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The rather brilliant and awesomely cultured Elisabeth Vincentelli, my TONY colleague and the voice behind the excellent Determined Dilettante, has just put up a long post on the WNET/Channel 13 SundayArts blog that I reckon a bunch of you will want to read. The title is "How to sell art to the masses," and the…
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Paul Groves in the Movado Hour at the Baryshnikov Arts CenterThe New York Times, May 15, 2008
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Felicity Lott and Graham Johnson at Zankel HallThe New York Times, May 12, 2008
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Steve Reich: ‘Daniel Variations’; Variations for Vibes, Pianos and Strings Los Angeles Master Chorale, conducted by Grant Gershon; London Sinfonietta, conducted by Alan Pierson. Nonesuch 406780-2; CD. The New York Times, May 11, 2008 (ArkivMusic; Barnes & Noble)
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I’ve been tagged by my dear friend and colleague Molly Sheridan (of NewMusicBox, Mind the Gap and other worthy endeavors) for the latest blog meme making the rounds. Here are the rules: 1. Pick up the nearest book. 2. Open to page 123. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the next three sentences. 5.…
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My friend Hank Shteamer — TONY colleague, math-metal drummer and Dark Forces Swing blogger — has posted a detailed, insightful and highly entertaining account of the concert that Tashi presented at Town Hall yesterday. The performance was the quartet’s first New York appearance in some 30 years. Hank, as you might know, is a musical…
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Mannes Opera Dialogues of the Carmelites at the Hunter PlayhouseThe New York Times, May 5, 2008
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I’ve been pondering this blog’s purpose and value lately. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not in danger of disappearing — but I do sometimes wonder what service it’s providing other than being a link dump for my New York Times writing. That was never the intention. I started thinking about this a month ago —…
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This week’s award for creative use of vocabulary goes to one of three gents walking across town together after last night’s Dolly Parton show at Radio City Music Hall. "We can keep walking this way with the crowd," said one, "or we can turn left and sort of diaspora away from everyone." All three wore…
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Charles Neidich and the Juilliard String Quartet at the Peter Jay Sharp TheaterThe New York Times, May 1, 2008 For another detailed, illuminating view, read what Bruce Hodges had to say at Monotonous Forest.
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Lee Hoiby’s This Is the Rill Speaking and The Tempest at Symphony SpaceThe New York Times, April 30, 2008
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The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at the New York Society for Ethical CultureThe New York Times, April 29, 2008
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The American Composers Orchestra and the Takács Quartet, both at Zankel HallThe New York Times, April 28, 2008
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Stravinsky Festival: Stephen Gosling and Eric Huebner at St. Bartholomew’s ChurchThe New York Times, April 24, 2008
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(Posted this afternoon on the TONY Blog) Moments ago, the Metropolitan Opera unveiled the details of its 2008–2009 series of high-definition transmissions to movie theaters worldwide. Citing the phenomenal success of the series, now seen on 600 screens around the globe (as well as a few select cruise ships), the project expands from 8 broadcasts…
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I was there. I saw the flouncing and prancing, the leaping and mugging. I heard some very good singing, some great singing and, of course, the 18 high C’s. I was impressed by the busyness of it all, but I just didn’t see what all the hype was about. I thought, perhaps, that it was…
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My promised TONY review of Satyagraha is too short to add much to the overall discussion, and its money line was reported here on opening night, anyway. But I’m glad to have done it, and glad that I could get it to the web a week before the actual physical magazine shipped. What I really…
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Great news from Blogville this morning: Make a point of bookmarking Mind the Gap, a new blog that debuted yesterday at Arts Journal. The author is Molly Sheridan (left), who you already know from NewMusicBox (where she provides, among other things, the weekly dose of wit that is The Friday Informer), Counterstream Radio and points…
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András Schiff at Carnegie HallThe New York Times, April 21, 2008
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Dísella Lárusdóttir at Merkin Concert HallThe New York Times, April 19, 2008 The “smoky jazz ballad” offered as an encore was almost certainly “Maðurhefur Nu” by the Icelandic composer Gunnar Reynir Sveinsson, based on information from a representative I asked, as well as a bit of additional research. But since an absolutely definitive reference to…
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