MUSICALS Podcast: Edward Seckerson meets ZACHARY JAMES
Edward Seckerson
by Edward
2w ago
For this Musicals Magazine Podcast, Edward Seckerson meets Zachary James, who’s currently hotting up the Underworld on the other side of that wall in Hadestown. James, who originated the role of Lurch in the Andrew Lippa musicalisation of The Addams Family, is perhaps best known to date – indeed immortalised – as The Scribe/Amenhotep III in Philip Glass’s Akhnaten in the jaw-dropping Phelim McDermott, Olivier Award-winning staging at English National Opera in 2016. His work has straddled the opera and Musical Theatre worlds in intriguing ways and as an actor-singer his work ..read more
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GRAMOPHONE Review: Mahler Symphony No 8 Minnesota Orchestra/Vänskä
Edward Seckerson
by Edward
3w ago
The Eighth is often the Mahler symphony that seems to inspire conductors who fall short in the others. That’s a sweeping generalisation, of course, but look no further than a conductor like Solti whose Mahler always struck as one-dimensional but who rose magnificently to the operatic aspirations of the Eighth. After all, in some respects the Eighth – especially Part Two – is (along with Das klagende Lied) the opera that Mahler never wrote. Osmo Vänskä (whose cycle has had its moments thus far) locks into that idea and his shrewd and effective casting of soloists really makes it shine. Perhaps ..read more
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MUSICALS Podcast: Edward Seckerson meets OLIVER TOMPSETT
Edward Seckerson
by Edward
3w ago
Edward Seckerson meets Oliver Tompsett at London’s Wonderville Bar & Café to chat over his ongoing journey from The Who’s Tommy (title role) at Arts Ed and a veritable portfolio of rock/pop shows – Our House, Rock of Ages, We Will Rock You – to more legit fare like Fiyero in Wicked and his winning turn as Will Shakespeare in & Juliet. As we speak, he is preparing to launch a new show Wild About You (with a score by Broadway’s Carole King, Chilina Kennedy) at London’s Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, with a jaw-dropping cast including Eri ..read more
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN: Some Other Time
Edward Seckerson
by Edward
3w ago
Jewish Literary Foundation presents Book Week 24, Kings Place Sunday 3 March 2024 A celebration in conversation and song of the legendary composer and conductor, with Edward Seckerson, Petroc Trelawny and West End stars Christina Bianco and Julian Ovenden. 80 years after Leonard Bernstein’s early triumph On The Town hit Broadway, the classic New York musical provides our title as we celebrate him in conversation and song. Working with fellow theatrical legends such as Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Robbins, Betty Comden and Adolph Green he created iconic shows, ballets and concert wor ..read more
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GRAMOPHONE Review: Brahms Double Concerto / Viotti Violin Concerto No 22 / Dvořák Silent Woods – Christian & Tanja Tetzlaff, Deutsches SO Berlin/Järvi
Edward Seckerson
by Edward
3M ago
The dedication on this album reads ‘In Memoriam Lars Vogt’ – and that gives it a special resonance. Christian Tetzslaff and his sister Tanja Tetzslaff made music with him together and independently on many occasions and in one way and another they wanted that reflected in their choices. The sibling symbiosis is, of course, especially welcome in the Brahms Double Concerto where their seamless interaction (be it shared or conflicted) and instinctive dovetailing of lines really adds something to the feeling of spontaneity in the performance. Their colleague and friend Paavo Järvi is also key in t ..read more
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GRAMOPHONE Review: Respighi Roman Trilogy – Orchestra Sinfonica Nationale della RAI/Trevino
Edward Seckerson
by Edward
3M ago
Respighi’s obsession with the ‘Eternal City’ is writ spectacularly large in his three symphonic evocations and maybe in some subliminal way an Italian orchestra like this one can identify better than most with the mythic elements, pictorial and spiritual. For sure these pieces have long been the envy of every composer who ever sought to underscore Roman themed epics – and some would say that’s why our own John Wilson (with his Sinfonia of London) was able to tap so effortlessly into their ‘Hollywood’ factor. In a word, lush. Robert Trevino is Mexican-American so he gets the heat and cooling qu ..read more
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GRAMOPHONE Review: Santtu conducts Mahler Symphony No. 2 ‘Resurrection’ – Philharmonia Orchestra/Santtu-Matias Rouvali
Edward Seckerson
by Edward
3M ago
Like so much of what I’ve heard of Santtu’s work of late this Mahler 2 is decidedly hit and miss – with the emphasis, I regret to say, very much on the latter. It’s strange how the reading seems to veer between the prosaic and the over-egged. You need go no further than the exposition of the first movement: the electrifying opening pages ‘by the book’, as it were, but lacking that edgy death-defying tension, and then the second subject displaying temperament, for sure, but self-consciously tugging at the heartstrings with its halting rubatos. One thing Santtu does occasionally get right – and ..read more
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John Weidman on Pacific Overtures & collaborating with Stephen Sondheim
Edward Seckerson
by Edward
3M ago
In the latest MUSICALS podcast EDWARD SECKERSON talks to playwright and book writer JOHN WEIDMAN who collaborated with the late, great Stephen Sondheim on three of his shows – Pacific Overtures, Assassins, and Road Show – and was in London for a long-awaited revival of the first of them. Chatting in the bar of the Menier Chocolate Factory the morning after the first preview he reminisces about an extraordinary working relationship where making good theatre was always front and centre of their objectives. LISTEN NOW   ..read more
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John Weidman on Pacific Overtures & collaborating with Stephen Sondheim
Edward Seckerson
by Edward
4M ago
In the latest MUSICALS podcast EDWARD SECKERSON talks to playwright and book writer JOHN WEIDMAN who collaborated with the late, great Stephen Sondheim on three of his shows – Pacific Overtures, Assassins, and Road Show – and was in London for a long-awaited revival of the first of them. Chatting in the bar of the Menier Chocolate Factory the morning after the first preview he reminisces about an extraordinary working relationship where making good theatre was always front and centre of their objectives. LISTEN NOW   ..read more
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Edward Seckerson meets Jenna Russell
Edward Seckerson
by Edward
4M ago
Edward Seckerson drops in on Jenna Russell during the run of Richard Taylor/Rachel Wagstaff’s Flowers for Mrs Harris at London’s Riverside Studios. They compare notes on the show and on other movers and shakers who’ve been instrumental in pushing the envelope on musical theatre including Sondheim (with whom Olivier Award-winning Jenna enjoyed several career-defining encounters), Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home), and Jason Robert Brown (Bridges of Madison County). Recorded backstage at London’s Riverside Studios in October 2023. The opening and closing musical excerpts featured in ..read more
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