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Classical music: The Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society cancels its “Riches to Rags” chamber music season this June and postpones it until next June
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By Jacob Stockinger
The Ear has received the following announcement to post:
The Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society’s 29th season will become our 30th season celebration next year. We’ll re-engage and present our entire 2020 season, as closely as possible, with the same stellar musicians, in 2021.
We would love nothing more than present our 29th season to you live and in person as we planned. But, dear friends, never fear!
We, at Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society, have always been light on our feet, nimble in the face of challenge, flexible throughout changing fortunes and venues, and we have a few tricks up our sleeve.
Stephanie Jutt and Jeffrey Sykes (below) are already planning for new musical treats as soon as we are permitted. You can look forward to some creative collaborations that we’re cooking up for August — if it’s safe to do so — and a special celebratory mini-season over the holidays in late December. We’ll get there together!
All of us in the arts community have been upended by postponements and cancellations, but BDDS will survive this tsunami because of the unending and generous support of so many of you.
We have been buoyed by so many ticket orders and we ask for your consideration for unused tickets:
- Make your tickets, or a portion thereof, a tax-deductible donation to BDDS (benefitting you and us!). Per Wisconsin law, if we don’t hear from you in 90 days (July 8), we are permitted to assume that you want your tickets donated back to BDDS and we will send you a letter for tax purposes. Or simply click on the address below and provide your contact information and your preference.
| crownover@bachdancinganddynamite.org |
- Request a refund. We’re happy to provide your money back, and look forward to seeing you again in 2021!
Samantha Crownover, Executive Director
Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society: Chamber Music with a Bang!
P.O. Box 2348
Madison, WI 53701
608.255.9866 office
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Classical music: A long-lost American opera about Tabasco makes a fiery return to New Orleans. Are you burning to hear it?
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By Jacob Stockinger
It seems it’s time to revise the history of American opera.
That is due to the recent rediscovery of a lost 1894 opera about Tabasco (below, in photo by Tim Grosscup for New Orleans Opera) – that famous Southern hot sauce – that sheds a new light on that history.
The musical score, which had been lost for more than a century, was rediscovered in 2009 and has now received a fiery revival in its natural home — New Orleans, which also happens to have the oldest opera company in the United States.
The music was written by the American composer George Whitefield Chadwick (below). You can hear the Overture to the “burlesque opera” in the YouTube video at the bottom.
The libretto’s plot focuses on an Irish traveler who gets lost at sea and ends up as a chef in Morocco where the famous hot sauce pleases the Pasha who has captured him and so saves the traveler’s fate.
The opera was premiered in Boston, then went for a run on Broadway and toured to dozens of cities.
Of course, one still wonders if the opera will receive performance elsewhere these days. But that is another question for another day.
In the meantime, here is a fine story, with a sound sample, from National Public Radio (NPR) about the opera and its historical and artistic significance.
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