EarRelevant Staff | 30 OCT 2019
Prominent Atlanta artists often hit the media in other parts of the world. Here are four recent reviews of October shows which involved a few of the city’s prominent names:
NEW YORK CITY, New York— Transcendent rarities and world premieres open the 2019 Momenta Festival · delarue | New York Music Daily, 16 OCT 2019. “In typical Momenta [Quuartet] fashion, they played a world premiere, Alvin Singleton‘s Hallelujah Anyhow.”
HOUSTON, Texas— A stellar cast carries Houston Grand Opera’s flashy gangland Rigoletto ·: Steven Brown | Teas Classical Review, 19 OCT 2019 – “By updating Rigoletto to the 1920s or ’30s, stage director Tomer Zvulun gives a gangsterish twist to Giuseppe Verdi’s tale of men behaving badly.”
SYDNEY, Australia— Review: Donald Runnicles conducts Fauré’s Requiem · Justine Nguyen | Limelight, 24 OCT 2019 “Donald Runnicles offers up a rich and often exquisite meditation on death.”
DALLAS, Texas— A Sea Symphony finally sails into Dallas, with a new Tsontakis violin concerto · Scott Cantrell | Dallas Morning News, 26 OCT 2019 – “Led by guest conductor Robert Spano, the DSO and Dallas Symphony Chorus gave a performance alternately thrilling and enchanting Friday night.”
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