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News of important new entries into the blogosphere arrived today from multiple sources. Alex Ross, whose vital site just turned a spry five years old (congrats!), brings word of a new blog from Philip Kennicott, whose elegant, insightful words are regularly to be found in the Washington Post, where he is Culture Critic. I suspect…
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CD review: GUSTAV MAHLER: SYMPHONY No. 4Miah Persson, soprano; Budapest Festival Orchestra, conducted by Iván Fischer.Channel Classics CCS SA 26109; CD.The New York Times, May 17, 2009(ArkivMusic, Barnes & Noble)
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Now here's a pleasant surprise: Night After Night has received an honorable mention in a list of New York City's best music blogs as reckoned by Mapcidy, a fascinating interactive NYC arts and culture site. Especially given how unhappy I've been about my overall lack of activity here since last fall, it's a genuine treat…
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Ensemble Intercontemporain at Alice Tully HallThe New York Times, May 12, 2009
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CD review: CHRISTOPHER TIGNOR – 'CORE MEMORY UNWOUND'Christopher Tignor, computer keyboardist, violinist, pianist; Colin Jacobsen, violinist; Margaret Kampmeier, pianist.Western Vinyl WEST061; CD.The New York Times, May 10, 2009(Western Vinyl; Barnes & Noble)
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For those who missed the tragic news that circulated over the weekend, drummer G. Calvin Weston—an avant-garde jazz-funk heavyweight known for his work with Ornette Coleman's Prime Time, the Lounge Lizards, James Blood Ulmer and Marc Ribot, among others—lost his 18-year-old son, Dominique Weston-Wilkerson, in a hit-and-run incident in Philadelphia last Thursday. Weston's friends and…
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La Cenerentola at the Metropolitan OperaThe New York Times, May 8, 2009
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Richard Goode at Carnegie HallThe New York Times, May 7, 2009
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Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and Anne Sofie von Otter, Bengt Forsberg, Daniel Hope and Daniel Müller-Schott at Zankel Hall and Australian Chamber Orchestra with Andreas Scholl at Zankel HallThe New York Times, May 5, 2009
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How strange it feels to not be working at the moment, though I most certainly could be doing… something. And how strange it feels to be thinking that. Being locked into a cycle of 12-, 14- and even 18-hour work days since last August, for six and sometimes even seven days a week, does a…
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The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra at Zankel HallThe New York Times, May 2, 2009
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André Previn conducts the Orchestra of St. Luke's at Carnegie HallThe New York Times, April 28, 2009
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Terry Riley, the Kronos Quartet et al: In C at Carnegie HallThe New York Times, April 27, 2009 To my dismay, a small discrepancy found its way into this review; Jon Gibson and Morton Subotnick, mentioned at the end of the fourth paragraph, were not heard "either in the piece's 1964 premiere or its first…
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"A Singer-Songwriter Ignores Musical Boundaries"The New York Times, April 26, 2009 A feature about Gabriel Kahane, considerably more than a singer-songwriter, but most certainly ignoring musical boundaries. Earlier this evening, Gabriel's father, Jeffrey Kahane, presented the New York premiere of Gabriel's Django: Tiny Variations on a Big Dog. If you missed it, you can hear…
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Juilliard Opera Center: Verdi's Falstaff at the Peter Jay Sharp TheaterThe New York Times, April 24, 2009
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[Posted this afternoon on The Volume] With the economy in the state it's in, it comes as no surprise that the Metropolitan Opera will not be returning to its former practice of touring complete opera performances out to the five boroughs and New Jersey this summer. But the good news is that the company is…
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The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Alice Tully HallThe New York Times, April 22, 2009
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The New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, April 17, 2009
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Teatro Grattacielo: Mascagni's Il piccolo Marat at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, April 15, 2009
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Absolute Ensemble at (Le) Poisson Rouge and Red Light New Music at the Chelsea Art MuseumThe New York Times, April 13, 2009
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