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"Happy Jazzy, Operatic, Symphonic Birthday, Dear Teacher"The New York Times, December 3, 2006 An article about Martin Bresnick, who celebrated his 60th birthday in November. Sure, Mozart, Shostakovich and Reich deserved all the attention paid to them this year, but Bresnick should not be overlooked. In addition to being a versatile, imaginative composer who studied…
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The first half of the concert I attended on Friday night included traditional music from Scotland, an arrangement of Burmese pat waing drum tunes, a mash-up of Highland hornpipe and Balinese kotekan gestures, and compositions by Anthony Braxton. A massive global music summit? Not exactly. This was a solo bagpipes set by Matthew Welch, presented…
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According to a report by Daniel Wakin in The New York Times on Wednesday, Lorin Maazel raised eyebrows at a Tuesday afternoon press luncheon for the new Symphonica Toscanini when, apparently unprompted, he announced that he had informed the New York Philharmonic board that Daniel Barenboim is the right man to succeed him when he…
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Sooner or later, they’re going to have to put Hedda Gabler on ice, to judge by the implication of a TONY colleague who says he’s seen four productions in the last two or three seasons. It’s probably true: I’m by no means a regular theatergoer, much to my regret, but the Hedda I saw on…
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One of last season’s breakaway Broadway hits was John Doyle’s innovative production of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, in which Michael Ceveris, Patti LuPone and the rest of the cast doubled as the orchestra, playing all of the musical parts onstage. As I noted here, I thought that production was a stroke of genius; admittedly, it…
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"Where Collectors Can Get Lost Classical Recordings"The New York Times, Saturday, November 25, 2006
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The Lark Quartet at Merkin Concert HallThe New York Times, November 21, 2006
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The American Symphony Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall The New York Times, November 20, 2006
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Jonathan Biss and Benjamin Hochman at the 92nd Street YThe New York Times, November 18, 2006
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"Committed to the New, Now in Smaller Forms"The New York Times, November 16, 2006 An article about a surprising, smart new direction currently being pursued by the American Composers Orchestra, in which Corey Dargel, Susie Ibarra and Derek Bermel feature prominently. Tonight through Saturday night, the orchestra will be collaborating with Wynton Marsalis’s Lincoln Center…
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James Bond is ruthless and unseasoned in Casino Royale, the latest installment in the long-lived film franchise, which returns Ian Fleming’s British secret agent to the very beginning of his career. He makes critical errors, but learns and compensates; he earns his stripes, and in the process has his heart shattered. He also survives a…
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Comedy is in fact pretty, at least when it’s done at the Metropolitan Opera lately. Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, the closing salvo of the Volpe regime, was a popular success largely because of the magnetism of its principals, dishy soprano Anna Netrebko and boyish tenor Juan Diego Flórez. Physical allure also plays a part in the…
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Phil Kline’s John the Revelator at the World Financial Center’s Winter Garden,and Teatro Grattacielo’s La Farsa Amorosa at Alice Tully HallThe New York Times, November 14, 2006
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News of musical doings in Boston has been somewhat harder to come by since the demise of Christina Linklater’s blog, St. Botolph’s Town, thought Matthew Guerrieri’s vastly engaging Soho the Dog does toss us the occasional bone. That’s why it was such welcome news to learn this afternoon that the semi-permeable website of the Boston…
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CD review: Gustav Holst – The Planets(with Colin Matthews – Pluto, the Renewer; Kaija Saariaho – Asteroid 4179: Toutatis; Matthias Pintscher – towards Osiris; Mark-Anthony Turnage – Ceres; Brett Dean – Komarov’s Fall)Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Simon RattleEMI Classics 69690; CDThe New York Times, November 12, 2006(ArkivMusic, Barnes & Noble) Playlist: Ellery Eskelin – Quiet…
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(Photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times)
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It was an off-campus TONY editorial summit that drew me down to the Lower East Side on Tuesday night, but what kept me there was the chance to finally hear Gabriel Kahane, who performed at Tonic this evening. Son of the noted pianist and conductor Jeffrey Kahane, this young singer-songwriter has been making waves lately…
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Jumping in with this quick, unusual daytime post for a bit of business relating to the day job: Time Out New York has now launched a blog similar to that of its younger sibling, Time Out Chicago. My first post there, freshly squirted onto the web, announces news of the Metropolitan Opera’s performance of the…
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I’ll be in Richmond, Virginia this weekend, spending time with the good Dr. LP and generally decompressing. But there’s also music to be consumed in the form of the University of Richmond’s ambitious Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival, which is being held on Friday and Saturday at the university’s Modlin Center for the Arts. (You’ll…
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The Flanders Recorder Quartet at Gilder Lehrman HallThe New York Times, November 3, 2006
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