الوسم: David T. Little
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Critics Weigh In on Standout Operas of Recent Decades
"Tomorrow's Valhalla: Critics Weigh in on Standout Operas of Recent Decades"The New York Times, January 5, 2014 As longtime perusers of this blog already know, I always enjoy features in which all the classical-music reviewers for The New York Times are asked to mix it up on a single topic. I missed posting the recent…
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Time Out New York interview with Lauren Worsham
Lauren Worsham, by Kristin Hoebermann Interview with Lauren WorshamTime Out New York, Feb. 21–27, 2013 An excruciatingly short snippet from a lengthy, wide-ranging and brilliantly fun conversation with Lauren Worsham (full name: Lauren Worsham Jarrow), who plays Flora in New York City Opera's stylishly spooky production of Benjamin Britten's opera The Turn of the Screw.…
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Soldier Songs at Pace University, January 11, 2013
Zac Ballard and Christopher Burchett in Soldier Songs, by Ruby Washington/The New York Times Soldier Songs at Pace University, January 11, 2013The New York Times, Jan. 15, 2013 So glad to have seen David T. Little's first musical-theater piece, especially having been so deeply impressed and moved by his subsequent opera, Dog Days (reviewed here…
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“Curtains Fall, But Operas Reverberate”: New York Times year-end essay
Einstein on the Beach at BAM, by Sara Krulwich/The New York Times "Curtains Fall, But Operas Reverberate"The New York Times, Dec. 16, 2012 A year-end essay for The New York Times about the two events that had the most enduring impact for me in 2012: Philip Glass and Robert Wilson's Einstein on the Beach, which…
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Dog Days at Montclair State University, September 29, 2012
Lauren Worsham in 'Dog Days,' by Ruby Washington/The New York Times Dog Days at Montclair State University, September 29, 2012The New York Times, Oct. 4, 2012 This new opera, by composer David T. Little and librettist Royce Vavrek, is without question among the most important and memorable pieces I've heard this year. That I hope…
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The New Season: David T. Little and Olga Neuwirth
“Spotlight Illuminates Work by 2 Composers”The New York Times, Sept. 9, 2012 Just back from a brief but badly needed vacation to find the annual New Season issue of The New York Times Arts & Leisure section is out. I haven't had any time to digest this year's epistle, but for years now (since long,…
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New frontier.
"In Brooklyn, a New Leader Who Knows No Boundaries"The New York Times, October 2, 2011 An article about the arrival of Alan Pierson as the new artistic director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic, an esteemed ensemble that has known tremendous highs and disheartening lows over the years. At a time when the orchestra is not only…
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Weather report.
Tune-In Music Festival: Inuksuit at the Park Avenue ArmoryThe New York Times, February 22, 2011 Some scenes from the performance: The drill hall, viewed from the east end. John Luther Adams (left), rapt. David T. Little at work. Nicholas Photinos of eighth blackbird in a stairwell. Looking down from behind Steven Schick, west-end gallery.