Hi fans and friends! Writing this on a plane to Dallas-Ft.Worth International Airport, a hub we’ll see probably a dozen times in the next three-five months. This time around it’s for a concert in Waco, Texas. We’ve had a lovely visit to the beautiful State of New Mexico with concerts and workshops in Portales at [...]
Greetings for Larvik, Norway! A little post-mortem (literally) about our premiere tonight of “Notatar for eit Rekviem” (Notes for a Requiem). In short, it’s a stage adaptation of Odd Klippenvåg ’s novel about Don Carlo Gesualdo, the innovative composer and Prince of Venosa most famous for murdering his wife and her lover. While his noble status [...]
GUEST BLOGGER: ERIKA RAUER (Craig’s wife) The week before leaving New York for Norway, I did an exact count of how many diapers Grace uses on a weekly basis. The number was 49: 7 a day. So, for 11 days, I packed 95 (just to be safe) plus an extra few in the diaper bag. [...]
On Thursday, we embarked on our three week “Christmas” tour. (Technically, our tour was supposed to begin on Wednesday, but high winds conspired against us and our flight was canceled.) At three weeks, our tour will be the LONGEST tour NYP has ever attempted. So, it’s anyone’s guess if we’ll be on speaking terms when [...]
On Friday night, NYP returned to Saint John’s Episcopal Cathedral in Denver, CO. Not only did it give us a chance to present material from Tudor City, we got to put a lot of new music on its feet: 3 selections by Clemens non Papa (1515-1555) and the madrigalic tour de force “La guerre” by [...]
