Candid shots from a pre-recording rehearsal in Santa Monica for the song cycle “Four Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva,” a collaboration between composer Mark Abel and translator Alyssa Dinega Gillespie, chair of the Russian Department at Bowdoin College. The musicians are the renowned soprano Hila Plitmann, pianist and Delos label director Carol Rosenberger, and Sarah Beck,…
Please enjoy these shots of violinist Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker and pianist Dominic Cheli rehearsing Mark Abel’s “The Elastic Hours” in Los Angeles. Later on we moved to famed Capitol Recording Studios in Hollywood to lay down this piece for Mark’s next album, “The Cave of Wondrous Voice.” Photos by the fabulous Jeanine Hill (with contributions from Sabrina and…
Jamie Chamberlin, featured soprano on Delos release Terrain of the Heart, has the plum role of legendary Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe in Long Beach Opera’s upcoming production of Gavin Bryars’ Marilyn Forever. LBO describes Marilyn Forever as an examination of “Monroe’s intellectual and emotional relationship to death and love. As the work progresses, the performance…
Sorry for the delay in getting my descriptions of Moscow’s mind-boggling Tretyakov State Gallery and Jewish Museum and Center for Tolerance blog-worthy. Both places are of such high quality and vastness of scope that I can do no more than give a sense of why you mustn’t miss either one if you ever make it…
Due to some mysterious celestial alignments in early November, I briefly found myself in Moscow at the same time as Delos’ two most significant figures, label director and pianist Carol Rosenberger and Constantine Orbelian, the San Francisco-born symphony and opera conductor who has been Delos’ pre-eminent talent scout in Eastern Europe for two decades. The…
One of the joys of moving to a new area is the spate of unexpected surprises one is certain to encounter. For me, the new area is California’s sparsely populated and strikingly beautiful Central Coast. And a surprise, to be sure, was learning that the great Polish pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941) had deep connections…
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