Hailed by the New York Times as “intimate, affecting and quietly rich with activism,” El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered is an all-new chamber music version of John Adams's Christmas oratorio, arranged by Christian Reif, which celebrates...
Finally finished “To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music and Mystery of Connie Converse” — it took three, 1.5 hr reading sessions, almost 2 months apart, because…? time and demands on time… Writer Howard…
Exposing Perle Noire: the development of Meditations for Joséphine’ by Julia Bullock “Miss Baker… has, alas, almost become a little lady. Her caramel-colored body, which overnight became a legend in Europe, is still magnificent,…
Hans Werner Henze’s El Cimarrón (The Runaway Slave) is a tour-de-force sonic onslaught based on the oral autobiography of Esteban Montejo, an enslaved Afro-Cuban who escaped bondage on a sugar plantation, survived in the jungle,...
