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Classical
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... in the music as well.
The final selection on the printed program was an arrangement for unaccompanied chorus of ‘Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen’ (‘I am lost to the world’), the third of the “Rückert-Lieder” ...
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Created on 21 February 2024
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Film Reviews
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... guide, Cheney visits a salt mine in Hallstatt, Austria where he’ll inspect 40,000 year-old footprints in the rock. He’ll learn more in bat caves in Majorca, Spain, and in libraries being destroyed by sand ...
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Created on 16 February 2024
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Theatre Reviews
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... most reprinted in the French language. Nonetheless, the text works magnificently, offering Puccini dozens of opportunities for elevating “small” true-to-life dramatic moments to mythic proportion, such ...
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Created on 28 January 2024
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Classical
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... to anticipate and counterbalance her “body in motion.” Nothing, not even Beal’s note in the printed program about images of water, could have prepared me for the first bars: soft fluttering flutes strongly ...
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Created on 18 January 2024
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Classical
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... orchestral works that Slatkin did with the SLSO. Although these have never been out of print, the ArchivMusic reissue from this past June has been remastered in 192kHz / 24-bit high definition. Whether ...
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Created on 09 January 2024
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Theatre Reviews
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... clips of him on the “Tonight Show” or elsewhere without experiencing the law of diminishing return. Like many of his other performances, Williams’s Genie was a tour de force that imprinted that film with ...
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Created on 05 January 2024
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Classical
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... focus of 2 American, 7 British, and 2 Australian composers, with a 16th-century Dutch composer and a 19th-century German composer to fill out the roster. All but one of the printed program selections ...
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Created on 19 December 2023
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Classical
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... notes and printing layout produced by BTC are superb and are among the finest produced by any performing ensemble in our area. The well-written thumbnails of each work respect the intelligence of the audience ...
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Created on 18 December 2023
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Classical
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... times. Two traditional carols followed, “Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella” and “I Wonder As I Wander”. The final selection on the printed program switched gears totally, a Latin-percussion infused arrangement ...
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Created on 18 December 2023
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Classical
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... (1678-1755), a villancico that de Zumaya composed for the Feast of Saint Cecilia, a clear salute to today’s host venue. Things went from sacred to secular for the final work on the printed program, “Lejos ...
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Created on 14 November 2023
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Classical
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... anniversary tribute), and “Let My Love Be Heard” by Jake Runestad (born 1986), an American composer based in Minneapolis. This order differed from the original order in the printed program of Runestad, ...
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Created on 23 October 2023
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Classical
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... march that wouldn’t have been out of place in a Shostakovich symphony, and the whole thing built to a final blast reminiscent of the last measures of Stravinsky’s “Sacre du Printemps.”
It was all very ...
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Created on 18 October 2023
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Film Reviews
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... as having fled to Cracow, Poland in 1927 because of trouble from Stalin, this secular, urban Jew made a film in a Yiddish shtetl, that is, a market town. However, the last known print ostensibly disappeared ...
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Created on 05 October 2023
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Classical
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... printed program was Denmark, for a selection by Carl Nielsen (1865-1931), Denmark’s greatest and most famous composer to date, more known for his orchestral works rather than choral music. This was the ...
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Created on 05 October 2023
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Community Connections
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... tells the story of St. Louis’ musical, cultural and artistic heritage.
It celebrates the city’s imprint on the American songbook, the relationship St. Louis has with its Mississippi River sister cities, ...
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Created on 21 August 2023
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Theatre Reviews
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... in the very large comic footprints of Zero Mostel and Phil Silvers. He triumphs in the role. He gets every laugh, and his singing voice is far better than either of those two giants.
Pseudolus is slave ...
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Created on 09 June 2023
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Classical
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... the encomiums I bestowed on the SLSO for “Le sacre du Printemps” last week, my well of superlatives might be running dry. Even so, I need to draw from it once again if I am to adequately describe the sheer ...
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Created on 09 May 2023
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Classical
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... Orchestra on the SLSOs Spotify playlist.
You won't need a printed translation at Powell Hall this weekend, of course, because the translation will be projected on a screen above the stage.
The ...
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Created on 03 May 2023
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Classical
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... premiere, “Le Sacre du Printemps” by Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971). Unfortunately, COVID-19 shut the season down in March and we never got to hear the orchestra’s much-anticipated performance of that remarkable ...
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Created on 02 May 2023
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Classical
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... us to the Big Finale, the score for the 1913 ballet "Le Sacre du Printemps” (“The Rite of Spring”) by Igor Stravinsky. The third in a series of series of successful collaborations between Stravinsky and ...
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Created on 26 April 2023