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While Woo points to dreams of financial security and disposable income (DI) in the future, Hahn reflects more whimsically on the past. “I guess you really have to have the skills to pay the bills,” he admitted, but said that money wasn’t absolutely everything...
...Some of us are all about the DI,” he says, “but what I would say is ‘follow your kindergarten pipe dream and become that ballerina in space you always wanted...
Byrne has a reputation for an obsession with worldbeat, but on this album he not only makes musical leaps around the globe, but also through time. Bizet’s “Au Fond du Temple Saint” and Verdi’s “Un Di Felice, Eterea” pop up in orchestral forms not too distant from their 19th-century originals, except, of course for the presence of Byrne’s Francophone chops. He is joined on the Bizet cover by Rufus Wainwright, another artist from the northeast known for operatic...
Born in Rome in 1966, Bartoli was raised in a highly musical family with parents, Silvana Bazzoni and Angelo Bartoli, who were professional singers. The young Bartoli trained at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia, while also acquiring much of her musical knowledge and developing her talent through parental coaching...
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) was represented by his “Di questa cetra” from Il Parnasi confuso which exhibited Bartoli’s sublime command of mellifluous and seamless tonal transitions and passages that hovered and drifted weightlessly through her listeners, lingering hauntingly in the air. The latter half of the concert was comprised of eleven pieces by Antonio Salieri (1750-1825) drawn from La fiera di Venezia, Armida, La secchia rapita, La finta scema, La scuola de’ gelosi, Palmira, Regina di Persia, and La cifra...