by Isabel Randall | Nov 3, 2024 | Blog
In October, Lunga Eric Hallam and Craig Terry spoke with Vocal Arts DC’s communications manager, Isabel Randall about this program. Here is a condensed and edited version of that interview. Isabel: I’d like to hear about your collaboration. Did you meet while you were...
by Isabel Randall | Sep 4, 2024 | Blog
This blog was originally published on thebaritoneblog.wordpress.com and is authored by baritone, Lucas Meachem. Not only are there many differences but there are lots of similarities. Especially after having done many recitals in my developing years and mostly opera...
by Courtney Ruckman | Mar 11, 2024 | Blog
We are excited that mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack has selected the fabulously gifted American composer Rene Orth as her collaborator on the newly commissioned work that will stand proudly as part of Daniela’s recital with Keun-A Lee on April 18. Rene Orth’s most recent...
by Courtney Ruckman | Nov 28, 2023 | Blog
Gerald Perman, our beloved Founder, subscribed to the theory that Washington audiences had short memories; if a singer therefore presented a notably successful debut recital here, his oft-repeated mantra was, “We have to bring them back right away,” ideally intended...
by Courtney Ruckman | Nov 28, 2023 | Blog
Let us pay tribute to Renée Fleming on the occasion of her well-deserved 2023 Kennedy Center Honors Award by traveling back over three decades to her first Vocal Arts DC recital at an exciting moment in the soprano’s burgeoning career. In January 1992, Fleming gave...
by Courtney Ruckman | Oct 2, 2023 | Blog
I wonder whether the reason our second commission—Gregory Spears’ song cycle Walden, to verses by Henry David Thoreau—has such a special place in my heart is because its birth was so difficult. I can’t objectively know. Yet its message of simplicity in all things,...
