Peter Rothbart

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Ithaca Ballet Dances Tchaikovsky’s Epic Sleeping Beauty

2 weeks ago | ithaca.com | Peter Rothbart

Before Walt Disney, there was Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Before Disneyland, there was the Russian Tsar’s Imperial Palace in St. Petersburg. Disney had his illustrators, while the Tsar had his Imperial Ballet, led by choreographer Marius Petipa. Both gave us tender versions of Sleeping Beauty. The Ithaca Ballet will bring a little of their own magic to the kingdom of the State Theatre on April 12th and 13th,when they present Tchaikovsky’s ballet masterpiece Sleeping Beauty.
Period Music Groups Collaborate To Perform Monteverdi’s Vespers

3 weeks ago | ithaca.com | Peter Rothbart

The NYS Baroque is an ensemble obsessed with authenticity. Their repertoire of European music is drawn from the Baroque era (c.1600-1750), which they faithfully perform on period instruments, such as the violin, viola da gamba, cornetto, lute, theorbo, trombone, and organ. The Ithaca-based NYS Baroque will join forces with Rochester-based Pegasus Early Music to present an upcoming three-day run, performing Claudio Monteverdi’s monumental Vespers of 1610.
CCO Presents World Premiere of “shadows rising soundless as night”

1 month ago | ithaca.com | Peter Rothbart

Music Director Guillaume Pirard and the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra end their first orchestral season together– the chamber music series continues through May– on Saturday, March 22.
DakhaBrakha: Ukraine’s Cultural Warriors

1 month ago | ithaca.com | Peter Rothbart

When the Ukrainian folk quartet DakhaBrakha takes over the State Theatre on March 13, they will be aiming their self-described “ethno-chaos”music at the larger world as much as atIthaca.DakhaBrakha is a Ukraine-based world music vocal group with a core of one male and three female voices whose homeland is under attack. In response, their concerts have increasingly become forums for political statement and their music has taken on an increasing urgency as a cultural response to aggression.
Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble Hosts World Class Artists

1 month ago | ithaca.com | Peter Rothbart

Ithaca’s geographic isolation – or weather – doesn’t seem to impinge upon its ability to attract world-class chamber music artists. Our venues provide an intimacy often missing from larger metropolitan concert halls. Smaller halls often mean higher overhead and more expensive tickets, but in Ithaca the opposite seems to be true.
Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah Defies Musical Genres

1 month ago | ithaca.com | Peter Rothbart

Musicians and composers generally resist having their music pigeon-holed into a single genre. In a pre-streaming world, when record stores set trends by selling records, musicians worried about “which bin are we in?” Today, algorithms decide the virtual bins. This is why so many groups cite their musical influences rather than their style. Or they rename or invent a new genre.
Bird-Based Music is Theme for Cayuga Chamber

2 months ago | ithaca.com | Peter Rothbart

Orchestras love thematic programming. It allows them to organize their concert programs around a common idea that gives the audience focus and familiarity. It allows Cayuga Chamber Orchestra Music Director Guillaume Pirard more creative freedom to bring contemporary works to the concert stage. The Cayuga Chamber Orchestra’s upcoming Flight of Fancy concert on February 22 exemplifies the concept of thematic programming.
「お金を貸して」と言われた時、私は６つの項目で判断する | Business Insider Japan

2 months ago | businessinsider.jp | Peter Rothbart

友達や家族にお金を貸して欲しいと頼まれた時、筆者は返事をする前に６つの点を確認するようにしている。貸せるお金がある場合、返済を望むか、そしてそれが相手との関係に害を及ばさないか自問する。借金の使い道を考慮し、そして返済条件を明確にする。 1993年の秋、私の14歳の誕生日の少し前に、私は父と近所のシネコンに『ブロンクス物語／愛につつまれた街（原題：A Bronx Tale）』という映画を観に行った。その映画で主人公カロジェロが、20ドルを貸したままのルーイという男を見つけるシーンが印象に残っている。通りの反対側からカロジェロは大声でルーイに金を返せと怒鳴りつけ、何とか言い訳をして走り去るルーイに、カロジェロは暴言を浴びせるのだ。カロジェロが憧れる地元マフィアのソニーは、このやりとりを見てカロジェロに聞く。「そいつは友達か？」「いや、嫌いだ」とカロジェロが答える。それに対しソニーがカロジェロを諭すように言う台詞が、私の脳裏に焼き付いている。「それなら答えは簡単だ。20ドルで縁を切ったと考えろ。二度とカネを貸せと言われない。たった20ドルで済んだんだ」...
Yamato Combines Japanese Drumming with AI Reflections

2 months ago | ithaca.com | Peter Rothbart

If you are looking for something to shock you out of the winter doldrums and leave you in awe of both music and musculature, then then you should bundle up and venture outside to hear Yamato, The Drummers of Japan. After a five-year absence, they are returning to Cornell’s Bailey Hall on Sunday, February 2.
CCO Chamber Series: Small Ensembles Exemplify Quality and Depth

Jan 23, 2025 | ithaca.com | Peter Rothbart

When the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra takes the stage on January 26 for its second chamber music concert of the season, four different subsets of the CCO will showcase their skills. It can be helpful to think of the CCO as a kind of professional musical guild, an umbrella organization that guarantees the high professional standard of its members.