Learning with your ears
During the summers of 1980 and 1981, I was hired by the Monadnock Music Festival to manage production and design lighting for productions of Don Giovanni and Armida (reviews here and here). They were fantastically innovative productions directed by the then-enfant-terrible Peter Sellars … but it’s not them I want to talk about. The Monadnock Music Festival was primarily a chamber-music festival that made use of a slew of very, very talented classical musicians from Boston (while I was there I worked with 3 future Naumburg Award winners, as well as with John Adams a