Sony's 25-CD set "Wagner at the Met: Legendary Performances" reminds us that when the Metropolitan Opera was a great Wagner house -- how times have changed! -- it was also a permanent home to great conductors. My "Remembering Artur Bodanzky," in the current issue of Barry Millington's excellent Wagner Journal, expounds: An abundance of evidence – written and recorded – … [Read more...] about Remembering Artur Bodanzky
Archives for July 2014
Dvorak’s “Hiawatha” Symphony — Part Two
My last posting introduced the Hiawatha Melodrama, proposing a radical re-interpretation of Dvorak’s New World Symphony. As a postscript, here is a visual rendering of the Melodrama’s fifth movement by my colleague Peter Bogdanoff. As concocted by myself and the Dvorak scholar Mike Beckerman, the Melodrama aligns text from Longfellow’s “The Song of Hiawatha” with music by … [Read more...] about Dvorak’s “Hiawatha” Symphony — Part Two