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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 |
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By Wilma Salisbury
Soprano leads program with heart and soul Soprano Dawn Upshaw took listeners on a mesmerizing musical journey
Sunday night at Severance Hall. "Ayre," the stunning song cycle
written for her by Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov (who was in the
audience) revisits 15th-century Spain and its vivid mix of Christian,
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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 |
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By Evan Gillespie
Opera's Upshaw, eighth blackbird soar with 'Ayre'If the DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts offers
just one concert a year at the level of Saturday's performance by Dawn
Upshaw and eighth blackbird, the venue will fulfill its promise of significantly
enhancing South Bend's cultural opportunities. Upshaw's presentation
of Osvaldo Golijov's "Ayre" song cycle was world-class entertainment
the likes of which is not often available in this part of the country. |
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Saturday, October 22, 2005 |
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By Valerie Scher
Golijov's 'Ayre' an impressive showcase for UpshawDuring the final section of Osvaldo Golijov's "Ayre," celebrated
soprano Dawn Upshaw sang with her eyes closed and her body swaying, like
a diva in the throes of musical rapture. Her voice soared, attuned to the
exoticism of the instrumental accompaniment, which reflected both Middle
Eastern chromaticism and sultry Latin rhythms. |
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Thursday, October 20, 2005 |
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By David Gregson
eighth blackbird, Dawn Upshaw, Golijov… A terrific combination
Among the somewhat exclusive club of first-rate 21st-century
composers, Osvaldo Golijov is perhaps the most beguiling. His music
is often disarming, seductive, irresistible. Seemingly effortless and unselfconscious,
Golijov's music bridges stylistic and cultural barriers to achieve
a surprising profundity. Looking back on a century in which much of
the greatest music has frequently been, for all its genius, frightening or
ugly, we are surprised to find depth in a sonic world so richly melodic,
so unabashedly eclectic, and, finally, so indebted to non-Western folk traditions.
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Thursday, September 15, 2005 |
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By Clarke Bustard
Highbrow Hambone Three questions come up, more or less simultaneously, when eighth blackbird
performs: What's that sound? Where's it coming from? And what's it about?
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Sunday, August 14, 2005 |
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By Richard Dyer
Tanglewood fest focused on pleasure,
not principle
Works of all styles aimed to stir listeners' imaginations
LENOX -- Composer John Harbison curated an unusually undoctrinaire
Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood last week. The pieces were varied in ambition, style, technique, size of performing
forces, and length. The composers ranged in age from David M. Gordon,
born in 1976, to Elliott Carter, born in 1908. Four women were among
them, which would have seemed more remarkable a few years go; it just
seems normal now. |
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