Joyce DiDonato
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
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If the economy has you upset, consider the fate of Handel heroines. On a new CD, American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato presents 14 mad scenes – angry arias by temperamental and vindictive heroines. DiDonato joins us to share those with us, and talk about her busy career, which took off after winning the Metropolitan Opera’s Beverly Sills Award.
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Dr. Hodge from KC (like Ms. DiDonato) might consider the facts that Haendel spent a great deal of his life in London; that former East Germany did not take care of his "Nachlass" during that regime - and the area has just 'reclaimed' him; and that no one pronounces Mozart or Beethoven with the correct Germanic ping either! If my computer had a mic i'd demonstrate
JG
Lis -- Thanks for the heads-up. We've fixed the problem.
There's nothing about Joyce DiDonato in this clip. Something must've gone awry technically.
Please tell John to pronounce Handel correctly. Though he grew up in Britain, his name is Germanic and has an umlaut over the 'a'. It therefore should be pronounced "Hendel".
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