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Paul Kellogg, New York City Opera Impresario, Dies at 84
He had no opera experience when he was chosen to run the Glimmerglass Opera in upstate New York; 17 years later, he took on City Opera during a difficult period.
Paul Kellogg in 2007 at the New York State Theater, as the New York City Opera’s home was then called. As leader of both that company and the Glimmerglass Opera, he made the two houses creative partners.Credit.Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
April 28, 2021
Paul Kellogg, an innovative impresario who led the Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, N.Y., and later, during a dynamic and financially precarious period, also led the New York City Opera, died on Wednesday at a hospital in Cooperstown. He was 84.
Conductor David Hoose turns toward the next movement
By Jeremy Eichler Globe Staff,Updated February 18, 2021, 9:00 a.m.
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David Hoose believes that, on its face, choral music can be difficult to love.
Itâs an unexpected sentiment from the conductor of Cantata Singers, one of the cityâs most treasured ensembles, but Hoose has his reasons: The sound of a chorus doesnât have as much coloristic glamour or layered complexity as the sound of an orchestra; at a choral concert, there is nothing to watch â no bows dancing in unison or percussion vividly struck; there are none of the dramatic plots or the costumes found in opera; and in many choral works, you canât even understand the words well enough to appreciate the subtlety of their relationship to the music.