GOOD NEWS: MANY ON LINE PERFORMANCES

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There are many on line performances we can enjoy in the safety of our homes at no cost:

Lonely House is both the title of a song by the late Kurt Weill and a cabaret/concert on www.operavision.eu featuring actress-singer Katharine Mehrling and Barrie Kosky at the piano presenting songs from Kurt Weill’s days in Paris and New York, including standards September Song and Speak Low. Catch it anytime between now and January 22.

Opera Vision also has quite a number of classical music concerts, operas from several European companies, and ballets. All free.

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www.gso.se/en/gsoplay is the web address for the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra – the National Orchestra of Sweden. Each year about 100 concerts are held in the Gothenburg Concert Hall at Götaplatsen. The orchestra broadcasts them on demand in full HD.

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Husband and wife in life, concert pianists on the concert stage Ran Dank and Soyeon Kate Lee took on a monumental program as part of the Library of Congress Concert Series this past December 12. It included Franz Liszt’s transcription of Beethoven’s Symphony no. 9 in D Minor, op. 125 for two pianos, and the two-piano transcription of the symphonic poem, Les Préludes.

Both these fine artists are members of the piano faculty at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Their superb playing of the all-Liszt program can be enjoyed on

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Enjoy the premiere of CCM Online  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aBCuOUr28k&feature=emb_logo  

This new free series of digital concerts and performances, first streamed on Dec. 11, 2020, featured the CCM Philharmonia led by Mark Gibson performing Debussy’s Danse, Respighi’s Trittico Botticelliano, Julia Perry’s Short Piece for Orchestra, and Mozart’s Symphony No. 29 in A major, K. 201 (1774)… More to follow!

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Rafael de Acha has enjoyed a distinguished career in the arts as a performer, stage director, producer, and educator. He was born and grew up in Cuba. At the age of 17 he moved to the United States to study Drama at the University of Minnesota, and later Languages at L.A. City College, Music at the Juilliard School of Music, at the University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music, and at the New England Conservatory of Music, from which he received the Master's degree. He has taught courses on the History of Music at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music and at Florida International University, and contributed writings and reviews to Seen and Heard International (www.seenandheard-international.com ) and to this blog. He co-founded the award-winning New Theatre in Coral Gables, Florida, where he produced and staged twenty seasons of classical and contemporary theater, including fifty world premieres of plays that went on to have international and national productions on and off Broadway, including Ana in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz (Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2002 and Tony Nomination 2003.) In 2006 he was presented with a citation from The Dade County Cultural Affairs Council for “trailblazing contributions to the arts in South Florida.”