August 2011 – Dramatizing the world's music

‘The working out of a curse…’ – Verdi’s Rigoletto

Posted on August 30, 2011June 2, 2017 gordonkaltonwilliamsLeave a commentPosted in Dramatizing the world's music, Music articles, My blog, Opera articles, The power of the libretto

‘The working out of a curse…’: Verdi’s Rigoletto Gordon Kalton Williams Rigoletto is one of the three or four operas everyone should see before they die. The endless flow of instinctively apt melody and faultless pacing qualifies it as a perfect score. But it is also great drama. Rigoletto, the jester, aids and abets his […]

Sousa and the Sioux

Posted on August 19, 2011September 27, 2016 gordonkaltonwilliamsLeave a commentPosted in American culture, Loving Oz and the US, My blog, Observations

Last week, walking the maze of streets that made up the old part of city downtown, we came across the Museum of the Native American, or at least the part of the collection that was left in New York after the bulk of it was moved to Washington. Even so ‘depleted’, the range of exhibits […]