Music

DF Tribute to James Jorden & Parterre Box (Video)

My short video tribute to Parterre Box on its 30th birthday… and James Jorden.

A cast of 1st and 2nd Year AVA artists showed considerable promise, and sometimes more than that.

No show should last for 20 years.

A fascinatingly varied program captured both intellectual rigor and palpable joy in music-making.

Wanna feel old? Hair, “The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical,” has its 56th birthday this month.

Cameron offers a loving tribute to James Jorden, Parterre Box’s founder and eternal force.

The writers of the Box and James’s friends are saddened to announce the death of the inimitable founder of Parterre Box.

Unholy Wars is most an opera when it is, with “Lascia ch’io pianga,” actually an opera.

In sum: not a perfect Simon Boccanegra—is there such a thing?—but a grand and often great one.

In 90 minutes, Rene Orth’s riveting work gives us everything we could want in a new opera.