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According to this article by Paul de Barros in today’s Seattle Times, the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) will soon be no more. Hobbled by growth that outstripped management’s ability to maintain and fund, of all things, the organization will go into Chapter 7 bankruptcy and be liquidated. For students, teachers, musicians, critics and…
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Bruce Levingston at Zankel HallThe New York Times, April 16, 2008
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The Opera Orchestra of New York at Carnegie HallThe New York Times, April 15, 2008
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I try to stay away from discussing my politics here*, but occasionally I’ll break that personal guideline in order to point out something worthwhile. Did you know that former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich has a blog? Today’s post digs into the cynical media and political spins of the current "Bittergate" imbroglio. Reading backward, earlier…
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Hilary Hahn and Josh Ritter at the Metropolitan Museum of ArtThe New York Times, April 14, 2008 Feast of Music has the scoop on Hahn and Ritter’s after-party at Drom. (Thanks to ACB for the tip.)
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Bloggers will no doubt be posting their thoughts on the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Philip Glass’s Satyagraha any minute now, and the official reviews will surely follow close behind — there was a lot of press in the house tonight, including critics from Boston, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. In a new development for…
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(Posted this afternoon on the TONY Blog) You know that the Metropolitan Opera has a major hit on its hands when the entire run of a new show sells out before opening night. And that’s the case with director Laurent Pelly’s new staging of La Fille de Régiment, a dizzy, tuneful bel canto comedy by…
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Marc-André Hamelin with the Academy of St. Martin in the FieldsThe New York Times, April 10, 2008
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David Helfgott at the Blue NoteThe New York Times, April 9, 2008
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(Posted this afternoon to the TONY Blog) Congratulations are in order for David Lang, who has just won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for his vocal piece, The Little Match Girl Passion. Lang is best known as a member of the visionary collective Bang on a Can. Commissioned by Carnegie Hall, The Little Match Girl Passion…
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Gil Shaham at the Rose TheaterThe New York Times, April 4, 2008
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Xiayin Wang at Zankel HallThe New York Times, April 2, 2008
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State Symphony Orchestra of Russia at the Tilles Center and Swedish Chamber Orchestra at the Rose TheaterThe New York Times, April 1, 2008
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Joyce DiDonato at the Rose TheaterThe New York Times, March 28, 2008
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My wife, currently in Boston, thought I was crazy to even consider attending a second Tristan und Isolde in such close proximity to the one I reviewed on Saturday afternoon. And I have to admit that I came close to tossing in the towel when I got the news this afternoon that Deborah Voigt had…
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Musicians from Marlboro at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Tristan und Isolde at the Metropolitan OperaThe New York Times, March 24, 2008
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The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio at the 92nd Street YThe New York Times, March 20, 2008
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As the entire civilized world knows by now, Justin Davidson — once of Newsday, now doing a bang-up job at New York — is guest-blogging for Alex at The Rest Is Noise. But while you’re following him there, don’t miss this mordant post about the Met’s current spate of ill health on New York‘s Vulture…
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(Posted this morning on the TONY Blog.) It’s getting tough to remember a time when Lincoln Center’s annual Mostly Mozart Festival was something you’d greet with a yawn. The announcement for this summer’s edition (July 29–August 23) arrived this morning, with news that innovative Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho will be the festival’s second composer-in-residence. Her…
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Joel Fan at the Metropolitan Museum of ArtThe New York Times, March 17, 2008
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