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Written by D.S. Crafts
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 |
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Lake Wobegon came to New Mexico on Wednesday night. In a benefit concert for our excellent New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Prairie Home Companion host Garrison Keillor brought his gentle humor, folksy stories and songs to the stage of Popejoy Auditorium, with both Keillor and the musicians donating their time.
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Dance Review: Ani Ma’amin by Keshet Dance Company (May 5) |
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Written by Jennifer Noyer
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Monday, 05 May 2008 |
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“Ani Ma’amin,” meaning “I Believe” in Hebrew, is a folk song from Maimonides’ Thirteen Articles of Faith. It is the title of Shira Greenberg’s exploratory choreography on the impact of the Holocaust on American Jews, combining video testimony from three generations of Jews with choreography, music and text. The theme expanded from the war on the European Jewish community to the on-going war against intolerance and racism. Keshet’s five company members revealed an intense dramatic energy as they moved through this tightly designed dance with clean, strong technical skill. Savanna Brissey-Cohen, Erin Crawley-Woods, Marie Gorence, Lisa Nevada and Amber Peterson have become true professionals in this work.
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Review: Cowboys Are My Weakness by Pam Houston (May 3) |
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Written by Barry Gaines
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Saturday, 03 May 2008 |
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I am happy to report that the whispered concerns about the decline of Tricklock Company are groundless. This energetic and innovative troupe again performs with commendable acting and directing skills, introducing to Albuquerque a new genre, an amalgamation of short story and play.
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Review: Sundown at The Adobe Theater (April 28) |
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Written by Barry Gaines
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Monday, 28 April 2008 |
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At The Adobe Theater Jane and Cy Hoffman direct “Sundown,” the 2002 musical treatment of the immortal Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. The Adobe production is billed as the “Western Premiere” although the play’s first performance was in Texas.
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Written by D.S. Crafts
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Saturday, 26 April 2008 |
As is usual on at least one New Mexico Symphony concert during the season, the
excellent Albuquerque Youth Symphony made its appearance under the direction of
Gabriel Gordon Friday night at Popejoy Hall. Opening the program taking on
Joan Tower's thorny and difficult Made in America, they acquitted themselves
with admirable professional skill. Clearly this talented group of young men and
women has earned all the praise justly given them.
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About Reviewers D.S. Crafts (Website) Composer Daniel Steven Crafts came to New Mexico from San Francisco where he had hosted a classical music radio program on KPFA. His first commission from opera star Jerry Hadley, "The Song & the Slogan" based on texts by Carl Sandburg, was made into a TV program for the PBS network and aired nationally in 2004 and won an Emmy for Best Music. His latest opera La Llorona is a collaboration with novelist Rudolfo Anaya based on his play "The Season of La Llorona." Mr. Crafts is currently working on another commission from Jerry Hadley for a piece about the American Southwest which includes texts by Rudolfo Anaya and V.B. Price. Two CDs of his music, Contemporaries (short, satirical keyboard works) and ARIAS (excerpts from his various operas) have been released on the BACAT label in San Francisco.
David Steinberg David Steinberg has covered state government, the courts, city and county government in Santa Fe for the Albuquerque Journal. He's been an arts writer for the past 20 years, and serves as the book editor, for the Journal. Over the years, he's also acted in plays, sung in choruses and played trumpet.
Jennifer Noyer Jennifer Noyer has been writing dance reviews for the Albuquerque Journal for 17 years, as well as contributing articles for Dance Magazine and other art journals. She trained in dance with Hanya Holm in New York City and Colorado Springs, and studied several dance techniques at the graduate level at the University of Michigan. After teaching dance at Wayne State University she entered and completed a Masters Degree in Humanities there. In New Mexico Ms. Noyer has taught, directed, and choreographed contemporary dance for several years. Her writing on dance includes a monograph accompanying the video of choreographer Bill Evens’ ballet “The Legacy.” An overview of Evans’s world wide career, it was written and published during his tenure at the University of New Mexico. Ms. Noyer’s studies in the humanities, and her studio dance work influence her approach to dance as an integrative art form in the United States.
Barry Gaines Barry Gaines has taught Shakespeare in the University of New Mexico English Department for over twenty-five years and has received two outstanding teaching awards. He has written theater reviews for the Journal since 2000. He has attended theater all over the world including Shakespeare productions in Russia, South Africa, Denmark, and Poland. He has also served as literary advisor for two professional theater companies and written performance reviews for Shakespeare Quarterly. Gaines has taken two years of acting with Paul Ford and appeared in small parts in three plays at the Albuquerque Little Theater. He believes that he is probably a better reviewer than actor.
Joanne Sheehy Hoover Joanne Sheehy Hoover, music critic emeritus of the Albuquerque Journal, has written for NPR, PBS, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Symphony, among others. She has also been a music lecturer for the Smithsonian Associates and a music critic and arts writer for The Washington Post. She was director of the Levine School of Music, one of the country’s largest community music schools, in Washington, D. C. 1980-1993. She and her husband moved to Corrales, New Mexico in July 1993. Also a poet, her fifth collection, “Einstein in New Mexico,” was published in 2002.
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