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...recycling of Adams’ earlier post-minimalist works like “Harmonielehre” and “Naïve and Sentimental Music.”Last year, Adams had the country abuzz with the premiere of “Doctor Atomic,” his opera about J. Robert Oppenheimer ’25 and the morality behind weapons of mass destruction. Likewise, he came under national spotlight when the New York Philharmonic asked him to write a memorial piece for Sept. 11 in 2002. He snagged the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in Music for that piece...
...genre that came of age with the 1927 production of Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern’s “Show Boat.”In a sense, musical theater has never left adolescence. Essential questions remain: is it a play with music? Is it merely verbose opera? Is it a revue with plot? The “modern” musical remains, somewhat, an enigma.Maybe that’s why Harvard’s theater community will produce several standbys—rather than modern musicals—this fall, which is almost certainly indicative of directorial...
Royal protocol aside, the 2006 Japan tour might be remembered as the year the Sydney Symphony got its ears back. In the six years since its last overseas tour, the orchestra has been largely confined to the acoustically murky Sydney Opera House. By contrast, "Japan is full of fine concert halls," says violinist Dene Olding. "They make quite a science of the acoustics." Indeed, baritone soloist Jos? Carbo says he has never sung on a better stage than Tokyo's. "It was such a crisp, true rebound," he raves. With singing, he explains, "it's the monitoring of what...
Which is the difference between a great hall and the Sydney Symphony's home stage. Speaking of which, the tour has reaffirmed artistic administrator Wolfgang Fink's commitment to improving the acoustics of the Opera House concert hall, now in its feasibility-study stage. In the meantime, he says, the best way of tweaking the orchestra's sound is by more touring, for which Japan is a natural destination. "It is the closest, most interesting marketplace for Australia," says Fink...
...orchestra's final concert, and the beer is flowing?as is Carbo's voice: "My, my, my, Delilah!" The reverb might be less than crystal-clear tonight, but that doesn't stop the high emotion from bouncing back. Yet even though the room is filled with musicians and an opera star, two gatecrashers steal the show. A platinum-haired English teacher and her friend from Melbourne, arms akimbo, launch into a rendition of early David Bowie: "There's a starman waiting in the sky/ He'd like to come and meet us/ But he thinks he'd blow our minds...