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...Handel's Messiah is sung every year at the House, and Dunster Opera was started under their tenure. For each opera production, the Liems give up part of their residence for rehearsal and backstage space, for three weeks...
...Bryn Terfel, the hottest tickets of the post-Pavarotti era, join forces for a gala concert at New York City's Metropolitan Opera House (Oct. 29). Ace countertenor David Daniels, opera's freshest star, makes his triumphant return to the New York City Opera in a new production of Handel's Rinaldo (Oct. 31). And Chanticleer, the Grammy-winning 12-man a cappella vocal ensemble, backs up Magnificat (Teldec), its elegant new CD of plainchant and Renaissance motets, with tour dates in Princeton, N.J. (Oct. 3); New York City (Oct. 6 and Dec. 3); Detroit (Oct. 8); St. Louis...
...Apathy League was organized; nobody came to the meetings. Robert Frost "said" his poems in Sanders Theatre, and Mrs. Roosevelt told us about the United Nations. The Lowell House Musical Society produced Handel's opera, Acis and Galatea as well as Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell. A vigorous Brattle Theatre Company presented many plays...
...most part, the songs on this UK-top-10 album use the music as a point of departure, and that approach works. In Handel's "Largo from Xerxes," the sounds drift by: shimmering chords, spacey burbles, eerie bells, groans, rumbles, tinkling chimes, thumping bass and more. This is pleasing, unobtrusive mood music, where pure sound is the main attraction...
...Fame in this upstate town, the Glimmerglass Opera is famed for imaginative productions featuring young American singers on the cusp of major careers. This summer, for its 25th anniversary season, it will present four works in repertory, including the well-known--La Boheme and Salome--and the neglected: Handel's Acis and Galatea and The Glass Blowers, a 1913 operetta by John Philip Sousa. Though he became conductor of the U.S. Marine Band in 1880, Sousa always longed to write for the stage. Set during the Spanish-American War, The Glass Blowers recalls an era of unabashed patriotism and sentimentality...