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Written by D.S. Crafts
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Monday, 12 December 2005 |
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Music for the Christmas holiday extends back to the time of Gregorian chant. No music survives from Roman times, including that performed for the Saturnalia feast from which modern Christmas is derived. But there is a wealth of seasonal music from ancient Europe which Musica Antigua has attractively assembled into a program entitled "Nowell, Nowell! Christmas Music from the Middle Ages & Renaissance."
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Written by Jennifer Noyer
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Saturday, 10 December 2005 |
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The dance season for 2005 was strongly influenced by two organizations in the Albuquerque/Santa Fe communities æthe Aspen Santa Fe Ballet and the Global Dance Fest. Both introduced national and international choreography to the area, integrating cutting edge ideas and artists with local dancers at the studio and university level. The Aspen Santa Fe Ballet broadened its outreach to perform concerts in Albuquerque and Ruidoso, and began to sponsor companies from out of state, such as Ailey II, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre's Second Company. The Global Dance Fest brought dancers from as far away as Tokyo and Moscow to perform in both cities and sponsored workshops for students at the University of New Mexico and the New Mexico School for the Deaf.
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“The Vagina Monologues” by Eve Ensler |
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Written by Barry Gaines
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Saturday, 10 December 2005 |
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Eve Ensler began performing “The Vagina Monologues” as a one-woman show in a tiny Off Off Broadway spot in 1996. Based on interviews with hundreds of women, the play has grown to a cultural phenomenon with performances by celebrity and college casts all over the country and translations in more than two dozen languages. This exploration and celebration of intimate female anatomy and sexuality-- at times playful and at times serious-- has become the focus for political demonstrations targeting violence against women, rape as war crime, and vaginal mutilation. The play is also funny and liberating.
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Beauty and the Beast Review |
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Written by ABQjournal staff
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Saturday, 10 December 2005 |
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I went in with low expectations to Friday night's opening performance of the Musical Theatre Southwest production of Disney's "Beauty and the Beast." After all, I had seen the animated film plenty of times and I saw a gorgeous stage production on Broadway. Well, folks, let me tell you something. I left the Kiva Auditorium quite impressed with what MTS director Robb Anthony Sisneros put together.
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“The Day They Shot John Lennon” by James McLure |
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Written by Barry Gaines
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Monday, 05 December 2005 |
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Every generation seems to preserve an unforgettably traumatic date when their world changed. For the oldest there is December 7, 1941. Then comes November 22, 1963. Most recently we experienced September 11, 2001. Add to those dates December 8, 1980, “The Day They Shot John Lennon,” the title of James McLure’s play at the Adobe.
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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.
Marissa Greenberg Marissa Greenberg is a member of the faculty of the University of New Mexico English Department, where she teaches Shakespeare and early English literature. A prior guest reviewer for the Albuquerque Journal, Greenberg will be reviewing theater while Barry Gaines is out of town. She also composed and edited the program notes for last year’s Albuquerque Shakespeare Festival and has written performance reviews for Shakespeare Bulletin. A graduate of Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania, Greenberg has been performing and studying drama for most of her life. She is thrilled to have this opportunity to review for the Journal.
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