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Empire City Men’s Chorus to Present ‘GIVE EVERYTHING’

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Empire City Men’s Chorus is set to present “GIVE EVERYTHING,” a 30th anniversary showcase on May 31 and June 1, 2024 at The New York Society for Ethical Culture. The showcase celebrates the organization’s “unwavering dedication to its principles and its profound impact on audiences far and wide” and features a new commission by Jeffrey Parola titled “Break Forth, Dream.” Also {…}

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Empire City Men’s Chorus To World Premiere 2 Works At June 1 Concert

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The Empire City Men’s Chorus will perform on Saturday, June 1, 2019, concluding the Great Music at St. Bart’s concert series. The performance will feature the ensemble under artistic director Vince Peterson  in a program that features a number of unique works. Audiences will get a chance to hear David Conte’s “Invocation and Dance,” the work that led to the Empire {…}

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Reassessing ‘Orphée aux enfers’ – How the 1973 Théâtre de la Gaïté-Lyrique Production Spotlights Offenbach’s Opera in a Class of its Scandalous Own

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Perhaps no other work within the conventional canon of comic opera, of which Rossini, Donizetti, Mozart, Webern, and Lehar find their respective places, has achieved so much lasting success as Jacques Offenbach’s two (then four) act opéra bouffon “Orphée aux enfers.”  It was composed between 1855 and 1858 as a humorous reaction to the stuffy court opera aesthetic and hyper-focus {…}