A Conversation with the Conductor
Opera in the Heights begins its 20th anniversary season with a new conductor. Read my conversation with Eiki Isomura at Houstonia Magazine.
Author: Sydney Boyd
New York Notes
In New York City for the long weekend: Rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch–talented Justin Craig as Skszp the Music Director makes the show worth it, despite Taye Digg’s attempts to update the title role. More to come.
Notable Summer CD: Organist John Cannon
Should performers try to capture the composer’s original vision for a piece? As an audience, do we expect them to? It’s a complicated question if the composer is still alive. It becomes a scholarly question if, say, we’re talking about… Continue Reading
At Houstonia Magazine
“Making Music with Wine Glasses and Washcloths.” Brandon Bell and Da Camera’s Young Artist Concert Series “Stop, Look, and Listen!” concert May 9.
Visit an Enlightened Planet: Pandit Sanjeev Abhyankar at IMS
Girl At the Opera welcomes critic and scholar Theodore Bale for this special essay. Despite that fact that both of us are published music critics, we admit that we do not really know how to talk about Hindustani classical… Continue Reading
HGO’s Sweeney Todd
“Review: The Not-Demonic-Enough Barber of Fleet Street” at Houstonia Magazine.
I Need a Hero: HGO’s Die Walküre
Bonnie Tyler’s “I Need a Hero” should be a pre-requisite for anyone going to this opera. Read my review of Houston Grand Opera’s production of Die Walküre at Houstonia Magazine.
Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Bartók at Houston Symphony
…And Augustin Hadelich, playing Bartók’s second violin concerto, took the cake. Read my review at Bachtrack.
Damnation without Purification
My review of Houston Symphony performing Verdi’s Requiem on Friday night.
A Clarinet to Remember
An invigorating trio of Ives, Copland and Dvořák at Houston Symphony Orchestra this weekend, with soloist Martin Fröst, in his HSO debut, leaving a deep impression. Read my review at Bachtrack.