Donald Pippin, a celebrated and prolific musical director for Broadway and New York’s Radio City Music Hall and the last living recipient of the long-discontinued Tony Award for Best Conductor and Musical Director — which he won for 1963’s Oliver! — died June 9 at the age of 95.
His death was confirmed by friends on Facebook, including Broadway director and choreographer Marcia Milgrom Dodge, who wrote, “I met Don when I was the choreographer on The Music Man @ NY City Opera in 1988. He was our Maestro and he was a generous gentleman in the theatre, taking me under his wing with such mastery and kindness…Journey On, dear Don, in beautiful music.”
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An arranger and songwriter as well as conductor and musical director, Pippin, born in Macon, Georgia, and a longtime resident of Brewster, New York, began his Broadway career by composing dance music for...
His death was confirmed by friends on Facebook, including Broadway director and choreographer Marcia Milgrom Dodge, who wrote, “I met Don when I was the choreographer on The Music Man @ NY City Opera in 1988. He was our Maestro and he was a generous gentleman in the theatre, taking me under his wing with such mastery and kindness…Journey On, dear Don, in beautiful music.”
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An arranger and songwriter as well as conductor and musical director, Pippin, born in Macon, Georgia, and a longtime resident of Brewster, New York, began his Broadway career by composing dance music for...
- 6/10/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
TV Picks: Tune in to PBS this May 10th for Vittorio Grigolo Stars in Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” on “Great Performances at the Met.”Featured is Italian Tenor Vittorio Grigolo, cast as the tortured poet unlucky in love tortured by the devil in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann on Great Performances at the Met, Sunday, May 10 at 12 p.m. on PBS. Soprano Deborah Voigt hosts the broadcast Les Contes d’Hoffmann will be broadcast on Thirteen’S Great Performances at the Met Sunday, May 10 at 12 p.m. on PBS. (Check local listings.) (In New York, Thirteen will air the opera at 12:30 […]...
- 4/28/2015
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Well-Strung has been establishing a growing presence amongst Broadway fans. The all-male, singing string quartet whose members are Chris Marchant, Daniel Shevlin, Trevor Wadleigh and Edmund Bagnell, was the brainchild of Manager Mark Cortale and Marchant. They first came on to BroadwayWorld's radar when they appeared onstage for the Opening Gala of the Walt Disney Theater in Orlando, part of the new Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. The gala was directed by Richard Jay-Alexander and conducted by Mary-Mitchell Campbell, with members of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra. But check out who they shared the stage with Sierra Boggess, Deborah Voigt, Chris Mann, Norm Lewis amp more. We then saw them at the Hirschfeld Theatre in another stellar line-up that included Rob McClure, Julie Haltson, Tituss Burgess, Lena Hall, Florence Henderson, Norm Lewis, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Lillias White, Lily Tomlin and more Broadway favorites for Broadway Backwards, on March 9th,...
- 3/20/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Legendary soprano Deborah Voigt made headlines in 2004 when she was fired for being too fat after she couldn't fit into a size 12 black dress at London's Royal Opera House. "It's incredible someone can get way with saying those words," she tells People in this week's issue. "It's still open season on overweight women." Voigt details her struggles with food, men and alcohol in her new memoir, Call Me Debbie. She also describes a double standard that found her being fired for being "too fat," while a portly tenor gets away with simply being called a "teddy bear." As Voigt writes,...
- 1/19/2015
- by Liz McNeil, @lizmcneil
- PEOPLE.com
Legendary soprano Deborah Voigt made headlines in 2004 when she was fired for being too fat after she couldn't fit into a size 12 black dress at London's Royal Opera House. "It's incredible someone can get way with saying those words," she tells People in this week's issue. "It's still open season on overweight women." Voigt details her struggles with food, men and alcohol in her new memoir, Call Me Debbie. She also describes a double standard that found her being fired for being "too fat," while a portly tenor gets away with simply being called a "teddy bear." As she asks in her memoir,...
- 1/19/2015
- by Liz McNeil, @lizmcneil
- PEOPLE.com
Fired for Being Too Fat, Opera Singer Deborah Voigt Admits 'I Was a Poster Child for Food Addiction'
When Deborah Voigt was fired for being too fat to fit into a (size 12) little black dress for a production of Strauss's Ariadne aug Naxos at London's Royal Opera House in 2004, public outrage was immediate. "It's incredible someone can get away with saying those words," Voigt, 54, tells People exclusively. "It's still open season on overweight women." Voigt details her lifelong struggles with food in a new memoir, Call Me Debbie (cowritten by former People writer Natasha Stoynoff). She writes about her first binge at age 5 (when she slugged back a jar of olives), her late night fast food runs once she got her driver's license,...
- 1/15/2015
- by Liz McNeil, @lizmcneil
- PEOPLE.com
Fired for Being Too Fat, Opera Singer Deborah Voigt Admits 'I Was a Poster Child for Food Addiction'
When Deborah Voigt was fired for being too fat to fit into a (size 12) little black dress for a production of Strauss's Ariadne aug Naxos at London's Royal Opera House in 2004, public outrage was immediate. "It's incredible someone can get away with saying those words," Voigt, 54, tells People exclusively. "It's still open season on overweight women." Voigt details her lifelong struggles with food in a new memoir, Call Me Debbie (cowritten by former People writer Natasha Stoynoff). She writes about her first binge at age 5 (when she slugged back a jar of olives), her late night fast food runs once she got her driver's license,...
- 1/15/2015
- by Liz McNeil, @lizmcneil
- PEOPLE.com
DVR Alert: Tune in Tonight for Christmas With The Mormon Tabernacle Choir with Deborah Voigt & More!
Television audiences have one more chance to celebrate with Deborah Voigt this holiday season. Tonight, Friday, December 19, the Grammy Award-winning soprano returns to the small screen when Pbsthirteen broadcasts her special guest appearance in Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, recorded live in concert last season, and now also available on both CD and DVD. Check your local PBS listings.
- 12/19/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Ravinia's 2014 season, dubbed 'Summer of LoveSeason of Stars,' was announced today by Ravinia President and CEO Welz Kauffman. Brimming with talent and romance, the festival's 2014 schedule brings some the biggest names in the world of music as well as repertoire that explores the theme of great love in its various manifestations. No fewer than three musical incarnations of the most famous love story of all time, Romeo and Juliet, will be featured, with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performing Tchaikovsky's Overture-Fantasy July 27, a suite from Prokofiev's ballet setting of the story July 16 and the score of West Side Story as the classic film is shown July 17-18. In other examples of love, soprano Deborah Voigt describes it as 'Something Wonderful' on a Broadway evening July 13, the legendary Broadway team of Lerner and Loewe will be celebrated July 20, and Chanticleer even jabs at the battle of the sexes in an...
- 2/27/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Wagner’S Dream The Metropolitan Opera Director: Susan Froemke Cast: Robert LePage, Deborah Voigt, Jay Hunter Morris, Peter Gelb, James Levine, Fabio Luisi, and the Metropolitan Opera Screened at: Dolby 24, NYC, 7/11/12 Opens: July 19, 2012 in NY; July 27, 2012 in L.A. Let me take a wild guess that more people have heard of Spider-Man than Götterdämmerung and that, further, more people have seen “Spider-Man-Turn Off the Dark” on Broadway this year than Richard Wagner’s 15-hour long Ring Cycle at the Met. What do they have in common aside from the sounds of music? Both productions embraced avant-garde staging that includes flying actors and singers. A month from its [ Read More ]...
- 7/13/2012
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Wagner's Dream comes true
Filmmakers Susan Froemke and Bob Eisenhardt, opera soprano Deborah Voigt and tenor Jay Hunter Morris, Met's General Manager Peter Gelb on the red carpet
Wagner's Dream, the film about the opera cycle about "reaching the unattainable", is clearly one of the best movies in Tribeca 2012. The film's scope and clarity and joy will make people curious about opera who never had a dream about Wagner in...
Filmmakers Susan Froemke and Bob Eisenhardt, opera soprano Deborah Voigt and tenor Jay Hunter Morris, Met's General Manager Peter Gelb on the red carpet
Wagner's Dream, the film about the opera cycle about "reaching the unattainable", is clearly one of the best movies in Tribeca 2012. The film's scope and clarity and joy will make people curious about opera who never had a dream about Wagner in...
- 4/28/2012
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
A late-Romantic composer who occasionally worked in a more modern style, Alexander Zemlinsky (October 14, 1871 – March 15, 1942) was something of a prodigy. Anton Bruckner was among his teachers. Brahms, impressed by the Symphony in D and a quartet, recommended Zemlinsky to Simrock, Brahms's publisher and arranged a stipend for the young composer. Zemlinsky was friends with the slightly younger Arnold Schoenberg and taught him counterpoint (in which Brahms had tutored Zemlinsky); Schoenberg later married Zemlinsky's sister.
The connection to Schoenberg (who studied music with no-one else) probably contributed to the revival of Zemlinsky's music, which was largely forgotten in the decades after the Nazis drove the Jewish composer first from Germany back to his native Vienna, and then to America, where he found none of the success Schoenberg achieved in exile.
A few choice volumes Decca's Entartete Musik series ("decadent music," the Nazis' phrase for music they found insufficiently Aryan or overly...
The connection to Schoenberg (who studied music with no-one else) probably contributed to the revival of Zemlinsky's music, which was largely forgotten in the decades after the Nazis drove the Jewish composer first from Germany back to his native Vienna, and then to America, where he found none of the success Schoenberg achieved in exile.
A few choice volumes Decca's Entartete Musik series ("decadent music," the Nazis' phrase for music they found insufficiently Aryan or overly...
- 10/14/2011
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
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