United Kingdom Various, The King’s Singers – Heiwa: Yamaha Piano Hall, London. First streamed on IDAGIO’s Global Concert Hall on 25.10.2020. (RP)
Japan is the second stop on The King’s Singers’ digital tour
Rick Perdian
Opera Philadelphia opens digital season with Lawrence Brownlee & Friends
United States Lawrence Brownlee & Friends in Philadelphia: Lawrence Brownlee (tenor), Lindsey Reynolds, Sarah Shafer & Karen Slack (sopranos), Myra Huang (piano). Performance from Opera Philadelphia, Wilma Theater, Philadelphia, live-streamed first on 23.10.2020. (RP)
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Animation makes White Snake Projects’ live digital opera, Alice in the Pandemic, zing!
United States Jorge Sosa, Alice in the Pandemic: Soloists, Victory Players, VOICES Boston / Tian Hui Ng (conductor). A digital opera from White Snake Projects, Boston, streamed via Crowdcast on 25.10.2020. (RP)
To America – a meditation on race exhumed from Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery
United States Death of Classical, ‘To America’: Curated by Andrew Ousley and Harry Weil, Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, 23.10.2020. (RP)
The loveliest of sounds – English lute songs performed by Kate Maroney and Adam Cockerham
United States T( )NIGHT – In Darkness Let Me Dwell: Kate Maroney (mezzo-soprano), Adam Cockerham (lute). Performed on 2.9.2020 at Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church, New York, and viewed on tenet.nyc on 22.10.2020. (RP)
Baruch Performing Arts Center presents dwb (driving while black) – a story of motherhood and race
United States Kander, dwb (driving while black): Roberta Gumbel (soprano), New Morse Code, Baruch Performing Arts Center and Opera Omaha. Performance recorded at Lawrence Art Center, Lawrence, Kansas, and viewed on YouTube. (RP)
Young Concert Artists announces 2020 events
Young Concert Artists announces 60th anniversary season
The 60th anniversary season of the Young Concert Artists opens on 21 October with a concert streaming live from Merkin Hall that will feature performances by an array of artists representing YCA’s remarkable history. The program will include solo and chamber works by Ravel, Bach, Handel and Higdon, as well as the world premiere of a partita for solo violin by YCA Composer Chris Rogerson. (Rogerson is represented by Young Concert Artists, Inc., and served as YCA Composer-in-Residence from 2010-2012. In 2016, he joined the Musical Studies Faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.)
Creativity and compassion from Pittsburgh Festival Opera in Opera Without Walls
United States Opera Without Walls: Various artists, Pittsburgh Festival Opera, streaming from Pittsburgh on YouTube. 14.10.2020 (RP)
