Music
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Michael Tilson Thomas at Carnegie Hall
San Francisco Orchestra Comes in From the Storm
By: - Apr 08th, 2017The San Francisco Orchestra arrived in New York at 4:30 am on the morning of their first concert. Storms had delayed them, and stormy music formed the center of their magnificent concert at Carnegie Hall. You would never guess that these performers were sleep-challenged as they played John Cage’s Seasons, the Shostakovich Cello Concerto and Bartok’s intimate Concerto for Orchestra, a marvel in its ability to engage and draw us in.
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Three Generations of Composers at Carnegie
Part, Glass and Reich Featured
By: - Apr 07th, 2017The Deans of Contemporary Music for the past fifty years were represented at Zanekl Hall, in Carnegie Hall. Steve Reich is curating this series of concerts. They are revealing and surprising.
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Conrad Tao Rages at Crypt
Copland and Rzewski Featured
By: - Apr 06th, 2017Conrad Tao is a fearless performer. He is open to reactions that can be very harsh and cruel, and also very beautiful. The Aaron Copland Piano Sonata that sat in the center of the program is a very calm, contemplative and yearning piece. It is during this almost withheld performance that you can clearly feel Tao’s art.
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Adams and Riley at Carnegie Hall
Saved by the Bells
By: - Mar 31st, 2017For the past half century our ears and minds have been assaulted with sound. Many of us have ceased to hear. Yet modern composers are creating music to which you must listen to enjoy. They are opening up our ears. This spring, in the intimate Zankel Hall, Carnegie is presenting three generations of contemporary composers led by curator Steve Reich. There is no better way to start listening again. No matter how minimal the style, this music is saved by the marimba and vibraphone bells.
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Janácek's Adventures of Vixen Sharp Ears
Natural World's Entrance at Manhattan School of Music
By: - Mar 30th, 2017When the Adventurs of Vixen Sharp Ears was selected for the spring opera production at the Manhattan School of Music the prescience in this time of challenge to our climate and natural world could not have been foreseen. Yet watching the moving and charming production this week, the impact of our country’s abandonment of planetary care makes Leoš Janácek's opera all the more touching
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TenThing Brass Comes to New York
Tine Thing Helseth's Group Dazzles with Class
By: - Mar 28th, 2017TenThing brass came to Scandanavia House. The group consisting of four trumpets, four trombones, a horn and a tuba, has been touring the US to great success. Brassy and classy, they are as infectious as they are intimate. Ten, long-stemmed musicians delight.
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American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie Hall
Reich, Hertizberg, Prestini and Weston Rock Zankel Hall
By: - Mar 26th, 2017Contemporary classic music is thriving. No longer is the ACO alone in performing new composers. Yet over the years they have commissioned and performed contemporary classical composers when few others would.
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Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress
The Boston Lyric Opera Production is Stylish and Sexy
By: - Mar 22nd, 2017The morality play, inspired by Hogarth, was turned into an overlong, prolix opera by Stravinsky and his collaborators W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman. An attractive young cast does its best but can barely bring this dud to life. Special shout-outs to set and costume designers who made the production hip and racy.
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James Cohn All American Composer
Rich Brew of National, Folk, and Classical
By: - Mar 17th, 2017Joe Rosen, n crucial patron of the arts in New York City, often introduces the work of a composer who should be better known, James Cohn. Like Bartok and Dvorak, Cohn has plucked melodies from America’s folk music, adding distinctly modern disharmony, and yet capturing the rhythms, for instance, of the West.
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Mark Morris: Two Operas
An Evening of Britten and Purcell
By: - Mar 16th, 2017Mark Morris does not leave not-well-enough alone. He enlivens Benjamin Britten's Curlew River with instruments on stage as they would be in the Noh drama on which this opera is based. He places the singers in the pit for Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. On stage, dancers enact the roles to entrance and also enhance the music. Morris conducts, directs, conceives and pleases along the way.
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Concert Artists Guild Encores
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
By: - Mar 15th, 2017On a dark and stormy night when many shows were cancelled in New York, young artists who had been prize winners in competitions held by the almost seventy-year-old Concert Artists Guild, performed in the jewel like concert hall, Weill Recital Hall. Their performances radiated warmth and style.
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New York Philharmonic Performs John Adams
Happy Birthday to Tunes of Absolute Jest
By: - Mar 12th, 2017John Adams has close ties to the New York Philharmonic. He was in David Gefffen Hall to hear two works performed. In Absolute Jest a quartet formed by the principal performers of the Philharmonic was embedded, an alien force in their own home.
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Cafe Sabarsky at the Neue Gallery
Out of this World Cabaret
By: - Mar 10th, 2017Serge Sabarsky was co-founded of the Neue Gallery, one of the most learned and charming places in New York. Cafe Sabarsky offers an Austrian menu. Often you can find cabaraet Artists like Rachelle Garniez performing.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall
Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Masterful Storyteller
By: - Mar 07th, 2017Love battles evil in Swan Lake and Bluebeard's Castle. Yannick Nezet-Seguin, who comes to the Metropolitan Opera in 2021, is a masterful story teller, forging drama and complex pictures in the performance.of The Philadelphia Orchestra.
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St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie
Ambivalence of Shostakovich Apology Beautiful to Hear
By: - Mar 05th, 2017Who can play Shostakovich better than a Russian? Shostakovich’s Fifth symphony has come down to us as an apology to Stalin during a time of heightened scrutiny not only of artists but of everyone under him. Now it is thought to be a protest against Stalinist terror. Whatever its messages, and messages from Russians continue to be unclear, the music is beautiful, a classical symphony brought forward into the 20th century.
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Andris Nelsons Collaborates with BSO
Beautiful Tone, Dynamic Range and Story Telling
By: - Mar 03rd, 2017When Andris Nelsons stepped on to the Carnegie Hall stage as the last minute substitute for James Levine, we did not know that the event would be as momentous as Leonard Bernstein's last minute substitution for an aiiling Bruno Walter. Who knows how these seminal moments will be ranked in musical history. So much lies before the the young conductor. Performance after performance Nelsons and his musician collaborators from the Boston Symphony exceed themselves.
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The Vienna Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall
Franz Welser-Möst Conducts
By: - Feb 25th, 2017Schubert tripped the light fantastic, and so too René Staar, contemporary composer and musical polymath. Strauss Richard showed us how to share whatever narcissism we have with others and make it work. Another Strauss was a fillp to the moving and delightful evening at Carnegie Hall.
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Carlisle Floyd's Prince of Players
Little Opera Stages a Beauty
By: - Feb 23rd, 2017The New York premiere of Carlisle Floyd's opera, Prince of Players, is mounted by little OPERA. The wonderful story is about a male actor who has made his livelihood playing women's roles and is out of job because King Charles II has issued an edict permitting women to play women's roles. The final outcome is surprising, but well-plotted by the composer, who is also his own librettist.
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Coronation of Poppea's Trip to Venice
Monteverdi's Last Opera Triumphs
By: - Feb 22nd, 2017Carnegie Hall has treated us with a two week virtual trip to Venice in the late 17th century. The final evening's performance was Claudio Monteverdi's last opera, L'Incoronazione di Poppea. Concerto Italiano produced a moving interpretation, ranging from camp fun to the deep contralto feelings of Ottone. Monteverdi began a tradition that lives on today in the operas of Kevin Puts, Nico Muhly and Missy Mazzoli.
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Tanglewood Launches Massive Upgrade
$30 Million Project to Open in 2019
By: - Feb 21st, 2017Tanglewood has announced plans for the construction of a new multi-use, multi-season four-building complex designed to support the performance and rehearsal activities of the Tanglewood Music Center and be the focal point of a new initiative, the Tanglewood Learning Institute, offering wide-ranging education and enrichment programs designed to enhance the patron experience.
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Ensemble Y at Weill Recital Hall
Venice of the 17th Century Played and Sung
By: - Feb 21st, 2017Carnegie Hall includes in their celebration of Venetian music a group of young artists, Ensemble Y. Instrumentalists and singers gave great pleasure in baroque music.
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Ensemble Connect at Weill Recital Hall
Venice of the 17th Century Played and Sung
By: - Feb 21st, 2017Carnegie Hall includes in their celebration of Venetian music a group of young artists, Ensemble Y. Instrumentalists and singers gave great pleasure in baroque music.
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A Jonathan Biss Carnegie Master Class
What's in a Note?
By: - Feb 19th, 2017Master classes give musicians a chance for deep listening to their performance and listeners a deeper understanding of music. Jonathan Biss is working on late compositions of composers. He thinks about near-end-of-life art. In it, he finds particular richness as he looks at the singular note, its overtones, and harmonics and chromaticism. These elements he finds drive excellent interpretations.
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Dorrance Dazzles at the Guggenheim
Bringing the Art of Tap Dance to a Museum
By: - Feb 19th, 2017Michelle Dorrance proves once again that the “Genius” award she received in 2015 for her tap-dancing brilliance (the same year as Lin-Manuel Miranda received his for “Hamilton”) is abundantly deserved!
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Cappella Mediterranea's Monteverdi at Carnegie
Man's Damnation and Glory in Musical Poetry
By: - Feb 18th, 2017Cappella Meiterranea seduces with the wit and wisdom of Claudio Monteverdi swirling in voices and period instruments. Conducted from a bar stool by artistic director Leonardo García Alarcón, the angels and devils of history emerged from the wonderful voices of the group.
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