Good wishes

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In little over three weeks we will be ready to bid farewell and good riddance to this difficult year, one during which the bad more than often than not seemed to outweigh the good.

But 2021 was also a year in which the resilience of the arts and the artists who create them filled us all with hope. In America, Broadway and off-Broadway and some of the regional theatre have begun to open up cautiously.  One step at a time symphony orchestras and opera companies and concert series and performing arts conservatories and pop and jazz and rock and all kinds of music enterprises are starting to operate again. Musicians and performers of all kinds are beginning to return to work after being furloughed or laid off or put on hiatus for close to two years. These are all hopeful signs.

I have kept busy reviewing recordings and live performances and writing about the arts for this blog, and that has kept me creative and productive all these years even through the worst of the pandemic.

Life has been and continues to be quite good and rewarding for me and for my loved ones, and I never cease to count our blessings.

I am taking this opportunity to reach out to each and every one of you: my readers near and far. I have appreciated your reading my posts and loved listening to the music I review and making your acquaintance even if separated by time and distance.

Let this post – possibly my last one for the year 2021 – carry to each and every one of you and yours all over the world my heartfelt good wishes.

Rafael de Acha ALL ABOUT THE ARTS

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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.”

3 thoughts on “Good wishes”

  2. Rafael, I enjoy your blog postings.
    Typically your postings are beautifully written as well as informative.
    Thanks for your efforts.

    M. O’Brien

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