Word: musics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...company in which the sets are simple and the voices not always of the very highest octane. But Glimmerglass, which produces four operas each summer (the current season runs through Aug. 23), is not about gleaming high Cs; instead, the show is the star. Artistic director Paul Kellogg and music director Stewart Robertson hire young artists who know how to move as well as sing and directors and designers with a knack for knocking the rust off tired masterpieces. Add to this the special pleasure of watching opera in a theater small enough that you can see Rigoletto's eyebrow...
...young American singers, foremost among them soprano Lauren Flanigan, whose Olivier-like immersion in her roles has won her a well-deserved reputation as the thinking person's diva. Flanigan sings two sharply contrasting parts in Central Park--a frustrated divorce in The Festival of Regrets (book by Wasserstein, music by Deborah Drattell) and a desperate bag lady in The Food of Love (book by McNally, music by Robert Beaser)--and brings them both off with staggering assurance...
...cool jazzy pop--hints that, at 42, the tall blond from Ohio has knocked around long enough to have seen and learned a few things. For example: the precarious balance, in matters of love, between whining and wisdom. The people in Richey's songs, as in so much country music, are in rehab from life--nursing themselves out of a heart hurt or taking a baby step back into the big bad world...
...Them All, "I could go down in history, or I could go up in smoke/ Be the center of attention or the butt of every joke." Glimmer should put Richey at the center of attention. And if she makes more albums like this one, she could make a little music history...
When Johnson and her fellow employees return to the office after a day of climbing, falling and even drumming--in an exercise lead by Village Music Circles of Santa Cruz, Calif.--the excitement still resonates. Even 10 days later, "People are walking through the halls high-fiving each other," says Johnson. "The atmosphere here is just joyous." To keep it that way, Adlink managers are planning another offsite next year. And they've invited the Orion Learning trainers to follow up with quarterly visits to Adlink headquarters, where they will use slogans and short exercises to refresh the staff...