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Darmstadt Essential Repertoire at Issue Project RoomThe New York Times, December 3, 2010 Night one of this vital young festival featured a sterling cast of local luminaries in Berio's first ten Sequenzas. I only wish I could have spilled more ink on the performers bunched together at the end, as every participant brought something unique
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Stockhausen and Boulez at Darmstadt in 1962. Photo from The Guardian. The Week Ahead: Nov. 28-Dec. 4The New York Times, November 28, 2010 As plugged in this week's Arts & Leisure, the fine folks who bring you Darmstadt "Classics of the Avant-Garde" events sporadically throughout the year will open their third-annual Darmstadt Essential Repertoire festival
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The Manganiyar Seduction at the Rose TheaterThe New York Times, November 24, 2010 By a sizable factor, here was the White Light Festival offering that moved me most. (No, I did not see all of them.) That point is probably the reason why the way this review ended actually surprised me. I was also happy
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"White Light: Is It Driven by the Soul or by Sales?"The New York Times, November 23, 2010 As I mentioned in the post-before-last, The New York Times asked its classical-music critics and reporter to discuss the pros and cons of the White Light Festival at Lincoln Center on the paper's Artsbeat blog about a week
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New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players: Utopia, Limited at Symphony SpaceThe New York Times, November 23, 2010
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Photograph: Chad Batka/The New York Times "White Light Festival: An Act of Testimony"The New York Times Artsbeat, November 19, 2010 Over the past few weeks I've reviewed several events in Lincoln Center's inaugural White Light Festival, a series devoted to exploring spirituality in music — or, more specifically, to promoting the notion that some kinds
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Bryn Terfel and Malcolm Martineau at Carnegie HallThe New York Times, November 19, 2010
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Jonsi and Alex, Kjartan Sveinsson, the Hilliard Ensemble, the Latvian National Choir and the Wordless Music Orchestra at the Church of St. Paul the ApostleThe New York Times, November 17, 2010
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Baltimore Symphony Orchestra "Too Hot to Handel" at Carnegie HallThe New York Times, November 16, 2010
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CD REVIEW: 'Music of Tribute, Vol. 6: Berg'Ieva Jokubaviciute, Vladimir Valjarević, pianists; Marjorie Elinor Dix, mezzo-sopranoLabor Records LAB 7086; CDThe New York Times, November 14, 2010 Amazon / Amazon MP3 / ArkivMusic / Barnes & Noble / Classics Online I've been an admirer of Ms. Jokubaviciute's playing for some time now, based on hearing her
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The Eroica Trio with Richard Stoltzman at the Rubin Museum of ArtThe New York Times, November 9, 2010 I've said it before, I've tried it before and I'm trying it again: one way or another, I'm getting this blog back on track.
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"Remaking a Dark Tale, With Real-Life Notes"The New York Times, September 19, 2010 An article about Hannah Lash, a strikingly gifted young composer who overcame a huge emotional and professional setback this summer as she completed Blood Rose, a 40-minute chamber opera based on the tale of "Beauty and the Beast." The opera will have
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Ryoji Ikeda datamatics [ver. 2.0] at Florence Gould HallThe New York Times, September 13, 2010
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Argento Chamber Ensemble at the Austrian Cultural ForumThe New York Times, September 4, 2010 In which the consistently impressive Argento players once again do right by the music of Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas, one of the most striking and original voices in contemporary music. I've more to say and no time to say it
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The beauty of working in music full time is that it's impossible to run out of things to discover, even late in the day. Today's belated discovery, prompted by a pitch from author and freelance writer Kate Crane, was Samantha Crain, a singer-songwriter from Shawnee, Oklahoma. Just 24 years old, Crain spins agreeably dusty, lived-in
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Eric Whitacre's Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings at Carnegie HallThe New York Times, June 17, 2010 Back from a brilliant but brief trek into the Rocky Mountains, I'm confronted with a colossus (or, as a Times headline writer put it, a juggernaut) of another kind. I confess that I'm bracing myself for the displeasure of
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