Week of August 28 - September 4, 2014

This week on Rhode Island Public television,

WSBE:  (Comcast 294, Cox 808, Full Channel 109, and Verizon 478)

 Saturday, August 30, 8:00pm

Sunday, August 31, 3:00am

Monday, September 1, 12:00am

Great Performances at the Met

Cosi Fan Tutte

Così fan tutte

James Levine conducts Mozart's comic masterpiece "Cosi fan tutte," in which the fidelity of two sisters (Susanna Phillips, Isabel Leonard) is tested by their fiancés (Matthew Polenzani, Rodion Pogossov).

DURATION: 210 MIN

DETAILS: [CC] [STEREO]

GENRE: PARENTS PICKS

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From the Blogs

from WQXR~New York

TOP INFAMOUS CLASSICAL MUSIC PERFORMANCES ON THE SIMPSONS

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/top-5-infamous-classical-music-performances-simpsons/

Video: Violinist Inspires Elephants to Dance to Bach

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/video-violinist-inspires-elephant-dance-bach/?utm_source=local&utm_medium=treatment&utm_campaign=daMost&utm_content=damostviewed

Three on female composers

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/how-to-talk-female-composer/?utm_source=local&utm_medium=treatment&utm_campaign=daMost&utm_content=damostviewed

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/her-music-emerging-female-composer-today/?utm_source=local&utm_medium=treatment&utm_campaign=daMost&utm_content=damostviewed

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/her-music-encore-presentation/?utm_source=local&utm_medium=treatment&utm_campaign=daMost&utm_content=damostviewed

New York Violinist Found Slain in Summer Home

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/new-york-violinist-dies-shooting/?utm_source=local&utm_medium=treatment&utm_campaign=daMost&utm_content=damostviewed

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from KDFC ~ San Francisco  

Rock Star 

Why do villains love classical music?

The Simpsons at the Hollywood Bowl!

http://www.kdfc.com/pages/15713030.php?

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2014-2015 Season Auditions

Dear Friends and Colleagues, The Rhode Island Civic Chorale & Orchestra invites you to join us for our 58th Season!  Under the direction of Edward Markward, we will perform three programs this season beginning with "Reflect & Rejoice" in November featuring Ottorino Respighi's Laud to the Nativity, Giovanni Gabrieli's Jubilate Deo and Beata es, virgo Maria, as well as John Rutter's Gloria.  Our March concert "Songs of Praise and Peace" will feature the winners of our 7th Annual Collegiate Vocal Competition as soloists and will include Maurice Duruflé's Four Motets on Gregorian Themes, W.A. Mozart's Vesperae solennes de confessore, k 339, Arvo Pärt's Festina lente and Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms.  We will conclude our season with "Soli Deo gloria," J.S. Bach's Mass in B Minor in May.  All concerts are performed at the beautiful Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Providence.  This season, we are excited to announce that we will also give a second performance of "Reflect & Rejoice" at St. Joseph's Church in Newport. Do you have choral experience?  RICCO is looking for experienced choristers for all parts.  If you think you would enjoy making music with us, please call or email us to schedule an appointment.  For your planning purposes, you will be asked to bring a simple prepared song, such as a hymn or aria. The audition will include range testing, pitch matching and sight singing. Join us for this wonderful season of music-making! When? Wednesday, September 3, 2014 Auditions will begin at 7:00pm.    Please contact us to schedule an individual audition time. Call us at (401) 521-5670 or email info@ricco.org  Where?  American Legion Hall 7 Legion Way Cranston, RI  Click Here for Directions  For more information, please visit our website, www.ricco.org. A NOTE FROM OUR MUSIC DIRECTOR Welcome all who are in pursuit of the enjoyment of great choral/orchestral masterpieces.  There is an inexplicable magic that happens at a concert of great music.  There is no explaining why we are changed; we only know that mysteriously we are, and that we are better for the experience.  If you would like to be part of an enterprise such as this, I invite you become part of the Rhode Island Civic Chorale & Orchestra. I hope to see you on September 3. Warm regards, Edward Edward Markward, Music Director Rhode Island Civic Chorale & Orchestra

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Are you a teacher or former teacher? If so, we invite you to join Opera Club! Opera Club is a group of teachers that explore our season's operas and help create curriculum ideas for fellow educators to be published on the SF Opera Education website. Only two more Opera Clubs left - join us as we explore Rossini's Cinderella and Puccini's La Boheme. For information contact us at education@sfopera.com.

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OPERA ON THE INTERNET 

WITH  

DAVE  D' AGUANNO

Rather slim pickings for opera-lovers this coming Saturday (August 30) on internet radio. In fact, there's nothing new on NPR, as the broadcast of Boito's "Mefistofele" from San Francisco (as reported in last week's entry) never took place. Instead, the station aired a performance of Puccini's "Tosca" by mistake, so it's THIS WEEK that you can actually hear the Boito opera, starring Ildar Abdrazakov as Mefistofele and soprano Patricia Racette in the dual roles of Margherita & Elena (as in Helen of Troy).

(www.wrti.org/)

On Rai Radio 3, there's a broadcast from Royal Albert Hall in London of "Salome" by Richard Strauss. The RAI website is skimpy on the details, so it's impossible for me to say whether this is a LIVE performance or not.
(www.radio3.rai.it/)

Those of you who may be looking for an obscure opera to listen to can rejoice in this Saturday's offering on ORF (Austria): It's an August 22 performance from Innsbruck of "L'Orontea" -- a 1656 work by composer Pietro Antonio Cesti.

(http://oe1.orf.at/)

Enjoy!

DAVE

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The Met

Saturday afternoon radio broadcast is

on hiatus until December

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WGBH Postpones its annual Labor Day Opera Bash!

WGBH's annual Labor Day Opera Bash is missing from its monthly printed schedule. A call to the station revealed that the reason for this omission is that WGBH has changed its fiscal year so that they will now be doing fund-raising during the Labor Day weekend. The Opera Bash has been postponed to a later date in the autumn, probably October or November. We will keep you posted on any developments. In the meantime, please write them a note, encouraging them to make sure they broadcast the opera bash and more opera in general. I'm told that every single letter is read and taken into consideration. This is a link to their website:

http://www.wgbh.org/about/contact.cfm

NO OPERA ON WGBH TV 

THIS WEEK!

Coming in September to WGBH: 

WGBH2    09/14/2014      12:00:00:00 Great Performances at the Met #806: Prince Igor 

Length:03:26:46:00

WGBH2    09/21/2014      12:30:00:00 Great Performances at the Met #807: La Boheme 

Length: 02:26:46:00

WGBH2    09/28/2014      12:30:00:00 Great Performances at the Met #808: Werther

Length: 02:26:46:00 

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