New Music

6 Questions RE: Composer David Dies' Chamber Opera "Hills Like White Elephants"

October 16, 2013 By sybariticsinger

I remember reading Ernest Hemingway's short story "Hills Like White Elephants" long before I could have had an understanding for the work. …

June 21, 2013 By sybariticsinger

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZenQCcH_nHA] Michael Oberhauser (b. 10 January 1985) "Heaven-Haven: A Nun Takes the Veil" …

June 4, 2013 By sybariticsinger

Maybe it's the smell of sunscreen in the air, the longer days and shorter nights, or perhaps even the obsessive attention to voiced dental …

February 8, 2013 By sybariticsinger

Hmmm is this a personal bias? Probably. If you are a regular reader, then you know how much I adore new music. However, this challenge goes …

January 4, 2013 By sybariticsinger

Many of you who read the Sybaritic Singer regularly understand my commitment to performing new music and working with living composers. For …

December 18, 2012 By sybariticsinger

Opera is a living art form in the hands and voices of Rhymes With Opera, a Baltimore and NYC-based ensemble. Rhymes With Opera (RWO) has …

August 6, 2012 By sybariticsinger

Listening to the beginning of Voyage, a 2011 recording from Pictures on Silence, feels as though you have just happened upon a room where …

July 12, 2012 By sybariticsinger

Scene in on a girl nervously sweating, breathing rapidly, feeling a tightness in her chest. She opens her mouth to sing, unsure if sound …

July 10, 2012 By sybariticsinger

Hello Sybaritic Faithful, I am at music camp! Writing to you all from North Adams, Massachusetts while I attend the Bang on a Can Summer …