Archive for November 2nd, 2012

Järvi and Jansen with the DSO Berlin; The Knights play Beethoven on Sony Classical

Friday, November 2nd, 2012

By Rebecca Schmid The Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin is off to a fine start this season, having gained Tugan Sokhiev as music director after an interim period senza maestro following Ingo Metzmacher’s departure in 2010. On Wednesday, Paavo Järvi and the violinist Janine Jansen joined the orchestra together for the first time in a performance of […]

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Carnegie’s Crane

Friday, November 2nd, 2012

by Sedgwick Clark Hurricane Sandy left a humbling amount of destruction in its wake, including a breath-catching sight in midtown Manhattan: a construction crane dangling 1,000 feet above West 57th Street, just east of Seventh Avenue, across from Carnegie Hall. Traffic was cordoned off between Sixth and Eighth avenues on 55th through 58th streets, bringing […]

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