Basil Considine Blog

Next stop, England!

Next stop, England!

I will be presenting the paper “Confrontation and Accommodation in the Battle of Séga and Christian Song in Mauritius” at the Christian Congregational Music: Local and Global Perspectives conference in England this September. The...

$10 million donation to the Huntington Theatre

$10 million donation to the Huntington Theatre

The Huntington Theatre Company is the happy recipient of a ten million donation from the Calderwood Foundation. Many people know the name Calderwood from the Huntington Theatre’s second stage, the Calderwood Pavilion (over at...

Congratulations to Krista McClellan

Congratulations to Krista McClellan

Krista McClellan (Frat Party, The Diva)  won the Mozart Prize and took 2nd Place in the 10th Concurso Brasileiro de Canto Maria Callas. This international opera competition took place this week in Sao Paolo,...

Papers, paupers, and prose

Papers, paupers, and prose

I will be presenting two papers in the coming weeks: “The Tudor Rose, Anne Boleyn, and Heraldry in the Attribution of Royal College of Music Manuscript 1070” at the Renaissance Society of America‘s Annual...