PSYCHE Finale: Ep. 17 (“Box of Beauty”)
Psyche, the web opera Part 5: Persephone Film by Ian Lucero | Music by Garrett Fisher | Words by Thom Schramm | Choreography by Christy Fisher | Performed by the Fisher Ensemble. Learn more about...
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New Classical Order – Music and Death
This Episode of The New Classical Order Podcast centers around the wonderfully uplifting subject of Death. Over the centuries there have been countless compositions of all genres and instrumentation...
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New Classical Order – Music and the Cinema
This Episode of The New Classical Order Podcast focuses on film music. Film music has a long history, and with deep roots in many traditions. Rosebrook Classical’s David Weuste and Purdue University’s...
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New Classical Order – Selected Songs of Margaret Ruthven Lang
This Episode of The New Classical Order Podcast focuses on the remarkable and incredibly intriguing early-American composer Margaret Ruthven Lang. Rosebrook Classical’s own David Weuste and Purdue...
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The Bunny, The Moon and Me
Sadly, I did not grow up with The Runaway Bunny or Goodnight Moon. I’m sure I’d be a happier, more well adjusted person now had I read Margaret Wise Brown’s masterpieces as a toddler—but then I might...
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Jonah Lehrer’s “Imagine”
I first learned of Jonah Lehrer’s book Imagine through Jess Van Nostrand, the Founder of Seattle’s Project Room (and where I presented my new film-opera Magda G as a work in progress). I borrowed the...
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Magda P-review: Jenifer Ward
Told in a new language of cinema, in which the musical line drives the narrative as much as any visual image, Magda G is a rich, uncomfortably seductive, and complex adaptation that defies traditional...
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The 2013 Fort Worth Opera Festival Opens in Style
Photo courtesy of Ron T. EnnisThe group of friends (L-R) Mimì (Mary Dunleavy), Rodolfo (Sean Panikkar), Marcello (Wes Mason), Colline (Derrick Parker), and Schuanard (John Boehr) partake in the...
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Michael Mayes Wows in Opening Performance of Glory Denied
Older and Younger versions of Col. Jim and Alyce Thompson share a tender embrace upon Older Thompson’s return from Vietnam.Photo courtesy: Ellen Appel When writers and pundits lament the “death of...
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Fun Filled Fille
The Marquise de Birkenfeld’s steward, Hortensius, is played by Fort Worth Opera General Director Darren K. Woods.Photo courtesy: Ellen Appel Like a coliseum-mob, the Fort Worth audience gave the...
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