Alchemy Program notes by Dr. Roger Miller Professor Emeritus, University of Utah To borrow a widely used musical expression, tonight’s Spring Concert covers a wide gamut. In modern English, gamut refers to the whole range or scope of something. It originated as a musical term, derived from a medieval Latin hymn honoring St. John the […]
Brahms had a portrait of him hanging on the wall in his study Beethoven wrote him a fan letter. Schumann said “the more we understand him the more we respect him”. Wagner said he was “the greatest of musical architects”. Mendelssohn admired his operas for their “sparkling fire”. The first person to get the […]
They Made Me Do it! Well, they didn’t make me…but dear friends and U. of U. singing mates, Ron and Shauna Ruske, strongly encouraged me to audition, sensing that this new group they’d gotten themselves into was going to be something extraordinary. And that’s “why I sang”, in the Utah Chamber Artists. It was 1991, […]