ECKBERT, SR., DR. WILLIAM FOX Winter Park, FL – Dr. William Fox Eckbert Sr., a practitioner of family medicine in the textile mill town of Cramerton, NC, was laid to rest at the age of ninety-five on ...
Blond Eckbert is the third full length opera by outgoing Master of the King’s Music, Judith Weir. Premiering in 1994 at the London Coliseum, Weir went on to create a shorter chamber version involving ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. English Touring Opera has announced the casting for their new production of Dame ...
The woods in question are those of the German Harz Mountains. I too once experienced dark deeds while in the Harz mountains: on a summer’s evening in 1986 I listened in an attic room of a Harz ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 1948 Benjamin Britten came up with what must have seemed the unlikely idea of starting a music festival at ...
“Blond Eckbert” is more interesting to think about than to experience firsthand. Short and inscrutable, with music that is neither terribly old nor terribly new, Judith Weir’s new piece at the Santa ...
Powerful production from Robin Norton-Hale of Judith Weir’s supernatural opera First performed by English National Opera in 1994, Judith Weir’s opera is based on an enigmatic novella published in 1797 ...
Eckbert, William Billdied May 6 at his home in Edgewater, New Jersey. He was 75 years old. Bill was born in Baltimore, and grew up in Cramerton, a small mill town in North Carolina where his father ...