The Caramoor Festival has announced the programs it will feature this fall and coming spring. Events including chamber concerts, classical and musical theatre recitals, jazz ensembles, and family concerts will span from Nov. 6 through May 12. This article will only feature the vocal selections. First up will be Grammy Award-winning countertenor Iestyn Davies and lutenist Thomas Dunford. Their program {…}
Caramoor has announced its 2022 summer season, which runs between June 18 through August 19, 2022. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be on opera and vocal performances. Soprano Christine Taylor Price and baritone Thomas West headline “Pops & Patriots” alongside the Westchester Symphony Winds and conductor Curt Ebersole. The showcase features music by Smith, Porter, Thomas, {…}
New York City’s classical music station WQXR has announced the launch of a second season of “New York in Concert.” A guide to the city’s classical scene will consist of a 10-part weekly series and will be hosted by WNYC and WQXR’s radio host John Schaefer. Organizations highlighted include Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Harlem Chamber Players, Metropolitan Museum of Art, {…}
(Image Provided by San Francisco Performances) Dashon Burton and David Fung are set to present a recital on March 21 for Livestreams from the Music Room at Caramoor. An original member of the innovative Grammy-winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, bass-baritone Dashon Burton will perform a wide-ranging program including Schumann’s complete “Dichterliebe” and works by John Dowland, Charles Brown, Florence {…}
(Credit: Harold Shapiro) On July 9, the Caramoor Festival will present a Livestream event entitled “Listening to Tom-Tom.” The event will be an in-depth exploration of Shirley Graham Du Bois’ opera, “Tom-Tom,” the first opera written and staged by an African American woman. The work has not been produced since its initial run in 1932 and all that survives of {…}
(Credit: Gabe Palacio) Caramoor has announced a new summer season entitled Summer 20/2.0. The festival, held in Westchester, announced that while it will not be able to present its originally planned schedule, it will perform responsibly in New York’s re-opening process. The new, three-part plan will comprise of livestreamed on-site performances, live performances for low-density audiences on Friends Field, and {…}
(Credit: Rebecca Fay/Caramoor Festival) The Caramoor Festival, held annually at Katonah, New York, has announced its 2020 season celebrating its 75th anniversary and featuring a wide array of international performances. For the purposes of this article we will only highlight operatic and vocal performances. The Trinity Baroque Orchestra and The Choir of Trinity Wall Street are joined by a cast {…}
It’s a big year at Caramoor for Will Crutchfield. For the last 20 years, Crutchfield has been a leader in reviving a number of Bel Canto works at the festival through his program “Bel Canto at Caramoor.” It is a program that has showcased some rarities and has shown the conductor’s expertise in the repertoire. However, this year Crutchfield is {…}
For years, Will Crutchfield and his bel canto program were a fixture at Caramoor. That will end next year with the arrival of Teatro Nuovo, a nine-day festival, created by Crutchfield to continue his passion for bel canto. The festival, which will bow in July 2018, will feature semi-staged productions of Rossini’s’ “Tancredi” and Mayr’s “Medea in Corinto.” There will {…}