by Josiah Tazelaar | Jan 27, 2021
This was a brilliant production of the Pro Musica Live concert series. Kudos to all who participated, with a loud brava! to Cecelia Sharpe of WRCJ 90.9 FM for conducting a most enlightening interview with our singer, Soprano Angela Theis. I want to focus on the...
by Josiah Tazelaar | Dec 23, 2020
The stars were aligned: It was Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th birthday, and “our” Amit Peled helped us celebrate! I think that we at Pro Musica Detroit have a right to call him “our” ‘cellist: after all, this was his...
by Josiah Tazelaar | Nov 30, 2020
No need to remind current listeners of the incredible circumstances of this Pro Musica season, but for future readers: this season is full of firsts: Never before have there not been an audience coming together at a concert hall. Never before, has the...
by Josiah Tazelaar | Feb 25, 2020
A good-sized audience was treated to one of PMD’s rarer presentations: two guitarists, female, and not from Latin America, Iberia, or Nashville, but from China, and they impressed! From the very first note, I was enthralled. The Chaconne (from...
by Josiah Tazelaar | Oct 7, 2019
How can it be: a piano recital without music by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt, or Rachmaninov?? Well, it can be wonderful, if someone like Roman Rabinovich created “An Homage to Picasso” that uses piano music to...
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