Carlos do Carmo helped popularize fado, Portugal’s national music, and gave it a political edge when Portugal’s dictatorship fell in 1974. This past weekend, he brought fado to New York.
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Tri-Cities Opera Sheds New Light on a Familiar Story
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In 1981 director Peter Brook created a pared-down version of Georges Bizet popular opera ‘Carmen’, incorporating elements from the original opera-comique version, and from the novella on which is was based. WSKG’s Sam Goodyear talks with the singers playing Carmen and Don Jose from Tri-Cities Opera’s production of ‘La Tragédie de Carmen”, Tascha Anderson and Andrew Surrena.
Photo credit: Randy Cummings, Bunn Hill Photo
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Arts Roundup: Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, Dweezil Zappa, Matthew Byrne and more
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Get out and enjoy the arts this weekend! Here are a few ideas…
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Composer Hugh McElyea Uses an Ancient Form to Portray Heroism and Sacrifice
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Composer Hugh McElyea talks about his work ‘Tenebrae: The Passion of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’. This theatrical work uses the ancient service of Tenebrae to tell the story of the last hours of Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer who could have fled Germany during the Nazi regime, but whose faith compelled him to stay and face imprisonment and eventual execution just days before the war ended.
Photo credit: www.tenebraelive.com
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‘A Feast for the Ears’ Showcases a Variety of Musical Styles
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Binghamton University Symphony Orchestra Music Director and Conductor Timothy Perry joins us to talk about ‘Symphonic Smorgasbord II: A Feast for the Ears’. Dr. Perry has essentially created a ‘new’ symphony by selecting the first movement of Cesar Franck’s Symphony in d minor, the second movement of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No.5 in e minor, the “Hunt” Scherzo from Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No.4, “Romantic”, and the fourth movement of Johannes Brahms’ Symphony No.4 in e minor. He talks about the challenges to the students of playing in very different styles of symphonies all written at about the same time.
Photo credit: Binghamton University Music Department
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The Cooperstown Summer Music Fest Presents its First Concert of the Season
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Cooperstown Summer Music Fest Artistic Director Linda Chesis joins us to talk about the first concert of the season, taking place at the Otesaga in Cooperstown. The American String Quartet performs Franz Schubert’s famous “Death and the Maiden” Quartet, Claude Debussy’s String Quartet in g minor, and Linda Chesis joins them as flutist in ‘Poem’ by Elmira-born composer Charles Tomlinson Griffes.
Photo credit: Peter Schaaf
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The Binghamton Baroque Orchestra Presents Its Next Concert
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The recently-formed Binghamton Baroque Orchestra continues its first season with some rarely-performed works.
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SRO Productions Presents ‘Always…Patsy Cline’
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‘Always…Patsy Cline’ is the true story of the friendship between the famous country singer and one of her fans through correspondence and a few meetings. Actors Alexandra Mendoza and Lynette Daniels join us to talk about SRO’s production of it and the many songs Cline made famous in her tragically short life.
Photo credit: SRO Productions
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Bassist Marc Johnson Highlights the 5th Annual Scott LaFaro Day Concert
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The Smith Center for the Arts presents the 5th Annual Scott LaFaro Day Celebration Concert on Saturday, April 7 in the Smith Opera House in Geneva. Bassist Marc Johnson joins us to talk about Scott’s legacy as a a ground-breaking jazz bassist. He is joined on the concert by his wife, Grammy-winning pianist and composer Eliane Elias, and Marc will even play a few number on Scott’s double bass.
Photo Credit: Jos Knaepen