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Curtain Up, December 15, 2007
The Internet Theater Magazine of Reviews, Features and Annotated Listings
A Curtain Up review of Piaf: Love Conquers All, by Paulanne Simmons
www.curtainup.com
... The show also owes much to the marvelous piano playing of Carmela
Sinco, who sits upstage at her piano, barely visible behind a scrim.
Sinco expresses instrumentally what Emmerson conveys vocally. Her
playing is lush, romantic and evocative. ...
Article address: www.curtainup.com/piaf.html
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New Music Connoisseur, July 17, 2007
The magazine devoted to the contemporary music scene, in Association with Composers Concordance, Inc.
www.newmusicon.org
Art Song for Art Song’s Sake, by Barry L. Cohen
“Song New York, A Concert of Vocal Music.”
by Deak, Earnest, de Kenessey, Owen, Peaslee, Jonny and Lou Rodgers,
Rorem, Sinco and Spektor. Soprano Elizabeth Cherry; Mezzo Wendy Brown;
tenor John Nelson; baritone Charles Coleman; pianist Thomas Carlo Bo.
Presented by Golden Fleece Ltd., the Composers Theatre. Renee Weiler
Recital Hall, GHMS. Dec, 8, 2006.
... Was
it planned or just coincidental that the opening four-song set, “Simon
Says” by Carmela Sinco, was the raciest and most contemporaneously
chorded of the evening with punchy cadences and tongue-in-cheek
underpinnings in the piano part, played to perfection by Mr. Bo.
Baritone Coleman had a great time singing these songs, and his by now
infamous “See-how-comfortable-I-am-in my-own-skin” posture served him
well here. ...
Article Address: http://newmusicon.org/index.php/2007/07/17/art-song-for-art-song%e2%80%99s-sake/
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Snake Oil Sam Internet Media Publishing © 2006
posted on Monday, November 13, 2006
Victoria Wefer and Carmela Sinco Performance at New Jersey City University
"Few
words are required to describe the recent performance of lyric soprano
Victoria Wefer and pianist Carmela Sinco. As a matter of fact I believe
that I can describe it in only two words. Absolute talent! Even fewer
words are required, indeed one word will suffice. Perfection!...
...Together
these two women became one in a transition of substance into pure
energy...
...Sinco
enjoys a career as a pianist, composer and educator in the New York
City area. Though her list of accomplishments is far too great than
time allows writing about, she has performed with classical singers in
music festivals in Nice, France; Barcelona, Spain; St. Petersburg,
Florida; and Montpelier, Vermont.
In this most recent recital
Carmela performed her original composition set to a poem by Dorothy
Parker titled “The Little Old Lady in Lavender Silk” to the delight of
the Audience.
During the recital Sinco also took to the stage to
offer a solo performance of Francisco Buencamino Sr.’s work titled
“Harana.” Playing without the need of sheet music Carmela played the
work as though in a trance. Her arms effortlessly flowed across the
keyboard in a way that made any observer believe that she was possessed
by a spirit of music.
But it was in fact simply the well trained
and skilled accomplishment of a young lady who has so well rehearsed
the work that it has become a part of who she is. Yes, she has the
ability to transform into the music becoming one with the instrument.
Like a Zen Master of music Carmela had become the music..."
http://snakeoilsam.blogspot.com/2006/11/victoria-wefer-and-carmela-sinco.html
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