ENTERTAINMENT
By Tim Smith, The Baltimore Sun | April 24, 2013
If you don't have a ticket to tonight's repeat of "Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin" at the Peabody Institute , try using all your powers of persuasion and influence to get one, or just consider sneaking in. It's an important event. Tuesday night marked the Baltimore premiere of this "concert-drama," which traces the history of the astonishing performances of Verdi's Requiem given 16 times by prisoners at the Terezin concentration camp (the Nazi name for the place was Theresienstadt)
ENTERTAINMENT
By Mary Carole McCauley, The Baltimore Sun | April 15, 2013
A reception will be held Wednesday at the Peabody Conservatory in honor of the late Mary C. Walker, who upon her death donated $800,000 to the institution where she studied and worked for most of her life. The bulk of Walker's gift - $600,000 - is being designated for undergraduate scholarships, the Conservatory announced recently. The remaining $200,000 will be split evenly between the alumni fund and the archives. Walker was a granddaughter of a man who made his fortune in the 19 t h century in the meatpacking business.
FEATURES
By L'Oreal Thompson, The Baltimore Sun | March 22, 2013
Wedding date: Feb. 16, 2013 Her story: Abby von Kelsch, 37, grew up in Stafford, Va. She works for Booz Allen Hamilton as a disaster consultant. Her mother, Linda, is a retired librarian and her father, Hank, is a retired U.S. Marine Corps officer who owns a construction company. His story: Chad Omweg, 35, grew up in Charlottesville, Va. He is a welder. His parents, Beth and John, are retired. Their story: Abby and Chad met in October 2007 in Park City, Utah, after Abby left Baltimore to become a member of the U.S.A.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Tim Smith, The Baltimore Sun | March 20, 2013
Just a few words on last weekend's musical jaunts, in case you were desperate for my report, however belated. It was good to see Peabody Opera Theatre exploring the outer banks of the repertoire -- Delibes' once-popular "Lakme. " The work turned up locally about a decade ago in a musically solid, amateurish-looking production from the old Baltimore Opera Company. It's a colorful and charming opera (charming if you don't count a stabbing and a suicide). The plot, set in India, offers something of a foretaste of "Madama Butterfly," with a cultural clash involving a foreign military officer and the daughter of a Brahmin priest.
NEWS
By Jacques Kelly, The Baltimore Sun | February 28, 2013
Isidor Saslav, a former Baltimore Symphony Orchestra concertmaster and Peabody Institute violin teacher, died of complications from cancer Jan. 26 at a hospital in Tyler, Texas. The former Mount Washington resident was 74. Born in Jerusalem, he moved with his family to Detroit as a young boy and studied violin under Detroit Symphony concertmaster Mischa Mischakoff. Family members said at 17 he became one of the youngest members of the Detroit Symphony. He earned a bachelor's degree in music at Wayne State University and a doctorate from Indiana University, where he wrote his thesis on the string quartets of Franz Josef Haydn.
NEWS
By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun | February 6, 2013
Lynn Taylor Hebden, a Baltimore-born lyric soprano who headed the Peabody Preparatory Department for more than two decades and was also a member of the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory, died Sunday from complications of breast cancer at her Roland Park home. She was 84. "I always sought her advice and historical perspective. She always was very interested and wanted to know how people on the faculty she had known were doing," said Carolee Stewart, the preparatory school's dean.