Park City’s Beethoven Festival has only three performances left on the schedule for its 29th summer season. Yesterday’s full house at the concert at Temple Har Shalom could be called a “sold out” house, except the Festival vows it will always find ways to add more seats to make sure everyone can get in to …
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INTERPRETATION: A CASE FOR BROAD PERSPECTIVE
How wonderful it would be to be able to hear Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony exactly as it was heard at its premiere! Or would it? Let’s picture it. It’s December 1808. You live in a tidy hamlet a few miles from the center of bustling Vienna. Though it has been a few years since you’ve gone …
HUMMIE MANN: NOTHING SOUNDS AS GOOD AS A REAL ORCHESTRA
While film composer Hummie Mann was in Utah for the Sundance Film Festival, he took some time to visit with Reichel Recommends about his work as an educator, his philosophy on film composition, and the state of the industry today. I’ve always been a teacher. That’s just part of my DNA. Even when I was …
UTAH OPERA BRINGS EXOTICISM OF SOUTH AMERICA TO CAPITOL THEATRE STAGE
Utah Opera will be stepping out of the comfort zone of standard repertoire when it presents Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas starting Jan. 19. The work received its world premiere in 1996 at Houston Grand Opera, and since then has been staged at a number of houses around the country, including Los Angeles Opera, …
THREE SINGERS ADVANCE TO REGIONAL ROUND IN METROPOLITAN OPERA NATIONAL COUNCIL AUDITIONS
Two Utah natives and a former student at the University of Utah won the Utah District auditions of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Saturday in Libby Gardner Concert Hall. They are: soprano Melissa Otani-Jensen, 26, from Orem; soprano Rebecca Pedersen, 21, from Bountiful; and baritone Jared Bybee, 26, from Modesto, Calif., who studied music …
MET OPERA UTAH DISTRICT AUDITIONS TO TAKE PLACE SATURDAY
The yearly Metropolitan Opera auditions have helped countless budding opera singers, many of whom have gone on to distinguished international careers. Renée Fleming, Deborah Voigt, Lawrence Brownlee, Nathan Gunn and Samuel Ramey are just a few who got their start through the Met auditions. There are three stages in the audition process. The first round …
BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL BRINGS CHAMBER MUSIC TO PARK CITY IN JULY AND AUGUST
Chamber music enjoyed a significant position in Ludwig van Beethoven’s output. His piano sonatas, string quartets, piano trios, violin sonatas and cello sonatas are staples of the repertoire. And, in fact, his quartets, particularly the late ones (those written in the last decade of his life), are especially revered. But despite this large body of …