Classical Music
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Opera companies prioritize “one-truck shows” — what are the benefits?
APRIL 3, 2024 | Opera America
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Surging gas prices and escalating costs for rental trucks and labor have caused a spike in transportation fees, driving shipping costs to an all-time high. As opera companies explore ways to trim costs, “one-truck shows,” where all of the elements of a production fit into a single semi-truck, have become trendy.
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10 Living Composers to Know: A Black History Month Listening Guide
FEBRUARY 23, 2024 | Los Angeles Philharmonic​
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From cinematic scores to concert hall pieces, their works resonate with the legacies of underrepresented voices that came before them while boldly carving their own new narratives. This listening guide is an introduction to Black composers making history in the present moment.
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Review: Skaneateles Festival celebrates Harriet Tubman's 200th birthday
AUGUST 5, 2023 | Syracuse.com
Celebrating Harriet Tubman's life and legacy through song, the Skaneateles Festival hosted “Following Harriet,” an evening of soul-stirring music for strings and voice. Friday night’s greatest gift, however, was the world premiere of Nailah Nombeko’s Fortitude, sung by one of opera’s most charismatic and gifted sopranos, Kearstin Piper Brown.
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Review: Eliot Fisk opens the 2023 Skaneateles Festival
JULY 28, 2023 | Syracuse.com
Between numerous standing ovations inside First Presbyterian Church and the intermittent showers tapping on the roof, classical guitarist Eliot Fisk kicked off the Skaneateles Festival with a bang—or, more appropriately, a strum.
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Spoleto to premiere new opera for 2024: “Ruinous Gods”
JUNE 10, 2023 | Charleston City Paper
Less than 24 hours before concluding its season, Spoleto Festival USA on June 10 unveiled a centerpiece of next year’s programming – “Ruinous Gods,” a newly commissioned opera about the psychological traumas faced by families and children as a result of ongoing immigration crises around the world.
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Orchestra celebrates Glass, Chen, homecomings over 3 nights
JUNE 4, 2023 | Charleston City Paper
The Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra presents a Philip Glass premiere piece conducted by John Kennedy, Symphonie Fantastique conducted by Charleston native Jonathon Heyward and New World Symphony conducted by Mei-Ann Chen who makes her Spoleto debut.
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Review: Spoleto’s third chamber music program offers Hollywood delight
MAY 30, 2023 | Charleston City Paper
Showcasing music from early Hollywood, Spoleto's Chamber Music Program III had audiences roaring with laughter and applauding Charles Koechlin’s Épitaphe de Jean Harlow and Stephen Prutsman’s original scoring of Seven Chances, a 1925 silent comedy by Buster Keaton.
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Chamber Music Charleston’s programs highlight rediscovery, adventure
MAY 29, 2023 | Charleston City Paper
Chamber Music Charleston returns to the Piccolo Spoleto Festival this season with "Forgotten Voices," celebrating music by Baroque women composers and "Capturing the American Spirit," featuring string quartet pieces that paint the nation’s rich soundscape.
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Spoleto's chamber music series presents 37 works by 37 composers
MAY 26, 2023 | Charleston City Paper
The 2023 Spoleto Festival USA's Bank of America Chamber Music series continues the legacy of Spoleto’s late director of chamber music, Geoff Nuttall, showcasing 37 works by 37 composers.
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Pennsylvania's Board Perspectives
APRIL 28, 2023 | Symphony.org
Leaders of orchestra boards across Pennsylvania share their most pressing concerns and hopes for the next generation of orchestra leaders, musicians, and audiences, and how they plan to connect with younger, more diverse communities in the "new normal" of post-pandemic life.
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People Protocols
JANUARY 23, 2023 | Opera America Magazine
Several opera companies are adopting codes of conduct intended to stop offensive behaviors in their tracks.
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Review: Rochester City Ballet performs "Turn of the Screw"
SEPTEMBER 17, 2022 | Rochester CITY
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In “Turn of the Screw and Other Terrifying Tales,” Rochester City Ballet dancers promised a goosebump-inducing performance to keep audiences on the edge of their seats. But did it justify the ticket price?
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Chamber musicians and glassblowers collaborate in"More Fire"
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022 | Rochester CITY
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More Fire Glass Studio and chamber ensemble fivebyfive perform contemporary compositions at the Rochester Fringe Festival, celebrating the United Nations International Year of Glass.
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With Strings for Peace, Sharon Isbin brings India to Aspen
AUGUST 1, 2022 | The Aspen Times / Aspen Music Festival "Festival Focus"
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Multiple Grammy-winning classical guitarist Sharon Isbin is joined by master sarod player Amjad Ali Khan and his two sons Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash, for one of the first musical collaborations of its kind.
Photo by Graham Northrup Photography
¡De Colores! Mariachi Community Concert
July 25, 2022 | The Aspen Times / Aspen Music Festival "Festival Focus"
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Denver-based Mariachi Sol de mi Tierra performs with local music students, educators and professional dancers from Aspen Santa Fe Ballet's Folklórico.
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Arie Vardi and students perform Mozart on three pianos
JULY 18, 2022 | The Aspen Times / Aspen Music Festival "Festival Focus"
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Internationally acclaimed pedagogue Arie Vardi is joined by pianists Anwen Deng, Illia Ovcharenko, and Ray Ushikubo for an evening of Mozart music.
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Gil Shaham and Sterling Elliott perform Brahms' Double Concerto
JULY 11, 2022 | The Aspen Times / Aspen Music Festival "Festival Focus"
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Two of the Aspen Music Festival and School's alumni, Gil Shaham and Sterling Elliott, join forces for Brahms' Double Concerto for Violin and Cello.
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Recitals present the best of strings solo and ensemble repertoire
JULY 4, 2022 | The Aspen Times / Aspen Music Festival "Festival Focus"
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The Pacifica Quartet performs Jennifer Higdon's Voices, a frenzied and ambiguous strings piece. Violinist Esther Yoo pays homage to her Korean heritage with Jeongkyu Park's theme and variations Toad.
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Whitaker, Alsop return to Aspen to play varied set
JUNE 27, 2022 | The Aspen Times / Aspen Music Festival "Festival Focus"
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American conductor Marin Alsop leads the Aspen Chamber Symphony in George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, featuring pianist Matthew Whitaker.
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Expression: Spring 2022
APRIL 2022 | The Brooks Center for the Performing Arts
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Expression is a publication for "Friends of the Brooks Center" donors about all things theater, music, and audio technology happening with students, faculty, and alumni of Clemson University's performing arts department.​
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Recount: A Music History Magazine
NOVEMBER 2021
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As a part of the Music History before 1750 course at Clemson University, Piper wrote about Adémar de Chabannes, an11th century composer, historian, and successful literary forger. She stylized her annotated bibliography as a magazine to demonstrate her publication career interest.
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Expression: Fall 2021
OCTOBER 2021 | The Brooks Center for the Performing Arts
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Expression is a publication for "Friends of the Brooks Center" donors about all things theater, music, and audio technology happening with students, faculty, and alumni of Clemson University's performing arts department.​
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The Brothers Johnston: Australian Guitar Duo
AUGUST 9, 2021 | The Aspen Times / Aspen Music Festival "Festival Focus"
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Considered to be among Australia’s finest young concert artists, brothers Ziggy and Miles perform in multiple Grammy-winner Sharon Isbin's Spotlight Guitar Recital.
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Expression: Spring 2021
APRIL 2021 | The Brooks Center for the Performing Arts
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Expression is a publication for "Friends of the Brooks Center" donors about all things theater, music, and audio technology happening with students, faculty, and alumni of Clemson University's performing arts department.​
Courtesy of the Brooks Center
Expression: Fall 2020
SEPTEMBER 2020 | The Brooks Center for the Performing Arts
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Expression is a publication for "Friends of the Brooks Center" donors about all things theater, music, and audio technology happening with students, faculty, and alumni of Clemson University's performing arts department.​
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Marlowe Sigal Documentary
AUGUST 12, 2020 | Sigal Music Museum
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Marlowe A. Sigal was internationally regarded as an expert on the study, preservation, and restoration of antique musical instruments. His 2015 book “Four Centuries of Musical Instruments,” showcased most of his world-class private collection of 700 keyboards, flutes and whistles, woodwinds, strings, percussion, and world instruments spanning over 400 years.
