Soundcheck

Andreas Scholl (private collection)

Renegades in the Opera House

Friday, January 21, 2005

Guitar Player magazine believes guitarist and composer John King, "kicks post-Hendrix art-funk butt," and he joins us today to do more kicking. The former musical curator for The Kitchen, recipient of numerous grants and awards, and downtown music scene dignitary, King comes to speak about his new experimental opera La Belle Captive, a piece detailing the sometimes blurred line between captive and captor. And opening Lincoln Center’s "New Visions" series is "The Renaissance Muse," a musical theater production combining English Renaissance musical styles, and the writings of Campion and Shakespeare, among others. Director Mark Lamos and renown countertenor Andreas Scholl both speak about the roles in the project.

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