GRECCHINOIS
Gods of the Earth
…Experiencing song, both as a listener and as a performer, is to live the experience William Blake conjures in the opening lines of his Auguries of Innocence: “to see a world in a grain of sand”. It is like looking through a kaleidoscope.…
OCTOBER NEWSLETTER
I send you greetings from Rome, where we are in the midst of preparations for the opening of Kaija Saariaho’s Adriana Mater at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma next week. It’s a joy to reunite…
A SPRIG OF THYME
On this New Year’s Day, a sprig of of thyme.
“…Thyme it is the prettiest thing,
And time it will grow on,
And time it'll bring all things to an end
And so does my time grow on…”
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELIZABETH
“One of the social media initiatives at CAIC last year was a weekly #WomensHistoryWednesday post as we focused on the theme of last year’s Collaborative Works Festival, which celebrated the the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment…”
WINTER LIEDER LOUNGE
“My day today has mostly been about making sure everything ran smoothly for this weekend’s broadcast of CAIC’s Winter Lieder Lounge, which is streaming through this weekend. I wrote recently about how much I enjoyed producing this recital, and how rewarding it has been to be able to work with my friends and colleagues in this way over the years…”
MUSICAL MACHISMO
“During last night’s episode of Heard Over The Piano, Sasha Cooke spoke a bit about the singer’s stigma of being a ‘good musician’. While that initially sounds like a compliment, early on in her career she had the impression that many believe that ‘being a good musician’ was really a euphemism for ‘not a good singer’…”
LISTENING OVER THE PIANO
“I had a fascinating conversation this evening with the mezzo-soprano, Sasha Cooke, as part of CAIC’s online discussion series, Heard Over The Piano. We started the series this season at CAIC in order to provide a virtual approximation of the salon-aspect of how we normally present recitals in Chicago when we are able to do live concerts. Ever since the beginning of the organization…”
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