by Paul E. Robinson

Summer Festivals
Round Top Festival Institute, 2010
Never underestimate the dreams of a concert pianist – especially those of an adopted son of Texas!

Van Cliburn, you say? Yes, he had an impossible dream and realized it when he won the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow in 1958, but there [...]

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Austin Lyric Opera may not be able to afford the most famous singers but it invariably provides first-class entertainment. They’ve done it again with the current production of Rossini’s comic opera “La Cenerentola” which opened this past Saturday at the Long Center for the Performing Arts.
Garnett Bruce is the stage director and he created this [...]

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I remember well the opening of Roy Thomson Hall (RTH) in Toronto in 1982. At last the Toronto Symphony (TSO) would have a fine modern hall to replace the legendary, but aging Massey Hall. How disappointed I was to see and hear a facility that seemed to be designed by fools, with acoustics to match. [...]

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