Word: soloed
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Like Gina Grant, Jean Valjean (William Solo) has served his time, and only wants to resume a normal life. But the shadowy obession of a figure from the past haunts his every victory...
...Solo leads the company, adding softness and sensitivity to Valjean's nominal roles as protagonist and patriarch. When Javert (Richard Kinsey) damns Valjean for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his family, the audience experiences Valjean's sense of injustice at his 19-year labor sentence, and lives his hope upon his parole. When Valjean protests his martyrdom while Javert blindly upholds his self-righteous resolution for law and order, we know that this will be an epic struggle...
...from Emerson College, plays the adult Eponine flawlessly. Her journey from the Thernadiers inn to the slums of St-Michel is tragic. When she falls for the unsympathetic Marius; the audience feels her despair. Her devastating rendition of "On My Own" rivals Piro as the evening's most spectacular solo...
Though the publication of Nietzsche's complete scores in 1976 brought his music to the attention of scholars, two fine CDs from Newport Classic should introduce it to a wider audience. In Piano Music of Friedrich Nietzsche, John Bell Young plays 14 solo works and is joined by Constance Keene in two pieces for four hands. In The Music of Friedrich Nietzsche, Young is again the pianist, joined at times by violin and a second piano, as well as by the excellent lyric tenor John Aler for 16 songs...
Most of the works for solo piano are brief (between one and two minutes), and were composed in 1862, when Nietzsche was only 17. His lack of formal training shows, but the pieces require no apology and display a true melodic gift, reminiscent of Schubert and Schumann. Paradoxically, this heroic visionary was most at home in such small-scale works; his more ambitious pieces for two pianos (written in 1871 and '73) owe much in vocabulary and gesture to Liszt and Wagner. But the seams show, and the intended grandeur is painfully strained. On the other hand, a charming violin...