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Terry Riley’s 90th birthday is marked in Brooklyn with classic and modern works
Tuesday night, it was Riley as composer, represented by a contemporary work and an early masterpiece. Chase played excerpts ...
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Wang triumphs in all-Rachmaninoff, all-at-once Carnegie marathon
Long before this year’s movie awards are handed out, fans of pianist Yuja Wang were accustomed to the idea of a Chinese superheroine doing everything, everywhere, all at once. But even they might have ...
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Creative staging makes for fresh Mozart, Bartók with Fischer and Philharmonic - New York Classical Review
One Response to “Creative staging makes for fresh Mozart, Bartók with Fischer and Philharmonic” Posted Apr 27, 2025 at 8:18 am by DorothyT A woodwind musician RAVED about the new staging after last ...
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Yuja Wang rocks the moderns at Carnegie Hall
It’s not every pianist who can sell out Carnegie Hall without divulging what she’s going to play, as Yuja Wang did Tuesday night. The capacity audience came prepared to gasp at her scintillating ...
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“Lucidity” premiere offers worthy music and baffling staging at On Site Opera - New York Classical Review
On Site Opera gave the world premiere of Laura Kaminsky’s Lucidity on Thursday evening at the Abrons Arts Center in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. It’s a hot ticket with all three remaining New York ...
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When violinists compose: Botstein, The Orchestra Now serve up an intriguing if uneven sampler - New York Classical Review
Legendary pianists could be pretty good composers, too. Perhaps you’ve heard of Mozart, Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff… But what about violinists? Conductor and musical archaeologist Leon Botstein ...
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Boulder orchestra’s Beethoven sends Zankel audience out on a Rocky Mountain high - New York Classical Review
One Response to “Boulder orchestra’s Beethoven sends Zankel audience out on a Rocky Mountain high” Posted Jun 07, 2025 at 8:20 am by Linda Kig I am so proud of you all. It takes dedication and ...
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Meade brings sumptuous vocalism to Met’s “Aida”
Aida returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Thursday with Angela Meade as the Ethiopian princess, who is torn between her love for Radames and duty to father and country. The impressive debuts of ...
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Noisy and pastoral love vie in mixed Philharmonic program
Whatever else one says about Kevin Puts’s The Brightness of Light, which received its New York premiere Friday night at the New York Philharmonic, the work’s creators are an impressive bunch. Start ...
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In Met debut Blanchard’s “Champion” proves lightweight in its class
Champion, the first opera by Terence Blanchard, composer of Fire Shut Up in My Bones, made its eagerly anticipated Metropolitan Opera debut Monday night to warm applause. In the end, however, the ...
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Met’s “Tales of Hoffmann” offers dark Romanticism and a feast of female voices - New York Classical Review
The undertone of Gothic horror in Act I bloomed forth in Act II, as the failing heroine Antonia, overprotected by her father Crespel and manipulated by the cunning fraud Doctor Miracle, was forbidden ...
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Back to the robotic future with Fresh Squeezed Opera’s whimsical premiere - New York Classical Review
Attending an opera titled The Artwork of the Future, one’s first thought was of Wagner and Liszt a century and a half ago, promising their followers the “total work of art” and the “Music of the ...