Tag: interview
Gedde Watanabe & Adam Kaokept Have a Right To Their Dreams
"Most of the theater you love and adore and find intelligent is way ahead of its time. The grace of it is people catch up to it."
Snehal Desai Has a Right to Be Happy
"I'm looking at this group of assassins and it's less about the individual acts, but more of who is this collective body of Americans who have to resort to this or feel that they have to resort to this violence to be seen and heard."
The New Opera “In a Grove” May Seem Familiar
"Not only is this work a masterpiece, but it's also adapted into a film that is also separately a masterpiece. I don't think it's necessary to do a straight telling of the story. "
Pianist Gerald Clayton Is In a Intimate Mood
"Just serve the art, serve the music as best as you can, as honestly as you can, as diligently and thoughtfully and thoroughly as possible, and let the rest take care of itself."
Jazz Musician Ethan Iverson: New Ways of Combining Old Things
"I don't think it's going to be better than John Coltrane, frankly. My generation, we're not going to quite get to what that is. So what we have to do is figure out things to add to it, to make something a little different."
Singer Derrell Acon Returns To Heartbeat Opera’s “Fidelio”
"There is not an inherent gorgeousness to classical music itself. We find it gorgeous because we find ourselves represented in it. We have not been successful at making it relevant for everybody."
Billy Stritch Celebrates His 60th By Performing
"Liza used to tell me any time that you can work and perform on your birthday, it’s kind of the best thing to do because it is the birthday wish come true. "
Gregory Porter: The Deejay of His Own Music
"Once you get a feel for the audience after two or three songs, you kind of take them on this music journey and you're a deejay of your own music."
Composer Ricky Ian Gordon Writes His Italian Opera
"The tragedy in this movie is that at the heart of it is this unrequited love story, which is a very, almost adolescent kind of pain. But that pain is magnified by the pain of the catastrophe in the background."
Soprano Tiffany Townsend Sings George Walker’s “Lilacs”
"Am I just here because I'm Black or am I here because I'm talented? I tend to be the only black person in the room. I see that changing."