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Learn Moreby Nicole Galland (novelist and alto) It’s been a rough year for music lovers; the music died too often in 2016. The recent passing of Leonard Cohen hit me especially hard, in part because of my exceeding attachment to his song “Hallelujah” (I even incorporated a line from…
Everything I did in the first 40 years of my life led me to Revels. Not just music, but certainly music most of all. Some memories: my mother improvising at the piano as I danced at age five around the room. Lying on the floor listening to thundering Bach…
How can you tell when it’s spring in Boston? If you’re a boy (or girl) growing up near Boston and you’re a sports fan, it’s when the Boys of Summer first “take the field” at Fenway Park. The calendar may say spring starts in March but it’s not…
It is with great pleasure and excitement that Revels announces the appointment of Megan Henderson as its new music director. Megan comes to us from a rich background in early and world music, and is an accomplished keyboardist, singer, composer and conductor. She was one of four finalist…
Every year Revels directors and producers gather for a weekend to share their experiences in putting on all nine Christmas Revels programs around the country. This year we were in Malibu amongst the surfers and choppers picking each other’s brains on subjects as diverse as storytelling with puppets,…
You know how it is with family memories: along with the wonders and the warm fuzzies, there are the disasters. It was 1987; I was up in the Sanders gallery with two other members of the Revels team, checking out an evening performance. The set glowed, the chorus…
At The Poets’ Theatre, we concentrate our work on the intersection where poetry and drama meet, and if ever there was a poet who lived at that crossroads, it’s Dylan Thomas. His language just cries out to be spoken aloud, and not just beautifully, sonorously, but with a real,…
Because I make my living at it, I took the “novel-writing” skill-set to be a comprehensive toolkit for creative fulfillment. Or at least for my creative fulfillment. Having done time as an actor, director, and screenwriter, I was pretty confident that the novel-writing groove was my one true Happy Place….
Wales Tales Since the first of the year I have been accumulating and sifting through loads of music possibilities for our upcoming Welsh Christmas Revels and our new CD, A Revels Christmas in Wales. At the same time, my long-held desire to go to Wales to explore my family roots began…
Twice every year we have the opportunity to celebrate the solstices. The term derives from the Latin words, sol and sistere which translate as “the sun” and “to stand still.” For a couple of years I worked with Circus Flora, a wonderful old-world, one-ring circus created for Giancarlo…
