Tag: review
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Out with the Old, In with the NW New Works
Anyone go to On the Boards’ Northwest New Works for 2026? It was eclectic, experimental, and high-quality — all in typical OtB fashion. If you didn’t go support it this year, kick yourself – and then put it on the calendar RIGHT NOW, for next year. … You big dummy….
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En Masse
My review of Spoletio USA’s, Mozart Mass in C Minor, for Charleston’s Post and Courier, reviewing Maestro Amanda Quist, conducting her first performance as the new music director of the Spoleto Chorus, and first woman in that role! w00t!
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A Contemporary Jig, a Modern Quintet, and a Romantic Masterpiece
True to the Spoleto Chamber Music series’ M.O., Kronos Quartet’s Paul Wiancko hosted a nice compliment of new, contemporary works alongside older classical ones, as well as a chance to see the Festival’s Composer-in-Residence, Allison Loggins-Hull, in action today as a flutist (and even an unprogrammed surprise piece composed by harpist, Charles Overton).
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Dido and A Circus
My review of Circa and Spoleto USA’s, Dido and Aeneas, for Charleston’s Post and Courier. What a beautiful contemporary circus / opera blend!
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A Very, Very, Very Fine House
People cannot sing songs or write poetry on the subject of home without it reverting to an ode to the every-day, to those simple, “meaningless,” and “ordinary” things … that are actually just so goddamn important to us. That are, it turns out, everything.
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Tan Dun’s Soundscape Monument for Mothers, Daughters, and Sisters
Tan Dun has called his Nu Shu a “soundscape monument for mothers, daughters, and sisters.” “Monument” is a good word choice. Despite all of the amazingly ambitious and wonderful music this composer has already made throughout his life, I can’t imagine anything will top this piece, and all of the real, human mythology surrounding it.
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John Adams and the Noir of January 6
Composer John Adams conducts the Seattle Symphony on the anniversary of the insurrection, January 6, 2022.
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Mother Russia, No America
Sooo…. The “great transformation” going on in the play — about Russia, and a society being slowly turned into a murderous oligarchic libertarian capitalist one –- should obviously remind us all, right NOW, of … Covid?!
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We Are the World. We are the Cello. (Jan Vogler’s Cello….)
Bao was rightfully back to her baton — this piece got so crazy, and oftentimes so fast, it would have been impossible to keep these bunch of drunks in sync without a stick with which to beat them!
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Jinkxies! — “Get Ready Bitches ‘Cause It’s Monsoon Season!”
“Get Ready ‘Cause It’s Monsoon Season!” is what Jinkx proclaimed as she was crowned the winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race in Season 5. Well, it was a slowly increasing pitter-patter (delayed, in part, by the plague), but Jinkx is now starting to truly feel more like a downpour. I think Monsoon Season is really here…
S.E. Barcus 