Eight UNC music majors will join the Chapel Hill Philharmonia on Sunday to bring “A Taste of Italy” to Hill Hall. The student musicians will sing familiar opera arias accompanied by the Chapel Hill Philharmonia. The concert will be the first joint endeavor featuring collegiate soloists and the community orchestra.
For it was only because the Parbold-based millionaire recognised his own musical limitations that he decided to become one of Britain’s biggest ever sponsors of the arts instead. And a lifetime of support ‘“ including getting some of the planet’s greatest musicians established ‘“ has now been recognised with the awarding of the classical music [...]
‘њWhen I came back my junior year, I started the Divertimento Chamber Orchestra here, and I was Dr. Bode’s assistant conductor for the opera ‘Cosi Fan Tutte’”as well. This past summer I guest-conducted Synfonia Bucharest, which is an orchestra in Bucharest, Romania. I also was one of seven internationally selected students to attend the Cabrillo [...]
Other highlights include a march by comedian Red Skelton, named after one of his characters, “The Kadiddlehopper March,” and a piece by H. Owen Reed, who taught at Michigan State University, called “The Heart of Morn,” based on his folk opera about Michigan. Tina Donze has a solo on the alto flute.
A. Not just here but everywhere. Q. Is the popularity of the organ declining? A. It was, and now I think it’s increasing. You see more and more organs being built. Q. The International Year of the Organ — why now? A. The national chapter decided to have a year of the organ a few [...]
PINEDA LYRIC OPERA COMPANY — The new season beginning Nov. 9 and running through May 31, 2009 with performances at the CDC Theatre, 78 Winans Ave. in Cranford. The season opens with The Merry Widow, Nov. 8, 8 p.m.; Nov. 9, 2 p.m. Call (908) 731-1377, e-mail: pinedalyric@comcast.net or visit www.pinedalyric.com .
In Offenbach’s French farce, a man has fallen down the chimney into Suzanne’s bedroom where she has locked herself after a tiff with her husband-to-be Martel. Martel is at the door seeking reconciliation but how is she going to keep the presence of the intruder a secret? Wolf-Ferrari’s heroine, Susanne has to keep a secret [...]
Historic: A steam train leaves Charing Cross train station in 1931 Combine having to control this power with the intuition needed to control a fast sailing yacht, and the sheer skill needed to play a cathedral organ, and add to that the feeling that you are in the process of taming an unruly beast, and [...]
Soprano Beverly Hoch performs her fourth annual Concert for the Cure on Sunday. The Texas Woman s University adjunct professor is a breast cancer survivor, and this year, her fundraising concert is all about strings. Hoch will perform solos set to an assortment of string music. The program includes chamber music, Hans Christian Andersen and [...]
The leading member of the Mighty Handful … Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Photograph: Michael Nicholson / Corbis It’s the forgotten classical music anniversary this year: not Vaughan Williams (50 years since his death in 1958) or Olivier Messiaen (100 years since his birth) - both of whom have been firm fixtures of festivals, orchestras, and even opera [...]