Oct. 25, 2007, Sala Cecilia Meireles
I met the young gaucho composer Dimitri Cervo at the 2003 Bienal of Contemporary Music, where his works for solo flute and strings, Pattapiana [named for Pattapio Silva, a great Brazilian flutist who died tragically
young at the beginning of the last century] made quite an impression.
Incoming general director of Santa Fe Opera, Charles MacKay, has made clear he is ìin the tradition — I will not be an agent for radical change,î at the celebrated New Mexico summer opera festival, MacKay says.
Composer Frederick Carrilho was born in 1971 in the state of Sao Paulo, and has studied guitar and composition, most recently at UNICAMP in Campinas. His music has been heard at the recent biennial festivals of contemporary music in Rio, with the Profus„o V ñ Toccata making a strong impression at the Bienal of 2007. We spoke in Portuguese.
What makes the first visit to Guanajuatoís Teatro Ju·rez breathtaking is the suddenness of the encounter.
José Orlando Alves is a young composer, originally from Minas Gerais, but who spent many years in Rio de Janeiro, where he has been active for a decade with the composers’ collaborative, Preludio XXI.
In the long ago, when the best source of music reproduction in the home was a handsome piece of furniture, fitted with hidden audio components, and usually called radio-phonographs, my family had one ó from Avery Fisher I believe ó that had among its controls a switch labeled ëpresence.í
Uncut with Canada’s Mistress of the trouser-role: the multifaceted Kimberly Barber.
Houston puts final touches on new Heggie opera
Thereís still a hint of jest in the comparison, but itís not without reason that Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally are mentioned now and then in opera circles as ìthe Strauss and Hofmannsthal of the 21st century.î