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Noseda strikes sparks with National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America
Each year, a different group of teenage musicians joins the NYO-USA, and each year a different conductor, so the ensemble’s ...
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A starry cast delivers an imposing, powerful “Don Carlos” in ...
Matthew Polenzani in the title role and Etienne Dupuis as Rodrigue in Verdi’s Don Carlos at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard/Met Opera The Metropolitan Opera returned from its February hiatus ...
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Music, beauty and jugglers make for a memorable night in Met’s ...
Akhnaten, the last opera in Philip Glass’s trilogy of science, politics, and religion, finally made it to the Metropolitan Opera Friday night. (The Met presented Satyagraha in 2011, and back in 1976 ...
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“Dead Man Walking” powerfully opens Met season, video excess apart
Joyce DiDonato and Ryan McKinny in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond/Met Opera It was a long trek, but Dead Man Walking finally made it the last mile to the ...
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Wang triumphs in all-Rachmaninoff, all-at-once Carnegie marathon
Long before this year’s movie awards are handed out, fans of pianist Yuja Wang were accustomed to the idea of a Chinese superheroine doing everything, everywhere, all at once. But even they might have ...
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In Met debut Blanchard’s “Champion” proves lightweight in its class
Champion, the first opera by Terence Blanchard, composer of Fire Shut Up in My Bones, made its eagerly anticipated Metropolitan Opera debut Monday night to warm applause. In the end, however, the ...
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MasterVoices’ “Blind Injustice” lifts up the wrongly convicted ...
Orson Van Gay II, Miles Wilson-Toliver, and Phillip Bullock as the East Cleveland Three in MasterVoices’ Blind Injustice. Photo: Erin Baiano There was a certain irony in the timing of Monday’s New ...
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After extended break, Hahn returns in memorable Brahms with Philharmonic
Hilary Hahn performed the Brahms Violin Concerto with Matthias Pintscher and the New York Philharmonic Wednesday night at David Geffen Hall. Photo: Chris Lee Add one, take one away. That’s the ...
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Vienna Philharmonic thrills with music from Weimar era (more or less)
One Response to “Vienna Philharmonic thrills with music from Weimar era (more or less)” Posted Mar 03, 2024 at 3:56 pm by Stephen Essrig The Hindemith, from a composer who I usually admire, and ...
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Pianist Abduraimov casts a wide cultural net in Carnegie recital
Behzod Abduraimov performed a recital at Carnegie Hall Friday night. Photo: Evgeny Eutykhov It wasn’t hard to imagine that Behzod Abduraimov, pianist from Tashkent, was bringing centuries of history ...
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Prokofiev, light Shostakovich fare better than the dark side with ...
Call it the Two Face concert. This week’s New York Philharmonic program, which opened Thursday night in David Geffen Hall, featured two sides of a pair of the greatest 20th century composers, ...