Virtually Perfect – ECU’s Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival Offers Piano Quartets
It was truly wonderful to catch up once more with ECU’s Four Season Chamber Music Festival, the latest offering of which focused on two estimable piano quartets, by Robert Schumann and Antonín Dvořák. We...
Read MoreHome for the Holidays – the Raleigh Ringers Mark 30 Years
It began like a little ripple from a tiny pebble tossed into a shallow pool. And besides, who’d ever heard of a professional handbell choir? So from humble beginnings at Hudson Memorial Presbyterian Church, Dave Harris...
Read MoreDuke Chorale Updates “Tradition” as It Carries On
In this age of COVID, many traditions have fallen by the wayside, including presentations of Nutcrackers, Messiahs, Hansels, and such – perennial money-makers for their ballet, choral, and operatic presenters,...
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So There’s a Lot More to Handel than Messiah – Like 24 Other Oratorios, etc.
Two of George Frideric Handel’s oratorios – Messiah and Judas Maccabaeus – have achieved pop status, but all of them are worth hearing, and each has its own special merits, artistically. Folks who doubt this are missing some glorious listening. Why wait? Here’s a list of all of them with links to (free) YouTube performances (some are only audio files, others are video also).
Read MoreMozart’s Operas, Made Convenient for All to Cherish on Demand, Online, for Free
So, Mozart. What’s to say that hasn’t already been said, repeatedly? He actually wrote only a few more operas than Haydn (who wrote a good deal more symphonies and quartets, to pick just two genres, than anybody...
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