Monthly Archives: September 2002

SOONER OR LATER MOST OPERA COMPANIES get around to Nabucco. It has its historic place, as Verdi’s first triumph and for the “Va pensiero” chorus that became the anthem of oppressed Italy. (At the L.A. Opera the chorus was encored, … Continue reading →

CARL STONE’S MUSIC IS THE FOOD OF, well, music. It feeds on found objects – a Schubert fragment, a Tokyo street noise – and raises them to a higher level. In his hands, and through his serendipitous, madcap brain, the … Continue reading →