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IU s Phan looks at Vietnamese life in 1945 in What the Horse Eats Connie Shakalis Special to the H-T Making something appalling into something ravishing requires skill. Audiences will learn a bit of Asian history next month during a new one-hour chamber opera. There s a relationship between composer and audience; those who see What the Horse Eats will learn something about its composer, director and co-librettist. P.Q. Phan, professor of music composition at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, has come up with a chamber (short with only a few musical instruments, in this case eight) opera about Vietnam in 1945. World War II is moments from ending. ....
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Opera Saratoga Presents America Sings: A Juneteenth Celebration Juneteenth, which is celebrated on June 19th annually, commemorates the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people were freed. The arrival of troops came two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Confederate General Robert E. Lee had surrendered at Appomattox Court House two months earlier in Virginia, but slavery had remained relatively unaffected in Texas until U.S. General Gordon Granger stood on Texas soil and read General Orders No. 3: “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.” Juneteenth honors that day - the end of slavery in the United States. ....
Virtual classical picks to pack the shortest month Michael Andor Brodeur, The Washington Post Feb. 4, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 3of3 February is a short month in what already feels like a long year. But don t let it blow by without digging into its packed schedule (yes, these are snow references) of classical streams. Here s a half-dozen to get you started. - Met Nightly Opera Streams The Metropolitan Opera approaches a full year of its popular series of free Met Nightly Opera Streams with a two-week celebration of Black History Month, featuring performances from some of the greatest Black singers to take its stage. On Feb. 5 you can hear Kathleen Battle sing Susanna in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle s 1985 production of Mozart s Le Nozze di Figaro ( The Marriage of Figaro ); on Feb. 6, Battle and Jessye Norman star (as Zerbinetta and Ariadne, respectively) in Bodo Igesz s 1988 production of Strauss s Ariadne auf Naxos ; and on Feb. 7, Shirley Verrett leads T ....