reviewer no longer to be confused by his notes
La Cieca’s cher public — and music lovers around the world — won’t have Bernard Holland to kick around any more. The veteran classical music reviewer is leaving the New York TImes after 27 years, though to us who read him regularly it has easily seemed twice that. Holland is one of about 85 NYT newsroom employees who have accepted a buyout offer intended to streamline the paper’s staff.
Remaining full-time classical music reviewers are Anthony Tommasini and Allan Kozinn; the paper also publishes reviews by James R. Oestreich (editor of classical music and dance) and freelancers Steve Smith and Vivien Schweitzer. [via musicalamerica.com]
I was reading the NYTimes this sunday and saw those tantalizing bits of casting news.
Well, Ewa is ill with bronchitis and has cancelled ; Sonia Prina will be taking her place. Also in the cast: Richard Croft and Veronica Cangemi.
“Veronica Cangemi” sounds like a great name for a commenter.
MALEDIZIONE! MALEDIZIONE!! MALEDIZIONE!!! I JUST A-FREAKIN-DORE EWA…
I can’t quite imagine anything by Zimmermann amounting to a “Disney ride.” But that said, I also can’t quite imagine why the moving tracks of audience seating are necessary. Has anyone seen the original production at the Ruhr Festival?
jfmurray3: I have a recording of that Jessye double-header in Troyens as well and she is simply stupendous. The 3-minute ovation she gets after “Adieu fiere cite” is huge. What’s amazing is that she sings her heart out throughout the whole performance, never holding back as Cassandre and with plenty of voice left for Didon. Too bad her Enee was Ed Sooter.
“It is past time for Peter Martins to depart, but there is no one, anywhere, with the requisite knowledge of the Balanchine repertory to replace Martins.”
What about Sean Lavery?
“I also can’t quite imagine why the moving tracks of audience seating are necessary.”
Probably not necessary, but possibly useful. Have you ever been in the Armory? It runs all the way from Park Avenue to Lexington Avenue. A big opera house if you’re wearing heels!
Hey thanks for the nod, above, jfmurray3. Nice of you to say!
Indeed Macaulay and his ilk were suckled on the venomous
tit of Arlene Crotchrot. Martins’s preservation of a wide spectrum of work by established masters is unique in ballet history. He is the world’s greatest living CLASSICAL choreographer and has a body of work of great distinction.