NYFOS’ Blier & Barrett & Caramoor’s Rising Stars Give Grand & Varied Tour of “Spanish Gold” in Song
Michael Barrett & Steven Blier - photo by Dario Acosta
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By Bruce-Michael Gelbert
Brilliant Artistic Director Steven Blier and Associate Artistic Director Michael Barrett, cofounders of the New York Festival of Song (NYFOS), with members of Caramoor’s 2011 Vocal Rising Stars, a most promising quartet from the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Read more
“According to Goldman” at Alliance Rep
''According to Goldman,''photo by Howard Fischer
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By Sherri Rase
A black and white film is showing when the lights come up on Alliance Repertory’s production of Bruce Graham’s “According to Goldman.” Gavin Miller (Kevin Gilmartin) looks like a kindly next-door-neighbor type from Central Casting. At present, he’s a college instructor teaching film writing to a group of greenhorns. When he begins with the statement, “I can teach you how to write a good script, or one that will sell,” you know to fasten your seatbelts … the ride will indeed be bumpy.
Gavin’s wife Melanie (Angela Della Ventura) does her best to get her crun-chewy luftmensch to commit to their home. She’s the local welcome wagon and a motherly type, though she and Gavin don’t have children. She’s hopeful they will finally put down roots somewhere that won’t poison her husband’s soul. Read more
1st National Touring Company of “Wicked” Performs Jazz Cabaret, “Our Wicked Romance,” in Orlando
a scene from ''Wicked'' - photo provided by Denise Dell Harbin
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By Denise Dell Harbin
It was Monday night, March 14 and the wildly popular “Wicked,” playing at the Bob Carr Center for Performing Arts in Orlando, FL through March 27, was dark for this one night of the week. And the cast donated their time and talents to put on Jazz Cabaret “Our Wicked Romance” to raise money Read more
The GREAT Judy Garland
Steven Reineke with Ruth Henderson, Heather Headley with Ashley Brown, Lorna Luft and Steven Reineke with Karen Olivo - photos by Sherri Rase
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by Sherri Rase
The white and gold interior of Carnegie Hall was softly illuminated, on March 11, for the end of an amazing season for the New York Pops Orchestra. It was the commemoration of literally one of the landmark events of the last century, Judy Garland’s sold-out concert in 1961 at Carnegie Hall. Read more
Met Offers Formidable Tchaikovsky “Queen,” Starring Zajick, Mattila & Galouzine
Dolora Zajick & Vladimir Galouzine by Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera
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By Bruce-Michael Gelbert
Gay ancestor Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Pikovaya Dama” (The Queen of Spades, 1890), with libretto by his brother Modest, after Alexander Pushkin’s short story, is enjoying a mostly lustrous Metropolitan Opera revival this month, Read more
Singing at Central Synagogue, Collegiate Chorale Remembers the Holocaust
James Bagwell leading the Collegiate Chorale at Central Synagogue, photo by Erin Baiano
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By Bruce-Michael Gelbert
The Collegiate Chorale’s March 10 offering, under Music Director James Bagwell’s baton, in the sanctuary of Central Synagogue, on Lexington Avenue at 55th Street, was a moving remembrance of the Holocaust, “We Remember Them—Choral Music from the Camps and the Ghettos,” consisting of prayers, folk songs that took on new significance in adverse circumstances, rousing resistance anthems, and pertinent readings, in Hebrew, Yiddish, and English, of works that emerged from the concentration camps and Jewish ghettos of Germany and Eastern Europe, after World War Two; contemporary creative artists’ responses to them; and homages to some historic figures. Central Synagogue’s Korean-American Jewish Cantor, Angela Warnick Buchdahl , the first Asian-American Jew ordained in North America, was the host, as well as a reader and vocal soloist, and Chorale pianist Kenneth Bowen assisted. Read more
Philadelphia Flower Show Celebrates “Springtime in Paris”
Eiffel Tower & carousel - photo by Bruce-Michael Gelbert
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By Bruce-Michael Gelbert, with Gregory J. Klosek
Spring was in the air, with hyacinths, tulips, irises, daffodils, and lilies showing off a dazzling rainbow of colors and, with the base of the Eiffel Tower to enter through and strains of Edith Piaf’s “La Vie en Rose” and Jacques Offenbach’s Infernal Gallop, better known as the cancan, reaching the ear, so was Gayest Paris, Read more
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