Music

Metropolitan Opera: A star

For years I’ve read about German tenor Jonas Kaufman, even before he sang at New York’s Metropolitan Opera (the ‘Met’). I first heard him at the Met in Verdi’s La Traviata , and again last year at a small group concert put on by Barry Tucker  (son of tenor Richard Tucker, one of the 20th century’s opera greats).  Kaufman sang and acted beautifully, and last...

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Brazilian Dance Company Cisne Negro Visits Aspen, CO

Brazilian Dance Company Cisne Negro Visits Aspen, CO

On August 12, I discovered and attended the Brazilian Cisne Negro dance troupe performing in Aspen CO, one week before it would visit and perform for a week at at the Joyce Theater in New York City. Author Tonya Plank has documented the forthcoming New York visit, at her site: http://www.tonyaplank.com. This dance company was founded over thirty years ago, and while other ballet company’s...

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Worst Classical Music Publication in the World?

Worst Classical Music Publication in the World?

The once prominent ‘BBC Music Magazine’ let me down in its April issue. Its cover feature, called “The 20 Greatest Conductors of All Time,” was beyond disappointing. Being a classical music jockey I could not wait to read the results. I was eager to perhaps discover what method could possibly allow any publication to define the variables which make for great...

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