Archive for December, 2011

HAVE A LISTEN – a dance transformed

Posted on Dec th, 2011 by Jeanne Golan

Ullmann – Minuet/Totentanz, Jeanne Golan pianist Ullmann originally meant this music for Sonata No. 5, the first piece he composed after being interned at Terezin.  Instead, he pulled it and later orchestrated it for the Totentanz, the Dance of Death that accompanies an overworked Death as he walks off the job in protest in the [ Read More ]

Hannibal Lecter lives upstairs

Posted on Dec st, 2011 by Jeanne Golan

Actors, musicians, photographers, writers, my apartment building is full of artists of all kinds.  So I was particularly delighted when my upstairs neighbor shot me an email last week inviting me to see him in his new role – Hannibal Lecter!  A musical parody of the movie Silence of the Lambs was heading into an [ Read More ]