Dear Editor: What perfect timing with your issue about singing the National Anthem! I found the article to be interesting and informative, as it is a popular topic these days.
Stop, Drop and… Sing? During the Royal Opera House’s June 29th performance of The Queen of Spades, soprano Susan Chilcott was reminded of her fire safety lessons when an onstage
You can be chosen to sing at Carnegie Hall. A group that performs at Carnegie (Weill Hall) regularly is The New York Festival of Song, Inc. (NYFOS). Take a look the website www.nyfos.org for some very innovative recital programming! It was founded in 1988 by its co-artistic directors, Michael Barrett and Steven Blier, and is dedicated to the re-invention of the recital format. CS interviewed Steven Blier via e-mail.
Soprano Suzanne Rhodes Draayer had the vision, found a partial grant and did the recital…despite a terrible last minute obstacle.
The first day I came to New York, I didn’t run to see Lincoln Center, I headed straight for Carnegie Hall. It was the thrill of my life to actually
How do you get to Carnegie Hall? “Well, you could practice, of course. Or you could take the Seventh Avenue subway,” so chuckled Sherrill Milnes during a recent interview discussing
Miss Roberta Peters gave a well-received recital at Alice Tully Hall on November 17, 2000—fifty years to the day, almost to the minute, of her Met debut. And that debut
It’s time to practice but you’re just sick of it all. What to do? Annette Nauraine offers immediate help here
The following letter to the editor was sent to Classical Singer magazine by Willie Anthony Waters, General Director of Connecticut Opera and Artistic Director/Conductor of Opera Ebony. It was originally intended for the New York Times as a response to an article about whether Gershwin’s wishes should be ignored and other races should be allowed to be cast in Porgy and Bess. The New York Times chose not to print the letter. Classical Singer also was not able to print the entire letter due to space concerns as it is over 2000 words long. After some deliberation, we chose to print a 700 word version of it here but make the full letter available to readers on the website version of “Letters to the Editor.”
After CS interviewed MidAmerica Productions, we were fortunate to interview Eileen Terril of the Independence Messiah Festival who had used MidAmerica’s services to arrange a trip to perform at Carnegie Hall two years ago. This choir’s experience performing there for the first time exemplifies what the venue has come to mean to singers all over the world
We all know more than we’d like to about bad stress. It can erode our enjoyment of life, make our relationships troubled, and even shorten our lives. But did you
If you want to get to Carnegie Hall, you might take a look at MidAmerica Productions. MidAmerica has arguably brought more artists to Carnegie Hall than any other organization. To date, approximately 600 solo artists and 86,000 choristers have appeared with MidAmerica’s Productions. Classical Singer spoke with the founder of MidAmerica, Peter Tiboris.
