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Month: December 2020

CLEVER NEW PATH TOWARD AN OPERA PREMIERE

CLEVER NEW PATH TOWARD AN OPERA PREMIERE

If you have the heart of a gambler with the talent to carry off a tennis doubles tournament, you could be running a company like the East Bay’s West Edge Opera. Meet Mark Streshinsky, general director of spunky West Edge, who is selecting the best possible creative team for a world premiere opera a good two years down the road. All without mirrors, tricks, or foundation underwriting. There’s both the heart and the gambling. And then, resembling a tennis tourney,…

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Celebrating Beethoven’s 250th

Celebrating Beethoven’s 250th

If you think of Ludwig van Beethoven mostly as the Ninth Symphony and the dih-dih-dih-DAH Fifth, I propose your spending his epic 250th anniversary these days by looking at him as the audacious innovator, many decades ahead of his times, as reflected in his late string quartets. He had been many things to many people: a feminist (in “Fidelio”), a freedom fighter battling oppression (“Egmont”), a master reformulator of the piano, and an unprecedented purveyor of high drama in music…

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