by barbarah_admin | Oct 9, 2021
Visions of Hildegard was inspired by Hildegard of Bingen of the Order of Saint Benedict. She lived from 1098-1179, and she was known as Saint Hildegard, Sibyl of the Rhine, as well as an abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, and visionary. Many consider her...
by barbarah_admin | Oct 9, 2021
From Harbach’s opera O Pioneers! – the first movement of Mischances of Life for Orchestra, I. In the Cold, in the Deep, in the Dark is the dark place where one retreats after a horrendous tragedy occurs. Alexandra begins to contemplate her feelings after the death of...
by barbarah_admin | Oct 9, 2021
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft was the first known Native American poet and the first known Native American woman writer. Her husband published her poems and stories. Her writings and poems in English paralleled those of Anglo-American and British writers such as William...
by barbarah_admin | Oct 9, 2021
Spaindango – a Tango Caprice began life as a piece for harpsichord, and Harbach transformed it into a “fetching piece, full of antique flourishes mixed with 20th-century rage and madness, a cauldron of churning notes,” as CD Review has called Harbach’s...
by barbarah_admin | Oct 9, 2021
Eclipsis lunae for Orchestra When the people saw that the moon was beginning to cover the sun, they became deeply distressed and anxious. To drive out the evil spirit that was covering the sun, they thought that music might dispel the darkness. First, they offered...
