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Tuesday night, it was Riley as composer, represented by a contemporary work and an early masterpiece. Chase played excerpts ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The epicenter of symphonic activity in the Golden State seemed to shift southward Friday night, at least in Carnegie Hall, as the San Diego Symphony, led by its music director Rafael Payare, showed it ...
The Metropolitan Opera’s revival of Tannhäuser is a significant success, but a perverse one. A great opera put on stage with a combination of indifference and superficiality would normally be a ...
Vasily Petrenko, music director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, delivered some introductory remarks before the ensemble’s Monday night concert in Carnegie Hall. A couple of the things he said ...
After this, it was perhaps inevitable that even with The Firebird, the second half would be something of a letdown. It was, but due to the music, not the playing. The orchestra sounded as fresh and ...
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 ...
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 ...
As an unusual mid-November warm spell ended in New York, a boreal chill settled over David Geffen Hall Wednesday night. For his debut with the New York Philharmonic, Finnish conductor Hannu Lintu ...
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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