Review: Music from Spain sparks Aspen Music Festival performances
(WorldNews Entertainment)

Spanish music inspired some of the best moments this week at the Aspen Music Festival, topped off by Sharon Isbin`s all-Spanish guitar program Thursday in Harris Hall. Isabel Leonard became the second internationally renowned mezzo-soprano in less than a week to be felled by an announced illness. She bowed out of a duo recital with Isbin of Spanish and Latin-American music they had recorded together, so there was no calling another mezzo as happened Sunday. Isbin substituted a charming program of mostly Spanish guitar music and plucked superb cellist Brinton Smith from the festival`s faculty to play an existing cello version of one of the song sets Leonard was to sing. Smith injected a...