Music
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Beethoven and Mahler at the NY Philharmonic
Inon Barnatan Graces the Concerto
By: - Feb 17th, 2017Manfred Honeck conducted the New York Philharmonic in Beethoven's first Piano Concerto and Gustsv Mahler's First Symphony. Beethoven’s was actually the second and a big leap forward from his first. Mahler’s took the world by storm, featuring nature, folk and funeral music and an expansion of orchestral sound from its time binds into space.
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2017 Solid Sound Festival Update
Musical Lineup Set for MASS MoCA June 23-25
By: - Feb 16th, 2017The musical lineup for the 2017 Solid Sound Festival, which takes place June 23-25 at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA, has been revealed. Let the games begin.
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Jordi Savall Plays Venetian Music in Boston
Influence of Venetian Dance Music on Europe
By: - Feb 13th, 2017With more than 230 CDs and a rigorous touring schedule, Jordi Savall's "Hesperion XXI" is one of early music's most popular groups, sure to fill concert halls all over the world, especially in Boston a hotbed of the broad field of "early" music. In recent years, Savall has been focused on how music is transmitted between cultures over time, and this lively concert surveyed how Venetian dance music influenced music in France, Germany, England and Spain.
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Tchaikovsky Befriended by New York Philharmonic
Joshua Gersen Conducts with Brilliant Restraint
By: - Feb 11th, 2017The program began with Francesca da Rimini, a symphonic fantasy. The music seemed more likely to have been composed in 1976 than in 1876. The buzzing strings, dissonance and mixed instrumental textures are thoroughly modern. Yet the story is eternal: a woman falls in love with her husband’s brother and descends to hell. Tchaikovsky adopted this as program music from Dante. The whirlwind which sweeps up the musical story prepares us for a similar whirlwind in the fourth movement of the Pathetique.
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Carnegie Hall Presents the Tallis Scholars
St. Ignatius Loyola Offers the Acoustics
By: - Feb 09th, 2017Carnegie Hall is offering a festival of Music from the Venetian Republic. At St. Ignatius Loyola, one of New York City’s acoustic treasures, the Tallis Scholars offered Venetian Voices, singing in split choirs, both to provide more vocal lines and to speak to each other when composers asked.
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Susanna Phillips More Than a Beautiful Voice
Demonstrated How to Give a Song Recital
By: - Feb 08th, 2017Young American soprano, Susanna Phillips, has what it takes - a beautiful voice, a charming manner and a fierce intelligence. Her Celebrity Series concert, "Women's Lives and Loves," traced the female condition through song. It could serve as a seminar in how to build a vocal recital.
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Jaap van Zweden Conducts Dallas Orchestra
Tchaikovsky and Bruckner Revealed
By: - Feb 04th, 2017Japp van Zweden the next music director of the New York Philharmonic, performs wonders in his current home town of Dallas, Texas.
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Barenboim and Staatskapelle Berlin
Layering Bruckner in Carnegie Hall
By: - Jan 29th, 2017Bruckner's wish list included three harps for this Symphony No. 8. There were only two, but no matter. The Staatskapelle Berlin, performing the penultimate Bruckner Symphony with Daniel Barenboim, built layer upon layer, filling the outer reaches of Carnegie Hall with complex sounds, glorious to hear. MediciTV has some of Barenboim's Bruckner available for listening for the next three months.
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Barenboim Reveals Bruckner at Carnegie Hall
Berlin Staastskapelle Berlin Uncover the Keys
By: - Jan 28th, 2017Bruckner's Seventh Symphony find brought him acclaim. To get away from the barbs of a merciless critic, he persuaded conductor Arthur Nikisch to open in Leipsig, far from the offending pen. The premier was greeted with fifteen minutes of applause. The Seventh is often called Bruckner's most accessible work. Barenboim conducting also shows its subtleties and complexities.
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Bychkov Befriends Tchaikovsky
New York Philharmonic in World Class Performance
By: - Jan 26th, 2017Semyon Bychkov brought all his rich knowledge of Tchaikovsky to David Geffen Hall and invited members of the New York Philharmonic to play their hearts out as he encouraged them in a stellar performance of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony. Each and every special detail emerged in a multi-textured whole. No one wanted to leave the Hall at the conclusion.
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Tanglewood 2017 Updates
Natalie Merchant and Avett Brothers Added
By: - Jan 26th, 2017Singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant makes her Tanglewood debut on Sunday, July 2, at 7 p.m.,in the Koussevitzky Music Shed. She began her career with alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs in 1981. On Friday, September 1, American folk-rock band The Avett Brothers—named for brothers Scott and Seth Avett—make their Tanglewood debut.
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Daniel Barenboim Celebrates 60 Years at Carnegie
Saucy and Majestic Mozart and Bruckner
By: - Jan 25th, 2017A consummate musician, Daniel Barenboim showed us how Mozart and Anton Bruckner could bring a saucy spirit to magesterial moments.
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Marilyn Horne Makes the Case for Art Song
Talented Young Singers
By: - Jan 22nd, 2017New York was shrouded in thick fog, but Marilyn Horne shone a light on the art of song and of all the arts as she began to make her case to the current administration in Washington. No statement is more clear and heart-touching than beautiful voices raised in song before a rapt audience.
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Marilyn Horne's Art Song at Carnegie
Weill Music Institute is Home to Education
By: - Jan 19th, 2017Marilyn Horne's father saw Shirley Temple on the big screen and thought his daughter belonged there too. At the age of two she first performed in public. Here was a stage father whose personal aspirations matched his daughter's talents. For decades Marilyn Horne has given great pleasure as a performer and extended the audience for the art song. Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute presents Horne's master classes as part of "The Song Continues."
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Mirror Visions Celebrates
In Tight on Words and Music
By: - Jan 17th, 2017Mirror Visions Ensemble commemorated its 25th anniversary with a concert at The Sheen Center. Their driving vision is that each composer will interpret a poem, passage or letters in his or her own way. The composer is to find the true musical equivalent for the poem. The variety of the setting is no less than the variety of the poem. The group often contrast two composers take on the same poem, mirror images.
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50th Anniversary of The Boston Tea Party
A Night To Be Remembered
By: - Jan 17th, 2017The legendary rock and blues club The Boston Tea Party first opened its doors on Friday night, January 20, 1967. The Music Museum Of New England will commemorate the event on Friday, January 20, 2017, 5-8pm, at The Verb Hotel and Hojoko Japanese Tavern, 1271 Boylston Street (opposite Fenway Park)
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Opera America Showcases New Opera
Wonderful Singing and Sonos Chamber Orchestra
By: - Jan 15th, 2017Opera is alive and well. New works are a-borning across our country and opera houses are mounting them. There is an audience for new work. Singers like performing it. Orchestras are delighted to give it a try. This is an exciting time for an old art form. Opera America, the national service organization for opera, is leading the way.
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NY City Opera Revives
Iconic Candide at the Rose Theater
By: - Jan 13th, 2017In the best of all possible worlds, the New York City Opera is alive and well at the Rose Theater, Lincoln Center. With Harold Prince at the helm in a production he has mounted for NYCO before, an exuberant romp through Voltaire's classic shows just how live NYCO is in its new incarnation.
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The Most Happy Fella
Breathtaking at Florida's Stage Door Theatre
By: - Jan 10th, 2017Whether “The Most Happy Fella” falls more closely into the realm of musical theater or opera, the show has the necessary ingredients for success. Stage Door Theatre’s breathtaking production offers some of the strongest singing you’ll hear on a stage.
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Alan Gilbert's NY Philharmonic Celebrates Brass
Quintessential American Music Featured
By: - Jan 04th, 2017Wynton Marsalis, WIlliam Bolcom and Aaron Copland welcomed the New Year at the New York Philharmonic under Alan Gilbert. The Bolcom and Marsalis pieces were commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and helped to create a ravishing evening of music.
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Light Up the Night for New Year
Treasure Trove of Songs by the National Yiddish Theater
By: - Jan 02nd, 2017Jewish music is often in the minor mode, but the enduring spirit of the people who sing it and live it creates a hopeful and joyous atmosphere.
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Touring Company of 42nd Street
On the Road in Florida
By: - Jan 02nd, 2017Current non-equity national tour director Mark Bramble doesn’t disappoint in a mostly commendable production of 42nd Street that played a one-night stand in West Palm Beach on New Year’s Eve. The 16-week touring production will continue at Florida venues until Jan. 6, when it heads north.
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Love at a Distance by Kaija Saariaho
Heralded Across the Continent, So So at the Met Opera
By: - Dec 22nd, 2016An important opera by a major composer is set well at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. The Met Orchestra under Susanna Mälkki was magnificent. The orchestral score is one of beauty and terror, evoking the sea and the dangers of love. It is the story that provides an arc, and this production missed it entirely, leaving the experience flat.
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Babe at the New York Philharmonic
Nigel Westlake's Score Performed Live
By: - Dec 18th, 2016Babe is a tale about an unprejudiced soul and one we should surely take to heart. Children can learn to sing Jingle Bells with LaLaLa. Will one of the youngsters who was lucky enough to see the film with the NY Phil, one day fall in love with the Saint Saens Symphony and say, That’s Babe’s song?
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Erik Satie, 150 Years Young
The Sheen Center Celebrates
By: - Dec 14th, 2016Satie is the Paul Klee of composers. The lines may be thin, but they pack weight and feeling. They seem to dance. Louis Durey of Les Six would write that Satie's unique clarity, his horror of hackneyed ways , his love of discovery and risk led to his gleaming contributions to music. According to John Cage, Satie helped break down the barrier between art and life.
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