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Cooperstown · CooperstownIf you were expecting a Hogarth-pretty version of Igor Stravinsky, W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman’s The Rake’s Progress at the renowned Glimmerglass Festival, you were at the wrong address. For Director/Choreographer Eric Sean Vogel and his wildly imaginative creative team have devised a riveting take on this challenging masterpiece, one that is inventively abstract and persuasively surreal, that chillingly reflects Tom Rakewell’s inexorable pr…Read Article
Revolutionary Rake at Glimmerglass
Cooperstown · CooperstownFor its annual American musical presentation, Glimmerglass Festival lovingly staged a scintillating production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Sunday in the Park with George. It is hard to believe that the iconic original Broadway production was over forty years ago, so vividly it remains in my memory. It is a pleasure to report that this new staging not only challenges the glories of that first showing but also actually incorporates a f…Read Article
Vintage Sondheim in Upstate New York
London, England · LondonMemories of Pierre Boulez continue to hover over this year’s Proms like a spectre at the feast. My first encounter with Bartók’s The Miraculous Mandarin – his masterpiece, in my view – was in this hall, with this very orchestra and choir – and what a performance it was. Stark, malevolent and capricious Boulez and the BBC Symphony Orchestra left a lasting impression – and few performances since (Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra a notable ex…Read Article
