nyromantik, folkton, elektonmusik, abstrakt musik, modernism, minimalism, musical, operett, opera och kabaret. Den vänsterradikale judiske bögen Aaron Copland skapar en musikalisk symbol för den amerikanska myten. Tre judiska homo- och bisexuella män skapar en helamerikansk musical om heterosexuell, kristen romans. Hur låter musiken kring det långa äktenskapet mellan tonsättarna Samuel Barber och Gian Carlo Menotti? Varför tar pianisten Vladimir Horowitz elchocker och antidepressiva medel? Och vem är den homosexuella skuggan bakom Duke Ellingtons musik?Låtlista: The Beauty of Sorrow Pauline Oliveros Pauline Oliveros, accordeon Taras Room Deep Listening DL 22-2004 CD Reason in Madness mixed Pauline Oliveros Pauline Oliveros, solo accordeon. Panaiotis, processing and mixing. CD-titel: Crone Music LOVELY MUSIC LTD CD 1903 Take The A Train Billy Strayhorn Duke Ellington Ellington Uptown COLUMBIA 512917 2 Chelsea Bridge Billy Strayhorn Billy Strayhorn, piano Piano Passion Storyville 101 8404 Le Tombeau De Couperin I Maurice Ravel/Marc H.Bonilla Gary Burton, vibrafon. Makoto Ozone, piano Virtuosi Concord Records CCD-2105-2 And On The Seventh Day, Petals Fell In Petaluma Harry Partch Harry Partch Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones ellipsis arts CD3530 Aeolian Harp Henry Cowell Alan Feinberg The American Innovator argo 436 925-2 Fanfare for the Common Man Aaron Copland Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Stephen Gunzenhauser, Conductor COPLAND: Appalachian Spring/Rodeo/Billy the Kid NAXOS 8.550282 America (West Side Story) Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein, dir. Orch & Chorus. Kiri Te Kanawa, José Carreras,Tatiana Troyanos, Kurt Ollman. Bernstein on Broadway DG 447 898-2 Appalachian Spring Copland, Aaron Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Stephen Gunzenhauser, Conductor COPLAND: Appalachian Spring/Rodeo/Billy the Kid NAXOS 8.550282 Concerto For Clarinet: II. Rather Fast Copland, Aaron (1900-1990) Dornbusch, Karin Barber, Copland, Ginastera Musica Vita CAPRICE CAP 21591 Barber: Adagio For Strings, Op. 11 Samuel Barber (1910-1981) Marin Alsop, dirigent; Wendy Warner, cello. Royal Scottish National Orchestra Barber: Cello Concerto, Medea Suite, Adagio For Strings NAXOS 8.559088 Cello Concerto - Molto Allegro E Appassionato Samuel Barber (1910-1981) Wendy Warner, cello. Marin Alsop, dirigent; Royal Scottish National Orchestra Barber: Cello Concerto, Medea Suite, Adagio For Strings NAXOS 8.559088 Suite from Sebastian I. Introduction Gian Carlo Menotti 1911 Spoleto Fest Orch; R. Hickox, Raphael Wallfisch, cello Apocalisse 1952; Fantasia Cello, Orch 1976 Sebasatian Ballet Suite 1944 Chandos Records CHAN 9900 III. Street fight Gian Carlo Menotti 1911 Spoleto Fest Orch; R. Hickox, Raphael Wallfisch, cello Apocalisse 1952; Fantasia Cello, Orch 1976 Sebasatian Ballet Suite 1944 Chandos Records CHAN 9900 Glitter and Be Gay (Candide) Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein, dir. London symph orch, London Symph Chorus. Christa Ludwig, Nicolai Gedda, Della Jones m fl. Bernstein on Broadway DG 447 898-2 Elegy In Memory Of Maurice Ravel David Diamond (b. 1915) Diamond, David John Adams, dirigent. Orchestra of St. Lukes American Elegies Albany Records TROY 082 Psalm Diamond, David (1915-2005) Janos Starker, Gerard Schwarz; Seattle Symphony Orchestra Diamond: Symphony #3, Psalm, Kaddish NAXOS 8.559155 Schumann-Traumerei Robert Schumann Vladimir Horowitz, piano The Magic of Vladimir Horowitz CD 1 DG 474 334-2

Amahl and the Night Visitors: "A Classical Day in the Life" for December 24, 2015

A Day in the Life

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2015 2:01

Today in 1951, Gian Carlo Menotti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors" was broadcast live across the United States from NBC Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center. The opera tells the story Amahl, a young boy living in Bethlehem around the time of the birth of Jesus. On today's "A Classical Day in the Life," learn more about the televised opera that became a bit of a holiday tradition in the middle part of the 20th century.

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OUTSpoken Birthday show with Wel-Strung and Miss Coco Peru

Between The Scripts

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2015 97:25

Well-Strung, a New York City based string quartet, derives their unique blend of vocals and strings by fusing classical music with the pop music of today. Members Edmund Bagnell (1st violin), Chris Marchant (2nd violin), Daniel Shevlin (cello), and Trevor Wadleigh (viola) spend their time making new music and touring internationally. The group was conceived by producer Mark Cortale and Chris Marchant.Daniel Shevlin is originally from South Jersey and has been playing cello since he was ten years old and continued to use this skill when he moved to NYC at 18 to pursue a career in musical theatre. Since then he has appeared off-Broadway in The Sandbox (written and directed by Edward Albee), has toured the U.S. and Asia in productions of Rent and Cabaret, and has worked regionally as both an actor and cellist in many theaters including the Arvada Center, The Maltz-Jupiter Theatre, Riverside Theatre, and Mason Street Warehouse to name a few. He studied musical theater at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy and has been a member of Actors Equity since 2006.Edmund Bagnell comes from South Carolina where he attended the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and went on to attend New York University as music major. His senior year, he was cast as Tobias in the first national tour of Sweeney Todd directed by John Doyle. He has performed as a violinist, actor, and singer in New York and around the country. Credits include Rich in The Last Cyclist and Toby in Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Medium (both Off-Broadway), Charlie Brown in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown and Tom Sawyer in Big River (Summer Theater of New Canaan), Charlie in Joanna Gleason’s The Big Holiday Broadcast of 1959 (Fairfield Theater Company), Oramel Howland in The Great Unknown (NYMF), Enoch Snow Jr. in Carousel (Barrington Stage Company), Stewart Smalls in Band Geeks (Ars Nova), Huck Finn in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Dennis in Smoke on the Mountain (Cotton Hall Theater).Chris Marchant grew up in Akron, OH where he began playing violin thanks to his mother’s urging. Throughout high school Chris was involved in school and regional orchestras and choirs. He received a B.A. in Music Ministry from Malone College, where he discovered a love of musical theatre. Credits include Tobias in Sweeney Todd and Spring Awakening (both national tours). Follow on Instagram and Twitter @chrisjmarchant.Trevor Wadleigh is a native of Kent, WA and began studying the viola at age 17 under the tutelage of Joyce Ramée. He earned a Bachelor of Art from the University of Puget Sound with major concentrations in Business and Music Performance as well as a minor in Comparative Sociology. While completing undergraduate coursework, Mr. Wadleigh studied concurrently with Burton Kaplan of NYC under whose direction he completed an Artist’s Certificate program at the Aaron Copland School of Music. He has served as principal and section violist of the Lake Union Civic Orchestra, Yakima Symphony, Brevard Music Center Orchestra, and the Nova Philharmonic.Storyteller/monologist Miss Coco Peru aka Clinton Leupp got his/her start as a downtown favorite in the cabaret world of NY after he wrote, produced, directed, and starred in his first show “Miss Coco Peru in My Goddamn Cabaret” over 20 years ago.On screen, Miss Coco is best known for her roles in Jim Fall’s feature film, trick (Sundance 1999) and Richard Day’s Girls Will Be Girls. (Sundance 2002) For this film Coco shared the Best Actress Award with his two co-stars at the HBO Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen as well as the Best Actor Award at LA’s Outfest Film Festival. Other film appearances include To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, Nick and Jane, and Straight-Jacket. Coco can be heard in the Disney animated feature, The Wild as Mamma Hippo! She also appears in the highly-ish anticipated sequel of Girls Will Be Girls which will be released some day, hopefully.Coco has appeared on TV in two stand-up comedy specials on LOGO: Wisecrack and Dragtastic, How I Met Your Mother, Arrested Development, Twins, Will and Grace, New York Undercover, Detroit 187, several Bravo reality and clip shows, and in an Orbitz commercial that was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award.Coco’s live one-person shows include: “Miss Coco Peru in My Goddamn Cabaret”, “Miss Coco Peru: A Legend in Progress” (’92 MAC and Bistro Award), “Miss Coco Peru at the Westbeth Theatre” (’95 MAC Nomination), “Miss Coco Peru’s Liquid Universe”(‘98 GLAAD Nomination), “Miss Coco Peru’s Universe” (’99 LA GLAAD Nomination), “Miss Coco Peru’s Glorious Wounds…She’s Damaged” (’01 LA GLAAD Nomination) “Miss Coco Peru is Undaunted” (’04 GLAAD Award Winner, Ovation Nomination), and the hugely successful “UGLY COCO” and “THERE COMES A TIME” and most recently “SHE’S GOT BALLS”. These shows have been performed to sold out audiences in Theatres, Clubs, Restaurants, Ballrooms and Cabarets throughout the US and abroad. She currently has dates scheduled nationwide through 2014.Coco hosts an on-going live series of shows at the Renberg Theater in Los Angeles called Conversations With Coco in which Coco interviews and celebrates the lives and careers of the GLBT community’s favorite icons. Miss Peru’s guests include Liza Minnelli, Jane Fonda, Bea Arthur, Lily Tomlin, Karen Black, Lainie Kazan, Lesley Ann Warren, and drag legend Mr. Charles Busch.Coco’s recent online Youtube videos have been seen by over 2 million viewers. Her video “Coco Goes to KMART,” in which she searches for Celestial Seasoning Tension Tamer tea, has more than over 700,000 views. For this reason, Coco has had to ask her fans to stop sending her the tea. She has received close to 100 boxes!Considered The Hostess with that something extra… Coco has hosted dozens of events including: The GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles, Night of a Thousand Gowns in NYC, Chicago Takes Off, Hot and Dry in Palm Springs, Gay Days Anaheim, The Black and White Ball in Reno, LA’s OUTFEST Legacy Awards, the BALIF (Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom) Dinner in San Francisco, Project Inform’s 25th Annual Fundraiser (SF) and Charity Bingo at Harrah’s Atlantic City. She has been honored to be involved with countless Gay and AIDS related charities over the years including The Trevor Project, Aids for Aids, and Lifeworks Mentoring. In fact, the list is so long, the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center honored Coco with the Board of Director’s Award. The award was presented to Coco by Zachary Quinto (Star Trek, Heroes, So NoTorious).She is also available for children’s parties.Photo Credits: Steven C De La CruzCOCO QUOTESOne of the last great storytellers.Lily TomlinMiss Coco is a heavenly hoot… Wry and uncensored, the show is a hilarious exorcism, with music, no less. Hey, that’s entertainment.Los Angeles TimesCoco, a self-described “effeminate, damaged boy from the Bronx,” was the real goods, a dragster with real talent and heart.San Francisco Bay Area ReporterHilarious, inebriating and elegant all at the same time… If there were an award for most girlish and glamorous, funniest, mouthiest diva/icon/trannie/comedian, the inimitable Miss Coco Peru would win hands down.L.A. WeeklyIt’s not often a drag queen scares you with her intellect, but Miss Coco Peru isn’t just any drag queen. Hers is a deep, dark drag performance designed for people who are sick of drag. Don’t miss it.The Stranger, SeattleCOCO AWARDSNot that I’m bragging…2004 Los Angeles GLAAD Media Award Winner, Miss Coco Peru is Undaunted2004 Los Angeles Ovation Award nomination for Best Solo Performance, Miss Coco Peru is Undaunted2003 Outfest Award for Outstanding Actor in a Feature Film, Girls Will Be Girls2003 US Comedy Arts Festival Best Actress Award, Girls Will Be Girls2001 Los Angeles GLAAD Media Award nomination, Miss Coco Peru’s Glorious Wounds… She’s Damaged1999 Los Angeles GLAAD Media Award nomination, Miss Coco Peru’s Universe1998 New York GLAAD Media Award nomination, Miss Coco Peru’s Universe1997 Los Angeles Backstage Bistro Award Winner, Miss Coco Peru’s Universe1993 New York Backstage Bistro Award Winner, A Legend in Progress.1992 Manhattan Legend in Progress.

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"Il telefono", de Gian Carlo Menotti

Històries de l'òpera

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2015 49:51

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"The Saint of Bleecker Street" (La Santa de Bleecker Street), de Gian Carlo Menotti

Històries de l'òpera

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2015 58:33

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"Amahl and the Night Visitors" (Amal i els visitants nocturns), de Gian Carlo Menotti

Històries de l'òpera

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2015 52:59

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Classical Classroom, Episode 107: Sometimes Menotti, Sometimes Me Nice – With Lynda McKnight

Classical Classroom

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2015 34:51

It’s a Menotti two-fer! Lynda McKnight from Houston’s Opera in the Heights teaches all about the composer Gian Carlo Menotti and two of his short operas, The Medium(not the Patricia Arquette kind), and The Telephone (not the Lady Gaga kind). Learn about this versatile 20th century composer and these two drastically different operas. Also, zombies. By the way, Opera in the Heights is staging a Medium and Telephone double-header through November 7th! Music in this episode: – Gian Carlo Menotti, The Medium. Chicago Opera Theater recording. – Gian Carlo Menotti, The Telephone. BBC Radio Broadcast on YouTube. Audio by Todd “My, My Telephone” Hulslander with psychic readings by Dacia Clay and editing by Mark DiClaudio. Thumbnail image: Paul Hume and Marie Handy performing Gian Carlo Menotti’s comic opera The Telephone, or L’Amour à trois at Catholic University, Washington DC, 1952. Public domain.

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Watch: American Boychoir Presents Songs of the Season

Café Concerts

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2014 19:51

The American Boychoir has had an eventful 2014 that's included an appearance in a Hollywood feature film, a visit to the Toronto Film Festival and a December East Coast tour that has the group singing Christmas music in seven different languages. Eleven members of the choir, led by music director Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, visited the WQXR studios early this month to present a selection of carols and songs. The ensemble began with "Mary Had a Baby" and "We Wish You a Merry Christmas." Based in Plainsboro, NJ, the American Boychoir is one of two accredited boychoir boarding schools the United States, the other being the Saint Thomas Choir School in Manhattan. The group, which marked its 75th anniversary last year, is characterized by a unique sound and facility in a wide range of styles. Specifically, unlike the famous Vienna Boychoir, on which it was originally patterned, the American Boychoir uses so-called voices-in-transition. "That's what distinguishes us from almost any other boychoir in the world," said Malvar-Ruiz. "It's the fact that we have changing voices still singing with us. It's adding that new color that makes our sound so unique." This allows the ensemble to fill out SATB (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) choral arrangements (and beyond), as we hear below in these performances. But as 12-year-old chorister Douglas Butler explains, the choir's sound is also the product of hard work, with a school day that stretches from 8 am to 6 pm. "We've tacked an extra three hours at the end of every day for a rehearsal," he says. "We have to learn a lot of music and a lot of times we have to do it quickly" – and by memory. Below: Bach's Domine Deus: The American Boychoir is the centerpiece of a forthcoming film called "Boychoir." Directed by Academy Award-winning film director Francois Girard, it stars Dustin Hoffman and Kathy Bates in a feel-good tale about a troubled boy from Texas who attends the American Boychoir School. Due for national release in 2015, it garnered raves at its Sept. 6 premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. "We did three weeks of filming and a few more weeks of recording the soundtrack," said Malvar-Ruiz. The film was shot at Connecticut’s Fairfield University and in New York, but the American Boychoir School's uniforms, logo and identity are to be used. This is just the latest Hollywood encounter for a choir whose performances have been featured in numerous films and commercials since its founding in Columbus, Ohio in 1937. The choir has been steeped in holiday music throughout its history – at least since its first appearance in a national television broadcast of Gian Carlo Menotti’s opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, in 1951. Among its performances this month is an appearance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Dec. 16. Watch their fourth WQXR performance below and listen to the full segment, with host Terrance McKnight's interview, at the top of this page. Video: Kim Nowacki; Audio: Irene Trudel; Production & Text: Brian Wise

Podcast S01.01 - Semana del 5 al 11 de mayo.

Podcast de Música Clásica en México

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2014 16:50

En esta primera emisión hablamos de 2 óperas que están en cartelera: El teléfono o L´amour à trois de Gian Carlo Menotti y Turandot de Giacomo Puccini. Te presentamos nuestra platica con el barítono mexicano Josué Cerón, que nos habla de su participación en ellas.

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Inspired by Verdi

Cedille Chicago Presents

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2013 59:44

On this week’s show, we celebrate Verdi month on WFMT (in honor of the great Italian opera composer’s 200th birthday anniversary on Oct. 10) with a work very much inspired by the Italian master: Gian Carlo Menotti’s Missa (Mass) “O Pulchritudo” performed by the William Ferris Chorale under the direction of its founding music director. Playlist for October 2, 2013 Inspired by Verdi: Gian Carlo Menotti’s Missa “O Pulchritudo” GIAN CARLO MENOTTI (1911–2007) Missa "O Pulchritudo" (1979) (43:22) I. Kyrie II. Gloria III. Motet: O Pulchritudo IV. Sanctus and Benedictus V. Agnus Dei From William Ferris Chorale: Menotti and Vierne Cedille Records CDR 7001 (Tracks 1–5) Joan Gibbons, soprano Deborah Fair, mezzo soprano John Vorrasi, tenor Thomas Sillitti, bass William Ferris Chorale Composer Festival Orchestra William Ferris, conductor WILLIAM FERRIS (1937–2000) Ed È Subito Sera (1965) I. Ride la gazza, nera sugli aranci (9:48) From Corridors of Light: Music of William Ferris Cedille Records CDR 7004 (Track 2) John Vorrasi, tenor Chicago String Ensemble Alan Heatherington, conductor

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Opera on Cedille

Cedille Chicago Presents

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2013 56:32

This week, Cedille Chicago Presents the label's two full-length opera recordings, both featuring the forces of Chicago Opera Theater— the first CD recording of Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Medium and the world premiere recording of Robert Kurka's The Good Soldier Schweik — with extensive excerpts from each. Subscribe to the Cedille Email List to receive one free music track from each week's show! Playlist for May 22, 2013 Opera on Cedille GIAN CARLO MENOTTI (1911–2007) The Medium Act I (excerpt) (18:30) From Menotti: The Medium Cedille Records CDR 90000 034 (Tracks 10–22) Joyce Castle, mezzo-soprano Patrice Michaels, soprano Diane Ragains, soprano Peter Van De Graaf, bass-baritone Barbara Landis, mezzo-soprano Chicago Opera Theater Lawrence Rapchak, conductor ROBERT KURKA (1921–1957) The Good Soldier Schweik Act 1, Scene 1: Schweik’s Flat in Prague (3:33) From Robert Kurka: The Good Soldier Schweik Cedille Records CDR 90000 062 (Disc 1 track 3) Jason Collins, tenor Kelli Harrington, soprano Chicago Opera Theater Alexander Platt, conductor ROBERT KURKA The Good Soldier Schweik Act 1, Scene 6: The Insane Asylum (Schweik: “I never felt so good before . . .”) (2:22) From Robert Kurka: The Good Soldier Schweik Cedille Records CDR 90000 062 (Disc 1 track 11) Jason Collins, tenor Chicago Opera Theater Alexander Platt, conductor ROBERT KURKA The Good Soldier Schweik Act 1, Scene 7: Part 1: Schweik’s flat, Part 2: The street below (4:29) From Robert Kurka: The Good Soldier Schweik Cedille Records CDR 90000 062 (Disc 1 Tracks 16–18) Jason Collins, tenor Kelli Harrington, soprano Chicago Opera Theater Alexander Platt, conductor ROBERT KURKA The Good Soldier Schweik Act 2, Scene 1: Army infirmary (6:11) From Robert Kurka: The Good Soldier Schweik Cedille Records CDR 90000 062 (Disc 2 Tracks 3–5) Marc Embree, baritone Jason Collins, tenor Wayne Alan Behr, tenor Christian Elser, baritone Robert Boldin, tenor Alvaro Ramirez, bass Stephen Noon, tenor Timothy Sharp, baritone Chicago Opera Theater Alexander Platt, conductor ROBERT KURKA The Good Soldier Schweik Act 2, Scene 3: Lieutenant Lukash’s flat (7:58) From Robert Kurka: The Good Soldier Schweik Cedille Records CDR 90000 062 (Disc 2 Tracks 10–12) Jason Collins, tenor Marc Embree, baritone Kelli Harrington, soprano Robert Boldin, tenor Alvaro Ramirez, bass Stephen Noon, tenor Chicago Opera Theater Alexander Platt, conductor

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Menotti

Composer of the Week

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2011 52:04

Donald Macleod introduces the music of Gian Carlo Menotti - a composer who stood apart from his age, creating delightful operas when the genre was considered nearly moribund.

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Gian Carlo Menotti

Desert Island Discs

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 1978 29:42

Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Gian Carlo Menotti.Book: Book on philosophy by Emmanuel Kant Luxury: Tarot cards

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Gian Carlo Menotti

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1976-1980

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 1978 29:42

Roy Plomley's castaway is composer Gian Carlo Menotti. Book: Book on philosophy by Emmanuel Kant Luxury: Tarot cards

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John Mauceri

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 1969 57:50

In this second episode, conductor John Mauceri talks with filmmaker H. Paul Moon in New York City about Gian Carlo Menotti, Leonard Bernstein, and other 20th century contemporaries of Samuel Barber, whose opera Antony and Cleopatra he recounts attending when it opened the Metropolitan Opera House. He also discusses his new book For the Love of Music: A Conductor’s Guide to the Art of Listening, and the worlds of film music and Broadway musicals alongside his distinguished career conducting the world's leading opera companies and symphony orchestras.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/capricorn/donations

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