Monsters of Grace, the 1997 Philip Glass/Robert Wilson collaboration, marked a new direction for Wilson; this opera consisted of an animated film accompanied by singers in the pit with the instrumentalists rather than on-stage. Difficulties in communicating Wilson's vision to the animators left both collaborators dissatisfied with the result, and ...
This album of unaccompanied choral music by the Choir of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York City looks like a sampler from the outside, but the notes reveal a fairly specific program, which can be interpreted either as "Christ's persecution and suffering intermingled with his concession to God's will with his redeeming final transformation into pure ...
Spike Jones had a rank of chromatically tuned cowbells as part of the elaborate assemblage of junk and spare parts that made up his expanded drum kit. Most folks used to think Jones was a nut and that his music was the ne plus ultra of corn; but in the twenty first century, it isn't the least bit unusual for an ace percussionist to have a set of ...
Written between two of Rodgers and Hammerstein's biggest hits, Carousel and South Pacific, Allegro is one of their least-often performed collaborations; its original 1947 Broadway production was a financial failure, and critical and public opinion was decidedly mixed. Part of the problem must have been its stark departure from the dramatic realism ...
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