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Month: January 2021

Play Maestro, Select the First Program

Play Maestro, Select the First Program

Care to play maestro? Want to assist your orchestra? Then help select a promising opening concert program. Right now you can step in and help your long-dormant local symphony conductor plan his/her Resumption Concert, likely the first one in a year. Not even world wars have been as successful as that detested virus in shutting down our vibrant nationwide concert activity. The programming for the Resumption will be tricky, with contrarian motivation. The maestro may well want to commemorate the…

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A Singer with Consummate Sensitivity

A Singer with Consummate Sensitivity

BERKELEY—Julia Bullock doesn’t just sing the music. She has a unique knack for feeling the music in every pore. She prompts you to exclaim, “Drop everything, Julia’s on!” In the surprisingly effective new format called the virtual recital, the Munich-based American mezzo is giving a 3-month-long display of German lieder and American show tunes, with that magnetic bi-national songwriter Kurt Weill linking in between. For this repertory, she is a stunning interpreter, with an enviable German pronunciation helped, no doubt,…

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