Tag: interview
Latonia Moore Once Again Faces Down Verdi’s “Aida”
"I feel like my place in a business like this is to show you that what you look like as a person will never matter more than what it is you can create as an artist."
Johnny Gandelsman Explores America
"I can't say that I'm an activist in any way. I'm hoping that through the work of being a musician there's something positive that I can bring to the conversation or people's experience."
Composer Ellen Reid: Life Post-Pulitzer and Post-Pandemic
"Sitting with the unknown brought up some new things I'm interested in and things that I'm not interested anymore in in a very clear way that it might have just taken a lot more time to find had we not had that experience."
A Little Fanfare For and From Tarik O’Regan
"There's a lot of magic in music that I am not in control of, but that I love being a part of. Maybe just triggering it and then sitting back and watching and listening."
Dale Franzen: Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves
"Let's be honest, men aren't telling those stories and I think that women have been shortchanged. I want to be part of changing that."
Writer Robert Horn Didn’t Want to Write The Musical “Tootsie”
"Unlike the movie, the women will not become better women by virtue of this man dressing as a woman. He will become a better person by being surrounded by the women in the piece. "
Jane Lynch Has Sung Funny Girl Since She Was Young
"I think it's about wanting something so bad and knowing that you've got something in you, but the world doesn't know yet. And damn it, you're not going to stop until the world knows it."
Siblings Isata and Sheku Kanneh-Mason Hit the Road…
"The most enjoyable thing about what we do is we get to spend time investigating music often that has so many layers and so much to investigate."
Composer Du Yun Explores 21st Century Manhood
"Musically, it's always in a way, like a second thought to me. It's funny, right? I'm always interested in human nature and and humanities and the complexity of the humans in question."
Deaf West Theatre’s DJ Kurs Is Rehearsing Opera
"I always assumed that opera was a world in a space that I shouldn't go into, which I shouldn't even bother."