tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50962522865590481082024-03-16T11:52:56.491-07:00RobertOsborne.NetRobert Osbornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09135357750074005707noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096252286559048108.post-48321490508401772822021-01-04T10:08:00.001-08:002021-01-04T10:08:24.033-08:00<p> Enjoy three v<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">ideo selections f</span></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">rom<b> David Alpher’s </b><i style="font-weight: bold;">Between Twilights: Seven Songs on Poems of Marsden Hartley </i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">Robert Osborne, bass-baritone<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">David Alpher, composer and pianist<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Recorded live at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Shalin Liu Performance Center<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Saturday, June 24, 2017</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">Pipers [1:08]<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSNMuhwHD8I" style="color: purple;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSNMuhwHD8I</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">Wingaersheek Beach [2:41]<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zSUNQzADpA" style="color: purple;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zSUNQzADpA</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;">Robin Hood Cove – Georgetown, Maine [5:09]<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAYzo0wMbLQ" style="color: purple;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAYzo0wMbLQ</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Pipers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Lapping of waters<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Thick, upon razorblade<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Selvages of sand,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Pipers running on them,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Wetting their shins<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">In the wave,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Leaving little, lost signatures<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Of outmoded love,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Patched, frayed, uncalled-for<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Love,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Bauble bursting love,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Dear inviolable thing --</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Wingaersheek Beach<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Shell<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Sitting still,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Whitely, ghastly, immovable<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Unless wind whip it other way<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">On white sand whiter in a sandway<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Than itself<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Holding, folding, moulding<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Last curve, ancestral swirl<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Bleached whiter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Lying lighter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">For the whiter way, jeopardy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Of lying, by wind, sun, mist, rain, bent and torn<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Sandpeep’s breast in flawless emulation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Lip in death like it<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">When death strike it<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">White<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Or speechlessness of one<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Gone white with ashy blight<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Fear to lose a tithe of it<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Thing held, from fright of it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Robin Hood Cove – Georgetown, Maine<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">When evening comes to its gentle arias<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Along the dusky cove,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">And the blue heron flies like a slow arrow<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Along the selvages of the cove,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">As if to give its signal for fine music,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">And the little birds who have been so warm<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">All day have gone in among the pine-spills<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">For their tithe of rest – <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The white bridge joining bank to bank of the tidal river<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Takes the hushed tones of evening to it ingratiatingly;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The gulls having nothing more to say<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">To each other – fold wings as pure hands are<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Folded for a silent thought.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I stand with them all in high salute,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Saying to myself: “thanks – well done – beautiful things –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I receive my width of grace from you<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">And am put to rest with evening singing.”</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; margin: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>Robert Osbornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09135357750074005707noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096252286559048108.post-72368296698461789272020-01-08T15:57:00.000-08:002020-01-08T16:01:04.961-08:00anatomy theater recordingI am pleased to announce the premiere recording of David Lang and Mark Dion's opera <i>anatomy theater</i> on Cantaloupe Music (CA21152). After performances with L.A. Opera and with the Prototype Festival in New York, the cast and members of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) recorded the opera. As David and Mark are fond of saying: "No singers were harmed in the creation of this opera." Nab a copy and visualize the gruesome story unfolding...<br />
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Robert Osbornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09135357750074005707noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096252286559048108.post-43813999032982526082018-05-17T12:48:00.003-07:002018-05-17T12:48:46.778-07:00Singing Galina Ustvolskaya's Symphony #2 on the Bang on a Can Marathon<h3 align="center" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 22.5pt 0in 3.75pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Palatino; font-size: 10.5pt;"> “We have a duty to go up to the people who come in afterward and brag,” grinned Bang on a Can’s </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://davidlangmusic.com/"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #9c8a6a; font-family: Palatino; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">David Lang</span></a></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Palatino; font-size: 10.5pt;">, referring to the afternoon’s first piece, Galina Ustvolskaya’s relatively brief Symphony No. 2. The </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/ensembles/contemporary_music_ensemble"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #9c8a6a; font-family: Palatino; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;">NYU Contemporary Ensemble</span></a></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Palatino; font-size: 10.5pt;"> – with woodwinds, brass and percussion – negotiated it calmly but forcefully. David Friend’s steady hamfisted piano thumps ushered in and then peppered steadily rhythmic, massed close harmonies from the rest of the group, Vocalist Robert Osborne implored a grand total of three Russian words – God, truth and eternity – over and over in between pulses as the music veered between the macabre and the simply uneasy. The ensemble really nailed the surprise ending – gently.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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On May 7 and 8, 2018 Karlheinz Stockhausen's colossal final work KLANG was presented at Fringe Arts in Philadelphia. I sang HAVONA - for bass voice and 8 channel electronic tape - both days of the festival. Robert Osbornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09135357750074005707noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096252286559048108.post-55277200507907160452018-05-15T19:48:00.002-07:002018-05-17T12:54:02.029-07:00Between Twilights: Seven Songs on Poems of Marsden Hartley WORLD PREMIERE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #232323; font-family: cambria; font-size: 12pt;">Composer David Alpher, co-founder of the festival in 1981, returned to the Shalin Liu Performance Center Saturday evening, June 24, to present “Between Twilights,” his settings of seven poems by Marsden Hartley.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">The premiere featured baritone Robert Osborne, who brought the songs to life with a straightforward, facile style and musical insight. Alpher accompanied at the piano.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">The songs are not a cycle, in the sense of a narrative. Chosen from Hartley’s large, lifelong output, Alpher set texts that ranged from intimate views of nature — a nesting mouse, pipers and eagles — to broader sweeps, like the introductory and concluding poems, which focus on evening light (thus the title).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">As a unit, “Between Twilights” is a modest group, quiet and tuneful. Appropriate in every manner, the music explores drama when the words explore drama, humor when the words do also, horror and mystery when the text does as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323; font-family: cambria; font-size: 12pt;">There are no frills in Hartley’s poems. That doesn’t mean they don’t have sensibility, and character, or generosity. Rising to a crescendo in the opening “Summer Evening,” the score picks the exact moment when the sun peaks, then disappears, to proclaim its musical drama. In “The Eagle Wants No Friends,” a stuck rest at “isolation” silently emphasizes the raptor’s elegance and solitary dominion.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">Humor creeps in — a lighthearted, trilled accompaniment, Osborne singing <i>sprechstimme</i>with an antic air — in “Salutations to a Mouse,” in which Hartley finds, to his delight, that a mouse has wintered over in a sheaf of Hartley’s own poems.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">“Wingaersheek Beach” finds anguish in simplicity — the seeming comparison of a single white seashell on the beach to terror and abandonment. The words and music do the same, with Osborne at his dramatic best in this setting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">The concluding “Robin Hood Cove” sums up the set with Hartley’s words: “I receive my width of grace from you.” Following the poet’s lead, Alpher has set these texts with integrity and clarity. No verses were repeated — avoiding excessive interpretive emphasis. The accompaniment supported the singer’s artistry, and shunned ostentation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #232323; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">Osborne was an appropriate choice as interpreter — in range, and in manner. His instrument is clear, straight, lyrical in a bold way. He sang with little vibrato, certainly no coloratura flourishes, but with an instinct that made the settings sound organic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;">By Gail McCarthy Staff Writer <i>Gloucester Times</i> Jun 28, 2017</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Alpher has set seven of Hartley’s poems to music. He learned about such poetry from fellow Vassar College colleague Robert Osborne, a bass-baritone vocalist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">“The inspiration came from Robert, who will be singing the songs. He is very conversant with the visual arts. He had asked if I knew that Hartley was also a poet, and I did not,” recalled Alpher. “He showed me the collection.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Alpher wrote his composition with Osborne’s voice in mind. Osborne, who holds a doctorate of musical arts from Yale University, has an acclaimed career in both standard and contemporary repertoire.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">“We’re thrilled that this work is being premiered there. It’s an appropriate place for it to happen,” said Osborne who, with Alpher, performs with violinist Stephanie Chase and cellist Sophie Shao Saturday night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Osborne had learned Hartley was a poet after he visited a major retrospective of his work in Hartford in 2003, after which he received his book of poems as a gift.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">“I’ve always admired his paintings, and as I delved into the book, I thought this could potentially make interesting song text,” he said. “This was another example of a way to honor this aspect of (Hartley’s) creativity.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Osborne was moved by Hartley’s sense of place and landscape in his poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">“Like his art, it has definite regional flavors for the places he lived,” he said, adding that Alpher’s composition reflects coastal New England in many ways.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Robert Osbornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09135357750074005707noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096252286559048108.post-30386583081437037192016-08-15T14:45:00.004-07:002016-08-15T14:45:59.744-07:00<span style="font-size: large;"><i>anatomy theater</i> premieres with Los Angeles Opera</span><br />
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David Lang and Mark Dion's new opera, <i><a href="http://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2016/7/In_Review/LOS_ANGELES__anatomy_theater.html">anatomy theater</a></i>, received its premiere this past June with LA Opera in a collaboration with Beth Morrison Projects. It was my pleasure to create the role of the anatomist and moral lecturer, Baron Peel, in the production. The staging was by Bob McGrath and Ridge Theater, graced by projections and video by Bill Morrison and Laurie Olinder. The amazingly talented cast included Peabody Southwell as Sarah Osborne (no relation!!), Marc Kudisch as Joshua Crouch, and Timur as Ambrose Strang. The opera will be reprised at BRIC in Brooklyn in January 2017.<br />
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<i>Opera News</i> reviewed the production in the September 2016 issue.<br />
<a href="http://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2016/7/In_Review/LOS_ANGELES__anatomy_theater.html">http://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2016/7/In_Review/LOS_ANGELES__anatomy_theater.html</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Thank
you so much for taking us along on a wonderful musical adventure with Don
Quixote.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You sang for us a
splendid Don Quixote through the music of great composers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You sang all the songs beautifully – do
not the tones of his lower register come at you like a river of maple syrup?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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definitely, as Michelin says, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">trois
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">“It’s such a pleasure to hear and see really
creative programming; a lot of really scholarly work went into that, and I
genuinely appreciated it. The costumes added just the right note to the
drama of it all; the Massenet was a lovely discovery, and I was fascinated by
the Ibert and the Korngold pieces. Your pianist is terrific, and you,
sir, have a gorgeous instrument!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">“…loving and heartfelt thanks for all the work that
you did in putting your Don Quixote concert together...it was wonderful,
creative and beautifully sung....you are amazing.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The reviews are in! </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Zinnias</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> was a triumph.</span><br />
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Robert Osbornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09135357750074005707noreply@blogger.com39tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096252286559048108.post-55413657132640249892010-10-08T12:39:00.000-07:002010-10-08T12:43:38.499-07:00Article on Impollinazione: My Recent Italian Cabaret<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; "><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.miscellanynews.com/2.1579/osborne-croons-italian-cabaret-in-skinner-hall-of-music-1.2330511"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1286566714_0" style="color: rgb(54, 99, 136); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://www.miscellanynews.com/2.1579/osborne-croons-italian-cabaret-in-skinner-hall-of-music-1.2330511</span></span></span></a></p></span>Robert Osbornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09135357750074005707noreply@blogger.com43tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096252286559048108.post-37871928407875343522010-10-08T11:51:00.000-07:002010-10-08T11:55:21.118-07:00Reviews are in for STIMMUNG with Daria FainA review from the <i>New York Times</i><br /><a href="http://http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/arts/dance/05roundup.html?_r=1%3C/a%3E">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/arts/dance/05roundup.html?_r=1</a><br /><br />Also, a nice Blog entry on Danspace’s site:<br /><a href="http://http://www.danspaceproject.org/blog/">http://www.danspaceproject.org/blog/</a>Robert Osbornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09135357750074005707noreply@blogger.com162tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096252286559048108.post-64611871703629132252010-08-16T05:49:00.000-07:002010-08-16T06:01:45.665-07:00World Premiere of Ben Yarmolinsky's MARRIAGE CANTATA on YouTubeHave a look at these new links on YouTube to see the world premiere of Ben Yarmolinsky's Marriage Cantata which I sang with mezzo-soprano Blythe Gaissert and pianist Djordje Nesic.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzDjsI6s320">video 1</a> - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzDjsI6s320<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1AncaU8qKA">video 2</a> - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1AncaU8qKA<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BM4_NfyJQk">video 3</a> - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BM4_NfyJQkRobert Osbornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09135357750074005707noreply@blogger.com168tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5096252286559048108.post-17434665338402476602010-07-07T08:05:00.000-07:002013-02-19T07:29:14.677-08:00Photographic Essay by Miranda Lichtenstein<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I recently sang for Miranda Lichtenstein for her photographic series on musicians in the act of performing. Here are some of the results...Robert Osbornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09135357750074005707noreply@blogger.com146