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"Not Highfalutin, but Highly Satisfying Indulgences"The New York Times, February 8, 2008 In which the classical critics of the Times are asked to reveal their secret passions, and I respond by bringing to light my odd obsession with German soprano Simone Kermes. Not odd in the sense that she’s a peculiar or somehow unworthy artist…
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Riverside Symphony at Zankel HallThe New York Times, February 7, 2008
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A Wellsung post from last week has become a new meme/party trick at Parterre Box: What is your "birth opera"? The idea is to dig into the Metropolitan Opera Archives online and find out what the company was doing on the day you were born. (Those born during months in which the Met was dark…
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It was the toughest vote I’ve cast in my adult life. My genuine ideological picks were gone, as was my first choice from the field that remained. I admire both of my party’s candidates, and have serious misgivings about each as well. In the end, I genuinely surprised myself. And while I am completely satisfied…
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Carmen at the Metropolitan OperaThe New York Times, February 6, 2008
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Luciano Berio’s Sequenzas at the Rose TheaterThe New York Times, February 5, 2008
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So Percussion plays George Crumb at Miller TheatreThe New York Times, February 4, 2008
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From Sequenza 21: Hello Jerry Bowles and Sequenza21, I am writing from the office of Bang on a Can in Brooklyn. We are currently beginning a search for a new cellist to be a member of the Bang on a Can All-Stars. In order to reach the broadest possible pool of applicants, we would love…
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Pacifica Quartet Carter cycle at the New York Society for Ethical CultureThe New York Times, February 1, 2008 Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert (film review)Time Out New York, February 1, 2008
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Richard Goode at the Rose TheaterThe New York Times, January 29, 2008
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(Posted this morning on the TONY Blog) Over the weekend, Judd Greenstein (left) — composer, bandleader, scene activist and founder/codirector of New Amsterdam Records — e-mailed to share the sad news that ICO Music (formerly VIM: Tribeca), the vital new-music concert series he ran with Kimball Gallagher at the Ico Art & Music Gallery (formerly…
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American Symphony Orchestra at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, January 28, 2008
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"Life Past the Classroom and After the Orchestra"The New York Times, January 27, 2008 A brief, newsy preview of the Brooklyn Philharmonic’s 70th-birthday tribute to composer John Corigliano (photograph by Stephanie Kuykendal for The New York Times), a native son of Flatbush born on February 16, 1938. The festival starts this afternoon at 2pm at…
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Vittorio Giannini’s Beauty and the Beast at the Dicapo Opera TheaterThe New York Times, January 22, 2008
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Kelley O’Connor at Weill Recital Hall The New York Times, January 21, 2008
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New York Festival of Song at the Juilliard SchoolThe New York Times, January 18, 2008
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Phillip Bimstein is a man of many talents: among the entries on his C.V. are "alternative-rock bandleader," "environmental activist" and "mayor of Springdale, Utah." But the thing for which he’s best known is a body of inventive, deliriously fun electroacoustic compositions for live performers and sampled sounds. (I reviewed his most recent disc, Larkin Gifford’s…
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Gail Archer at the Church of the Heavenly RestThe New York Times, January 15, 2008
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Anne-Carolyn Bird is planning the best eighth-birthday party of all… her own! (Via Blognoggle.) Elsewhere, Bruce Hodges is cited by TypePad, and Alex Ross is on Charlie Rose tomorrow night (Jan. 15).
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I saw Bartlett Sher’s daffy production of Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia twice last season and enjoyed it tremendously both times, but I still went into Saturday night’s performance at the Met with a high degree of principled uncertainty, shall we say. The big deal was the New York debut of Latvian mezzo Elīna Garanča…
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