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Daily Archives: November 2, 2024
Movie Preview: Ben Kingsley makes a scary overture to “William Tell”
Switzerland’s mythic hero, subject of a Frederich Schiller play nobody produces and Rossini opera nobody presents and yet whose overture is one of the most famous warhorses (classics everybody knows) in classical music, gets another Swiss “Robin Hood” style film … Continue reading
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N.C. Symphony concert night, because Cinephiles love Holst
There were only eight known planets in the solar system when Gustav Holst composed his orchestral suite, consisting of seven tone poems (leaving out Earth, and before Neil DeGrasse Tyson killed “Pluto”) in the middle of World War I. This … Continue reading
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