Hey, devoted (or annoyed) readers of my Clef Notes and Drama Queens blog: You will now find me on the newly created Artsmash blog.(It may take a littl [ ...
Having succumbed at long last to a winter cold, I felt I would dedicate this Midweek Madness installment to my fellow sufferers. I suggest we all sing [ ...
Vocal recitals are rare enough in Baltimore that even a program of familiar lieder would qualify as a novelty. A program of way-off-the-beaten-path so [ ...
It looks like a full-fledged trend -- Baltimore theater companies adding performances of productions thanks to popular demand this winter. First to an [ ...
The last pope to take the name Benedict, before the one who made history this month announcing plans to retire, assumed his duties a few weeks after t [strewn with examples of successful first-time operas, so Puts’ debut in the ...
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra chose some of Richard Wagner’s most radiant and involving music for a program this weekend to mark the composer [did not tap all the emotive possibilities of the score’s silences, or allow for ...
In its nearly two dozen years, Signature Theatre has presented a rich variety of works, but none by the Bard -- not that there's anything wrong with t [overloaded on rote-learning of things like Latin (the recitation of "amo, amas, amat" ...
People anxious about seismic demographic shifts already under way in the Western Hemisphere may be a bit unnerved by Caridad Svich’s futuristic [build a satisfying structure for her ideas. As theater, the piece tends to sag or ...