For its 2021-22 season, the Columbus Symphony will celebrate two momentous occasions: first, the 70th anniversary of the organization’s founding in 1951; and second, its emergence from the current, pandemic-altered season.
Although a reduced version of the symphony has been giving a steady stream of limited-capacity concerts in the Ohio Theatre this season, symphony leaders acknowledge that audiences expect big and bold concerts in the season ahead.
“We were going to do the very best we could in every circumstance, but we also have been saying for a good six months that we were not going to limp out of COVID that we were going to burst out of COVID,” Executive Director Denise Rehg said. “That is what the season is meant to do.”
Classical Voice of North Carolina),
Michael Delfín is a versatile performer of historical keyboard instruments and the modern piano. Michael is the recipient of the 2018 Historical Keyboard Society of North America Bechtel/Clinkscale Scholarship and 2017 Catacoustic Consort Early Music Grant. He has performed for the Historical Keyboard Society of North America and the Central California Baroque Festival and has given lectures on historical performance topics for Early Music America, HKSNA, and the Case Western Reserve University Music Department. He is artistic director of Seven Hills Baroque in Cincinnati and has taught figured bass and improvisation at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Michael has attended the American Bach Soloists Academy and the University of Michigan Early Keyboard Institute and performed in masterclasses for Richard Egarr, Joseph Gascho, Corey Jamason, Edward Parmentier, and Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra.
Michael Ray Johnston dead at 64 April 12, 2021
Michael Ray Johnston
Michael Ray Johnston, 64, of Charlotte, North Carolina, died February 22. Born July 3, 1956, in Charlotte, he graduated from North Mecklenburg High School in 1974. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, North Carolina, in 1978 and a Master of Music degree in church music from Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey, in 1980. After piano study with Flora Neely and vocal study as a teenager with Harvey L. Woodruff, he studied voice with Julie Fortney and William Thomas at Mars Hill and Marvin Keenze at Westminster. His organ study was with Donna Robertson at Mars Hill and William Hays at Westminster, and conducting studies were with Joel Stegall at Mars Hill and Joseph Flummerfelt at Westminster.
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Covent Garden unleashes its beating heart, plus April’s best classical concerts and opera
5/5
Britain s piano wunderkind delivered a musically huge programme from the empty Barbican, his face impassive but his performance magical
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Rich in irony: The Seven Deadly Sins
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Seven Deadly Sins/Mahagonny Songspiel, Royal Opera House
★★★★★
On Friday night, while many performances were cancelled following the death of Prince Philip, the Royal Opera House, went ahead with the streamed premiere of two satirical works by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill.
While some might feel that the company’s decision was disrespectful, I think the ROH did the right thing. Not only did they offer an on-screen tribute and a minute’s silence, I reckon the Duke of Edinburgh, who was well-known for finding opera a tremendous bore, might have enjoyed the theatrical flair of these shows and the hit songs.