With Mark Abel’s new album “The Cave of Wondrous Voice” dropping on May 1, this seems like the right moment for these shots of legendary chamber players David Shifrin, Fred Sherry and Carol Rosenberger rehearsing Mark’s “Clarinet Trio” prior to its recording at Oktaven Audio in Mount Vernon, NY. The images were taken by Leland…
American pianist, and Delos artist, Tara Kamangar writes from New York City that she finds Carol Rosenberger’s To Play Again “a powerful memoir…I came across it yesterday front-and-center at the Juilliard Bookstore (see photos), started reading it yesterday and finished it today— so riveting and beautifully written, I couldn’t put it down.” Tara reflects that…
In 1973, I began recording for the fledgling Delos label with Szymanowski’s Masques and Etudes. Delos was the brainchild of the remarkable Amelia Haygood, then a practicing psychologist, who was also a lifelong classical music devotee. Amelia’s mission in forming Delos was to give American artists an international platform. (Everyone in the classical music business…
In To Play Again: A Memoir of Musical Survival, Carol Rosenberger shares the story of her remarkable life from her days as a young pianist, ready to embark on a concert career but unexpectedly struck by a debilitating attack of polio, to her ultimate recovery and return to the stage. Rosenberger was studying with famed…
Below is an excerpt from Delos Director Carol Rosenberger‘s new memoir, To Play Again, about when she first came across the music of Mark Abel: As I continue as caretaker of Delos, there are always exciting developments on the horizon—some carefully planned and others completely unexpected. And I always wish I could share them with…
Of all the countless artists who revere the memory of Nadia Boulanger and have sought to pay homage to her singular musical influence and to preserve her legacy, few (if any) have done so in such a unique manner as Bruno Monsaingeon. Known primarily for his candid and revealing film documentaries about many of the…
Pre-Order In July of 2016, it was my joyful privilege to visit the exact location where Debussy wrote the two books comprising his Douze Études. Pourville-Sur-Mer, on the coast of Normandy, is a small town that Nature itself has kept in pristine condition, still very much like Debussy himself would have experienced it. I felt…
Order Now Based on my familiarity with her three brilliantly played and thought-provoking Delos albums, I looked forward greatly to Greek guitarist Smaro Gregoriadou’s November 19th concert at the Trianon Theatre in downtown San Jose, Ca. She did not disappoint, delighting a large crowd with a wide-ranging program which left no doubt that she is…
Pre-Order One finds Puccini’s Tosca, La Bohème, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot on the schedules of almost all opera houses. By contrast, La Rondine is one of the most seldom performed of his works. Puccini was originally asked to compose an operetta, and – indeed – he began to compose the work with that in mind.…
I have the great pleasure of writing this, at least part of it, on a moving train cutting through the Bohemian countryside. Central European clichés lay just beyond the window: frost-laden fields, misty rivers, ruined castles, red-brown villages squeezed into narrow valleys, a mangy dog sleeping atop a stone wall. I am having a beer…
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…
We piled into our van for the drive from Lugo to Modena. Our driver, Vittoria, also happens to be the drummer in a rock band called Massimo Volume which has been around for a number of years and is quite well known in Italy and has toured the states several times. In Modena, the Rileys…
Today we traveled about an hour to the little town of Lugo. Surrounded by farmland and vineyards, this peaceful little town is home of the Teatro Rossini, one of those perfect little opera houses you find sprinkled throughout Italy. I remember being enchanted by the first one I encountered in Perugia when I played there…
The previous night was a late one, so I figured Terry would want to sleep in a bit and get a late start rehearsing, and with such a late dinner I thought I’d just skip breakfast and sleep as well. So I headed over to the rehearsal studio around 11:00 to find Terry had been…
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