Glimmerglass Celebrates 50 Years with a Season in Red!
Yes, Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, New York has reached its half-century mark. What began in 1975 as a plucky community-based initiative to mount a production…
Browsing: Igor Stravinsky
Music and Fashion Series | Glittering Sounds and Sights from Star Piano Duo
As she takes the stage in a sparkling, multicoloured, sequin slip dress, a wave of excitement passes through the crowd. Pianist Elizabeth Joy Roe walks…
Review | Renaud Capuçon plays splendid Mozart with Gimeno & the TSO
French violinist Renaud Capuçon has been a favourite of mine for some years now – especially in the music of Mozart – but this was…
Lebrecht Weekly | Stravinsky, Bartok, Martinu: Works for Violin and Orchestra (BIS)
German violinist Frank Peter Zimmerman realigns Stravinsky’s violin concerto in D wistfully as a late-romantic work, full of yearning for lost youth, homeland and confidence.
DID YOU KNOW THAT…
. . THE BELGIAN COMPOSER BOUDEWIJN BUCKINX (B. 1945) WROTE NINE UNFINISHED SYMPHONIES?All were composed in a single year, 1992. . . . PLUTO HADN’T…
Through the Glimmerglass, 2018 – Reflections of a Turbulent Century
PROFILE/REVIEW: of the 2018 Glimmerglass Festival Season: Silent Night by Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell; West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents and Stephen…
