Tag: interview
Jazz Singer Gretchen Parlato Celebrates Sinatra and Peggy Lee
"There's something so powerful about this understatement and intimacy and kind of allowing people to feel all the different facets. It doesn't have to be something obvious, it can be something that's a little bit intriguing."
Soprano Christine Goerke Revisits Brünnhilde
"This isn’t just a concert. This is a fully-staged 'experience.' It is a way to approach the storytelling that I have never experienced in opera."
Walter Russell III: I Want to Be an EGOT
"I mainly have been following Wayne Brady's lead when it comes to this role. And then coming back to that to myself and also expressing myself as how I want to be."
Conductor Paolo Bortolameolli From Mozart to Hynes
"I feel that new music is actually more linked to us than maybe a Mozart symphony. Music, art in general, somehow evolves with us in the way we experience the world."
Terri Lyne Carrington Is Just Getting Started
"The one thing I do know is the rest of my days will be about the mission, the various missions. They're all connected. I can no longer just play because it's fun or take a gig because it pays well."
Matt Doyle Is Getting Married Eight Times a Week…TONY WINNER!!!
"I don't think I'm ever going to really process how truly profound all of this is. I don't think anything will ever top that. How could it possibly?"
The Many Faces of Actor Simon Russell Beale TONY WINNER!!!
"It does make you think about your own desire for money or need for money. I mean, how much is is regarded as a feasible amount? How much becomes no longer really morally right."
Composer Ted Hearne Seeks to Understand His Place
"I am really interested in living in a way that helps other people be better. But I have to help myself be better. Composing is just the whole apparatus for that."
J’Nai Bridges Enters Peter & Lorraine Hunt Lieberson’s World
"I've experienced love. I've experienced loss. And I do have a subtext for every piece. But I always ask myself who is J'Nai in this?"
Wayne Cilento Can Still Do That Fosse
"When it's done correctly, it's completely rewarding because it's the essence of him and the essence of his work as a choreographer and as a performer. I hope I managed to capture that and put it on the stage."