Camera Obscura: Christmas Edition
The golden voiced Cantori New York gave a choral concert on Sunday. Sitting there listening to their beautiful renditions of …
Category Archives: Singing
The Weary Brow
At our first choral rehearsal of the season, our music director admonished us for eye rolling when requested to sing …
Call to Remembrance: David Clark Isele
Last week we lost David Clark Isele, composer, conductor, teacher and friend. I first met David as a shy freshman …
Vanity Fair and Foul
On a recent visit to the Metropolitan Opera, I saw the magnificent Nina Stemme sing the title role in Strauss’ …
Singing Missa
When I told my beloved dissertation advisor and now emeritus professor that my chorus was preparing Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis for …
Leadership 101
According to Webster’s dictionary, “to lead” is: to go before or with, to show the way, conduct or escort; to …
Mr. McNally Goes to the Opera
Fans of the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts on Saturday afternoons, and especially the opera quiz, will remember the playwright Terrence …
Words into Life
The Greek god Dionysos, god of many names, known to the Romans as Bacchus, god of wine, of theatre, of …
Holding Up the Sky
The usual depiction of the titan Atlas, carrying the weight of the celestial sphere, is a classical view of the …
And When It Is Bad…..
What is it about opera in performance that, when it succeeds, scales the heights of human emotion, art and possibility; …
Poets' Sinews 