Philadelphia-born singer Marian Anderson is being honored as she deserved with the rededication of  Verizon Hall in her name in June 2024. The announcement was made in the hall's home in the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia on February 28, 2024, during a ceremony attended and featuring remarks by leading officials and performing artists, including Lt. Gov. Austin Davis, Mayor Cherelle Parker, and soprano Denyce Graves. The Kimmel Center is the home of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, music director. Below is further information from the Center's ..read more

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Reprinted from ConcertoNet.com - Review by Linda Holt of Bruckner's Ninth with Te Deum as the final movement:  Philadelphia Verizon Hall 05/05/2023 -  & May 6, 2023 Anton Bruckner: Christus factus est – Symphony No. 9 in D minor – Te Deum (Nowak Edition) Elza van den Heever (soprano), Michelle DeYoung (mezzo-soprano), Sean Panikkar (tenor), Ryan Speedo Green (bass-baritone) Philadelphia Symphonic Choir, Joe Miller (director), Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet‑Séguin (conductor) J. Miller, Y. Nézet‑Séguin (© Diana An ..read more

Champion, Terence Blanchard’s new work at the Metropolitan Opera, has been getting a lot of press lately. It’s the first opera about a boxer, with bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green in the lead as the ill-fated welterweight champion, Emile Griffith. But the themes are less about pugilism and more about universal human experiences of guilt, forgiveness, and compassion. Three dimensions of Griffith are revealed as this grand tragedy unfolds. Green’s Griffith is a young man disoriented in a new country, discovering his gay sexuality. Seasoned Met bass-baritone Eric Owens portrays Griffith in later y ..read more

 Here is a link to my review appearing today in ConcertoNet, the international classical network.  https://www.concertonet.com/scripts/cd.php?ID_cd=4974 ..read more

Invictus by L.L. Holt (Harvard Square Editions, 2019) was named a Finalist in the international Next Generation Indie Book Awards for 2021. Also known as the Indie Book Awards, the literary awards program recognizes and honors authors and publishers of exceptional independently published books in 70 different categories. Holt's novel builds on the long-persisting legend that the composer Ludwig van Beethoven may have been, or been treated and discriminated against as, a person of color during his lifetime (1770-1827)  The book is the sequel to The Black Spaniard by L.L ..read more

  Musician profile featured the Broad Street Review (Philadelphia) March 16, 2023, edition: http://bit.ly/42hWhSX Photo by E.G. Schempf ..read more

 http://bit.ly/3Y5vqWP Review in Broad Street Review (Philadelphia, PA) March 2023.                                                                 Yefim Bronfman, pianist ..read more

https://concertonet.com/scripts/cd.php?ID_cd=4941   Excruciatingly slow and oddly pointless. Can this still be Beethoven? Review in ConcertoNet.com ..read more

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