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Jerry Hadley, an American opera tenor fallen on hard times, attempted to commit suicide this morning, and is currently lingering near death in a Poughkeepsie hospital. Dan Wakin has the details on the New York Times web site. Our sincere condolences go out to the loved ones Hadley seems likely to leave behind.
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Philip Miller’s REWind: A Cantata for Voice, Tape and Testimony at the Prospect Park Bandshell and Gli Altri at the Noguchi MuseumThe New York Times, Jul 10, 2007 Over at wordsandmusic, Rod Warner has posted a detailed description of the epochal reunion that took place in London over the weekend: Cecil Taylor, William Parker and…
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"Rebel Composers on a Rock Tour of Sorts"The New York Times, July 4, 2007 An article about The End of New Music, a short documentary about a November 2005 tour of rock clubs and alternative spaces undertaken by two groups, Now Ensemble and Newspeak, under the umbrella of the composers’ collective Free Speech Zone: Missy…
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(Posted this afternoon on the TONY Blog) Further to our post from this morning regarding the passing of beloved opera singer Beverly Sills, we’re posting verbatim a late-breaking press release from Lincoln Center regarding its own plans to remember her: In response to the news today of the death of opera star and Lincoln Center…
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(Posted this morning on the TONY Blog) Today, the music world mourns the loss of American opera singer, arts administrator and public figure Beverly Sills, who succumbed to inoperable lung cancer on Monday night at the age of 78. Born Belle Miriam Silverman in Brooklyn, the soprano known as Bubbles was far more than one…
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Last night, I finally managed to catch Passing Strange, a new musical by singer-songwriter Stew, musical collaborator Heidi Rodewald and director Annie Dorsen, at the Public Theater. The show chronicles the coming-of-age of a young, middle-class African-American man from Los Angeles, as he pursues his muse and grapples with issues of racial identity, belonging and…
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The Brooklyn Youth Chorus at the Kumble Center for the Performing Arts at Long Island UniversityThe New York Times, June 26, 2007 (Administrative note: Starting now, reviews like this one are open to comment, same as everything else on this blog. Thanks, as always, for visiting.)
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It’s that time of year when there’s not so much going on: plenty of busy work to fill up office hours, but not so many assignments afterward. Combine that with ongoing wedding preparations, and the result is that I haven’t had so many nocturnal ramblings to share just lately, newspaper links aside. But the good…
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New York magazine editor-in-chief Adam Moss announced today that Justin Davidson will be the magazine’s new classical music and architecture critic. Davidson will join New York magazine’s staff and begin writing reviews and features on both subjects in September 2007. Davidson comes to New York magazine from Newsday, where he has worked as classical music…
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Institute & Festival for Contemporary Performance at Mannes College the New School for MusicThe New York Times, June 18, 2007
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(Posted today on the TONY Blog) Don’t get us wrong, no one loves Joe’s Pub more than we do. But we can think of a few ways that swanky lounge might have been refurbished to suit last night’s record-release date by Boston roots-rockers Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles. All those tables? Outta there. Toss…
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ComposersCollaborative inc "Serial Underground" at Cornelia Street CaféThe New York Times, June 13, 2007
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The St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble "Notable Women" Festival at the Chelsea Art Museum and Ensemble ACJW at Zankel HallThe New York Times, June 12, 2007
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Further to my three prior posts that made reference to the still-unfolding story of Pierre Ruhe’s employment status at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, that paper’s managing editor Hank Klibanoff posted the following note in the comments field of my June 6 post. I believe it deserves greater visibility than that, and reprint it here verbatim (apart…
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Geoff Edgers of the Boston Globe, on his blog Exhibitionist, adds another perspective to the ongoing discussion of Atlanta Journal-Constitution classical critic Pierre Ruhe’s employment status: that of Hank Klibanoff, AJC managing editor for enterprise, who says that Ruhe’s job was never in jeopardy in the first place. Klibanoff has some pointed words for bloggers…
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Henry Fogel has exciting news: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has apparently chosen to retain the services of classical music critic Pierre Ruhe. I heard a rumor to this effect earlier today, but my efforts to nail down the facts came to nothing. (Nothing I want to print, anyway.) Ruhe’s review of Pascal Dusapin’s Faustus, The Last…
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I somehow managed to stay off the spammers’ radar for more than a year and a half, but this morning I noticed no fewer than three fake comments attached to posts here. (The note from the Spiegelworld intern I decided to leave, figuring it for a borderline case.) Since I think it’s safe to assume…
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Bang on a Can Marathon at the World Financial CenterThe New York Times, June 5, 2007 More: Darcy James Argue (who brilliantly liveblogged the entire 27 hours and 10 minutes) Jason Bergman (nice photos at Pitchfork, mostly the alt-rock acts) Bruce Hodges Pete Matthews (excellent photos… there’s more commentary in his prior posts) Anastasia Tsioulcas…
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(Posted today on the TONY Blog) The downtown New York jazz scene lost one of its busiest, most creative souls last weekend when percussionist Take Toriyama passed away suddenly and unexpectedly. We received the sad news late this afternoon in an e-mail from Michaël Attias, curator of the excellent weekly series "Night of the Ravished…
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Alex Ross on a dangerous situation for arts criticism currently brewing in Atlanta. Alex neatly summarizes a reported piece by Steve Dollar that ran this morning on the subscriber-only news page at MusicalAmerica.com. And Mark Stryker boils the entire controversy down to a single, pointed question. Darcy James Argue on the concert by Sam Rivers,…
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