Music
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Joshua Bell and the New York Philharmonic
Antonio Pappano of Covent Garden Conducts
By: - Apr 09th, 2010Two galvanic classical musicians appear at Avery Fisher Hall. They may resemble rock stars, but they wield violin and baton, rather than the electric guitars of a performance at Madison Square Garden. Antonio Pappano, a conductor of opera, is referred to as "electrifying." Joshua Bell routinely sells out venues. Can this be classical music?
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Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall
De Burgos Replaces Ailing Levine for Elijah
By: - Apr 07th, 2010The Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall performed Mendelssohn's glorious oratorio, Elijah. It was presented with a cast worthy of Cecil B. de Mille. It featured the orchestra, a chorus of 110 voices, four principal soloists and five ensemble soloists. The musician count does not itself make a memorable evening, but this one surely did. Maestro de Burgos, substituted for an ailing James Levine.
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Wilco to Rock Mass MoCA
Solid Sound Festival August 13 to 15
By: - Apr 07th, 2010Rock fans in the Berkshires just got a shot in the arm. Wilco, the Chicago band that blew the roof off of Tanglewood two summers ago, will give two performances at Mass MoCA during the Solid Sound Festival from August 13-15. Far out. The weekend of music, art, and interactive events will feature Wilco's only East Coast performance this summer.
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George Wein on New York Jazz Clubs
Featured in CareFusion Jazz Festival
By: - Apr 05th, 2010Back in the day, George Wein, a recent graduate of Boston University, ran a legendary jazz club Storyville in Copley Square. When the club folded he went on to become a founder of the Newport Jazz Festival. Now in his 80s George reports on the thriving jazz club scene in New York and Brooklyn.
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Radvanovsky and Hvorostosky at Carnegie Hall
Marco Armiliato Conducts Brilliantly
By: - Apr 02nd, 2010Two glorious human instruments were on display at Carnegie Hall, whose acoustics displayed all the nuances of musical sound from a luminous orchestra and great voices. Perfect for Bravissimo! the Opera Gala.
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The Saratoga Chamber Music Festival, August 2-17,
Final Season for Music Director Chantal Juillet
By: - Apr 01st, 2010The Saratoga Chamber Music Festival, August 2-17, will be a Farewell Celebration Season for Music Director Chantal Juillet who founded the program in 1991 and who will mark her final season in that role in 2010. Over the past two decades, the renowned violinist has built the program into a highly acclaimed, innovative showcase for chamber music repertoire performed by renowned and emerging classical artists.
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AXIOM Gallery: Composer/Percussionist Lukas Ligeti
Solo Concert Tour of Afrikan Machinery
By: - Mar 31st, 2010On a nationwide solo tour, at Axiom Gallery, Ligeti improvised and played selections from CD Afrikan Machinery [Tzadik] cited as 2008 -50 Records of the Year by The Wire magazine. Concerts in Brooklyn and Boston, then Montreal and Toronto will be followed by many art spaces including Museum of Contemporary Art, in Ohio.
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Tom Rush and Roger McGuinn at the Colonial
Enchanting Concert by Singer/ Songwriters
By: - Mar 29th, 2010Tom Rush is on the road promoting his first new studio CD in 35 years "What I Know." It has been named Best Folk Album of the Year. He also has a four million hit You Tube clip "The Remember Song." He combined with Byrds founder, Roger McGuinn for a laid back, charming, three hour evening at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield.
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San Francisco Symphony at Carnegie Hall
Michael Tilson Thomas Conducts
By: - Mar 27th, 2010The San Francisco Symphony presented the premier of Post-Scriptum by Victor Kissine, which brought the house down. This was followed by Christian Tetzlaff playing Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major with intelligence and passion.
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The Metropolitan Opera Presents Hamlet
Simon Keenlyside a Brilliant Hamlet
By: - Mar 25th, 2010With such praise preceding him, Simon Keenlyside might have a tough time living up to expectations, but as he inhabits the role of Hamlet, it is clear he belongs there, as a baritone of beauty and range, and a consummate actor worthy of any stage in the world, straight theater or opera. His performance is an event not to be missed. Yet Jennifer Larmore as his wicked mother almost upstages her son.
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Janis Ian and Karla Bonoff at the Colonial
Pittsfield Concert on April 17
By: - Mar 25th, 2010Songs of a Generation is a celebration of song, featuring two of the most influential songwriters of the �60s through the �90s. Janis Ian�s hit songs include �Society�s Child,� �At Seventeen,� �Jessie,� and many more from her 27 albums. Karla Bonoff has written numerous million selling songs including �Someone To Lay Down Beside Me,� �Home,� �All My Life,� �Personally� and �Tell Me Why.�
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Philadelphia Orchestra at SPAC August 4 to 21
Alex Baldwin and Yo Yo Ma Highlight at Saratoga Springs
By: - Mar 25th, 2010Saratoga Performing Arts Center has announced the 2010 summer season of The Philadelphia Orchestra presented by HSBC Bank USA, N.A., August 4 – 21. Led by Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Charles Dutoit, the three-week program of classical and contemporary masterpieces includes major works by Stravinsky, Beethoven, and Brahms, a special guest appearance by Alec Baldwin who will narrate Prokofiev's classic Peter and the Wolf, a "Farewell Concert" with Charles Dutoit and Chantal Juillet, renowned soloists including Yo-Yo Ma, Sarah Chang and Garrick Ohlsson and "Cirque de la Symphonie.
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New York City Opera's L'Etoile
Opera Bouffe Fluffed to Perfection
By: - Mar 23rd, 2010The greed of a theater owner buried L'Etoile, a huge hit in its Paris premier, and for reasons no one can quite figure out, this enchantingly silly piece wasn't mounted again for almost a hundred years. The New York City Opera stages a charming and funny revival, featuring Can-Can girls, a Chaplinesque King and a guillotine the likes of which you've never seen before. The score is a masterpiece of comic music, as brilliant as the Barber of Seville.
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Tom Rush & Roger McGuinn at Colonial March 27
Vicki Baird Connecting with the Beyond April 11
By: - Mar 23rd, 2010There will be an evening of folk music on Saturday, March 27, at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. Two legends of the 1960s, Tom Rush and Roger McGuinn, will perform in what should be a delightful evening.
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New York City Opera's Madam Butterfly
Stunning Production by Mark Lamos
By: - Mar 22nd, 2010For its spring season, the New York City Opera has revived a wonderful production of Madama Butterfly featuring Shu-Ying Li as Cio-Cio-San and presenting exciting debut performances by baritone Quinn Kelsey and mezzo Nina Yoshida Nelsen.
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Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival
Gladys Knight and Al Jarreau Headline June 26 & 27
By: - Mar 22nd, 2010Saratoga Performing Arts Center will present the 33rd annual Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival on June 26 and 27. Highlights include Gladys Knight, jazz singer Al Jarreau & the George Duke Trio, blues icon Taj Mahal, guitarist Al Di Meola and pianists Ramsey Lewis and Ahmad Jamal. There will be more than 20 performances over the weekend.
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BSO Conductor James Levine Withdraws
Will Miss Final Three Weeks of BSO Season
By: - Mar 22nd, 2010Chronic back pain will cause Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor and artistic director, James Levine, to end his season in Boston. This year he has been absent for 22 performances or 60 % of his schedule. Jayce Ogren will lead the world premiere of Peter Lieberson's Songs of Love and Sorrow March 25, 26, and 27. The following week, April 1, 2, and 3 in Boston, and April 5 at Carnegie Hall in New York, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos will conduct Mendelssohn's Elijah. The conductor for the world premiere of John Harbison's Double Concerto for violin and cello on a program with Mahler's Seventh Symphony, April 8, 9, and 10, will be announced.
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Dawn Upshaw and Emanuel Ax at Carnegie Hall
Celebrating Chopin and Schumann at 200
By: - Mar 19th, 2010The soprano Dawn Upshaw, first vocalist to win a MacArthur genius award for her promotion of new composers, and the infinitely apt pianist Emanuel Ax performed Chopin, Schumann and former poet laureate Billy Collin's Piano Teacher poems set to music by Stephen Prutsman. They brought extraordinary musicality to this performance.
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The New York Philharmonic: Riccardo Muti
Vadim Repin Performs the Beethoven Violin Concerto
By: - Mar 11th, 2010Two one of a kind compositions by Beethoven and Cesar Franck were combined in a stunning program at Avery Fisher Hall. Riccardo Muti is interpreting Beethoven's only concerto for the violin, the D Major. Cesar Franck's seldom performed Symphony in D minor, is presented in the second half of the program. The compositions are both in D modes, and modality is explored creatively by both composers.
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Shostakovich by a Nose at the Met
William Kentridge Designs a Masterpiece
By: - Mar 08th, 2010Peter Gelb,in a brilliant stroke, brings together Dimitri Shostakovich and William Kentridge at the Metropolitan Opera. The Nose had sixteen productions in Russia and then vanished. One critic noted a new musical language based on rhythm and timbre, rather than arias and cantilenas, everyday speech is set in music.
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Riccardo Muti: The New York Philharmonic
Andras Schiff Performs a Brilliant Brahms
By: - Mar 05th, 2010Brahms, Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 opened the program for the New York Philharmonic. Second up on the program conducted by Riccardo Muti was a symphony composed by Paul Hindemith, composed for Serge Koussevitsky during Tanglewood's first season.
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Lauren Flanigan at the Graduate Center, CUNY
The Art of Monodrama
By: - Mar 03rd, 2010Lauren Flanigan, among the most dramatic sopranos singing today, presented an evening of songs accompanied by Miriam Charney on the piano, and joined by actress Ellen Lauren and jazz singer Annie Ross with Tardo Hammer.
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The Mount: Edith Wharton's Parisian Salon
Cantilena Chamber Choir March 13
By: - Mar 02nd, 2010On Saturday, March 13, at 4:00 p.m., The Mount will present a special performance of Edith Wharton's Parisian salon, featuring the Cantilena Chamber Choir. The concert is similar to those given by Edith Wharton in her Parisian salon to raise money for the Belgian war relief effort in World War I.
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Riccardo Muti and Attila Debut at the Met
An Early Opera by Verdi Superbly Mounted
By: - Feb 28th, 2010Several debuts were made at the Metropolitan Opera this week. Riccardo Muti, one of the world's great conductors, made his first appearance at the Met. He chose to conduct the Met's first production of Attila by Verdi. Miuccia Prada designed the costumes. The Pritzer-award winning Swiss architects, Jacques Herzog & Pierre deMeuron, created the sets.
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CareFusion Jazz Festival New York
45 Concerts at 20 Venues June 17 to 26
By: - Feb 26th, 2010The legendary jazz producer, George Wein, the founder of the Newport Jazz Festival is returning to New York with the CareFusion Jazz Festival. There will be 45 concerts at 20 venues. On June 23 there will be a free concert on the Central Park Summer Stage.
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