But what if this impossible decision was made more impossible still? What if today’s great pianists could play one piece — and one piece only — for the rest of their lives? What would they choose, and why? Here’s what they told us.
TransCentury Communications reviews "Soul of a Nation"
The four presidential-focused concertos by Victoria Bond (born 1945) on a new Albany Records CD quite clearly have Copland’s Lincoln Portrait as a model – Bond herself says so – but they also, and rather more interestingly, adapt Charles Ives’ approach of including familiar, even homespun music within the newly composed material.
Victoria Bond releases new CD on Albany Records
Schmopera - TALKING WITH SINGERS: NELSON EBO
Lucid Culture writes "Trio Vitruvi Make a Rapturously Vivid North American Debut at Carnegie Hall"
Art Music Lounge Reviews Trio Vitruvi CD
Schmopera - DON GIOVANNI: "STRENGTHENED BY REINTERPRETATION."
Heartbeat Opera Co-Music Director Daniel Schlosberg is ready for the company's fourth annual Spring Festival, where he'll unveil his new arrangement of Mozart's Don Giovanni. The composer and pianist has taken on operatic classics in past seasons, experimenting with percussion with Lucia di Lammermoor and adding jazz into Carmen; for this Don Giovanni, directed by Heartbeat Opera Co-Artistic Director Louisa Proske, he gets creative with the clarinet.
Schmopera - FIDELIO: STILL POLITICAL IN 2018
As Heartbeat Opera gears up for its fourth annual Spring Festival, Artistic Director Ethan Heard is in rehearsals for his poignant adaptation of Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio (May 3-13). Heard has written new English dialogue with Marcus Scott to bring the story of political prisoners into 2018; Heartbeat Opera's production features a primarily black cast, and a true "Prisoners' Chorus" of incarcerated members of 6 prison choirs across the Midwest.
Houlihan interviewed by Stephen Petke on WWUH
Limelight Magazine reviews Trio Vitruvi Carnegie Hall debut
Epoch Times reviews Jane Ira Bloom at BPAC
Buffalo News: Guest violinist, Rochester conductor make glorious music with the BPOGuest violinist, Rochester conductor make glorious music with the BPO
National Sawdust Log - Victoria Bond: Conducting a Life at the Cutting Edge
In a long and multi-faced career as composer, conductor, and concert presenter, Victoria Bond has created a legacy not only of her own compositions, but also of works by other composers via her annual new music showcase, Cutting Edge Concerts. The 21st season opens on April 9 at Symphony Space with the world premiere staging of Eric Salzman’s opera Big Jim and the Small-Time Investors. Each of the four programs, on consecutive Monday evenings in April, features a different performing ensemble, and includes at least one world premiere.
