ITHACA, NY After the long and dismal two years when we were deprived of our annual May treat, we will be rewarded with five wonderful live concerts at Cornell,
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Like most, I came to the Aspen Music Festival this year not knowing quite what to expect. . What we heard was as good as, and in some ways better, than usual.
Carmen, and Anna in
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Emily Mair as Adina, with Graeme Gorton, in Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore in 1967. Three years in the BBC Chorus followed, working with eminent conductors. She met and, in 1951, married New Zealand cellist Wilfrid Simenauer. They gave many concerts together.
The Radio Times reveals that, before 1960, Emily broadcast on the BBC (at least) seven times as a collaborative pianist (mostly with Wilf) and twice as a singer. This changed. Between 1960 and 1964, she made just three broadcasts as a pianist, but seven as a singer. 1960 was a pivotal year. Emily appeared at Glyndebourne (as Emily Maire – Mair sounding just a bit too Ayrshire for Glyndebourne management) singing the First Boy in
Richard Strauss’s
Der Rosenkavalier. Vladimir Jurowski conducts Barrie Kosky’s new staging with Marlis Petersen (Die Marschallin), Samantha Hankey (Octavian), Katharina Konradi (Sophie), Christof Fischesser (Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau), and Johannes Martin Kränzle (Herr von Faninal). The new production will be performed in the arrangement by Eberhard Kloke which transcribes the score to match the orchestration of Strauss’s opera
Ariadne auf Naxos. View here.
12 pm ET: IDAGIO Global Concert Hall presents
Ex Cathedra: Baroque Passion. Jeffrey Skidmore and his choir Ex Cathedra present a program of passionate Lenten music by Kuhnau, Lotti, Monteverdi, and Purcell. It’s poignant music that yearns for resolution heart-rending as Mary weeps at the foot of the cross in Scarlatti’s