2.28.2002 00:05 Classical Scene by Channing Gray: For David Kim, it's a Beethoven triple play
David Kim has a lot on his mind these days, what with being concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra, heading up the popular Kingston Chamber Music Festival at URI, and having to dust off the great Beethoven Violin Concerto for a weekend of performances with the Rhode Island Philharmonic.
2.24.2002 00:24 Channing Gray: Hard choices,
sound policies
rescued the
Philharmonic
There's one thing you don't hear from the Rhode Island Philharmonic these days, and that's the sour notes of backstage grousing. The era when bickering within the ranks often drowned out the music seems a thing of the past.
2.3.2002 00:15 Operatic overtures
Classical music fans in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles might get a chuckle out of the Rhode Island Philharmonic billing as an "opera fest" the two touring operas it is presenting this month.
2.3.2002 00:15 Puccini's
Turandot
Tuesday at Vets
Puccini was diagnosed with throat cancer while writing
Turandot
. The composer was in his early 60s and died before he could finish the final scenes.
1.31.2002 00:05 Fresh from Italy . . .
Ask pianist Alon Goldstein how he's doing, and you're likely to get an effusive spiel about life in bucolic northern Italy. Goldstein, soloist with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Saturday night, has been based for the past 18 months in quaint Bellagio, overlooking Lake Como.
1.10.2002 00:05
Classical Scene by Channing Gray: Nancy Gustafson and lots of orchestra
You'd think an international opera star who just spent New Year's Eve singing Johann Strauss in Vienna would find a trip to Providence pretty humdrum. But earlier this week from New York, soprano Nancy Gustafson couldn't wait to hop aboard a train to Rhode Island.
10.28.2001 00:14
Wachner
returns to lead Providence Singers
When Julian Wachner
agreed to take over the choral program at Montreal's McGill University this
past summer, he had some tough decisions to make about his ties to area vocal
ensembles. Would he keep his two Boston choirs or continue to head up the Providence
Singers?
9.13.2001 00:05 Songs
by composers the Nazis silenced
The Nazis embraced
composers as long as they toed the party line. Those who didn't uphold the ideal
of an Aryan paradise, members of the avant-garde and composers with a fondness
for jazz, were banned.
8.2.2001 00:17 It's
hello, goodbye for R.I. natives this week
Rhode Island welcomes
back one talented native this weekend, while another bids farewell to her native
state -- at least for a while.
7.26.2001 00:05 Vega
will tackle Bartok at URI; Mandofire will light the rivers
The Kingston Chamber
Music Festival marks something of a milestone tonight, with a performance of
its first-ever Bartok String Quartet, the composer's taxing fourth. Doing the
honors will be members of the young Chinese-born Vega Quartet, the festival's
first resident ensemble.
7.19.2001 00:05 Classical
Scene by Channing Gray: Dvorak marathon, Borge tribute in Newport
The Newport Music
Festival winds to a close this weekend with a couple of midnight concerts, the
final installments of the daily Dvorak marathon, and a tribute to the late Victor
Borge, who became something of a regular fixture at the festival in the last
years of his life.
5.31.2001 00:05 Spacagna
opts to travel less, teach more
After a career that
has taken her to all parts of the globe, soprano Maria Spacagna is sticking
closer to home these days, teaching in her home in Warwick and pitching in to
get the fledgling Ocean State Lyric Opera off the ground.
5.17.2001 00:05 For
May 17-20
THURSDAY --FREE--
Peter Harvey, pianist/vocalist, Trinity Church Parish Hall, Brooklyn, Conn.
(860 774-7728. Out of the Cauldron: The Civil War and Its Aftermath, program
of music from the Civil War.
5.3.2001 00:05 Ruth
Laredo goes solo with a classic trio
It has been a while
since pianist Ruth Laredo appeared in these parts. The last time was almost
a decade ago with the Rhode Island Philharmonic.
4.19.2001 00:05 Conductor
Peter Bay's life is music
Prospects for young
American conductors -- or American conductors of any vintage -- are no better
now than in years past, when Europeans dominated the field. That frustrating
observation comes from Peter Bay, who'll be standing in for Larry Rachleff during
Saturday's Rhode Island Philharmonic outing.
3.15.2001 00:05 Philharmonic
hosts (rare) return of the native
The Rhode Island Philharmonic
draws big crowds to its concerts. But seating at Vets Auditorium should be extra
tight for the orchestra's Saturday outing.
3.1.2001 Kingston
Music Fest's winter concert features Diaz Trio
The Kingston Chamber
Music Festival holds its annual winter concert tomorrow night. The only thing
is, for the first time, festival founder David Kim won't be taking part in the
festivities.
2.22.2001 00:18 Music
of the drums to come to Philharmonic
Fans of the Rhode Island
Philharmonic know Craig McNutt as the man who stands at the back of the stage
and plays the timpani. But Saturday he steps front and center for a rare solo.
1.18.2001 00:21 Shakespeare
wrote the lyrics for many a song
When it comes to song
lyrics, no writer has been tapped more than The Bard. Schubert looked to Shakespeare
for some of his many lieder. Leonard Bernstein put a contemporary spin on Romeo
and Juliet for his jazzy West Side Story.
