Music
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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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George Wein Talks About CareFusion Festival
East Side West Side All Around the Apple
By: - Feb 26th, 2010Legendary jazz promoter, George Wein has been checking out clubs including crossing the Brooklyn Bridge. What he has heard will be featured in the upcoming events in June. Wein informs us that "We announced the schedule for the Care Fusion New York Jazz Festival a few days ago and after 60 years of producing jazz events I can still get excited; actually, more than usual."
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Michael Tilson Thomas National Medal of Arts
Conducted at Tangelwood Last Summer
By: - Feb 25th, 2010Last summer Michael Tilson Thomas made an acclaimed return to Tanglewood. The Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony, Founder and Artistic Director of the New World Symphony, America's Orchestral Academy, and Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, has been awarded the National Medal of Arts, the nation's highest award for artistic achievement. The award will be presented by President Barack Obama at a ceremony at the White House.
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Richie Havens at Carnegie Hall
A Woodstock Update, Fresh as Ever
By: - Feb 23rd, 2010Richie Havens has kept on truckin' since Woodstock. Although that event was defining, he is as current today as he was then. His gravelly baritone still thrills.
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The Real McCoy
With Tyner Back When
By: - Feb 23rd, 2010Seeing a visibly aged McCoy Tyner recently at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center made me reach into the vault for notes and images of an afternoon together in October, 1979. It evoked memories of a life in the arts.
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McCoy Tyner at the Mahaiwe
Jazz in the Berkshires
By: - Feb 22nd, 2010McCoy Tyner was barely twenty when for four years he played piano in "The Classic" John Coltrane Quartet. He appeared last night at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington. It was a powerful but too brief set by his trio that left the audience hungry for more.
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Avery Sharpe Toured with McCoy Tyner
Bass Player a Long Time Berkshire Resident
By: - Feb 22nd, 2010The bass player, Avery Sharpe, fell by the Mahaiwe to catch a set by McCoy Tyner. He joined Tom Reney of WFCR at the Castle Street Cafe to discuss the music of Tyner. Reney has graciously allowed us to post the liner note essay for his 2009 recording Autumn Moonlight on JKNM Records.
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125th Season of Boston Pops
Opening Night Celebration May 4
By: - Feb 20th, 2010In a great Boston tradition the Pops will open its 125th season at Symphony Hall on May 4. Keith Lockhart will conduct. A richly varied program continues through June 20. An evening of Pops will launch the Carole King James Taylor Tanglewood love in on Friday, July 2. A number of concerts have already sold out.
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The Enchanted Pig at the New Victory Theater
An Opera for All Ages: Naughty and Nice
By: - Feb 19th, 2010The intimate theater that once housed Minsky's follies and triple X films, presents fabulous fare for children of all ages. The current production enchants.During school vacation week Susan Hall took her young companion Tanner for an outing in Times Square.
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Adriadne auf Naxos at the Metropolitan Opera
Nina Stemme Is a Glorious Adriadne
By: - Feb 16th, 2010A difficult opera by Richard Strauss is brought to life with wonderful staging and mighty singing by Nina Stemme.
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2010 Tanglewood Jazz Festival
Off the Hook Labor Day Weekend
By: - Feb 15th, 2010In what has become a season ending Labor Day Weekend event the 2010 Tanglewood Jazz Frestival will wail in Lenox on Saturday and Sunday, September 4 & 5. John Pizzarelli, his Dad, Bucky, and wife Jessica Molaskey will kick it off at 2 pm with a live broadcast of their popular "Radio Deluxe." Perhaps like last year, Kurt Elling will fall by to scat with John. He is featured that night.
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Alan Gilbert Leads the New York Philharmonic
A Valentine from Composer Christopher Rouse
By: - Feb 14th, 2010The New York Philharmonic presented two Mozart pieces sandwiching a new composition by Christopher Rouse, which turned out to be a Valentine. The putative Mozart Sinfonia Concertante that opened program was lovely in conductor Alan Gilbert's hands.
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Tanglewood Tickets on Sale February 14
Blockbuster 74th Season in the Berkshires.
By: - Feb 11th, 2010The 2010 Tanglewood season will start with a blokbuster Fourth of July weekend featuring Keith Lockhart and the Pops on Friday, with James Taylor and Carole King on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. And that's just the beginning. Tickets go on sale February 14
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Tanglewood Adds Another Show on July 5
Two Concerts with James Taylor and Carole King Sold Out
By: - Feb 08th, 2010There is something magical about James Taylor and Tanglewood. But add his pal, Carole King, and wow. With the Pops on Friday, and three concerts by the dynamic duo, Tanglewood is set to draw some 60,000 visitors on the Fourth of July Weekend. Talk about fireworks. Zowie.
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Elixir of Love: Chicago Lyric Opera
Giuseppe Filinoti Shines as Nemorino
By: - Feb 03rd, 2010The Lyric Opera of Chicago is presenting Donizetti's Elixir of Love throughout the month of February. The moment the curtain rises on a small southern Italian village, we meet Nemorino (Filianoti) who is passionately in love with Adina (Cabell), a coquette who is fickle as a breeze, flitting from man to man. She quickly recommends finding a new love each day as the solution to anyone's amorous issues.
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A Noble Simon Boccanegra at the Met Opera
James Levine Conducts Live in HD Feb. 6
By: - Feb 02nd, 2010Placido Domingo, singing the title role at the Metropolitan Opera, provides a stunning figure in Simon Boccanegra. It will be performed Live in HD, with James Levine conducting, at US and Canadian movie theaters on February 6th.
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Tosca Tantalizes Chicago's Lyric Opera
Violeta Urmana As Tosca
By: - Jan 31st, 2010Tosca has been performed at all the American opera houses this season, and surely the production at the Lyric is one of the best.
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James Levine & Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall
Diva Diana Damrau Sings Strauss
By: - Jan 28th, 2010Taking on two symphonic war horses, the Schubert Unfinished and Beethoven's Fifth, James Levine helps you hear them as new. The program was performed on January 24.
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BSO To Perform Elliott Carter's Flute Concerto
Flutist Elizabeth Rowe Featured Feb. 4, 5 & 9
By: - Jan 28th, 2010James Levine and the Boston Symphony Orchestra will give the American premiere of Elliott Carter's Flute Concerto, featuring BSO principal flutist Elizabeth Rowe in her Symphony Hall solo debut, on February 4, with repeat performances on February 5 and 9. The program also features Brahms's Symphony No. 4 and the Overture and Entr'actes from Schubert's incidental music to the 1823 play Rosamunde.
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BSO Concerts at Carnegie Hall
James Levine to Conduct March 15 to 17
By: - Jan 27th, 2010For the 2010-11 Carnegie Hall season, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Music Director James Levine present a concentrated three-program series, Tuesday, March 15, Wednesday, March 16, and Thursday, March 17, 2011, at 8 p.m., as part of Carnegie Hall's Great American Orchestras and Concerto Series.
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Colonial Hosts Haiti Benefit Feb. 14
A Concert for Loved Ones in Haiti
By: - Jan 25th, 2010A benefit evening at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield on February 14 will feature performances by Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion, The Mammals, Bobby Sweet, Vetiver, Tift Merritt, Meg Hutchinson, Kris Delmhorst, The Guthrie Family and special guests.
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Champian Fulton at Eagle Hill Cultural Center
Valentine's Day Concert
By: - Jan 22nd, 2010There will be a sweetheart of a concert by Champian Fulton on Valentine's Day at the Eagle Hill Cultural Center in Hardwick, Mass. Recently she was awarded the American Harvest Music Society for 2009 Best Jazz Vocalist & Pianist.
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James Taylor Adds Second Show Jan. 22 & 23 at the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington, Mass.
First Haiti Relief Concert Sold Out in 90 Minutes
By: - Jan 18th, 2010Tickets to the James Taylor Haitian Relief benefit concert at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Cehter in Great Barrington sold out in just 90 minutes. With Kim and James Taylor matching ticket sales that raised $300,000 so far. Taylor has generously added a second show on January 23. Act fast.
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Verdi's Stiffelio at the Metropolitan Opera
Sondra Radvanovsky Shines
By: - Jan 17th, 2010Stiffelio, Verdi's mid career opera which had been banned when it was first produced, arrives at the Met. Placido Domingo conducted the magnificent Sondra Radvanovsky.
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A Bold, Erotic Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD January 16
Elina Garanca and Roberto Alagna Face Off Brilliantly
By: - Jan 13th, 2010This Carmen mounted by award-winning director Richard Eyre and conducted by Yannick Neret-Seguin, both making their Met debuts,is sure to thrill at your local Cineplex, live in HD, on Saturday, January 16th.
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