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This page is constantly under construction. As I obtain more articles of interest, they will either be typed in their entirety here, the source of the article will be given, or there will be links to sites containing the article. Anyone discovering articles of interest, either on or by Mr. Minter, or on other aspects of Early Music, please send either the web address or the article to me here.

01/04/2007

Reviews of Mr. Minter's work

button1.gif (1971 bytes)--"Early Music Festival Ends on High Notes" by Gail Wein; Washington Post

--"Rescuing Dowland" by Jonathan Saville; San Diego Weekly Reader
--"Folger Consort" by Ronald Brown; Washington Post
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"A Candle in the Dark: Elizabethan Songs and Consort Music" by Ivan Moody
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"A Candle in the Dark: The Musical World of Dr. Dee" by Les Berkley; Stereophile; March 2001
--"Rare Countertenor counts luck as his greatest asset" by Betty Webb; Living the High Life; Sunday Arts; Arts and Entertainment for the East Valley; March 11, 2001
--"Handel oratorio gets bravura performance" by Keith Powers; Boston Herald, Monday, January 29, 2001
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"Discovering There's Color in Shades of Gray on Gray" by Paul Griffiths; Music Review, NY Times; Monday, October 13, 1997
--"Folger Consort" by Joe Banno; Performing Arts Column, Washington Post; Tuesday, April 1, 1997
--"Listener's Gallery: Love Letters from Italy" by David C. Bradley, Journal of Singing, September/October 1997, Volume 54, No. 1.
--"Temples of Delight" by Andrew Porter; Musical Events, The New Yorker; February 27, 1989
--"Handel: Ottone, Re di Germania" by Antony Bye, BBC Music Magazine, May 1993
--"Music of Baroque's 'Calisto' slowly seduces with simplicity" by Wynne Delacoma; Chicago Sun-Times, Wednesday, April 16, 1997
--"Minter pours color, beauty into singing" by Tom Strini; Milwaukee Journal; Monday, January 20, 1992
--"Handel:Arias" by Paul Moor; Musical America: The Journal of Classical Music; May 1988
--"Young Artists of 1988" Musical America, September 1988
--"By Jupiter, a touch of the divine in offering of Handel's 'Semele'" by Octavio Roca; The Washington Times; Tuesday, Nvember 14, 1989
--"'Susanna' sends Philharmonia to the top" by Allan Ulrich, San Francisco Examiner; Friday, September 15, 1989
--"Magical Opera" The New Yorker; March 14, 1983
--"Portrait of a Powerful Artist" by Joshua Kosman, The San Francisco Chronicle
--"Sweeter than Roses: Songs by Purcell", by Michael Ullman; Fanfare; January/February 1993
--"A recital of songs from 1600's" by Daniel Webster; Philadelphia Inquirer; January 21, 1992
--"AAM/Hogwod: Queen Elizabeth Hall" by Nicholas Kenyon, Times, October 29
--"Hogwood" by Hugh Canning; Guardian, October 30
--"Academy of Ancient Music" by Peter Stadlen; Telegraph; October 30
--"Record of the Month: Agrippina" by George Hall; Opera Now; May 1992
--"'Love Letters from Italy' Gets stamp of Approval" by Daniel Cusick; Scranton (PA) Sunday Times; October 27, 1996
--"Karlsruhe" Opera, June 1993
--"Harpsichord Society event celebrates spring" by Charles Ward; Houston Chronicle; Tuesday, April 29, 1997
--"Whispering and Entreaties" by Torsten Brandt, Gottinger Tagebuatt, January 14, 1998

Articles which mention Mr. Minter

--"For the Countertenrs, Recognition and Roles" by Matthew Gurewitsch; New York Times; April 4, 1999
--"Nature's Voice" by Peter Giles

Interviews and Articles by Mr. Minter

--"Reviews of Met Legends: Mirella Freni & Regine Crespin" Opera News; April  2001
--"Focus On: An Interview with Drew Minter" HHS Bulletin; The Quarterly Publication of the Historical Harp Society; Volume 11, Number 2, Spring 2001
--"Counterattack" Time Out New York, January 1997
--"A Natural Talent" by David Patrick Stearns, Gramophone 1990
--"Drew Minter" by Octavio Roca, CD Review; January 1991
--"Drew Minter: From Medieval to Atonal-More than a Countertenor" by Paul Thomason; Bay Area Reporter; February 24, 1994.
--"Drew Minter's Voice of Choice" by Joseph McLellan; The Washington Post; Saturday August 15, 1987
--"The High Art of the Countertenor" by Matthe Gurewitsch, The Wall Street Journal, January 12, 1984
--"The Highboys" by Pascal Chevallier, Vanity Fair, February 1995
--"Baroque Dialogue" Drew Minter talks with Conductor Nicholas McGegan; Opera News; December 1998
--"A Hero's Tale" Stagebill from the Lincoln Center, November 1998
--"Spoken Word" Opera News; December 1998
--"Singing Lessons" Music and the Arts
--"Italian Songbooks" Music and the Arts
--"Old Music in the New World" Music and the Arts; February 1996
--"Easy Does it" The Musical Times; January 1996
--Fanfare Interview with Royal S. Brown; January/February 1997

Directing Press Clippings

button1.gif (1971 bytes)--"Five College opera ends long drought" by Christina L. Barber; Daily Hampshire Gazette
--"UMass Opera team to stage 'L'Orfeo' in new translation" Daily Hampshire Gazette; Tuesday, April 17, 2001
--"The Makings of a Sitcom" By Alan Kozinn; The New York Times; December 5, 1996"
--"Lavish 'Dido and Aeneas'" by Joseph McLellan; The Washington Post; April 6, 1995
--"Not just a Song at Twilight" The Musical Times; June 1994
--Hildegard's "Ordo Virtutum" Cover of Spring 1997 Early Music America Magazine
--"In This 'Julius Caesar'..." by Ellen Pfeifer; Boston Herald; March 27, 1998
--"First class Handel pastoral spiced by love" by Richard Buell; The Boston Globe; February 3, 1998
--"A close call for the Good Guys" by James R. Oestreich; The New York Times; November 25, 1998

"Ariodante" Reviews from the 1995 Gottingen Handel Festival

--Concerto; July/August 1995
--Die Rheinpfalz; June 14, 1995
--Frankischer Tag; June 9, 1995
--The Musical Times; August 1995
--Hallische Zeitung; June 14, 1995
--Werra Rundschau et al.; June 10, 1995
--Potsdam Wochenzeitung; August 18, 1995
--Opera; October 1995
--Opera; 1995 Festival Issue

"Giustino" Reviews from the 1994 Gottingen Handel Festival

--Alte Musick Aktuell; 1994, No. 10
--Gottinger Tageblatt; May 7, 1994
--Opera; 1994 Festival Issue
--Concerto; July/August 1994
--Hallische Zeitung; June 13, 1994

"Radamisto" Review from the 1993 Gottingen Handel Festival

--Frankfurter "Feuilleton" June 25, 1993

"Xerxes" Reviews from the 1997 Gottingen Handel Festival

--Online Music Magazine
--Concerto, July 1997
--Die Rheinpfalz; June 18, 1997
--Hannoversche Allegmeine Zeitung; June 11, 1997

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