Introducing Bluebeard

Tuesday’s lunch time concert in the RBA featured some of the people involved in Against the Grain Theatre’s new, updated version of Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle which opens next week at the Fleck Dance Theatre.  There was an excellent descripttion of what the project was all about from Gerald Finley (Bluebeard) and Stephen Higgins (conductor and arranger – the orchestration is reduced to a seven person chamber ensemble).

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A couple more streams

rhwTapestry has a teaser for Rocking Horse Winner up on their Youtube channel.  It’s still not clear what the end game here is but I;ll keep a weather eye on it.

Against the Grain have a “virtual salon” tomorrow evening from 7.30pm to 8.30pm via Zoom.  It features Matthew Dalen and Holly Kroeker with as yet unannounced repertoire.  This is a ticketed event ($60) and more details including how to buy tickets are here.