New York Philharmonic
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One of the new initiatives the New York Philharmonic rolled out last season, to coincide with the arrival of music director Jaap van Zweden (and Deborah Borda, the institution's president, as well) was "Phil the Hall," an unambiguously populist gesture in which first responders, volunteers, and other public-service professionals were invited to come to Lincoln
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Going back to the Yeats poem… I would like the audience to think about Project 19 in that way: that they're going to hear 19 new pieces by people who sometimes don't feel like they can have a voice, who are being given an opportunity to have a voice—and for audiences, once again, to tread
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On a gloomy morning in an uncertain world, finding some measure of joyous reassurance in the ecstatic whoops and whorls of Gabriella Smith's 'Carrot Revolution,' played emphatically by @aizuriquartet. https://t.co/tHyqNOJNx3 via @YouTube — Steve Smith (@nightafternight) January 3, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Gabriella Smith is a composer other composers evidently like to recommend, to their listeners and
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Alan Gilbert, by Karsten Moran for The New York Times New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, March 12, 2014The New York Times, March 14, 2014 In which I describe Carl Nielsen's Symphony No. 4, "The Inextinguishable," like so: "A seamless sequence of vivid episodes, the piece is a craggy MacGuffin that shouldn’t work but
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New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, November 14, 2013The New York Times, Nov. 18, 2013 A brilliant local premiere for Christopher Rouse's gorgeous Oboe Concerto by Liang Wang, Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic, bracketed by rock-solid renditions of Richard Strauss's Don Juan and Also sprach Zarathustra. This was the kind of night
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Matoaka Little Eagle, Cleek Schrey, Mary MacKenzie and Jessica Schmitz, by Julieta Cervantes/The New York Times Avant Music Festival at the Wild Project, February 16, 2013The New York Times, Feb. 20, 2013 Last month I was lucky enough to get to hear a live performance of John Cage's Apartment House 1776 as part of the
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Elizabeth Futral, Jayce Ogren and members of the New York Philharmonic, by Richard Termine/The New York Times The New York Philharmonic Contact! at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 21, 2012The New York Times, Dec. 27, 2012 A return to old times for the New York Philharmonic's new-music run-out series, at least for one night.
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Glenn Dicterow, Alisa Weilerstein, Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic, by Richard Termine/The New York Times The New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, November 8, 2012The New York Times, Nov. 10, 2012 A slightly messy concert, but a consistently exciting one, too. After I posted this review on Facebook, a friend pointed out
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Garrison Keillor with the New York Philharmonic, by Chang W. Lee/The New York Times Garrison Keillor with the New York Philharmonic, October 16, 2012The New York Times, Oct. 18, 2012 Pretty much explains itself, except to say that I was surprised, in my first time seeing Mr. Keillor perform live, by just how little eye
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The New York Philharmonic with Bernard Haitink at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, November 19, 2011
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Anne-Sophie Mutter, Roman Patkoló and members of the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, April 6, 2011 What kind of musician attracts Anne-Sophie Mutter's attention? Watch bassist Roman Patkoló playing Pablo de Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen, a familiar violin showpiece, and you'll know the answer.
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Anne-Sophie Mutter with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, April 2, 2011 In tempus praesens, the solemn, beautiful violin concerto by Sofia Gubaidulina that Anne-Sophie Mutter just performed with Michael Tilson Thomas and the New York Philharmonic, is the subject of a recent documentary film, Sophia: Biography of a Violin
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Photograph: Tina Tahir/DG Anne-Sophie MutterThe illustrious German violin virtuoso is this season's artist-in-residence at the New York Philharmonic.Time Out New York, November 18-24, 2010
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The New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher HallThe New York Times, June 5, 2010
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Spinning in my head during the week of April 11-17, 2010: King Crimson – Live in Warsaw, June 11, 2000 (DGM King Crimson Collectors Club) Christopher Rouse – Odna Zhizn – New York Philharmonic/Alan Gilbert (New York Philharmonic/iTunes) Laurie Anderson – Homeland (Nonesuch, due out June 15) Richard Strauss – An Alpine Symphony –
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