Monthly Archives: November 2017

VIRGINIA OPERA’S THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST: IMPORTANT OPERA, WONDERFUL REJUVENATION

The occasion of the Virginia Opera’s production of Puccini’s The Girl of the Golden West offers the opportunity to discuss a man whose name was once almost synonymous with the American theater – David Belasco. Belasco (1854-1931) was born in San Francisco, educated by Jesuits, and on the stage from childhood. Author or adaptor of […]

November 18, 2017 – 9:42 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in from Paul, History, Music, Opera, Quotations, Theater, Theology | Comments Off on VIRGINIA OPERA’S THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST: IMPORTANT OPERA, WONDERFUL REJUVENATION

DYLAN IN RICHMOND

Bob Dylan’s concert in Richmond took place at the Richmond Coliseum, an edifice best described by the famous line, “What. A. Dump!” Nevertheless, the ageless Mavis Staples opened the three hour show with a feisty backup band as she reviewed some of her greatest hits and introduced a few of her new songs from her […]

November 12, 2017 – 3:42 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Current Events, from Paul, History, Music, Poetry, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theater, Theology | Comments Off on DYLAN IN RICHMOND

VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL: YO-YO MA & KATHRYN STOTT – RECALLING EDEN

The power of beauty breaks incomprehensibly, unnaturally, and completely irrationally into this world and rules it, for beauty is regal and cannot fail to rule, and the whole world stretches out to beauty as to the light. It is our special recollection of Eden, of ourselves in our true condition.                               […]

November 8, 2017 – 10:08 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in from Paul, History, Music, Quotations, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theology, Uncategorized | Comments Off on VIRGINIA ARTS FESTIVAL: YO-YO MA & KATHRYN STOTT – RECALLING EDEN

Virginia Symphony: Bach to Reformation – Dinnerstein Dazzles

The occasion of the Virginia Symphony’s FROM THE MUSIC OF BACH TO THE REFORMATION SYMPHONY raises the subject of the overwhelming amount of Christian music associated with historic Protestantism. Why is that? The answer begins in the religious practices of the ancient Hebrew people. Jews, at the time of Jesus Christ, had a tradition of […]

November 5, 2017 – 5:32 pm | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Current Events, from Paul, History, Music, Quotations, The Gospel of the Kingdom, Theology | Comments Off on Virginia Symphony: Bach to Reformation – Dinnerstein Dazzles

Little Theatre of Norfolk’s ARSENIC AND OLD LACE: Classic Comedy

Question: Why is it called a “Little” Theatre? Answer: Because the first one, The Little Theatre of Chicago, had just 99 seats. A brief histoy lesson: At the turn of the twentieth century powerful monopolies and trusts controlled and regulated just about everything in America. Even theatrical production. Known as “The Syndicate,” a cabal of […]

November 4, 2017 – 10:45 am | By Paul Kuritz | Posted in Current Events, from Paul, History, Quotations, Theater | Comments Off on Little Theatre of Norfolk’s ARSENIC AND OLD LACE: Classic Comedy