Posts Tagged: casting

Let’s Hear It for the Anterior Cingulate Cortex

This week’s New York Times speaks to the puzzler in all of us, and it explains how my addled brain* just may help me get from here to Christmas. “Tracing the Spark of Creative Problem-Solving” is just the medicine I needed. Now that I know a positive mood can be responsible for “lowering the brain’s

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Luxury Casting

My first time through Ulysses tonight, in the rehearsal room, 5 days before we move into the theatre. An embarrassment of riches. The entire roster – 15 superbly gifted singers – throw themselves into roles big and small. Studio singers make brief finely-etched appearances, and the core orchestra of keyboards, lutes, viol and cello coaxes

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