James Conlon's Recovered Voices
Cincinnati May Festival maestro James Conlon had a full-page spread in the Sunday NY Times about his opera series in Los Angeles surveying music by composers who were affected by the Holocaust. It's an excellent article by David Mermelstein. Conlon conducts "Otello" Saturday and the two rarities on Sunday with LA Opera: Viktor Ullmann's "The Broken Jug" and Zemlinsky's "Der Zwerg" (The Dwarf).
Conlon has courageously championed this little-known music without flagging, and we here in Cincy have benefited from that effort. If you've heard Conlon's recording of the Zemlinsky with his former Cologne forces, you know that it is ravishing music.
Watch for a followup in this blog.
posted by Janelle Gelfand at 12:09 PM
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