Music
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The Chicago Symphony at Carnegie II
Muti Continues Our Musical Education
By: - Oct 08th, 2012School has never been more fun and moving than it is with tutor Riccardo Muti introducing his native composers, Martucci and Respighi, and also Dvorak, who helped to jump start his career.
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Muti Magic at Carnegie Hall
Chicago Symphony Precise, Passionate, Compelling
By: - Oct 07th, 2012Riccardo Muti and his Chicago Symphony Orchestra opened the Carnegie Hall Season. And what a splendid welcome. Featured was Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. When Muti conducted it in 1980, the composer declared the performance a "second premier." Orff went home and made changes which he autographed and then sent to Muti. Such is Muti’s gift.
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Jazz Diva Eliane Elias at Eagle Hill Cultural Center
Paul Overton Assumes the Helm for Season V
By: - Oct 04th, 2012Eliane Elias, fresh from Lincoln Center performances last weekend is here to launch the fall schedule at Hardwick's Eagle Hill Cultural Center. Eliane’s new CD “Swept Away†was released last week as well.
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Madama Butterfly at Boston Lyric Opera
Puccini Classic Nov. 2-11
By: - Oct 04th, 2012Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) opens its 2012/13 Season with a new production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Nov. 2 – 11, 2012, starring soprano Yunah Lee in her BLO debut in her signature role of Cio-Cio San. Performances take place at the Citi Performing Arts Center Shubert Theatre (265 Tremont St., Boston.. The production stars soprano Yunah Lee in her BLO debut as Cio-Cio San, a role for which she has received widespread critical acclaim and which Opera News recently declared her “signature role.â€
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Gotham Chamber Opera at Poisson Rouge
Neal Goren Combines East and West
By: - Oct 03rd, 2012The stage at Poisson Rouge thrust out for the meeting of East and West. The performers were in thrust mode too. From the first pavonne danced bare-chested instead of bustled up in the back, a contrarian view to classic forms was often on display. When the dancers from Company XIV accompanied the singers, they added a visual line to the musical one, and emphasized the emotion of an aria or recitative. The effect was delightful, moving and, at the right times, frightening. The erotic and exotic in a special mix.
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2nd Annual Fresh Grass Bluegrass Festival
A Sellout for MoCA
By: - Sep 30th, 2012I was, as always, delighted and energized by Joy Kills Sorrow. Leyla McCalla’s Sunday morning performance captivated me and her afternoon session with the Carolina Chocolate Drops sealed my appreciation. The festival achieved capacity sales for the intended venue a week before opening night, and while there were a few hiccups, on the whole, the staff ran a very successful and satisfying event.
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BSO Porgy and Bess
Concert Version Conducted by Bramwell Tovey
By: - Sep 29th, 2012The BSO's performance of George Gershwin's classic American "folk opera" was sumptuously played and well sung, but it tried to make Gershwin a late Romantic like Strauss or Puccini. The production is musically rich, bringing out the complexities of the score with a clarity that only underscores how great the work is. It is the first time the orchestra has performed “Porgy,†which opened in Boston in 1935 as a try-out for its New York premiere, in Symphony Hall.
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Rachvelishvili Ravashing as Carmen
Tomer Zvulun Directs at the Metropolitan Opera
By: - Sep 28th, 2012Merimee started his novella Carmen by remarking that women are as bitter as gall. They have only two good moments, in bed and in death. We get Carmen in both positions, but she resists subservience. Here she is, Rachveslishvili larger than life.
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Kenny Rogers Gambles on Pittsfield
Country at the Colonial
By: - Sep 28th, 2012Now 74, for the very first time, Kenny Rogers performed in the Berkshires. In an adventurous booking coup the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield was near capacity for a rare appearance by a leading Country artist. With his signature, rough textured vocals and greatest hits Rogers both amused and abused a doting audience.
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Pittsfield CityJazz Festival Oct. 4-13
Jazz Crawl Continues Through the Weekend
By: - Sep 27th, 2012​Berkshires Jazz, Inc. has announced the final lineup for the 8th annual Pittsfield CityJazz Festival, which runs from Oct. 4-13 in various venues in downtown Pittsfield. The music spans the spectrum of jazz, and includes the New England Jazz Ensemble with guest soloists Giacomo Gates and Ali Ryerson; The Jazz Arts Trio; Jazz About Town (a "jazz crawl" that features local musicians in restaurants and lounges throughout downtown on Columbus Day weekend, Oct. 5-7); and a new entry in the Jazz Prodigy series, Adam O'Farrill, a trumpet player who is garnering accolades across the northeast.
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A Conversation With Herb Gart - IX
An Ending of Sorts...
By: - Sep 26th, 2012I believe an Artist is someone who has found a way to express his/her ideas in such a way that the audience gets the ideas intended. To do this takes some degree of genius. It is very difficult to do. He knows who he is well enough to know what material works for him. He doesn't make many mistakes in self editing. He might need some help - after all, Marlon Brando needed a Director - but he is firm in understanding what he doesn't want to do.. Bob Dylan used to sit on the steps above the Gaslight Cafe in the Village and fix his curly hair with hairspray. He understood his art and his persona.
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New York's Chamber Music Society Serenades
Mozart, Kodaly, Strauss and Dvorak Welcome the Season
By: - Sep 26th, 2012Chamber music well-done is an intimate dialogue among musicians. No one does this better than the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, which appears in New York, but also at Harris Theater in Chicago and across the country.
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The Bandana Splits at Mass MoCA
Pop Band Performs Oct. 6
By: - Sep 23rd, 2012The Bandana Splits bring nostalgic charm to MASS MoCA's Club B-10 on Saturday, October 6, 8 PM. The Brookyn-based trio -- Dawn Landes, Lauren Balthrop, and Annie Nero -- recreates the bubblegum pop and doo-wop styles of the 1950s and '60s with upbeat three-part harmonies featuring ukuleles, guitars, and even kazoos.
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Brel in the Berkshires with McBroom and Ball
Barrington Stage Presents Jaques Brel Chansons American Style
By: - Sep 22nd, 2012Amanda McBroom, George Ball and Michele Brourman will perform tonight and tomorrow at Barrington Stage Company, at the Spice Dragon Cabaret Room, on North Street in Pittsfield, MA. A performance not to miss!
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Music Festival Berlin in September 2012
Part of a Series: Berliner Festspiele
By: - Sep 20th, 2012A yearlong celebration of world cultures continues in Berlin from September into Spring 2013. As the Music Festival came to an end, the exhibition “Dennis Hopper – The Lost Album†opened at the Martin-Gropius-Bau. Next, Berlin will offer a November “Jazzfest,†followed by an international literature festival and much more.
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The Cantilena Chamber Choir' s Ethan Frome Oct. 6
Caryn Block Composed Wharton Inspired Opera
By: - Sep 19th, 2012The Cantilena Chamber Choir will premiere scenes from Ethan Frome- A new three act opera by Composer Caryn Block Sunday, October 7, 2012- 5:00 pm at Trinity Church 88 Walker Street, Lenox, Massachusetts. The music will include select choral scenes drawn from the three act opera and dramatic arias, duets and trios for the principal characters in Wharton’s tragic love story based in the Berkshire region.
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Sondra Radvanovsky as Anna Bolena
Washington National Opera Begins its Season
By: - Sep 18th, 2012Radvanovsky has one of the most beautiful voices in the world. She is also a talented singing-actress. She makes Anna Bolena live. Radvanovsky not only sings with her naturally large and pure voice, but she has conceived the role to fit her vocal characterization into her gestures and expression.
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En Durance Vital - V
Old Folkies, New Music
By: - Sep 15th, 2012Two more joyous celebrations of authentic folk and historical treasures by outstanding musicians who are 50 years into their careers.
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Francesca Zambello to Washington National Opera
Exciting News for Opera Lovers
By: - Sep 13th, 2012Francesco Zambello has made her mark at Glimmerglass, Chicago and San Francisco. Now she takes over the artistic direction of the Washington National Opera.. “Cesca is both a brilliant director and a highly effective administrator,†said WNO Board Chairman Jacqueline B. Mars. “Her stature in the international opera community enhances the company and I have great confidence that she will take WNO in a positive direction.â€
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Liza Minnelli & Michael Feinstein at Tanglewood
American Songbook With Betty Buckley and Christine Ebersole
By: - Sep 03rd, 2012A lady a few rows in front of us was waving her cane, literally, in time to the music of Michael Feinstein's American Songbook. Later she joined him on stage for a duet of "New York New York." Incredibly, Liza Minnelli made a surprise appearance during the last day of the Tanglewood season. Tony winners Betty Buckley and Christine Ebersole also helped to bring the curtain down on another Tanglewood season.
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Close Encounters with Music at the Mahaiwe
Great Barrington Season Launches Oct. 20
By: - Aug 30th, 2012Close Encounters With Music introduces grand prize winners of the Tchaikovsky International Violin Competition and Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in their Berkshire debuts; presents one of the preeminent Baroque ensembles, Tragicomedia, to usher in the holiday season; and adds another notch on its belt of successful commissioning projects with a new work by American composer Robert Beaser, who has written for Glimmerglass and New York City Opera.
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Chick Corea & Gary Burton at Tanglewood
Hot House New CD of Standards
By: - Aug 27th, 2012After 40 years of collaborations pianist Chick Corea and vibraphone player Gary Burton are about to release their sixth CD. Hot House is an album of the standards they loved and grew up on. For a nearly sold out gig in Ozawa Hall, with nearly as many outside on the lawn, they played a set of duets followed by one with the Harlem String Quartet.
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Poulenc Honored by Dell'Arte Opera
A Magnficent Performance of Dialogues of the Carmelites
By: - Aug 25th, 2012Small is just right for one of the most important operas of the 20th century. Conducted by Christopher Fecteau, the bells, organ and singing violins all provided musical perfume. The clarinet was particularly beautiful. Thickening of texture employed by the composer is matched by the emotional compacting of three great talents in creating the story of Blanche de la Force.
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Kenny Rogers at the Colonial Sept. 27
The Gambler To Serende Berkshire Fans
By: - Aug 24th, 2012Kenny Rogers will serenade audiences with country classics and contemporaries at The Colonial Theatre on September 27 at 8pm. Rogers' Greatest Hits album has sold over 24 million copies worldwide to date. He is the Recording Industry Association of America's eighth best selling male artist of all time with one Diamond album, 19 Platinum albums and 31 Gold albums.
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Met Live in HD Resumes Oct. 13
Donizetti’s L’Elisir D’Amore at the Clark
By: - Aug 24th, 2012The Met: Live in HD returns to the Clark this fall with extraordinary stars, breathtaking music, and visionary interpretations by today’s most celebrated directors and conductors. This Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series features 12 live transmissions in the Clark’s auditorium, beginning October 13 with L’Elisir D’Amore and continuing with Otello (October 27), Tempest (November 10), Clemenza di Tito (December 1), Un Ballo in Maschera (December 8), Aida (December 15), Les Troyens (January 5), Maria Stuarda (January 19), Rigoletto (February 16), Parisfal (March 2), Francesca da Rimini (March 16) and Giulio Cesare(April 27).
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