HGO’s Julius Caesar
A beautiful opera, no doubt about it. And it fared much better in the cavernous George R. Brown Convention Center than last week’s La Traviata. Read my review at Houstonia.
Month: October 2017
Opera after a Hurricane
How do you review an opera after a natural disaster like Hurricane Harvey wipes out its hall for a season? It’s not anything I ever learned in school. At Houston Grand Opera’s season opening night of La Traviata on Friday, I… Continue Reading
Wadada Leo Smith
I’ve talked to a lot of composers about how they craft sound and experience, but my conversation with jazz trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith about Ten Freedom Summers, his work reflecting on the Civil Rights Movement, was something else entirely.… Continue Reading